Okay, to be fair. I watch this show and somewhat like a gawker watching a train-wreck, I was mesmerized.
I-as a little girl- wanted such an imaginative, fairytale-like dress.....However, I was fully intending to have no problems walking in it.
Art is the ability to say "stop", audacity is the ability to wear the, "Oh just one more petticoat and three more rhinestones" dress. -Rock solid Redhead
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By William Langley
9:00PM GMT 12 Feb 2011
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It wasn't just a wedding dress lit up like a Las Vegas casino that made you suspect Sam Norton's nuptials could be something of a gamble. Sam's big day called for a big effort and she obliged with a 20-layer, battery-powered, whispering pink meringue that weighed more than her husband.
The congregation loved it. So, apparently, did the viewers of Channel 4's My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, the smash-hit reality show du jour which has affectionately chronicled the 17-year-old Lancashire barmaid's romance with travelling tree surgeon Pat Skye Lee. The series, a spin-off from a Cutting Edge documentary shown last year, has been drawing huge audiences, and become a social media phenomenon.
Half anthropology, half Frocky Horror Show, the five-part programme follows the extravagant rituals and celebrations of modern gypsy life, peaking with the fashion for fantastically over-the-top weddings, awash with tidal waves of taffeta, Cinderella-style carriages, oceans of champagne and monster cakes. Glowing in every sense, Sam staggers down the aisle, attended not only by her bridesmaids, but a man holding a fire extinguisher.
It all makes compulsive viewing, and there's plenty to support Channel 4's claim that the series throws an overdue light on a secretive, marginalised and little-understood segment of our society. Yet it also raises some awkward questions. One of them being how the featured gypsies – typically portrayed in the show as illiterate and getting by on the proceeds of casual labouring jobs – find the money to blow £150,000 on a wedding?
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