Big Fat Gypsy Weddings

[sherrardk]

Just seen a trailer for the new series of this (the original show must have been a big hit), Tuesday, Channel 4 at 9.

[anneasquith]

hi sher, i watched the first series, loved it, its very interesting to be educated about other peoples way of life.

[boxtops]

It was, I love it, I have marked it to watch. Despite what everyone seems to think, they seem a very disciplined society.

[sherrardk]

I was amazed but how chaste the girls are (when they are quite skimpily dressed), real eye opener. And so mistrusted by others - all that secrecy about who they are when they book the wedding receptions, etc.

[boxtops]

Agree sherrard, look flash but obviously closely watched and have self-respect, too! Yes - in the first series one wedding was cancelled the day before, when the hotel found out that the booking was for gypsies.

[4getmenot]

nearly had a run in with a big group of gypsies lastnight

[sherrardk]

Were you fighting over the clothes you found?

[KikiTiger]

Yes, it brought a whole new meaning to toilet roll covers

[boxtops]

I got the impression, pinki, that it is vast amounts. The dressmaker said that if she ever told, her life wouldn't be worth living.

[boxtops]

Pinki - another chat site here.... scroll down..... http://uk.answers.yah...20100219024254AAKHF9v

[4getmenot]

ha ha no. One girl with us, not a close friend of mine may i add shouted 'what a bunch of [email protected]' just before we turned a corner and 10 gypsy blokes stood there. Had to shut her up fast before they smacked my bro. I watched 1st series, and was amazed how much money they have, although who wouldnt when you dont pay taxes, council tax, rent... We have a site in our town and gypsies are banned from most pubs. Some think they have a reputation they have to live up to, thats not to say theyre all bad and i will chat fine with alot of them.

[trt]

There was a gypsy wedding at a posh hotel in my town and they had to call the police at 11.30pm as they started to wreck the place.

[Jan1957]

I grew up in Epsom and we had a gypsy site just down the road from us. I haven't been personally to a wedding but a relation of mine has, and was told that those dresses start from £5,000 each.

[trt]

In the last series, the girl bride who looked about 13yrs in a pink wedding dress looked scared to death when it was time to go up to the hotel bedroom and was crying with her mother.

She had only met her husband a few weeks ago and had never been out with him on her own, as he was selected for her by the 2 familys.

Sounds a bit like the Indians, Arabs and the Pakistanis.

[mike11111]

Hope you've got your flak jacket on, trt.

[redcrx]

they will be a lot more than £5k a dress i reckon.

individually designed dresses, all that material, fittings, labour etc. Way more than £5k

they dont say though because they deal in cash, and the dressmakers probably do too

[pastafreak]

I thought it had been a one-off also....but utterly and totally fascinating....very good telly.