So, I have two female roommates, three girls all with boyfriends, living together in an apartment... On Friday night we sat around having a roommate night and watched Say Yes to the Dress on TLC. The show consists of several bridal consultants that are assigned to a bride for an appointment to find their "perfect" wedding dress.
Sitting there watching this show, I had only seen maybe once to twice before, we fantasized about going to New York City to have an appointment with a bridal consultant to find our perfect wedding dresses. As we watched all of the brides try on dress after dress and show their families and friends to ask for opinions, it was commercial breaks that made the show interesting. During the commercials we talked about the dresses that we each liked and why, we commented on what we wanted our own weddings to be like and how differently we would do things not only from the show but from each other.
The shows played one after another and seemed to flow from one to the next and before we knew it we had been watching, talking, and fantasizing, for three hours. There really wasn't much to the show, but for some reason we just could not stop watching. Did we stay fixed to the TV because we were enjoying the show or because we just became engulfed by the ideas we developed from watching other women have what every girl dreams of?
Before we went to bed that night, we talked about why we just couldn't change the channel. My one roommate said that it was the dreaming about our futures that kept us glued to our TV. The other said it was the comical aspect of the show, watching the brides be complimented on how beautiful a dress was or how blunt and honest their friends and families were when the absolutely hated what they had on. My thoughts, we were mesmerized by both a fantasy as well as comedic interest. I feel that as a view I am not only more drawn to this bridal store in New York, but I am also thrown into this whirlwind of society where when growing up, every little girls dreams of a big princess dress, and in reality not everyone gets that. Especially after not really watching this show before, I feel that it encourages women to fulfil that inner princess but it also shows how different every one's ending turns out.
