Wedding Blog
Mr. Pineapple is out of town for a couple days giving me chance to catch up on all of the wedding shows I have recorded. Most of them are pretty ridiculous. Even the fairly tame “Whose Wedding is it Anyway?” is out there compared to what we are planning. Well, for me, tonight wedding programming went to a whole new level of outrageousness. Ladies I present, “Surprise Wedding 2.” I don’t know what I was expecting from Fox Reality, but it wasn’t this.
Five brides tell their long time boyfriends that they have won a free makeover weekend in Vegas. The true story? The makeover includes a gown and a whole heck of a lot of hairspray. When the grooms arrive at the “free Vegas show” included in the weekend they are taken to the stage where their girlfriends are in gowns and propose. The grooms have time to decide what they are going to do while they put on their tuxes. Dressed and back on stage either the groom gets hitched or faces the end of his relationship with an embarrassed bride. The show is way over the top, the bride proposes multiple times in every way the producers can imagine. Then the ceremony is two minutes before the next groom decides his fate.
Mr. Pineapple and I went to Las Vegas two months after he proposed. He was going for work (mostly) and I was going for fun. We tossed around the idea of eloping and we both seriously thought it was a good idea. When Mr. P thought it was a good idea, I didn’t. When I finally convinced myself it would be fantastic, he changed his mind. Our main motivation for considering elopement was to save money - down payment on a house, honeymoon in Ireland.
In the end we decided that in the future, when we actually had savings, we may regret not throwing a big party. Now that I am neck deep in wedding planning and completely obsessed with Weddingbee, I am so glad we decided to wait. Regardless, I definitely would not have asked Mr. P to elope before he even proposed.
What do you ladies think? Would you surprise your boyfriend with a wedding? Anyone planning to elope?
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The FI and I are not allowed to be in Vegas together until we’re married, because we know we’d say “nuts to all this nonsense!” and elope. I’m impressed that you were able to hold off and wait.
As for that lovely FOX show…well, as you said–would you expect anything less outrageous? 
My aunt’s fiance proposed while they were hiking the Inca Trail this winter. She’s been married twice before and was a little gun-shy of going through it again, so she hadn’t given the wedding a thought. She walked into their house after work last week to find him in a suit standing next to his children and a notary who was ready to marry them. My aunt said it was the best thing he could’ve done! Now I have a new step-uncle and cousins!
One of the first things my mum said to me once we were engaged was that we were not allowed to elope. Sometimes I seems like a favourable idea, but wedding planning can be kind of fun
That sounds like such an awful premise for a show! I would not want to force my boyfriend into making that choice ever, much less on national television. Oh, Fox….
I think that show is pretty ridiculous and very embarrassing for many. YIKES!
In response to your question about people eloping… I “eloped” if you consider it eloping. Basically, I went to the courthouse, but it’s because we fully intended on getting married in the courthouse. We couldn’t wait to be considered “man and wife” and we didn’t even have rings!
My husband had just finished grad school a few months prior and you know the typical story (HUGE STUDENT LOANS) but we knew it just had to happened so we registered for a marriage license, waited 72 agonizing hours, and on Friday, we got married by Judge Ridgeway.
Three months later, my husband surprised me with my gorgeous rings (two wedding bands and an engagement ring). I suppose you could say, it’s better late than never!
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We’re having a huge ceremony (about 500 guests) this upcoming Valentine’s day in New Orleans, LA. We haven’t told our families, but just our close, personal friends. We’re super happy that we are doing the more “traditional” wedding party stuff because it does mean a lot to the both of us, but getting married back in September probably meant more at the time. It definitely doesn’t take away from the whole formal wedding excitement. In fact, I think it’s even more exciting because we’re able to pay for this huge wedding by ourselves and best of all…
I AM GETTING TWO MORE WEDDING BANDS ON MY FORMAL WEDDING DAY!!!
What woman doesn’t love jewelry?!
We talk about it probably once a week. The only thing holding me back is the though of not sharing the moment with my family. They would want to be there as much as I want them there.
i considered it, but only briefly.
knowing me, in the future i would look back and regret not doing a wedding with our family and friends there to witness it.
i doubt i would look back and think that i shouldn’t have had the traditional wedding.
i love to marry right now but first i wana now the girl that i wanna marry and also i need a date from her befor the weding that’s all
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Mrs. Pineapple, Pittsburgh
Age and Occupation: 24, Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Student Affairs Administration
Engagement Date: August 4, 2007
Wedding Date: October, 2008
Blogging Since: April 14, 2008
Venue: The Rivers Club
About Me: Being a transplant from sunny south Florida I am learning to live with all four seasons while playing with our cat collective, line dancing, and doing a ton of DIY projects for our wedding (seriously, like a thousand)!
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