Don’t Tell The Bride - All The Men Are Awful!

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Currently watching some old Don’t Tell The Bride episodes I haven’t seen before and have one question….why are these women saddling themselves with these losers?
None of the men seem like fully functioning adults. They are big kids who should be at home with mummy. They don’t/can’t do housework? They don’t/can’t look after the kids? Their mates are usually total losers too.
And then on top of that they try to organise a wedding and most of them don’t even know what size dress she is? They give her the worst hen do imaginable and have no idea at all of what wedding she would like? (though I expect the groom is made to choose something outlandish to make the show better).
AIBU to wonder how many of these marriages ended in divorce?

The Vegas one was hilarious. I can’t believe she went through with it. I looked the couple up and of course they had split - it was patently obvious how badly matched they were, and the groom appeared to be a bit overly obsessed with the best man (which seems to be a bit of a recurring theme…)

The best men were either Kevin the Teenager style grumps displeased about the whole losing their best friend to domesticity thing, or less often, they were lovely sweet guys who were a much better person than the groom.

Oh I was coming on to say about this wedding, it always stuck in my head!! He had a wedding in vegas because his best man/ best friend was obsessed with Elvis! It was the only one that I thought might not actually go ahead and- they let the bride and groom speak to each other because the bride wasn't going to get on the plane!

It was an absolute classic. And I got the feeling that the episode was a lot less staged than others. He was just a premium bellend.

I read an article a while back that said they got divorced when he cheated on her. Go figure. Apparently she remarried and was happy the second time round. Wouldn’t take much, would it?

there was another awful American set episode where the groom decided they should get married at Muscle Beach in LA.

Leanne and Calvin are still together and have built a pretty successful business since appearing.

It’s one of these that has got more and more contrived as it’s progressed. It’s was quite good in the early days, now its just a parade of idiots

I love this show - well most of them.
I think a LOT of them are basically wanting to be married for reasons of mortgage/kids etc etc and do not want to pay for a wedding and have very good senses of humour. And they are told to whip up the drama. It is hilarious. The Beauty and the Beast one was 10/10 and couldn't have been scripted better by any writing team.

I used to love watching this! Two that I remember were one made the bride go to Thorpe Park, to ride a roller coaster in her wedding dress, and the other the bride was very pregnant and he organised a sort of Alice in wonderland outdoors kind of thing which actually seemed quite sweet in the end. Someone I know applied for the show and her partner at the time apparently told them he would do all sorts of mad things to try and get selected but they didn't in the end.

I've been watching the very early episodes. They're so much better, the grooms actually arrange proper traditional weddings. I dont know at what stage it all went ott

TBH I don’t have sympathy for either the Bride of the Groom. If you are going to partake in an entertainment show based on making no decisions about your wedding, you can’t get all previous because you haven’t been able to make any decision.

The grooms are usually vile. The best mans (men?) are usually in love with the groom. The brides are usually spoilt princesses. But it makes ruddy good TV!

I’m sure on a MN thread ages ago someone who knows the Vegas couple said they got divorced and have both remarried since

I watched an episode yesterday, they were local fo me so I looked them up and found we had mutual friends of course they have split since.

You see it on mumsnet all the time, women married to useless men who do nothing around the house or to help with dc.

Definitely name changed for this as this was DP's cousin's child 🙈 (Dp's cousin died in a helicopter crash and the whole episode was loosely dedicated to him) I haven't watched it since it aired but it's still talked about a lot 😂 luckily it's on DP's mums side so DP has a different last name and avoided and ribbing when it was shown 😂

Apparently everything is a multiple choice so the grooms are hamstrung by the producers given them three terrible options.

I started watching one halfway through yesterday where I thought the groom was quite clearly gay but marrying a female friend. They were both hairdressers I think.

Ha, I can imagine it's the kind of thing your family would slag you about years later! Are the couple still together?

The only one where i thought the groom wasn't a total idiot was where she was really into jane austen and he organised a Regency style wedding for her. I don't think he put a foot wrong and came across as lovely.

How come he was 'allowed' to do that if their idiocy is usually staged/carefully edited to make it even worse?

I’m sure I’ve watched one where none of the brides family or friends managed to go to it. The groom was into body building, and not only booked the wedding on muscle beach in California (already the brides worst nightmare as she wanted a traditional church), but he paid for the tickets for his best man/stags/family to go with them, but none of the brides. I’ve only watched a few but I’ve yet to see one where the bride refused to get married, I don’t know wtf they’re thinking. And it’s always the same line from the grooms when they’ve done something really shit, ‘oh if she loves me she’ll be there’. If you loved her you’d have given an iota of thought for her wishes!

Crossed posts!

I suppose they need the odd one that goes well to mix things up. Like when you get the occasional house hunter on Location Location Location who gets what they can afford and shows genuine enthusiasm, instead of bellyaching because £300k doesn’t buy a two-bedroom garden flat in Chiswick.

I was watching that too! I couldn't figure it out as it seemed quite clear he was gay and they kept referring to their 'unconventional relationship' but didn't explain what that meant.

There was also another episode on yesterday where the groom flew all the way to Thailand to buy the dresses to save money Then it didn't fit and he had to replace it anyway.
I would actually prefer it if they had to plan a proper wedding rather than these stupid parties that aren't anything like a wedding. Most of them are clearly only on it for their 15 minutes of fame/free party/holiday.

The old episodes had decent grooms and normal weddings but were not as entertaining. A colleague of mine was the best man on an episode from around 2007/2008 and the wedding was beautiful and the bride thrilled. But that's boring when you can screw over the bride by having the wedding in Vegas and her family not invited.

There was one episode of a perfectly normal and nice guy arranging a lovely wedding, on time and on budget. It was really boring to watch…

I used to like watching a show on cbeebies where the couples children organised the wedding for their parents.
They often had a slightly daft theme but most of the weddings were lovely.