My Fair Wedding

My Fair Wedding is a show on the WE Tv which mostly focuses on weddings and events that are coherent with weddings.   My Fair Wedding is hosted by David Tutera, who is a well-known and well-established wedding planner for mostly famous or rich people.  Yet, in this series David selects a bride who is lost in her wedding planning and saves her wedding.  David also picks brides who can not afford everything she has dreamed of for her wedding and he makes her dreams come true.  The unique part of the show is that the rides usually have a theme in mind for their wedding.  The theme seems to always be extremly out of the norm for a wedding.  For example one couple wanted a feather wedding, or a casino wedding, or even a miedieval sword wedding. These themes are carried out by David in spectacular ways.  This show takes weddings into the fairy tale outlook.  The women all have "dreams" for their wedding as if they have been planning the wedding their whole lives.  Furthermore David treats the brides as if their wedding is the one and only even in their life and the women are super stars.  This takes the moral values out of the wedding, such as love, religion, and life in the future for the couple.   Not only are the women put on platforms but never is the man taken for special treatment or even asked for his opinion, leading to the assumption that the wedding is entirely the brides day and event in life not so much a step for the couple to take together.  As David purchases cakes, dresses, jewlery, flowers, and decorations all of the brands, designer, and stores are mentioned specifically for marketing and advertising reasons.  The show features brand placement, advertising, and marketing throughout each and every epsiode.  The outcome of the wedding creates an image almost impossible to achieve without an endless budget to spend.  The amount of decor and money spent is never mentioned.  The show leaves the implications that creating this out of thw world wedding is in hands reach or at least you want it to be!  I can only imagine how many women dream of having David coming in and sweeping away the wedding into a fairy tale.  Also, at the end of every episode the brides thank David for giving them a dream come true or answering all of their prayers and yet nothing about the family or husband is mentioned.  Its as if this is the only day that has mattered.  Consumerism floods these shows and I know it was successful on me because while helping my sister plan her wedding a few of David's episodes came into play for purchasing decor and designing her cake.  In fact, my sister and I would reference his episode on wine decor to help create my sister's wedding.  The show also examplifies the norm of heterosexual couples with a homesexual man plaing the typical stereotype as the designer behind it all.  Some of the women also have minor break down when they find out David is taing away their bridal dress and replacing it with a brand new designer dress.  I do feel this is a representation of how the dress is culturally a representation of the identity of the bride because this is the onl part of the show I have ever seen a bride become angry.  The dresses are always replaced with top of the line designer dresses and yet the women still become frazled with the thought of letting go of their original weddding dress.  This show emphazises that women should have their own tale wedding.  Also in the aspect of David following whatever the theme desired may be could be a post- modern view on wedding.  No longer do cultures completly down grade on out of the norm weddings yet ironically David takes the theme and makes it as close to the norm as is possible.  Yet still this may be a suggestion of how a women is expressing whatever kind of women she wants to be!