Say Yes to the Dress

[canuckcutie]

I have seen plenty of dresses on the show for around $1-1,500k and often they are far, far nicer than the $10k+ dresses. I doubt they make much commission on the lower end dresses but it's nice to see that you don't have to spend a fortune to get a nice dress.

I'd much rather wear the $1,400 dress from Friday night than any of the Pnina Tornai dresses that brides seem to love.

[angelaudie]

Audrey my hat goes off to you! How you handled that bride without losing your ever loving mind I'll never know! The bride gives Audrey nothing to go on when it comes to what time of dress she wants ("I want the WOW factor!" "Ok but what kind of dress would like?" ".........") and then gets testy because Audrey is bringing designs she doesn't like? Honey, if you don't like certain designs that's fine but you should said what designs you don't like from the beginning! Audrey isn't a freaking mind reader! At least Audrey managed to find her a dress without going crazy.

I didn't know what to make of the bride that brought her fiance and future mother-in-law to the appointment. I didn't blame her for being frustrated with fiance and mil for constantly bringing in new dresses. Keisha should have nipped that in the bud as soon as it began since things spiraled out of control fast.

[chonies]

I had no idea there was a Say Yes To the Dress: Atlanta in production. I'll watch it, although the "steel magnolia" thing makes me twitchy. I love flamboyant southern reality characters (see also, Shelly Bookwalter from Last Chance Highway [whom I love], and Dork-Sided). But I wonder if it's going to be substantially different in any way.

[margojata]

Well, I couldn't get into the Atlanta version. No one was all that interesting to me. And I've gotta say it, more than one "Y'all" drives me up a wall (didn't mean to sound like Dr. Seuss there).

The Randy counterpart guy annoyed me too. Back to the gals (and Randy) in NY!

[angelaudie]

So far it looks as if the Atlanta version is shoving every Southern stereotype the producers can come up with. "Lots of twang!" "Don't forget y'all! We need someone to say 'Y'all!' every 2 seconds!" "Oh and grandmothers rule Southern families! Make sure the grandmother gives the bride a hard time about the dress and make it a Southern thing! We'll just ignore NYC SYTD shows that every week!" "Oh and don't forget superstitions!"

When Southern Randy is shown all I can think is, "When did Bruce Jenner go into the wedding business?"

[margojata]

When Southern Randy is shown all I can think is, "When did Bruce Jenner go into the wedding business?"

Oh dear.. spot on. Bruce Jenner with a terrible tan.

I'm kind of bugged when they assume that everyone who walks in is going to buy or else it's "wasting my time". If I'm going to spend $5000 on something as dumb as a dress, I'm surely going home to think about it. And I'm also not sure why all the pretty racks of dresses are out in the showroom - and then the consultants freak and say it's against the rules when family dares to get up and look at them. I know some dummies wander into the back rooms, but what's wrong with going through the racks that are on display?

[GoldenFleece]

Kris would never let out Bruce out of the house with gray hair!

The family members we see looking through the racks themselves usually end up badgering the bride into trying on something that isn't her style which can result in her leaving the store without a dress. Maybe the consultants see the families looking through the dresses as bad business, though they have to leave some dresses out for the brides to get ideas about what they want. It would be easier to limit the number of guests who can tag along, but they would probably lose business that way, as so many women now feel the need to bring an entourage with them in order to shop for a wedding dress.

[Gracie]

Aug 6, 2010 21:22:42 GMT -4 angelaudie said:

So far it looks as if the Atlanta version is shoving every Southern stereotype the producers can come up with. "Lots of twang!" "Don't forget y'all! We need someone to say 'Y'all!' every 2 seconds!" "Oh and grandmothers rule Southern families! Make sure the grandmother gives the bride a hard time about the dress and make it a Southern thing! We'll just ignore NYC SYTD shows that every week!" "Oh and don't forget superstitions!"

When Southern Randy is shown all I can think is, "When did Bruce Jenner go into the wedding business?"

We've got enough stereotypes out there. Do we really need one more thing to nail all of them home?

Yes, I wear shoes, but I don't necessarily like to.
No, I don't live in a trailer...and trailer-trash can be found up north too.
No, we're not all pageant girls. Some of us actually like getting dirty.

And while I loved Ouiser/Clariee from Steel Magnolias and Dolly Parton owns my soul, we all don't have the snappy one-liners they did. Here's a secret - we don't always want them.

I'm just tired of it. /endrant

[angelaudie]

Ok, Southern SYTD needs to stop using the phrase "jack up" when they are putting on the veil and jewels on the bride. I don't know about Atlanta but in my neck of the Southern woods when you say you are going to jack up somebody it's not a good thing. It's a more polite way of saying you are going to eff up someone.

Monte is a poor man's Randy. He completely lacks Randy's charm and humor. I can't picture Randy snarking a person's body type like Monte does.

[GoldenFleece]

I have never known "jack up" to mean anything particularly good until this show came along.

Moms are coming off pretty badly on this version.

How can a bridal salon use black clips for the sample dresses? It's so distracting.