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I thought the bride typically wants to put the focus on herself. How’s that supposed to happen when her bridesmaids’ dresses were inspired by troll dolls and look like giant, poofy tie-dye disasters?
Is that why the bride had to add that star headpiece she found in her box of old Christmas decorations? It, um, helps.
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Oh my! There must be 100′s of yards of puff in all those dresses. How will the bride sit? Also – is it just me or does the groom look about 12?
can u lot stop please…i will have to tke this further if u dnt delete these terrible comments……. i will need to report this website… as i am a traveller and find this very much offensive
Huh?
This is an Irish Gypsy/Traveller wedding; they’re known for their flamboyant nuptials and the celebrations thereafter… as I believe Eadon previously stated. Being Irish, I gotta say, I actually am loving the kelly green/neon blue in the bridesmaid’s dresses.
I agree with you about nasty comments. This is tradition and should not be dissed. Travellers – or any other culture – have the right to traditions and customs. Good luck to the kids – saw them on tv and they have very adult minds.
Websites can’t really be reported, it’s the world wide web and anyone can use it. And this website makes fun of EVERYTHING! Don’t get your knickers in a twist because people find those day-glo dresses and a star on the bride’s head funny looking.
I’m from sunny socal, and we would never get away with this here, but how much fun is this? The brides and birdes maid’s always look great, they are not taking themselves so seriously. Everyone shows up and parties like mad. Not being a traveler I would never be allowed in the group, but I wish I could be. Keep on doing your thing, look like a blast.
Is it just the picture quality, or is there something off about the groomsmen’s faces?
It’s probably nausea caused by the dress colors.
It almost takes the focus away from horrible, horrible tanning on maid of honour on far right. Almost.
Maybe the bride is a fairy princess and her star allows her to fly!?!
I saw this on My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding last night! :O She is sixteen and got engaged on her birthday. She is an Irish traveller and the two met a wedding themselves. Big outrageous dresses are the norm for travellers. Looked cute on TV cos they really love each other.
She also designed the dress herself. Which explains the star.
I saw this on My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding last night! :O She is a sixteen year old Irish traveller and designed the dress herself (Which explains the star). They looked very happy : )
Oh boy, now that’s got me anticipating a flood of travellers recklessly defending their wedding practices.
I just wanna say, GIRLS, *please* you look so much prettier in your natural skin colour. Don’t paint over it, it can be bad for the skin, and it’s not just you. Trust me, I’m as pale as a ghost, and I’ve travelled around a bit. Women are much prettier in their own naturality.
@MPMommy
With all that fabric, I bet the bride is sitting. There’s a chair built into that skirt!
I can just imagine the bride has an mobility scooter under her dress – one press of a button and she glides effortlessly across the courtyard with ease.
@MPMommy
It’s a traditional Gypsy wedding, both the bride and groom are around 16-17 which is very typical sadly!
The whole point of a brides-maid dress is to look bad so as to make the bride look better by comparison: Compared to you in an ugly dress the bride looks a bit better now, doesn’t she? Never mind how good you would otherwise look: That’s not the point of this exercise. The wedding isn’t about the bridesmaid, after all: It’s all about the bride.
Just be thankful that it’s not traditional to make the bridesmaid wear a pickle barrel and a potato sack.
I’m so lame that I actually think those hi-liter dresses are pretty.
I actually like that shade of green … just not on those dresses.
And you know she totally told the bridesmaids they would be able to wear those dresses again. Just not with the 5 yards of tulle on their heads. That would be silly.
I’m pretty sure a lot of these huge poofy dress teenage girl pictures on here are travellers. That’s just the norm for them, I guess its a cultural thing we dont get…? But then again since they are between like 14 and 17 when this happens, it makes sense since that would be the hight of “I AM the princess, I will get my way” stage of being a teenage girl.
@Gwhizzy
Well, if they got a job in Disneyland Paris; sure.
Othewise, they’d better know a great seamstress to make them everyday wear.
I’m just amazed here that such dresses can be heavy enough to leave actual scars and blisters. The agony of fashion, really, even amongst teenagers.
The bride must have been inspired to design those bridesmaid dresses while eating Trix yogurt!
The crazy thing is I think the colors are gorgeous. Not on those girls, but just by themselves.
@Sarge
Luckily some of us brides don’t believe in that anymore. A lot of us are having the girls pick their own dresses (we still pick the colors, though).
oh i seen that too. the best bit was when her parents had to physically pull her out of the carriage because the dress was so big.
and as much as i like those colours, those dresses are an eyesore….
Failures in this photo:
The glow-in-the-dark bridesmaids’ dresses.
The gigantic train on the dresses (especially the bride’s).
The fake tan on the girl to the far right.
The star on the bride’s head.
The white tuxedo on the groom (I hate white tuxedos).
The blue feather duster attached to the older woman’s hair.
Also, the couple to the far right is posing closer to the camera than everybody else in what I think of as the “prom position.”
Did I catch them all?
Try the fact that the bride and groom are both little more than children. This is traditional in the Traveller community but sad to say seems to result in a higher instance of unhappy marriages and abuse than among the rest of Ireland.
the star on her head makes more sense once you see the dress closer up. the top layer of tulle on the brides dress has a star pattern all over it. At least shes matching….?
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I thought it was bubble wrap.
What I want to know is how the heck Travelers can afford such expensive weddings when they don’t have steady work and little to no education.
They’re good at scamming the hell out of everyone.
@Sarah
Strolling human tables?
http://www.bubbygram.com/specialevents/bridetable1.jpg
http://www.bubbygram.com/specialevents/bridetable2.jpg
The weddings aren’t typically that expensive in terms of catering and venue hire. The girls and their families save money from when they are very young to pay for the wedding dresses.
Very few travellers actually ‘travel’ now, and most will have steady incomes, regardless what the tabloids would have you believe.
There’s a newspaper article titled “The gipsy blings” which has a picture of the dress close up. Being 22 is considered “old” for getting married.
I bet they are so excited Ron Weasly is one of the groom’s men!
@MPMommy
they were on TV last week both looked about 12 (they’re actually 16) and if you think this dress was bad you should of seen the others
@Quark
she wasn’t the 22 year old, she’s 16, the 22 year olds dress was much bigger and sluttier
believe it or not our local wedding shop window just displayed dresses in those very colors!! but the dresses were much more sleekly cut. in the window, the color combo looked magical – like something from a mermaid wedding.
My big fat gypsy wedding:
If they get married that young, do they usually stay together?
Yeah, from what I gather travellers very seldom divorce. It’s not really part of their culture to do so.
Whether the marriages are happy is another matter, though.
I NEVER want to see those colors near a red head again.
>.> I want one of those bridesmaid dresses. I’ll have zero occasion to wear it but it’s a special sort of awesome.
The bride has polka dots on her skirt. Good god.
agly dreeses I ( but slim lades) agree . What about fit american dresses agly fat body).Dear this is reality here.
OK, Supercrispy on the left has demon horns sprouting from his forehead. The groom looks to be about 15. 2nd from right will be dead of skin cancer within 2 years. The bridesmaids’ fascinators look as though they came out of the secret fetish stash in Camilla Parker Bowles’s closet. And, the bride’s headpiece… oh…. *shakes head*… really, there aren’t words.
The florescent gowns are by no means the most disturbing things in this picture.
is that ron weasly?
OMG! I thought the same thing!
I think I’m blind.
honestly..what the heck are they suppose to do with those dresses after the ceremony? There are people in this world that needs sheets to stay warm or bars that needs bright colors to entice “FUN” to their business!
sorry but i may have to report this website….so please if u dnt wnt this to go further……… THEN STOP PLEASE…….and can u delete these terrible comments………………………..
If you don’t want people making fun of your culture, try improving it. Or don’t get offended by the fact that not everybody likes it. The comments on here haven’t even been harsh.
Don’t get me wrong, there are stupid things that Americans (I happen to have been born in/still live in America) do as well. Feel free to mock all of them. I recommend that you start with Twilight, but please be aware that 75% of us hate it too (the other 25% are teenage girls and cougars who can’t get any).
For my own part, I think these wedding clothes look hilarious, but whatever makes them happy is fine by me.
Also, report it to whom? The ‘no free speech’ police?
Sorry, I did not quite mean that first line to sound as harsh as it does.
I have watched the programme over and over and over….I love it!!!!! You guys looked really happy. My big poofy dress is also on here and I am recieving bad comments, just ignore everyone and know that you had a wonderful day. Good luck with married life.x
@bridgie…report this website? How..wha?
it’s sad that no one even notices how pretty the bride is.
The dresses are straight out of a fairy tale, and they look beautiful. I’m not familiar with the Irish Gypsy traditions but I do know the Bulgarian Gypsy ones–they tend to wear very colorful outfits with lots of heavy golden jewelry on their weddings. Nobody should argue with custom and tradition.
“Nobody should argue with custom and tradition.” If nobody argued with custom and tradition, women would still not be able to vote, or decide who, when, or if to marry; some people would still own slaves and other people would still be slaves… also, this entire site is about making fun of weddings, which are pretty much *always* in some way about custom and tradition.
I have to be honest, I WISH I had an excuse to do this. As it is, my family is old fashioned enough that my sister an cousin would probably throttle me with the tulle if I tried to make them wear it ^_^
The girl in the video clip with the big hoop earrings did not marry until she was 23, had only met her husband to be, twice before the wedding. She is the only traveller I have heard of who divorced her husband for domestic violence toward her. apparently divorce is not acceptable to the travellers, and the young girls are never allowed to date boys, or to go out with a boy without a parent going with them as a chaperone. In fact according to the TV series no girl can approach a boy she fancies, but has to wait for him to approach her. Nor are they allowed to even taste alcohol before they are married. Pre marital sex is unheard of. The traveller boys on the other hand have all the freedoms they need!
I don`t know how things are in Ireland, but in Romania they are quite the opposite: they ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to learn anything in school(are the teachers` nightmare) or to go to school( there are free special places in university, that remain unoccupied, for those among them that actually graduate the highschool, while there are not enough free places for all the romanians that want to go to university), they refuse to get themselves an honest job, prefer illegal business/stealing/selling stolen goods, are totally uneducated, promiscuous (nobody forces young 12 – 14 years old girls to have premarital, ludicrously free sex, they just have it for fun or because of lack of education), are extremely agressive against anyone that tries to stand up against their abuses; spend in one day more money (illegaly obtained money) than an average hard working romanian wins per week (to say the least) and then they go the social services to get free food which they resell to their “friends” or to get help at paying the heating bill for some disgustingly tacky “palaces”, …..or go to the Europe`s cities to beg and steal, … And then they no longer accept being called gipsies- the way they have been called since they first set foot in Europe- they find that offending and they demand in the name of human rights to be called “romani” or “romanes”; after centuries in which they have been called gitano/zingaro/tigan/… by the entire Europe, now they remembered that their people`s name conveniently is “romani/romanes”. And who remembered and demanded that? The “travellers” in Romania! And no romanian (as in person of romanian origin) politician dares to speak up and say the truth in front of the entire world. Heaven forbid they should be offended by telling the truth about them – that more than 75 % of them are uneducated, unemployed/engaged in illegal things, promiscuous, … Less than 20% of them actually finish their education and work honestly in this country. Which shows they can make it up here; it`s just that they don`t want it, they like it more down there, in their uneducated, tacky ways. No other ethnic community in Romania causes the problems they cause. All the others can live here normally and not feel offended when saying the traditional name of their ethnic origin out loud.
I love Irish Traveler weddings.