Wedding dresses and plans

I didn’t say I believed it! I was just checking.

Well, I'd be handing the engagement ring back pdq if I were her.

Huia, the draw of the show is that the groom is (conventionally) much less involved than the bride and her family.

I wondered how, in NZ, anyone might think "Don't tell the bride" is "normal".

I apologise if you had been led to believe that the UK normally does it like this.

When I said: Just a few minutes watching the show and I'm sure you can tell it's a very odd and unusual way to do things, what I actually meant was that the reactions of family and friends give it away. The dress shop owners, florists, venues (etc) are astounded when the groom says that this is what they are doing.

😁

DD knew a family whose son was on The Farmer Wants a Wife (Australia). We had visited their place too as they had a restaurant there.
We all knew full well the young man already had a fiancee 🤔

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry that you could think this is actually a thing.
Incidentally, it started in the US. Where else 🤷‍♀️

Huia

CalendarGirl I wonder if your friend thought it was worth the money!

Who knows?

But of course, they got their 15 minutes of fame being on the telly.

I bet a lot of bickering behind the scenes.

CalendarGirl I wonder if your friend thought it was worth the money!

Well thanks for clearing that up. 😀

NotSpaghetti

Sorry, why does living in NZ mean you are "out of touch"?
I don't understand.

Just a few minutes watching the show and I'm sure you can tell it's a very odd and unusual way to do things.

I’m not out of touch in general but I might not be in touch with current UK wedding protocol!

Never watched any bridal reality show, so only have experience of absolutely ordinary standard weddings where the whole family muck in and nobody, not even the bride, feels a need to grandstand.

I have a friend whose daughter was on ‘Don’t Tell The Bride’.

The bride’s mum wasn’t happy as she wanted the wedding in the local church where all the rest of the family had married, plus the dress the future husband chose was a casual cotton shift, also not mum’s idea of a wedding dress.

The ‘wedding’ took place on a rooftop warehouse type place, but seeing as it wasn’t registered for weddings, it wasn’t even legal and a proper ‘wedding’ took place a few days later, not in front of the cameras of course.

Think the bride was disappointed with her partner’s choices, but I suppose it paid for the honeymoon etc.

Sorry, why does living in NZ mean you are "out of touch"?
I don't understand.

Just a few minutes watching the show and I'm sure you can tell it's a very odd and unusual way to do things.

Hahaha no it’s a made up programme
I understand you live in NZ but that’s not the moon there isn’t much difference

No!!

These “reality” shows are about as far from reality as you can get.

I can’t believe you are thinking this.