How do shows like Don't tell the bride legally work?
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I was watching a similar kind of show today where the kids plan the wedding as a suprise from their parents (they know they are getting married but don't know anything details), and I watched Celebrity Wedding Planners earlier this week, it just made me wonder how they can "legally" suprised the couple when it comes to the venue.
When me and my husband got married 6 months ago we had to go to the regestry office to register the wedding and part of this was to tell them our chosen venue.
My hubby tthinks these shows are a con and the couples have to just act suprised when they turn up to their wedding and see their venue because they must know all along, does anyone know if this is actually the case?
When me and my husband got married 6 months ago we had to go to the regestry office to register the wedding and part of this was to tell them our chosen venue.
My hubby tthinks these shows are a con and the couples have to just act suprised when they turn up to their wedding and see their venue because they must know all along, does anyone know if this is actually the case?
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In Don't Tell The Bride, they don't even know the date
That's the thing though, you have to state which venue you are marrying in when you go to the registry office to do the legal bit.
Is that what they say? I think I remember having to sign something;)
Believe it or not, rubbish like TOWIE and Geordie Shore is all scripted.
I'd like to know the answer!
There are a lot of other dodgy things about this programme though. Such as why does the bride always say she would hate a certain thing, then loves it when the groom chooses it.
Or how do they manage to find venues at such short notice.
Has there ever been a bride who didn't go through with the marriage?
No.
I wonder why...
Oh, and for more inside information on the show, check out this link detailing the things the production company did to spice the show up for one particular bride - http://14sandwiches.com/2008/09/27/dont-tell-the-bride-we-ruined-her-wedding-on-purpose/
Yes you both have to be there to get the certificate which then allows you to get married. I had to do it a couple of weeks ago. We were interviewed separately and had to give our own and then each other's addresses, DoBs, occupations, father's names, venue name and address and the date of the marriage.
So yes- it would seem that there's a little jiggery pokery going on in these shows... but I'd expect that Still enjoy them.
Although we haven't seen that happen, It's possible that there have been failures. The programme makers just wouldn't want to upset the couple by broadcasting the unhappy unravelling of events.
Although It came pretty close with the TIT who decided to get married in Vegas. Then realised he didnt have enough money to get everyone there. So one of the brides brothers missed the wedding. I wonder if they are now divorced as one of the sisters said she will refuse to speak to him after what he did.
Because in the tv world they have to pretend they dont know.
I would like to think you are right, but me being cynical, I tend to think that they would definitely show it if that happened, because of the ratings it would probably attract. The makers of these reality tv shows seem to place ratings above all else.
I suspect that a heck of a lot of it is dramatised, and that the bride knows pretty much everything before it happens. I don't really know why they call these things reality tv, as reality is the last thing that it is really.
Yup. These shows are pretty much completely fake. Virtually nothing you see purporting to be reality TV is remotely real. It's all scripted and even if the protagonists aren't actually given a script, they are herded into situations until they say something or express an emotion that can be dropped into the story the series director is trying to tell - like slotting panels into a comic strip.
I mean what if, in real life a wedding was delayed for whatever reason, to say the next day, or if the venue closed down and had to be rearranged between the licence form filling and the actual day?
You can have it changed later for a price, but you have to say something when you first do the interview.
When I got married in 2010 in a registry office I didn't need my husband to be there as long as I had his birth certificate etc.
The registrar did want a meeting with us before hand to discuss the plan of the day, but if my husband hadn't been available it was fine with a bridesmaid or my mum etc.
Not once were we asked anything like you were.
As for TOWIE being scripted, I'm shocked. They can read?
Yeah our banns notice was up for about 6 weeks before the wedding in public view.
I watched an American one (couldn't find the remote) where the groom didn't turn up. They showed the whole disaster!
Saw that one and thought the same thing.