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A Royal wedding may only be three months away, but it’s another type that has the nation gripped — the big fat gypsy variety. Channel 4 has the Irish travelling community to thank for their highest viewing figures in three years. Every Tuesday night seven million people are tuning in to gawp in disbelief as travellers are shown celebrating their marriages in their own unique and colourful way on Big Fat Gypsy Weddings.
As the programme shows, the gypsy wedding is a world where subtlety is banned and big and bling is always better.
Such over-the-top extravagance doesn’t come cheap but the first rule of gypsy weddings is that nobody talks about money. Internet forums are awash with people puzzling over how fathers of the bride, who pick up the wedding tab, can afford the six-figure price tags when they mostly work as manual labourers.
Here, with the aid of insider information, we run a slide-rule over the particulars:Comfort doesn’t come into it — these Swarovski jewel-encrusted puffballs usually come with 24 petticoats and a 20ft train, and can weigh up to 20 stone. A gypsy bride wears her wedding dress scars like a badge of honour.
Thelma Madine, of Liverpool-based Nico’s Dressmakers, is the lady who has designed the majority of the dresses in the Channel 4 series.
She’s the Elizabeth Emmanuel of the gypsy world and, just like a royal designer, she won’t discuss her clients. Unlike the Emmanuel gown that Princess Di wore up the aisle, however, her bridal creations have included mechanical butterflies with fluttering wings and inbuilt fairy lights.
‘I’ve known dresses that cost up to £50,000,’ says Thelma revealingly. Before quickly adding: ‘I’m not saying I made them though.’
Cost: Astonishingly anything from £15,000 to £50,000
Forget virginal and virtuous — at a gypsy wedding the bridesmaids look more like burlesque dancers. Even though gypsies always get married in church, flashing the flesh is not frowned upon.
Red, pink, purple and coral are among the favourite colour choices. With most gypsies coming from large, extended families it’s not unusual for a bride to have up to a dozen maids follow her up the aisle.The bridesmaid dresses chosen to complement Sam Norton’s frothy pink gown in this week’s episode included eye-popping black and pink tight-fitted corsets with diamante butterflies .
Seamstress Emma Green, from Lancashire, who created the daring numbers with taffeta trains says: ‘Usually travellers want very big white or baby pink dresses with lots of diamante, stars and hearts. They accessorise with crowns, massive tiaras and mini top-hats and bow ties, but some of the designs they come in with are so complicated they are just not possible to do.’
As always with gypsy weddings, bigger is better, so why have two bridesmaids when you can have 22?
Cost: Upwards of £20,000.There are no formal wedding invitations, it’s all word of mouth and anybody in the community who wants to turn up can. With no RSVPs it’s impossible for the bride to know how many guests will expect to be fed and watered.
The hot buffet will serve everything from lasagne and stew to chilli con carne and pizza. And everything comes with mountains of chips.
Unlike some weddings, you’ll never see a pay bar at a gypsy wedding. The bride’s proud father is expected to foot the hefty booze bill. While the unmarried women aren’t allowed to drink, the married ones, With around 300 guests troughing and swigging into the early hours, daddy shouldn’t expect to pay less than £100 a head once a venue has been hired, and entertainment arranged.
As well as toasting the happy couple, gypsy weddings are also good hunting grounds for a man on the lookout for a wife.
While the men don’t tend to dance, the women bump and grind to the live band or DJ like good ’uns in the hope of catching a man’s eye.
Cost: £30,000 plus
A gypsy bride simply must arrive at the church in style — gypsy style that is. Ever since Katie Price arrived at her wedding to Peter Andre in a glass Cinderella-style coach, every gypsy bride has wanted to copy her. Katie’s coach was a one-off, but thanks to demand there are now dozens of replicas in circulation that cost around £1,000 a day to hire. Even the white shire horses that pull them get a make-over as their manes are plaited and ribboned.