I’d love to know what she was thinking
Posted by razzbuffnik on August 11th, 2008
I didn’t take this photograph (but I did crop it). I’ve seen a few very bad wedding gowns in my day but this one is a real shocker.
It has been doing the rounds via e-mails on the Internet with the subject heading Best (or worst!!) bridal gown ever. From the Meta data embedded in the photograph, I can tell you that was taken on the 18th of July, this year.
Just looking at this image, provoked so many questions in my mind.
What was she thinking?
Did the mother help her pick the dress?
Did the groom have any say in the choice?
Did anybody at any time give her any advice that the dress may not be such a great idea?
I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that this poor girl was the victim of un-conditional high regard. What am I talking about? One of the bugbears in my life is the old, I’m okay, you’re okay, bullshit that was spread around in the late 70s. It’s sort of like an emotional transaction where people kid each other that they’re okay with each other’s delusions.
“I won’t tell you the truth about your stupidities and don’t get on my case about mine”.
I can see it now at the bridal gown store.
“So what do you think, do I look okay in this?”
“You look gorgeous!”
“You don’t think it’s a little bit over the top do you?”
“Well, maybe just a little.”
“Oh! I had my heart set on this!”
“No-no, really, it suits you, it looks fantastic!“ ”Really!” “If you’ve got ‘em, flaunt ‘em!”
Really, with friends who give advice like that, who needs enemies.
If I’d been there I would’ve said, “It makes you look like you belong in a dairy”. “You’ll be a laughing stock”.
It looks like the bride has been drinking in the limousine, and I suspect that she probably realised she’d have to be a “few sheets to the wind” to wear such a dress and to help drown out the tsunami of self-consciousness that I suspect she could feel was coming.
Nathalie with an H and Epicurienne’s comments got me thinking about another fashion tragic who would’ve loved this dress.
August 11th, 2008 at 8:46 am
“It makes you look like you belong in a dairy”.
Oh, I have tears coming down. Tears, I tell ya. I think you should be on the red carpet! I’d tune in to hear your commentary on fashion any damn day of the week.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I don’t think she’s the type to suffer from self-consciousness. Hilarious though. Love it.
August 11th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Nooo way! This HAS to be photoshopped! Can you imagine a priest letting that in a church? This is the most oxymoronic white bridal dress ever – purity and slut all in one. Ewwww.
August 11th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
I just hope they didn’t have YMCA on their song-list. Ouch.
August 12th, 2008 at 3:33 am
Pat
I think that the fashionistas would have me assassinated.
Brooks
From the look on her face she doesn’t look too happy and the other people in the shot (who I cropped out) all have there back to her. I think people who were close to her probably didn’t know where to look.
Nat
I don’t think it’s photoshopped. Some times real life is way stranger that fiction. I kind of feel sorry for her for appearing so clueless.
Epic
I think that YMCA only gets played at gay weddings. She looks a little rock and roll to me and I’m thinking “White wedding” by one of my favourite fashion tragics, Billy Idol. Just for you and Nat, I’ve added the video to the post.
August 12th, 2008 at 6:22 am
Epicurienne’s comment? The visual made me laugh out loud. When one word says it all. Razz, could you arrange a live remote webcast from your living room (or whatever room you have a TV) during the Oscars in February? The red carpet is just beggin’ to be covered by an aussie with attitude.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Here’s another one but I do think Photoshop was involved here.
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jokes.squirrelgate.com/doves/dovetwins.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jokes.squirrelgate.com/doves/index.html&h=500&w=388&sz=39&hl=en&start=33&um=1&tbnid=ZuGqvj88d3SFFM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwhite%2Bdove%2Bwedding%2Bdress%2Bphoto%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
August 12th, 2008 at 9:45 am
I read your post in my reader first, where photos don’t always show up. Then I clicked over here . . .
OMG!!
We don’t have to struggle to hard to imagine what HE was thinking . . .
August 12th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Bwa-HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Wow! Years from now she can look at the wedding album and exclaim, “Oh, the mammeries!”
August 13th, 2008 at 4:50 am
Tysdaddy
I don’t think he needs any imagination with that dress.
Turkish
Tish! Boom!
I wonder if she’ll still have the wedding photos up on the wall when the kids gets a little older…..
When I was a kid (about 11), I had a German friend who’s parents used to have a full frontal nude portrait of themselves in the living room. It used to blow my mind every time I went over to his place and he used to get so annoyed when he saw me staring at it.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
I think the story of the german kid’s parents is even funnier than the original post. That kid must have begged to play at your house instead.
August 13th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
I found another classy bride in the same dress. http://penisinarowboat.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/image002.jpg
I know the resolution sucks.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
OHMIGAWD it’s a tacky wedding dress virus. One strain at a time – it’d seem we have all been exposed to the “i get off on baring my nipples by accident” strain
August 14th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Brooks
I not sure why, but I’m amazed that there is someone else with not only the same lack of taste but also the same cluelessness (a new word perhaps?).
Epic
Got any more examples?
August 17th, 2008 at 10:57 am
The thing about that dress is, it keeps you kind of on edge waiting for the poppage. It’s very anticipatory.
August 18th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Tell you what, people sure won’t be remembering this wedding in terms of poor catering, lousy band or terrible sitting arrangements
))
I really would like to see the official wedding pictures and their proud display. Or better yet, the face of her old aunt as she received her copy of the official photo.
What was she thinking – for the whole day probably just “don’t pop out, don’t pop out… they guaranteed that this is safe, perfectly safe… keep smiling, keep smiling…oups”
And I agree with Brooks, the German friend story is hilariously great.
August 18th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Grass
You put a smile on my face with the, “don’t pop out, don’t pop out… they guaranteed that this is safe, perfectly safe… keep smiling, keep smiling…oups”
Thanks