My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

Anyone else watch this last night?

I still can't get over the look of the brides mother, never mind the 14 stone neon Pink Bridal gown the bride had to lump around.

lass wrote:Anyone else watch this last night?

I still can't get over the look of the brides mother, never mind the 14 stone neon Pink Bridal gown the bride had to lump around.

VFL a pikey?

HAven't seen last night yet, but the series is irrisistible. Will watch it tomorrow, along with Shameless.

lass wrote:Anyone else watch this last night?

I still can't get over the look of the brides mother, never mind the 14 stone neon Pink Bridal gown the bride had to lump around.

Amazingly irrisistible series. Mr B watched it this week, for the first time. He was like

Some of the kids in this weeks episode made me laugh a lot.

The rules are amazing, I agree with the going out in groups only for the girls and no getting drunk or sex before marriage but, in saying that they dress and dance very provocatively from an early age which surely is damaging and asking for trouble (not saying that one shouldn't dress how they want too but there is common sense). Plus you have to think that getting married early at 16/17 means well they not going to keep their virginity that long anyway. You don't see anyone above 18 not married in their culture it seems. I like the way the families are close and can group a pot for celebrations like mahoooosive wedding and christening dresses..

I don't like the fact they seem to try and make people feel sorry for them saying the children are going to be by the road side and no sanitary etc when they were being evicted from Dale Farm...well excuse me but they didn't have planning permission in the first place to build and be in that spot So no sympathy there. This programme isn't really doing the travellers community any good, but it's good entertainment for us..

I'm convinced they've agreed to make this series as they think it'll show them in a better light. I very much doubt there will be another one once they realise it doesn't.

Having said that, it does portray them as real people, albeit with a different lifestyle. We laugh at their wedding dresses, but look at how ornate some of our weddings have become in recent years, and the money that's spent on them. It's all a question of taste, isn't it?

Having said that #2, we have a lot of gypsies in the area where I live, and we do get to see and hear quite a lot about their lifestyle and it's interesting for me to try to reconcile that with what I see in that series.

When I was a child we had a travellers camp behind some land before they built a huge Tesco there, I remember huge white and silver trailers (gorgeous looking caravans) quite a few trucks and lots of aggressive dogs which stopped us from getting too close. (Not that we wanted to as we were told we would be kidnapped by them). They simply kept themselves to themselves, but I must admit they wasn't glamorous and well dressed looking, in fact they were purely the opposite and dirty scruffy unshaven types.

I can't face watching it. Not sure I can handle the chavness.

lass wrote:When I was a child we had a travellers camp behind some land before they built a huge Tesco there, I remember huge white and silver trailers (gorgeous looking caravans) quite a few trucks and lots of aggressive dogs which stopped us from getting too close. (Not that we wanted to as we were told we would be kidnapped by them). They simply kept themselves to themselves, but I must admit they wasn't glamorous and well dressed looking, in fact they were purely the opposite and dirty scruffy unshaven types.

And the blokes were even worse

villainies wrote:I can't face watching it. Not sure I can handle the chavness.

You need to watch it. Trust me.

lass wrote:http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a303837/irish-travellers-criticise-c4s-gypsy-weddings.html

Unsurprising, really. Last one tonight!

Yup must see lol.... it's been entertaining at the very least but I have rule that my daughter must never ever see it or them dresses on it... pfft am sure they think they Barbie dolls/Cinderella ...

It's a cultural thing, isn't it? The clothes, the dancing and everything. While there are some aspects of their lives I really don't like, I can't criticise them for that. I actually think they've been portrayed quite well in the series, especially the women.

hmmm allowing the girls of that age to dress soooooooooooooo inappropriately I didn't like or the dance styles they do, whatever happened to ring a ring o roses I will never know lol..... The idea that a gypsy wife will never ever work whilst he earns the money is old school I suppose and goes back to Victorian times when the woman always stayed at home, would be better if they had a choice I think but hey ho it's their way. Taking them out of school so young that a lot are illiterate isn't such a good thing sadly....

I can accept all of that. Different cultures, like I said, but it's the things they aren't showing that I don't like.

Lutes has been watching it ever since he was told that the brides wore meringue dresses.Dozy fat git