Gypsy weddings - what happens to the dresses after the wedding??

[MirandaGoshawk]

Surely no room to store one of those huge dresses if you live in a caravan? The caravans we've seen all seem to be remarkably clutter-free IMO (unless they just shove it all up one end & then film the other end

But anyway...

Also not everyone can be loaded so is there a market for 2nd hand wedding dresses, I wonder? What if someone has several DDs, & can't afford £20k dresses (plus bridesmaids etc) for all of them?

I think all the under petticoat bits are rented. This was mentioned in an ep in the last series iirc. Still leaves a lot of dress to store though.

They're normally sold.

I'm wondering if some of them get unpicked and made into new dresses?
Or sold?
I never understand why anyone would keep a wedding dress - especially a huge one! Keeping a photo seems more practical!

Cake you keep it so that you can try it on in years to come & marvel and weep at your pre-childbearing figure. Also it seems a lot of money/emotion to invest in something that you don't really get to examine much on the actual day (after all, Thelma often seems to turn up on the day with the dress, doesn't she?) & you want to get it out later & twirl about in.

Plus, of course, get it out years later & try to persuade your darling DD that she should wear it for her own wedding. (Quote from my DD: "That thing? Are you joking?")

But all of the above totally irrelevant of you simply don't have the space to store it.

i wondered this

also found it funny that cakes were fake

Who buys them though?

Can't see any of the traveller girls going for a second hand dress - especially when they have been such recognisable 'one offs'.

Always wondered about this one. So much beautiful silk, lace and crystal.

There's been quite a bit of discussion about this programme recently because of the complaints made about the billboards and iirc those really ostentatious weddings are quite rare, even among Irish travellers (despite what Thelma watsername says) and much of it is just put on for the tv programme.