Wedding TV

I really don’t have much time to watch TV these days – the most I watch is an episode of Peppa Pig with my children before their bedtime.

Usually, I am working late or at a wedding, and I hate not being able to keep up with shows, so I just don’t bother.

But we do have a TiVo and it records tv programs for us and also has this function where it records shows that it thinks you may like. So during these Christmas holidays I’ve decided to clean out the TiVo and see what shows are on there.

First up – Four Weddings. I do like this show. Hosted by Fifi Box with a great honeymoon prize fr the ‘winning couple’. I don’t like the bitchy-ness of the show, but then, it does make it entertaining. I think it needs a wedding professional to vote as well – to give credit where credit is due for some of the weddings. Being able to mix a ‘reality tv/personal view’ and a ‘professional view’ of each wedding.

Maybe I’m just a softie, but there have been weddings that have scored very low and I think that was very sad and undeserving.

I then found some new shows on a new station called 4me. They are not mainstream, and alot of the professionals interviewed are people I work with or know of.

There are two shows – I-Do and Wedding TV.

I-Do. This is a show run by the website I-Do which is great for couples who are trying to find vendors for their wedding. As a planner, I avoid this site, I have a huge vendor database of trusted professionals plus I think if a couple go to this site, they are looking to plan their own wedding, rather than find a wedding planner (please feel free to tell me I am wrong). The show interviews alot of vendors and they give the viewer ideas/suggestions/professional advise for different elements of your wedding.

Wedding TV. This showcases some real life weddings which I always think is good for couples planning on getting married. There are also some interviews about the wedding from venue staff or coordinators which is interesting as well as interviews with wedding professionals.

Both are ok.

I guess what I would like to see is more end-to-end shows (a bit like Grand Designs for Weddings). I’d love to see the complete wedding process. Maybe a show that compares a couple who are planning their own wedding v’s a couple who have hired a wedding planner. Talk about how they are feeling (does having a wedding planner take the stress away, does it make your wedding any better, cost effective etc), the costs, how the planners saved them money, did their styling etc and how the couple who planned their own wedding went about it – what process did they follow or did they wing it?

It’s nice to see it all condensed like Four Weddings, but the budgets they give – I’d like to see where they get that from – what are they spending their money on, is that including dresses and rings or just certain elements etc. I want to see them making decisions with their partners and/or wedding planners, how they decided on their wedding (big, small, theme, colour, venues etc).

For some of us, planning a wedding is something we only get to do once (or only plan to do once) and so we want it to be the best it can be. That’s a whole lot of pressure! Then add friends opinions, families expectations, the media, what’s hot/what’s not etc and it makes for a very stressful and complicated process. I think perhaps we need to see the whole picture and look at how some couples tackle their big day.

What are your thoughts?

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