Oprah's crashing weddings???!!!

[goofy's friends]

OMG!!!!!!!!I just heard from a friend that I missed OPRAH showing up at a friend's daughter's wedding. Just showed up for no reason? She doesn't know them and we certainly aren't on her way anywhere!!!! Apparently, she brought a covered dish and a nice gift and attended the wedding. I don't know if there were cameras there or not. I have a call in to my friend to get the scoop, but can you believe this???!!!!!!!

She is supposedly doing some kind of wedding tour across America---I am ablsolutely kicking myself for not attending (we weren't able, but I might have cancelled some plans, had I known

Would you be glad as the bride or feel like your thunder got stolen?????

 

[mommytotwo]

I heard about Oprah doing this. I would be surprised and happy to have her attend my wedding. It would be something that everyone will be talking about and an extra special something entertainment wise that you won't have to pay for.

 

[Robinrs]

I cannot imagine being upset to see Oprah show up at anything of mine! Knowing her can you IMAGINE the gift???

I'm sure some Bridezilla will consider HER day disrupted... what about MEEEEEEE????? It's all about MEEEEEE!!!!

 

[UnderTheMistletoe]

Maybe she's getting ideas becuase she'd going to finally marry Steadman

Persoally, I would have been honored and flattered if she had shown up- announced or unannounced. I think it's incredibly special to be able to say that Oprah Winfrey crashed your wedding!

We had wedding crashers... but they were DH's soccer coaches from college! They were in Orlando for some type of tournament/scouting trip. They called one of the players that is currently on the team and was a guest at our wedding. He told them where it was. They got there just before we shut the bar down (perfect timing), but apparently the bar tender and our coordinator tried to get them to leave becuase they were just wedding crashers! Imagine their shock when we were so excited to see them!

 

[kaw1218]

Its for a show that is airing sometime in the next few months. She bought china place settings for all the weddings she 'crashed'.

 

[kaw1218]

Here is the link

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/13/earlyshow/main1707217.shtml

 

[Toby'sFriend]

really honestly?
She just shows up at weddings with cameras to make them part of her show without any prior approval or notice? Sorry, I consider that incredibly obnoxious.

My wedding was nearly 18 years ago and I don't think I was a Bridezilla. But I certainly wouldn't have wanted our wedding day to be a part of The Oprah show.

 

[MamaLema]

I wouldn't mind at all.

 

[declansdad]

She is just a publicity hound!!


Unless she knows the families, why should she just crash the wedding and make herself the center of attention??

 

[Tinks]

really honestly?
She just shows up at weddings with cameras to make them part of her show without any prior approval or notice? Sorry, I consider that incredibly obnoxious.

My wedding was nearly 18 years ago and I don't think I was a Bridezilla. But I certainly wouldn't have wanted our wedding day to be a part of The Oprah show.

My thoughts exactly. It's incredibly rude.

 

[majestique]

I cannot imagine being upset to see Oprah show up at anything of mine! Knowing her can you IMAGINE the gift???

I'm sure some Bridezilla will consider HER day disrupted... what about MEEEEEEE????? It's all about MEEEEEE!!!!

It is all about the bride, it is her wedding. If it were my wedding and Oprah showed up with a "covered dish and a gift" I would be not happy. If you pay several thousand dollars for a sit down catered reception and all the tables are full, where to you put Oprah? And her camera crew?

Something is wrong with her, barging in on someones special day, unannounced, and expecting them to allow the footage to be on TV. Sorry, that smacks of "it's all about Oprah", not the newlywed couple.

I bet that when the show airs, everyone shown will be gushing about how special Ophah made their day. The ones who were unhappy, they will be on the editing room floor, and once again, it will be all about Oprah doing something wonderfull for someone so deserving of her presence.

 

[Toby'sFriend]

No, I didn't consider my wedding to be all about the Bride.

I considered it to be all about the Wedding Ceremony and pledging our commitment to each other in front of close friends, family and God --- not part of a national daytime talk show that I don't even watch.

Just look at the way Weddings get skewered on this board as "do you think this or that was tacky?" I would have had absolutely no desire at all to submit our private wedding day to a national tv audience. I am a fairly private person and having something like that just sprung on me with no opportunity to say no would have been pretty upsetting to me.

 

[Beth76]

Wow that is incredibly TACKY! So now Oprah thinks everyone in the world loves her so much that people would be honored to have her show up at their event and exploit them? Is this completely random or are people sending in "invites" to the show? You know, like fans are writing in saying I'm getting married on this date.

I'm sure some Bridezilla will consider HER day disrupted... what about MEEEEEEE????? It's all about MEEEEEE!!!!

Well the day certainly isn't about Oprah!

 

[laurajetter]

really honestly?
She just shows up at weddings with cameras to make them part of her show without any prior approval or notice? Sorry, I consider that incredibly obnoxious.

My wedding was nearly 18 years ago and I don't think I was a Bridezilla. But I certainly wouldn't have wanted our wedding day to be a part of The Oprah show.

I completely agree

 

[buddy&wooz]

So she doesn't know these people. They didn't enter some kind of contest or even have any prior connection to her show, may not even like her... and she just crashes their wedding for some TV special?

I was no bridezilla, but that's just wrong. She's done a lot of good things, she does seem pretty generous, I'll give her that, but someone needs to pop her ego balloon.

Winfrey came uninvited, but not empty-handed, giving Bethany and Francis "eight lovely dinner plates and mugs, which we've actually used," Bethany says. " It's not part of our china. We had already received all 12 great place settings from our great friends and family, and so it's just another eight plates that complement what we already have really nicely."
"We cooked some steaks a couple of days and we used them for that," Morgan said. "All of our friends and family came over and kind of shared in the occasion with the new plates. It's kind of fun!"

And now they'll probably stick the plates in the closet for 20 years .

 

[hellokitty86]

When I read about this, I was really surprised. I love Oprah and I watch her show all the time. It surprises me that she would do this! She always talks about how marriage isn't good for everybody and people get married for the wrong reasons, it seems to me (and I might be getting this wrong) that she kind of is against marriage. She has said that if her and Steadman got married, she is convinced they would have been divorced by now. That makes no sense to me, they are living together and share property, etc. but why would she show up to some wedding where she doesn't know the people???

I heard she just showed up, dropped off the gift, took some pictures and left. I don't think she ate the food or stayed very long. I also don't think she expected her camera crew to be provided for!

I have mixed feelings about this, I love Oprah and would be shocked that she would show up- but, how can the rest of the day go on after something like this? It seems like the guests would be so excited, it would be hard to get the focus on what they were there for in the first place.

But, I'm going to watch the show anyway.

 

[jbdreamer]

I wouldn't have been happy if Oprah or any celebrity just showed up at my wedding with cameras - actually I'd be pretty mad. She didn't come to celebrate, she came for the publicity. And she is just taking attention away from the bride a groom.

It's just rude. Instead she should personaly call ahead of time and ask if the bride and groom would be interested in being on her show.

 

[cardaway]

Just when I think Oprah has reached her low she goes and digs deeper.

 

[liamsaunt]

I have to admit that this sounds a little weird to me. What if the couple don't like Oprah for some reason? If the couple were nominated for a visit by their family or something, I could see it being a nice surprise, but otherwise...

Are you sure there is no advance planning on this, no notification to anyone in the party? Hmm...

I guess I can see how some people might like it though. She is an icon to many. If, say, Bono had showed up to my wedding I would have been ecstatic! (DH too...)

 

[DaisyD]

I cannot imagine being upset to see Oprah show up at anything of mine! Knowing her can you IMAGINE the gift???

I'm sure some Bridezilla will consider HER day disrupted... what about MEEEEEEE????? It's all about MEEEEEE!!!!

I'd be upset. I can't stand that woman!! I'd have her behind officially excorted out, gift and all. LOL!~ And it is all about the bride. The last I checked it certainly wasn't about Oprah.