Bridal Excess

[oggbashan]

The issue of Take A Break magazine for 14 August has a story about a bride who wanted a large dress.

The dress cost "five figures" which means in excess of 10,000 pounds or 20,000 US dollars.

She wanted a big dress like one she had drawn when she was aged 7.

The result was a dress with a skirt 12.5 feet in diameter and over 35 feet in circumference over 42 hooped petticoats.

It was sewn with 7,000 heart-shaped Swarovski crystals.

The dress weighed 28 stone = 392 lbs. The bride weighed 8 stone 6 lb = 118 lbs. She had difficulty standing and moving in it but the pictures show that much of the weight must have been taken by the multiple hems resting on the floor.

The bride now has a one-year-old daughter called Chardonnay-Precious.

The article was one of a series plugging Take A Break's Wedding Dress day on Friday 29 August when women are asked to wear their wedding dresses to raise money for charities.

I doubt that Blue Gaskin of Doncaster will wear her 28 stone dress that day, or if she does she'll be stuck in one room.

Og

 

[Vermilion]

what? No picture?
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[oggbashan]

Ok. Here is one...

Og

 

[3113]

Ok. Here is one...

Looks to me like the groom is reconsidering in that picture, hmmm?

You know, I don't mind the excess, the cost or even weight of the dress--outside of how ill such conspicuous consumption generally makes me; a man/woman throwing their fantasy party (wedding) will decide what they want to sink a lot of money into and it might be something ridiculous.

What I don't get...and I mean really don't get, is why in all living fuck would a grown woman want to wear a wedding gown she's come up with when she was 7 years old???

I mean, that's it? That's the scope of your imagination? All those years and you never envisioned any wedding dress beyond what you came up when you were scratching away with crayons? Your whole life and that's the best you could do?

I think this explains the name she gave her daughter, too. She probably came up with that at aged 7 as well

 

[voluptuary_manque]

She lookes like one of those silly cakes that used to be popular in cake-decorating classes back . . . by golly, when she was 7 years old! Whudda thunk?

 

[shewantsmore]

that is very over the top,i wore white but come on that is ott

 

[glynndah]

She lookes like one of those silly cakes that used to be popular in cake-decorating classes back . . . by golly, when she was 7 years old! Whudda thunk?

It reminded me more of one of those crocheted dolls old ladies used to make to hide the toilet paper. Imagine this in white:

http://www.craftngame.com/members/750449/uploaded/rhnkblonde.gif

A from the good little witch.

 

[Vermilion]

I was struck by how lost the woman was inside that absurd frock, but also why in God's name have a dress *that* elaborate for a bleeding registry office? Surely it's more of a Cathedral style...

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[oggbashan]

Another picture...

Og

 

[TheeGoatPig]

He can't even hold her hand he is so far away. How did they kiss?

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

He can't even hold her hand he is so far away. How did they kiss?

Good question. Maybe they blew kisses at each other.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Just-Legal]

I've seen that before, is that the one who wanted a carriage like Jordan and she's only 17 years old or something?

I'm getting married in cream and emerald green velvet. He's wearing a kimono. Still no idea where we're having the ceremony - I still say the back garden but I don't think there's enough room for the guests

 

[oggbashan]

I've seen that before, is that the one who wanted a carriage like Jordan and she's only 17 years old or something?

I'm getting married in cream and emerald green velvet. He's wearing a kimono. Still no idea where we're having the ceremony - I still say the back garden but I don't think there's enough room for the guests

Yes - She had Jordan's carriage but she had difficulty getting her dress into it. She was 19 at the time of the marriage - 20 now.

Best wishes for your marriage.

Og

 

[CWatson]

He can't even hold her hand he is so far away. How did they kiss?

Hell, how did he get any?? Must've taken the whole honeymoon just to unstrap her from that godawful contraption.

 

[desertslave]

It reminded me more of one of those crocheted dolls old ladies used to make to hide the toilet paper. Imagine this in white:

http://www.craftngame.com/members/750449/uploaded/rhnkblonde.gif

A from the good little witch.

It scares me a little that you knew where to find that picture. LOL

I did a craft show several years ago (I make high-ish end jewelry) that a friend talked me into. It was in a church basement and the woman next to me was selling those damned dolls. She made about 3 times what I did that day.

The moral: avoid church basement shows with toilet paper dolls, it's not my market or anywhere near it.

 

[xssve]

She has room for the whole Doncaster Knights roster under there...

 

[Corylea]

In my opinion, anyone who wants to wear that for her wedding dress isn't old enough to get married.

Sorry, girlie, go play with your dollies some more, and when you grow up, *then* you can have a husband. Sheesh.

Shall we place bets on when they divorce?

 

[kimbalee]

He can't even hold her hand he is so far away. How did they kiss?

I was thinking the same thing... he barely was even in the pic with her.

In my opinion, anyone who wants to wear that for her wedding dress isn't old enough to get married.

Sorry, girlie, go play with your dollies some more, and when you grow up, *then* you can have a husband. Sheesh.

Shall we place bets on when they divorce?

I think if he can put up with that, he can last thru anything. Now she on the other hand, seems like a spoiled brat that is used to being catered to.

 

[3113]

OMG! It's Briteny Spears!

And hey, I'm not going to rag on this girl..much. There are silly things we all want and would be willing to spend the money on if we had it. Including a dress you're only going to wear once.

What I'd have advised against was a gown that proclaims to everyone that your taste in fashion is stuck at age 7....

 

[trysail]

Uh, oh.

Bride-zilla.

 

[emap]

The second picture there says it all for me. She isn't smiling he is, I think I even know what they are both thinking, him first cause most obvious.

Oh yes now we are gonna go do the after party and I am so getting laid tonight.

Oh crap, I gotta keep this thing on for three more hours and then I have to get out of it, I wonder if he will take I'm to tired for sex.

It's a big dress, way to big actually, I mean good greif I so would not ever want to wear something that weighed that much. That said though it's nice, except for the brown corset, I mean what the heck is up with a brown corset on a white dress?

 

[PMI]

I was married in a folk style dress made of white cotton, which my friend's mother made for me. I bought it sight unseen and loved it although I did get a few comments afterward - "Why did you chose an empire waist?" (they were commenting on the pictures of the dress, certainly not pictures of me in the dress!) My mother-in-law sent it to the dry cleaners to be pressed and starched before the wedding and when my betrothed went to pick it up, they could not find a "wedding gown." He persisted and they finally found the cotton dress, which they must have assumed was just another dress.

I still think it is the best wedding dress ever, and that I looked more beautiful on that day then I ever had, before or since.

So yes, I think the "toilet paper cover" dress to be exceedingly silly, but I also know how it feels to not have popular approval.

"Who cares," says I, "vive la difference." This has made my, admittedly slow, day more interesting.



Let me edit to say, I think most here would have approved of my dress, and the wedding on a shoestring. Fortunately, I dont think we need to worry that the subject bride will ever wander into these parts, or if she did, care about what we think.

 

[Corylea]

Most of my friends were surprised when I married a man -- though probably not as surprised as I was -- and they were even more surprised that I wore a traditional wedding gown.

The thing was, I was a professor at the time, and the week before I got married, the college where I taught had graduation. So I put on my gown and my hood and all that crap and went off to graduation, then a week later, I put on a gown of a different color, minus hood, and went off to be married.

When my friends asked why I was wearing a long white dress, I said, "Major life transitions require funny clothes; it's one of the ways that you signal to yourself and others that something important is happening." They were still a little leery until I told them that I'd gotten my gown from the J. C. Penney catalog and that it had taken me all of ten minutes to buy it. "Let's see, only three of their wedding gowns come in a tall size. This one is the prettiest of the three. Guess I'll wear that." No trying on eight bazillion dresses all over town while driving my friends and relatives nuts. It was a little wrinkled when it arrived, but my husband-to-be ironed it for me. Gotta keep a guy like that.

 

[Just-Legal]

I've just realised I haven't asked... Ogg, WHY were you reading Take A Break?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I've just realised I haven't asked... Ogg, WHY were you reading Take A Break?

Hot Mama made her wedding dress herself. Then she cut it to above-the-knee length and wore it several times to fancy things.