Monday, March 04, 2019
The Big Fake Wedding Offers Everything But the “I Dos”
Beyond the Cookie Table - March 2019: The traditional bridal show can feel overwhelming; often held in large venues where prospective brides and grooms pass through row upon row of vendors. It can get stressful, especially if you’re planning a huge event, to take in all the possible things you’ll need to add to your wedding checklist.
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I actually had no idea that there were these big bridal shows like this. It makes sense that there would need to be a vendor show like this to help couples pick vendors for their big day, but the concept had never crossed my mind. Staging something that's actually like a real wedding is very smart of this company, because as they say it helps to put the couples into an actual real life wedding so they can see what it would be like. The only thing that I think might create an issue is the fact that I know a lot of couples don't want to be the same as everyone else, so seeing the companies staged like a real wedding might actually be a turn off. On an unrelated note, I hope that the real couple renewing their vows at least got to have some family and friends in the room, and that the whole thing was free for them, because it seems a little weird to renew your vows in front of a bunch of strangers with no control over the details. I hope that all of this works out for the company, because it sounds like a fun idea to add some entertainment into wedding planning.
I feel like we live in a world today where anything is a business. For me, wedding and the day it happens have always carried a sense of sacredness and calm that I am not able to wrap my head around the fact of how something as private and intimate as that has also been made into a business.
Does not mean that am looking down upon anyone else who would want the best things for their wedding; it is just a thought that I have where I would rather not have the intrusion of profit seeking "artists" to manipulate me into doing something that might please the society but what may not resonate with me and the kind of person I am.
But hats off to people who can deal with so much madness around their wedding, where creative energies are simply crashing and hurting each other, in the event of their wedding.
I initially heard about this concept on the TV shows I used to watch on TLC, where the wedding dress companies would travel country to participate in trade-like shows. But this concept differs because it set up more like an actual event, rather than a set of booths. Upon initial reaction, I found this idea to be over-the-top and unnecessary, but upon closer glance, I do understand it a bit more. Weddings can often appear as carbon-copies with big white dresses, typical DJs with a limited soundtrack, and tiered wedding cakes. This can cause the event to lose all sense of love and intimacy, which is the true conception of the event. Previewing some of the elements upcoming brides are considering could be a worthwhile investment, considering $25 could is much cheaper than hiring an expensive photographer only to discover you don’t enjoy their work. This can enable them to consider their priorities and make their event what they envision it to be.
This is something that I have never heard of before and for some reason find kind of funny. I feel like a wedding is such a unique experience for everyone but then again is a very stressful time. So much goes into planning the wedding and ceremony that I guess seeing a run of it could be helpful. I guess it’s nice to see everything play out and be played out by someone other than yourself on your wedding day. It’s like a rehearsal, in a way, and the bride and groom to be can see their dream wedding and experience it as if it was going on. I think this is a really interesting concept and I wonder how much it takes and costs to put on an entire wedding over and over again just for practice. I think it bizzare but in a way clever because I know I would’ve never thought of something like this.
This article is so awesome to hear about. I’ve heard about wedding conventions, I even know people who go but I’ve never heard about this fake wedding set-ups. I think this would be such a fantastic challenge to manage. I wonder how it is coordinated. Event management and how quickly things come together always fascinate me. It is even cooler to see that this event has been traveling from Atlanta where it started to Manchester to even here in Pittsburgh. It must be very different planning this fake wedding, as there are no actual brides to deal with who I think would be the most challenging part of this planning process. One question I have is how does this showcase seem to keep the cost so low. The article says a ticket is only 25 dollars, is this because so many people are coming or the companies that participate are just giving so much away.
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