Today's wedding industry earns approximately 86 billion dollars per year. Most woman will go to any length to have the wedding they dreamed of. In the clip above it shows a scene from TLC's show, Say Yes To the Dress. A show that follows brides from all over the country at Kleinfeld's searching for the perfect gown. The woman looking for a dress in this video has been to numerous bridal salons in search of her dream gown and has tried on approximately 100 gowns. None of which were "the one". This clip shows just a small glimpse of the pressure and importance American brides feel toward their wedding day. They want to look there best, they feel like they need to look their best, after all its the most important day of a woman's life, right?
Being a recent bride myself I am aware of the pressures felt in our culture about having the big wedding. I am aware of the stress to find the "perfect gown" and the pressure felt to create the wedding of your dreams. But what I know now, only a week later, is that before my wedding I too thought my wedding day was the most important day ever, but what do you do when that day is over? What do you do when that fantasy every girl thinks about has already happened? Is there anything left to look forward too? Of course there is. While your wedding day is a big day, a new beginning and a start to a different life. Life presents many other "big days" one example being the birth of a child. The reality is I had fun at my wedding, everything was beautiful but it was one day that to be honest I can't even remember in detail a week later. After all the stress and planning, making sure every detail was finished and "perfect" I can't even remember the details.
Another bridal show that airs on the WE is called Bridezilla (the link will take you to a clip of one upcoming episode). The woman in this clip, Kera, is a good example of what the stress a bride feels about "her big day" and what that stress does to a bride. Now not every bride is as bad as Kera and I am sure some brides are worse, but you can see from the way she talks about her wedding such as, "if anyone tries to ruin my big day I might just have to tackle someone" that she views it as the "most important day of her life". Brides often put so much stress on this one day that is causes them to be unpleasant to be around, this is where the term bridezilla came from. I struggled with being a bit of a bridezilla myself, taking on too many tasks myself, not asking for help when I needed it and simply feeling like if it wasn't perfect the day would be ruined. And the reality is the actual day of the wedding I didn't care, I was so relaxed and happy that I wouldn't of cared if things went wrong, which they did, but it no longer mattered. I would of been happy with a lot less, but the bridal industry doesn't want you to know that.
I love the show "Bridezilla"!Yes there are so many pressures for weddings these days that it's crazy!Along with that there are also a lot of reality shows as well now. There is a show called Bridalplasty where women compete for their dream wedding and they create a list of plastic surgery they want done. That show is just another example of how bad I guess you can say "weddings" have become. People want to fix every little thing about themselves before their wedding day because it's suppose to be the most important or biggest day of your life.
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