Do you watch "Platinum Weddings" on WE?

[baby monster]

Ok, I find this show fascinating. Does anyone watch it? They showcase very expensive weddings. The one I saw today was a 4 day Indian wedding for 600 people and had a budget of $1.25M. I almost fell off the couch. It looked very nice but one and quarter MILLION?

 

[NewEnglandLady]

Dan and I used to watch that when we were planning and say things like ''Hmmm, we never checked to see if there was a helicopter pad at our venue...you know, for our departure" or "You know hon, I completely forgot to get an 8 foot tall ice louge for martinis!"

It was fun to watch and lord knows there were some nice details, but for some reason I never thought "Oh my gosh, that''s so beautiful and unique" I only thought "that looks expensive".

 

[baby monster]

I just don't get it. Why spend so much money on a 5 hour party? I've been to 100K+ wedding in NYC and it wasn't any more fun than 15K wedding. Are these people just show-offs?

And the other thing, each bride says that she has been planning her wedding since she was 5. Are they for real?

 

[luckystar112]

I USED to watch platinum wedding and bridezillas. That is, until I went to put it on WE tonight, and saw that our cable provider had removed it from our channel listing!!!! We have to pay for it now.

 

[baby monster]

Aww, that''s terrible, Luckystar. I feel for you. You''re going to miss watching other people spend ridiculous amounts of not-so-hard earned money.

 

[Hudson_Hawk]

Is it bad that I''d be willing to pay a couple hundred for an ice louge? They remind me of college-I don''t think the venue would let me take shots off it though

I love Platinum weddings and Bridezillas. I watch them all the time. PW is almost a challenge, I like to see what they did and then think of ways to do it cheaper.

 

[sumbride]

ha, I did watch it and my DH made fun of me for it. I don''t think those extravagant touches really made things all that much better... I mean, yes, there are ways to improve the wedding by spending a little more... but I don''t think it has to go to quite that level!

As far as the ice luge, or however it''s spelled, I wouldn''t have done it, but I must tell you I was thrilled to no end when I looked behind the bar at my wedding and saw a FROZEN MARGARITA MACHINE! It was leftover from another event so they just threw it in... hadn''t even really been an option during the planning. I thought it was the best thing ever! Probably because I hadn''t had a frozen margarita in about 3 months to fit into my dress, and because they are one of my favorite things! Had it been an option, I would have paid for it!

 

[baby monster]

Date: 10/22/2007 7:02:07 AM
Author: Hudson_Hawk
Is it bad that I''d be willing to pay a couple hundred for an ice louge? They remind me of college-I don''t think the venue would let me take shots off it though

I love Platinum weddings and Bridezillas. I watch them all the time. PW is almost a challenge, I like to see what they did and then think of ways to do it cheaper.

See, the luge thing looks like fun and it''s great if it is only couple hundred.

How would you take shots off it? I''m picturing a bride with her tongue out frozen to a block of ice

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[Stephanie]

Date: 10/22/2007 12:48:23 PM
Author: baby monster

Date: 10/22/2007 7:02:07 AM
Author: Hudson_Hawk
Is it bad that I''d be willing to pay a couple hundred for an ice louge? They remind me of college-I don''t think the venue would let me take shots off it though

I love Platinum weddings and Bridezillas. I watch them all the time. PW is almost a challenge, I like to see what they did and then think of ways to do it cheaper.

See, the luge thing looks like fun and it''s great if it is only couple hundred.

How would you take shots off it? I''m picturing a bride with her tongue out frozen to a block of ice

.

That would make for some interesting photos!

 

[april diamonds]

I love Platinum Weddings! I get to live vicariously through someone else's frivoulous spending!!! I agree with NewEnglandLady that alot of the time I think "wow that's beatufiul" but don't think "wow, I HAVE to have that MY wedding!". Because sometimes it's like "so beauuutiful!" but then whenyou think about it they just spend $10,000 on a bunch of branches with things hanging off of it. $10,000 for a bunch of branches?!?!?

Hudson - I love doing that too. Using their ideas and then trying to figure out how to do it cheaper!

 

[lost in new york]

Date: 10/21/2007 11:50:00 PM
Author: baby monster
Aww, that''s terrible, Luckystar. I feel for you. You''re going to miss watching other people spend ridiculous amounts of not-so-hard earned money.

I''m sorry, but why do you assume the money spent is "not-so-hard earned?" Either the bride''s and/or groom''s parents worked really hard to be able to provide their children with a dream wedding, or the couple themselves worked really hard to be able to pay for it themselves, or a combination of the two. From my experience, the more money one has, the harder that person or someone in his/her family had to work to earn it. Money isn''t automatically any less hard earned simply because there is a lot of it. Sheesh.

 

[Hudson_Hawk]

Okay, this is the sorority girl in me coming out here. The ice louge is basically just an ice sculpture. When I was in college, we''d buy some big blocks of ice and seal them together into a REALLY big block. Then, you start by chipping the side edge so there''s a divot in it on 2 sides, facing each other. Then, you use a pick or something else sharp to gouge a track across the surface. using warm/hot water, you enlarge the track and smooth out the edges of the divots. One side should be larger than the other. You place the blocks of ice on an angle with the small divot at the top. You pour the shot down the track from the top and drinkers then squat/bend down and catch it in their mouths from the bottom.

Wedding "drink" louges are really just ornate versions of what I described above. They use fancy tools to burn out the track from inside the sculpture, or the insert tubes into the ice as it freezes. Once frozen the tubes are removed using warm water and the sculpture is carved.

 

[Hudson_Hawk]

I think the point was that sometimes the brides present themselves like "OMG I HAVE to have this" when it''s not even their own money to spend. The parents/grand parents have the money, NOT the kids. You''re right, people worked hard for the money in most cases but if you watch PWs regularly, it''s not usually the B and G who are paying for the huge lavish affair. It''s the parents who can''t say no to their little princess.

 

[baby monster]

Date: 10/22/2007 4:50:37 PM
Author: lost in new york

I'm sorry, but why do you assume the money spent is 'not-so-hard earned?' Either the bride's and/or groom's parents worked really hard to be able to provide their children with a dream wedding, or the couple themselves worked really hard to be able to pay for it themselves, or a combination of the two. From my experience, the more money one has, the harder that person or someone in his/her family had to work to earn it. Money isn't automatically any less hard earned simply because there is a lot of it. Sheesh.

Well, on yesterday's episode, a kindergarden teacher in her early to mid 20s said this: "I wanted this and that and the budget kept growing, so my father finally said there is no budget. We spent $500K on the wedding and my father paid the entire amount."

If it was her great-great-grandparents who earned the money and 3 generatings have been coasting along living off the interest, would you consider it 'hard earned' for this woman? What has she done in her short life to earn this money?

 

[NewEnglandLady]

I''ve seen about 8 episodes and of the 8, I saw one couple who paid for it themselves. And I thought "good for them". If my parents attempted to pay for my wedding, even if they had millions, it wouldn''t go over so well. My parents are wonderful people who have worked very hard for their money, which is why I would never want them to spend it on a wedding. I''d rather have something small and completely within DH and my budget (which is what we did) than have my parents shell out for it. My parents offered to pay for a portion of our wedding, which we appreciated very much, but declined. Now they''ve decided to go to Hawaii with the money which makes me very, very happy.

What you see the majority of the time on PW is a couple wanting an over-the-top wedding simply because they can. I realize the parents are completely willing to do it, but that doesn''t make it okay. It seems that EVERY TIME the couple goes over budget---seriously, it''s not that hard to stay in a 6-figure budget! It wasn''t hard for me to stay in the budget some of these brides spend on flowers!

 

[BELLA9280]

thats funny im watching it right now!! its just really crazy!