dresses on my big fat gypsy wedding

[mollykins]

how much do you think they cost?
On one hand, i don't imagine they have lots of money to spend, but the brides do save up a lot and they are very ornate dresses.

[ladybird49]

Ornate ? lol... they were mostly gross and probs costs thousands

[mollykins]

they had lots of sequins and stuff. they were rediculously big though, i would never wear one.

[redcrx]

dont have a lot to spend? are you kidding.
One previous gypsy wedding documentary had a £15000 dress. the wedding cost £100,000.

Its all cash, they dont like to talk about cash, funny that neither did the dressmaker.

[mollykins]

really red? i know its a person big day but there are so many better things you could spend all that money on that would be more useful.

[mollykins]

they could get a better caravan.

[mollykins]

thats bigger, i mean most of them are catholic.

[redcrx]

even one on the show was that much http://www.newsofthew...UPERSIZE-WEDDING.html

£16k for this one. http://images.google....l%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1

[theonlyone]

they only go to church for christianing , marriage, and funerals .
Hypocrites.

[redcrx]

and possibly confession once a week :)

[Tizzi24]

What I couldn't understand was that they had all these high morals regarding sleeping together before marriage etc, but the young girls dressed like slappers!

[B00]

Tizzi- from what i've been reading, these girls are not allowed relationships before marriage and very seldom have social meetings with men/boys prior to marriage, therefore they see a wedding as a chance to show the opposite sex "the goods" so to speak.

We might not agree with their style of living or dress sense or way of life, but i for one can't fault their moral stance- no sex before marriage, no kids out of wedlock etc. Perhsps they could teach the rest of us a thing or two eh?

[lucca]

The funniest scene was when the 16year old bride had to be manually hauled by the arms/shoulders out of the carriage as her dress was so enormous!

[LoftyLottie]

It's OK having sexual morals BOO, but in general that's about it as far as morals are concerned. My attitude is because of what I see around me. I am normally tolerant of most folk - but as far as travellers are concerned................

[dothawkes31]

I had started to post just the same comment lottie but couldn't be bothered, I found the programme insulting to people like myself who pay alot of tax and national insurance and have to work full time and live within my means, but the excesses shown on that programme seemed to be funded by a nothingness, trading a few horses once a year and selling a few bunches of lucky heather and operating a fun fare don;lt give you a merc in the carpark and a huge wedding

[LoftyLottie]

They are richer than I will ever be. None of their money can be traced back. All I know is that where I live nothing is safe from them. Too many of my neighbours have been robbed. The police are frightened of them too.

[dothawkes31]

My kids have traveller ancestry, their 4x great grandfather was Fighting Zacky Lee, a bare knuckle fighter who was the son of a Boswell, they werw the epping forest trvallers that lived in the old caravans, I know zacky's daughter married at 14 and had 20 children, she lived in a caravan in later life and told fortunes for a living. My father-in-law, her grandson, remebered her from visits as a small boy, but they survived then and lived relatively hand to mouth, the excesses they go for in the traveller community today are not a tradition at all.

[Booldawg]

I'm sure thats not always the case. Didnt one of the brides-to-be get a job to finance her wedding? They can't all be ridiculously wealthy.

[dothawkes31]

She had worked from aged 16 to aged 22 and saved to pay for the dress she wanted, but not the reception and the glass carriage and all the chanpagne etc etc,

[LoftyLottie]

Yes, she did get a job but her family were somewhat different. For a start they had settled to a normal life in a normal house. Her mother didn't even appear to be a traveller.

For the most part they are 'self employed!' They support their own community but care nothing for others outside of their life style or the environment around them. They will be exceptions I suppose.

[auntiebertie]

And the last bride, the elder girl, did you notice how her wedding reception was empty - there was no one there! What a waste.