My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

[sparklynails23]

Those dresses are something else. The skirt of the Princess and the Frog wedding dress is very pretty, I think, but the bodice, gloves, and the rest are too much.

I love this show.

 

[Uncle Remus]

Those horses are beautiful.

 

[nmmom95]

I love that show! I just really have a problem with the way women are treated in that culture.

 

[CathrynRose]

My grandma used to threaten to sell me to the Gypsies, when I was younger, and being naughty.

Now I don't think I should have been so scared. Seems like they live a pretty posh, extravagant lifestyle. Hindsight... so 20/20.

 

[jbcheerchick93]

i would love to have a dress like that, so big and poofy! but i saw an episode that talked about how the women get scarred from the waists of the skirts. scary thought!

 

[sparklynails23]

They're like real life Disney princesses, kind of. Esmeralda didn't have cool dresses like that. Those pink dresses are pretty in back, but the little bridesmaids shouldn't dance like that, should they? It might be fun to be sold to the gypsies for a little while.

Ooh, look at all the horses marching for gypsy rights.

 

[Uncle Remus]

They're like real life Disney princesses, kind of. Esmeralda didn't have cool dresses like that. Those pink dresses are pretty in back, but the little bridesmaids shouldn't dance like that, should they? It might be fun to be sold to the gypsies for a little while.

Ooh, look at all the horses marching for gypsy rights.

 

[SandrA9810]

Just caught the tail end of the show. What's so wrong with the gypsy lifestyle?

The dresses are really awesome, but I don't think I'd want to put one on myself that is that large and poofy.

 

[Silly Little Pixie]

Just caught the tail end of the show. What's so wrong with the gypsy lifestyle?

The dresses are really awesome, but I don't think I'd want to put one on myself that is that large and poofy.

From what the TV show says, the women are married off very young... often 16 or so. They don't always attend school after 11 or 12 and many are not literate. Girls in general can only be housewives. Very few seem to have any kind of job. The men can drink, and carouse, but women are not allowed to. Women are expected to keep the home very clean, and wait on their man. I would be a terrible Gypsy!!!

The oldest daughter at home cares for the younger ones, even if she is not very old herself. One episode had a 14 yo Gypsy girl crying at her sister's wedding... because now she had to quit school and take care of the younger ones.

I do love the show though, and enjoy checking out those dresses! WOW!I had quite a poufy dress myself, but these are huge!

 

[Blondie1973]

I just started watching this show. It amazes me how elaborate their dresses are, even for first communion. I would not make a good gypsy myself but I love to watch it.

 

[PaulaSB12]

Just caught the tail end of the show. What's so wrong with the gypsy lifestyle?

The dresses are really awesome, but I don't think I'd want to put one on myself that is that large and poofy.

Scaring old people into giving money
Claiming not to be part of "English community" well in that case stop claiming benifits and stop using the nhs because you certainly are not paying any taxes.
causing crime rates to go through the roof as they have this strange idea that they can take without paying from shops and steal anything from anyone
turn legal and illegal caravin sites into waste lands
ill treat their horses, leaving their horses loose so they get caught up in road accidents and get hit by trains.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/get-action-for-bridgend-gypsy-cobs/
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/2...ned-by-gypsies-who-can-t-afford-to-feed-them-

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

I posted this on another thread like this but here are two questions I wonder about. First How do they make their money and how much do you estimate the dresses cost? Even the custom made bride's mailds.

Also WHERE do they store the dresses after they use them? They only have limited space.

 

[lisajl]

I posted this on another thread like this but here are two questions I wonder about. First How do they make their money and how much do you estimate the dresses cost? Even the custom made bride's mailds.

Also WHERE do they store the dresses after they use them? They only have limited space.

Good questions...now you have me wondering!

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

Good questions...now you have me wondering!

I keep asking but no one knows! LOL I like to try and estimate the cost of making a dress like that but I keep thinking a huge amount like 10k and as far as the dress is concerned it is not like they could sell it in a consignment shop and they do not seem to hand them down. Frankly it looks like the ones who live in trailers would not be able to fit in the trailer if they kept the gown.

 

[Blondie1973]

I posted this on another thread like this but here are two questions I wonder about. First How do they make their money and how much do you estimate the dresses cost? Even the custom made bride's mailds.

Also WHERE do they store the dresses after they use them? They only have limited space.

I do remember them saying in the program that you will never hear them talking about money.

I believe it was the episode where the couple went furniture shopping and they were bargaining over the price of it.

 

[ADisneygirl]

I can't help myself - I am hooked on this show!

I do have a problem with the girls (and often the boys) dropping out of school at 11 or 12. I think their narrow view on life and exposure to their options makes all the girls fall into the I dream of a big wedding as the ultimate goal in life theory.

That being said, I love to see the dresses, the hoopla, the parties, and the absolutely backward way of thinking that is so rampant among them. What about the boys method of getting a girls attention? They call it "grabbing" and it involves actually grabbing a girl and trying to kiss her. Someone you don't know on the street. They talk about it as something perfectly normal.

It's hard to describe how I feel watching this show. It is fascinating yet upsetting to me.

 

[Claudia1]

I haven't watched too many episodes but the grooms always seem young, too.

 

[Danauk]

I posted this on another thread like this but here are two questions I wonder about. First How do they make their money and how much do you estimate the dresses cost? Even the custom made bride's mailds.

Also WHERE do they store the dresses after they use them? They only have limited space.

A lot of them get money from 'businesses' they run (selling scrap metal, doing people's drives, tree felling etc) but the businesses are not exactly above board (they don't pay taxes on their earnings, for the land they live on etc.) this becomes obvious in some episodes where there are police around and they go out of their way to avoid them. When asked why they did that they will not answer. As for the dresses the large netting under garment is hired from the dressmaker for the day. Once that is removed the dress isn't that big when folded up.

 

[Geoff_M]

I don't know if people here remember, but it was an Irish Traveler brother and sister team that tried to pull off the "rape" lawsuit hoax against Disney World in 1992. As is featured in the TLC program, I'm sure that most "Travelers" are generally law abiding folk, but there's is a very skilled subset of that culture that are very dedicated con artists.

 

[nmmom95]

I don't know if people here remember, but it was an Irish Traveler brother and sister team that tried to pull off the "rape" lawsuit hoax against Disney World in 1992. As is featured in the TLC program, I'm sure that most "Travelers" are generally law abiding folk, but there's is a very skilled subset of that culture that are very dedicated con artists.

I read about that! In the episode I just saw they said that many legitimate businesses won't deal with them.