Did anyone see "Four Weddings" on TLC 2011/05/06 - JW bride

by Scully 19 Replies latest social entertainment

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  Scully

  Only caught part of this program during my tea time at work last night.

  The premise: 4 brides competing with each other, and hosting the other brides at their wedding, scoring the wedding and reception. The prize was an all expenses paid island honeymoon. I didn't particularly care what was on TV, but a couple of my colleagues were watching it, but boy did I ever do a double take when one of the brides, named Celeste, would not enter the church for the second and third weddings, based on her beliefs as a Jehovah's Witness. The producers accommodated her by setting up a closed circuit TV for her to watch the wedding in the limosine.

  I was like WTF?? So, naturally, I had to see the rest of the show. I thought, oy my co-workers are gonna laugh when they see what passes for a wedding at a Kingdom Hall.

  But, for me, the most horrifying thing was the JW bride. What a frikkin' b!tch!!!!!! She low-balled the other brides on the scores she gave them, complained about EVERYTHING, and made herself look like a glutton with all the food she ate. Then to top it all off, the wedding was not at a Kingdom Hall after all! It was held in some huge banquet hall, and wasn't even the usual JW ceremony, with the JW vows. Plus, the show disclosed the cost of all the weddings - hers was $45,000!!!!! (the other two that I saw were $20,000 and $30,000). This supposed JW chick had the most lavish and ornate shindig and two wedding dresses instead of just one - a bonafide showy display - and there must have been 500 guests - so contrary to WTS counsel.

  I was very happy when the two brides who got married in churches (the ones her holier-than-thou stuck up ass refused to enter) wound up in a tie to win the grand prize, and this fake JW wannabe princess went home empty handed.

  Did anyone else happen to see the show??
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  Pitchess Co-Gen

  I was very happy when the two brides who got married in churches (the ones her holier-than-thou stuck up ass refused to enter) wound up in a tie to win the grand prize, and this fake JW wannabe princess went home empty handed.

  That story reminds me of my ex-fiance on how she tried to make a showy display and she was trying her hardest to empress a bunch of people I couldn't stand !
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  No Room For George

  one of the brides, named Celeste, would not enter the church for the second and third weddings, based on her beliefs as a Jehovah's Witness. The producers accommodated her by setting up a closed circuit TV for her to watch the wedding in the limosine.

  Plus, the show disclosed the cost of all the weddings - hers was $45,000!!!!! (the other two that I saw were $20,000 and $30,000). This supposed JW chick had the most lavish and ornate shindig and two wedding dresses instead of just one - a bonafide showy display - and there must have been 500 guests - so contrary to WTS counsel.

  You know something, she messed up big time. That's very bad publicity for JWs. The matter of entering a church for a wedding is a conscience matter, its not a concrete doctrine where one can be reproved or DFd over. What she just did was advertise the WT's doctrinal contempt of other Christian denominations. For a JW to even be on a show like that speaks volumes about her, her family, her fiance', and that congregation. Them being able to pay for a $45,000 wedding is probabaly a good indication of her family's influence within the congregation. There's different rules when it comes to random nobody JWs, and JWs with infuential families. I mean influential in the sense of material posessions, but also if the family has theocratic heavyweights within the congregation or the circuit. This bride and her family are part of the Prince/Serena Williams/Katherine JAckson crowd of JWs. They can donate to colleges, dress provatively, and a ton of other questionable things from a JW perspective, and they'll recieve no sanctions. By the way, I'm dying to see this show now.

  I had a situation a couple years back where a nonJW friend of mine didn't invite me to her wedding because she was concerned that I'd be offended because the cermony was in a church. She never approached me about it, but rather she either talked with others who are familiar with JW beliefs, or she spoke to some overly pious JW that influenced her decision not to invite me. We discussed the matter after the fact, but it slightly hurt me that she didn't invite me. I say slightly because as a man I hate going to weddings anyway. The only good thing about a wedding is scoping out some of the bridesmaids, or other women dressed to impress in attendance. Oh yeah, almost forgot, food at the reception, especially when its not catered and you can go back for seconds. My friend's wedding however, I would have attended it regardless of it being in a church. Anymore I hate the judgemental disposition the WT influences upon the JW community.
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  sherah

  I Tivo'd this...don't laugh.

  I bet that JW bride was marrying a 'unbeliever' hence the banquet hall wedding. I'm surprised they would pick her, how could she truly judge all aspects of the ceremonies from CCTV.
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  wasblind

  LOL

  This was clearly a competition, somethin' JW's frown upon, also used as an excuse for children not to play sports in school.

  And her decision not to step into a church only show how much she don't know about her own religion
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  WontLeave

  Probably an indoctrinated but inactive or never-baptized born-in. All the baggage, but for absolutely no reason. Another product of basing an entire belief system on a tenuous grasp of a human interpretation of a book she's never read.
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  Scully

  NoRoomForGeorge:

  she messed up big time. That's very bad publicity for JWs. The matter of entering a church for a wedding is a conscience matter, its not a concrete doctrine where one can be reproved or DFd over. What she just did was advertise the WT's doctrinal contempt of other Christian denominations.

  wasblind:

  her decision not to step into a church only show how much she don't know about her own religion

  My work-mates and I had a bit of a discussion around that during the commercials. They said how they felt it was very rude to be on a program like that if she was unwilling to participate in all the activities. I explained that she was behaving in an extreme way, because entering the church is not against the religion, but participating in another religion's worship is. They were all surprised at that, and then became annoyed that she publicly misrepresented JW beliefs, and concluded that she was a nasty b!tch trying to make herself look "better" than everyone else.

  Them being able to pay for a $45,000 wedding is probabaly a good indication of her family's influence within the congregation. There's different rules when it comes to random nobody JWs, and JWs with infuential families. I mean influential in the sense of material posessions, but also if the family has theocratic heavyweights within the congregation or the circuit.

  That was another negative for my co-workers. They felt that she was a big phony from a spiritual perspective and a show-off from a material perspective.

  sherah

  I bet that JW bride was marrying a 'unbeliever' hence the banquet hall wedding.

  I thought that might be the case too. Either that or she is a spoiled brat and wanted the big wedding without the JW vows and their sad excuse for music, and the Elders™ wouldn't let her use the KH for the event. I was waiting to hear "Marriage is God's Arrangement" as her father (?) walked her down the aisle (whoever he was, he didn't look like he was having a very good time). It didn't happen. The wedding was somewhere in NJ, so I was wondering if anyone recognized the venue - and could tell whether it was an Assembly Hall or just a normal banquet hall/convention centre. I imagine with that kind money, an Assembly Hall wedding and reception wouldn't be out of the question - especially if the family had some "influence".

  WontLeave

  Probably an indoctrinated but inactive or never-baptized born-in. All the baggage, but for absolutely no reason.

  Excellent summation. Somehow I think "all the baggage, but for absolutely no reason" should go on a T-shirt!

  By the way, I apologize for the lack of "spoiler tags" in the original post.
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  Scully

  Yahoo Answers re JW attending weddings in a church.
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  wasblind

  Thank you Scully
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  jgnat

  www.spreadshirt.com

  I've seen evangelical Christians embarrass themselves similarly on other reality shows. They go in with such promise to provide a "good testimony", and get switfly booted, secure that they had done so. None the wiser.