Holy Cow! I knew I lived in the ghetto, but this was like viewing activity on another planet. It was like a train wreck; I couldn't look away. And it was a marathon day of this show. Half hour after half hour. Bride after bride...one train wreck after another.
First of all, is this what wedding dresses really cost?! There was one Jewish Princess who had special ordered a dress that cost, I kid you not, $20,000. And this diva had the chutzpah to change her mind and decided she didn't like her designer, made to order gown. Oy!
Another bride came in with her family in preparation for her own Big Fat Greek Wedding. She tried on a gown that she had been obsessing about. The price tag? $24,500. Then her parents try to bargain the sales ladies down by offering to buy the floor sample dress but only want to pay $10,000. ('ONLY' I say here because that was their term.) Yikes!
Is this what the young women of America are using as the basis for their entitlement behaviors? None of these girls would have lasted one week with my sister and me growning up. And they wouldn't make it here either.
I feel bad that these families are choosing to enable this kind of materialism in their daughters. Even the brides that were trying to keep in a budget were talking about budgets of $5,000. Holy Cow!
No wonder the world is in such a mess. Makes me fall back on the old adage: "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without". That gives me more mileage than a designer gown, of tulle and satin, trimmed and beaded to kingdom come.
2 comments:
We have watched this show also. I hate when the bride quietly states that her budget is 2,000 dollars, then looks humiliated because she only has that much money to spend. I feel bad for the poor smuck she is marrying, how can he support someone in that fairy tale world? Good to watch with your daughter though, lots of "teaching" moments :)
Hmmmm....I'll have to watch that show. Sadly, some of those girls sounds like other girls I know who are only 12. Pretty spoiled and entitled but watching their Mothers it comes as no surprise and I too feel sorry for their husbands-to-be. We need more "Jill's" around to be good examples.
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