Big fat gypsy weddings

LEJC

The culture will carry on because to them its just a way of life....im not sure who I was more saddened for...the girl who got married in that OTT dress,the two 15 year olds who were subjected to the grabbing,or the 7 year old who found it totally acceptable to drink fake champagne in the back of a limo on the way to her first communion...or maybe it was the little boy, john boy...who possibly given half a chance may be able to escape them all......

Swinstie73

The OTT dresses were ridiculous, she could hardly sit down to have her meal - not to mention how do they afford these big weddings??

However, I do think the girls really don't drink or have sex before marriage but then again when you are marrying at 16 (which is the supposed legal age to start having sex), they aren't exactly waiting long, are they? Then again, at least they aren't getting pregnant at 13.

pinkshoes

I attempted to watch this, but really struggled to understand what some of them were saying due to very poor diction/speech.

Did anyone else get the impression that the dress maker secretly thought the dresses were hideous, but was playing along with them? Obviously, there was a LOT of money in it for her!

Birdie85

pinkshoes wrote: »

Did anyone else get the impression that the dress maker secretly thought the dresses were hideous, but was playing along with them? Obviously, there was a LOT of money in it for her!

I thought that too, especially when she was making the dress for the little girl's Holy Communion and said about it being a class one and they're the only travellers so she'll stand out.

I think the dress maker is onto a winner: charge a fortune to make ridiculous dresses, which must actually be quite fun to make and the worse it looks the more the brides love it! And if it hurts, they don't blame the dress maker for bad design, they're proud of the scars! Wish I'd thought of it! :rotfl:

nunnygirl

That dress maker is apparently, according to her, the only one the travellers trust.

Josie who was on last night has an Irish accent......even though she lives in the UK and has only visited Ireland once according to the DM

HappyEnough

Bride2be24 wrote: »

....... Starts tonight on channel 4 @ 9pm

I thought i would start a thread on it so when everyone watches it, cringes at it and criticized it we could all do it on here

Cant wait for it, it looks good

Enjoy

xxxx

Ok, ive read through the posts so far, and cant not reply any longer :mad:
I am married to a "traveller man" "gypsy" "!!!!!" (horrid horrid word) or whatever derogatory term people care to band about. My point is, I am NOT a traveller but birth, but married into the community some years ago and have bought my children up within it. (They are not traveller children by birth either). This programme is complete fiction. How on earth they can portray gypsy girls in this way, when the whole country will sit there and think it is reality, amazes me!
For one - in the traveller community it would be UNHEARD of for girls to dress as they do, if my girls (and i have 3) even attempted to leave the house dressed in short shorts, miniskirts, low tops etc my husband would lock them in!! It is so unrealistic it is laughable!
Our girls are not encouraged to go out roaming alone that much is true, and would need to be indoors before it is dark, but they do not roam "in packs" as the stupid inane presenter commented, neither do they attend car parks to partake in - what did she call it, grabbing!!!??? Grabbing?? Never heard of it, and ive spoken at length today to my sister-in-laws and other women and neither have they! Traveller men are EXCESSIVELY protective of their women/daughters, should a man, be he a traveller or a gorger (non travelling person) even put his hands upon one of the females, there would be hell to pay. Yes, the girls are encouraged to marry young, although not as young as 16 anymore, and they are taught the fundamentals of housekeeping at an early age, and help with childrearing, but my daughter is about to go off to university, so not all elements of the community are the same. Girls do drink before marriage (comon, you didnt seriously believe that they never did you lol) and smoke (unfortunately) and I guess as in ANY community some have sex, some dont. They are not supposed to have sex, (well, are yours?) and a part of the programme is right when it said the girls would be shamed, but isnt that the same in an asian community? Please please please enjoy watching the show, but take it for what it is, entertainment, although I cannot help thinking it is extremelty negative towards our community and fuels the fire that we are all uneducated, promiscous thieving rogues.
Which, clearly, we are not. (well, im not anyway :rotfl:)

By the way, if anyone has a sensible question about the traveller way of life (that is one that isnt inflammatory or derogatory) i would be happy to try to answer.;) But please realise i am a real person, with real feelings, and although our community is one that most people really do not approve of, there are good and bad in EVERY body, white, black, asian, yellow, purple, green. We are all equal. I say this as some can be very unkind. Thankyou.

HappyEnough

oooh, and whilst i think of it......the worst part of the whole show was when they put that poor child dressed as a meringue into a limo with a hoard of other kids, and actually said "AS IS COMMON PRACTICE WITHIN THE TRAVELLER COMMMUNITY THE CHILDREN MAKE THEIR OWN WAY TO CHURCH". ********KS!!! There is no way on Gods earth that we women would either a) Want to send children off alone with a strange man in a car & b) Would be allowed to do so by our husbands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Goodness, our kids arent even allowed to go on school trips, for the day, let alone longer, without one of the women from our community with them, they also arent allowed to sleepovers or under 18 nightclubs, so why oh why would we put them in a car with a stranger????????????????????????? God id like to talk to the producers of this crappy programme.......grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

HappyEnough

tod123 wrote: »

The communion bit made me laugh , the way the other kids looked at the nutter in the pink and walked away for her.

In the old days they would have thrown rotten fruit.

The girls fashion style makes me think they are all the lost moronic tribe of Katie Price devotee's

I find this particularly offensive, why would they have thrown fruit? And who on earth thinks its acceptable to "like" this comment? Would this be permitted if you were commenting on a black person, or an asian person? doubtful, as you would be considered what you obviously are, an uneducated racist.

joho

HappyEnough - thank you for your reply. (EDIT; replies, 2 more since I started typing!)

It's always interesting to hear another side of a story and I have to say i'm shocked that so much of the programme seems to be completely untrue! How have they got away with it? It doesn't exactly endear the travellers to people, and surely they need some positive publicity.

I suppose the point is that even if THOSE travellers are like that, not ALL travellers are.

tanith

I don't understand HappyEnough, are you saying that the travellers in the show are making up most of what they say is their way of life or is it just your part of the travelling community doesn't participate in the kind of things that we saw in the show? I had call to visit a traveller site many times in London when I was working and the girls I saw did indeed travel around in groups dressed just like the ones we saw on the show.. they were very nice girls but the way they dressed at so young an age I didn't think was appropriate although it was just normal dress to them.