"I Don't" care for Four Weddings

I’m not one of those girls whose had every detail of her wedding day planned out since she was 5, but I really enjoy watching wedding-related shows, ‘Say Yes to the Dress’, ‘Engaged and Underage’…. That being said, there is one show I am not a fan of, Four Weddings So I have a few bones to pick with the newest show, “Four Weddings” on TLC (Fridays at 10/9 c).

The jest: Four women strive to impress each other with their weddings in order to win a free, lavish honeymoon. Each episode, four soon-to-be brides have their weddings critiqued, inviting three competitors (other brides) to judge their wedding and allot her a score based on four specific facets of the special day: venue, food, dress and overall.

There appears to be a negative recurring theme in the show however. The bride-to-be with the most money invested in her wedding nearly always receives the highest scores from the three other rival brides and therefore wins the lavish honeymoon. Which poses the question, if this woman (or couple) had such an expensive wedding then can’t they probably afford dishing out for their own fancy honeymoon? I mean, it seems to me that the woman with the quaint, lower-budget wedding is more deserving of a free honeymoon than the woman who spends $50,000+ on hers! Besides, it is usually the quaint, inexpensive weddings that focus more on the ceremony and nuptials, rather than on impressing their guests with over-the-top decorations and an extensive open bar. Some of the best weddings, in my opinion, were the more intimate, low-key ones.

An usual venue:


Also, it’s slightly annoying how some of the rival brides took issue with weddings that didn’t incorporate drinking or offer an open bar, and subsequently issued lower scores to those women’s wedding.

In this clip, three brides-to-be complain about not getting food because they refused to stand on the buffet line earlier. They had the gull to order takeout and have it delivered to the wedding! (that parts not shown in the clip though)


Four Weddings perpetuates our society’s materialistic mindset. Gone are the days of simple weddings in the family’s backyard or in a small church. Now it’s commonplace for couples to invite hundreds of their “closest friends” to a ridiculously expensive venue…