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Tuesday, 21 September 2010

ALWAYS Tell The Bride... especially if it's a Vegas wedding

Vegas weddings – love them or loathe them. To be in the ultimate microcosm of the entire world, complete with shiny lights, while reading your vows. Viva Las Vegas as The King sang. Or, think it is the tackiest idea, devoid of any romantic notion. Blame it on The King with his notorious drive-thru, shot gun wedding to Priscilla at the Little White Chapel.

Tonight’s episode of Don’t Tell The Bride is set in Las Vegas. Now I normally steer clear of such trashy TV (honestly!) but what with a certain Vegas wedding taking place in two weeks, how could I resist? The show centres on the groom who is given £12,000 to organise the perfect surprise wedding for the bride. Operative word being surprise. Yes, the bride is left entirely out of the loop. Talk about disaster.

It turns out that a Vegas wedding is the bride’s worst kind of nightmare. Did she loathe the idea! At the 11th hour it was hit and miss whether she would go ahead with it. TV being TV, she eventually walked up the aisle at The Venetian. But there was no sign of the bride’s brother and sister, the groom’s sister and their friends and extended family. Oh and the groom wore a bright, white tux. He picked the wrong dress - the bride in the end demanded a new one at a cost of £1,500. She broke down in tears at the airport when she discovered her destination. On top of all that her sister, the maid of honour, refused to go because she was that disgusted with the groom.

Admittedly, I was disappointed that the bride went ahead with it. If I were that heartbroken, angry and worst of all disappointed in someone I trusted, no way would I have boarded the plane.

Call me dark, bitter and cynical but I cannot see that couple lasting forever.

Surely the groom would have had some inkling to the kind of wedding the bride did NOT want. She wanted stately country home, a big wedding shared with all of her friends and family. He wanted Las Vegas. The groom either knew this but went ahead with his preference, taking the biggest gamble of his life by betting everything on the hope that the bride would go through with it. Or he was just a plain, simple idiot.
It was painfully addictive to watch. Is it wrong, wrong, wrong to trust someone else to organise our wedding day? Without our input...even if that person is The One? Like the old cliché, it’s not where we end up but the journey in getting there that makes it worthwhile. For a bride to be left completely out of the loop is unthinkable and of course she will be devastated. Tip for all future grooms: Do Always Tell The Bride.

This episode proved that Las Vegas weddings are not everyone’s cup of tea. Having said all this, I have no doubt that Faye and Chris’s wedding will be nothing short of fantastic. Firstly they’re on the same page, secondly Faye is in full control and everything will go to way she planned. Oh and thirdly just when I think she can’t get any more organised, today I receive a laminated official itinerary of the big day.

This couple could just be the Chosen One who will rewrite the book on how to do a Vegas wedding perfectly. Love them indeed!

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