Almost every time I've seen the show, the bride wins who spends the most on the wedding (so it seems kind of unfair that the one who spends the most is also the one who gets the free honeymoon). It would help if each episode featured brides with the same budget so that they could be judged more fairly.
shareOn a lot of shows the budgets are close. And I have seen brides with the biggest budgets not win. One thing that brides can't control are the weather (if an outdoor wedding/reception), and bad weather (too hot, too cold, too sunny, bugs, rain, etc) can result in low experience scores. Lack of alcohol due to monetary and/or religious reasons can also doom a wedding, which isn't fair. I'd like to see four weddings without alcohol or with beer & wine only on the same show.
Boo Hoo! Let me wipe away the tears with my PLASTIC hand!--Lindsey McDonald (Angel)
I thought the same thing til I saw a bride with an under $20K wedding beat two chicks who spent over $100K at their weddings. Like WELL over 100K - one was 160 I think.
The difference - her ceremony and venue were personable and intimate and sweet.
The very first episode of this show I did see an Indian girl sweep all of the categories with a $100K wedding. So I was like, well of course she won!
But I love it when the girls who "only" spend $20K end up winning. It's like, congrats for saving fifty thousand dollars or a hundred fifty. To spend that kind of money on a wedding is outrageous.
Unless you're very wealthy it is ridiculous to spend an outrageous amount of money on a wedding. One couple spent 60K, they seemed very middle class. I kept wondering how 4OK of that could have gone for a down payment on a home.
shareWas it the couple's money or the family's? I have been watching Platinum Weddings recently and in all of them the parents are paying for the weddings.
Boo Hoo! Let me wipe away the tears with my PLASTIC hand!--Lindsey McDonald (Angel)
Almost every time I've seen the show, the bride wins who spends the most on the wedding (so it seems kind of unfair that the one who spends the most is also the one who gets the free honeymoon). It would help if each episode featured brides with the same budget so that they could be judged more fairly.
Yeah I just watched an episode with a 5k bride and a 30k bride. Guess which one won...
shareAnd again! Tonight a $13k bride beat a $40k, $50k and $110k bride!
shareWe paid a lot of money for our youngest daughter's wedding for a number of reasons. First, she and her fiancé wanted to be married in Florida, and we live in Maryland. They chose the Ritz Carlton. We had just under 100 guests, but the food, flowers, and cake (all provided by RC) and the venue really added up. Throw in hotel rooms for ourselves and our family and it adds up. Her oldest sister paid for her gown, but we had to get our clothes. We drove down, bringing the bride's gown and some of the bridesmaids', so that was cheaper than going by plane and renting a car, but night in a motel was needed on the way down and back, as well as several nights in the Ritz.
As we have a number of relatives in PA who were either too old to make the trip or who couldn't afford it or both, we had an engagement party there with a buffet dinner, a cake, and an open bar (but beer and wine only). That wasn't too expensive, but it made all the guests there part of the wedding.
Needless to say, a destination wedding can be very expensive. But we love our daughter, and we love her husband. Now we love our little grandson and granddaughter too. It was worth it to make them happy.
BTW our other two daughters' weddings weren't nearly that expensive, but they were in our home city and NOT at a Ritz!
Boo Hoo! Let me wipe away the tears with my PLASTIC hand!--Lindsey McDonald (Angel)
They chose the Ritz Carlton.
We are not millionaires, but it had been a long time (22 and 17 years) since her two sisters' weddings (she is our caboose and was married at 32). She had always been a very good daughter, and he was an extremely fine young man (age 37). We loved his family and they loved us. They both made good money and owned condos, so saving for a house was not a priority. They both owned good cars. We were able to pay, and we were happy to make their dreams come true. They chose the Ritz because it was on the beach. And the view from our rooms was great!
I have seen million dollar weddings on Platinum Weddings, and I think that's way too much, but this was not bad at all. Lori (Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta) gave her daughter 6 dresses, $5000 up to $50,000 for the ceremony, the reception, the rehearsal dinner, the bridal lunch, the shower, and going away! An Indian groom rode in on an elephant, and his bride wore $1,000,000 in jewelry and had her saris made in India!
Boo Hoo! Let me wipe away the tears with my PLASTIC hand!--Lindsey McDonald (Angel)