Apr 03 2009
Say Yes to the Dress — “Playing Dress Up”
Keasha drew the short straw of brides again on tonight’s episode of Say Yes to the Dress, getting stuck with Nicole and all her sorority sisters for “Playing Dress Up.” You know, I understand having a fun day to try on a few pretty dresses at an upscale bridal salon, but to sit there and be complete jerks about it, saying every dress is ugly and stupid and ridiculing the bride for “fun”? It reminded me of a recent episode of The New Adventures of Old Christine, where the two evil blonde mothers from Christine’s school tell her she’s their best friend. She says something like “But you always ridicule me, make fun of my clothes, belittle me–” and the women go, “Yeah–friends!” Obviously these sorority sisters and many other girls on Say Yes to the Dress have the same skewed idea of friendship. I’m wondering if a few years down the road the bride will discover she’s no longer friends with most of these catty jerks.
Both the new episode “Playing Dress Up” and the rerun “It’s Always Something” had brides who brought the groom along. It just never seems to be a good idea. It takes all the magic out of it for the bride. The first bride would get all excited about a dress, only to come out to her fiance who’d make this critical face and evaluate her like some photographer doing a spread in a bridal magazine. Even when he said all the right words about her being beautiful in anything, I didn’t buy it. He fell into the “controlling” category of fiance that I hate to see.
I have to give him credit for at least saying the right words, though, because the groom on the rerun episode was absolutely horrific. I’ll be kind and merely say that the guy was no George Clooney–yet he critiqued every dress and how the bride looked in it and made crass remarks. My favorite was a mermaid style dress that she looked awesome in, yet he made a disgusted face and said “I can see your ass muscles”. All I could think was “At least she has muscles.” This man should be thanking his lucky stars to get such a lovely woman and yet the end result was him saying “We’ll have to look at other dresses and I’ll just have to try not to be judgemental.” Once again, controlling groom. I could never be a bridal consultant because it would be so hard not to tell the bride to run! (And to be fair, in some cases on Say Yes to the Dress, I’d tell the husband to run!)
Tune in for more bridal madness on Say Yes to the Dress, Friday nights on TLC at 10/9c.
PHOTO: Kleinfeld bridal consultant Keasha helps a bride with her gown on Say Yes to the Dress, c2007 TLC.
