During our time in Turkey last week, I came across a Wedding dress shop with this monstrosity proudly displayed in the front window. My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding eat your heart out.
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| Marshmallow dream |
It took me back 7 years to my big fat Turkish wedding. Faced with the above horrors (and worse) to choose from, I opted for a handmade dress of my own design. It turned out fine. But I thought I would share with you some of the Turkish delights that are on offer to the nation’s brides.
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| Hello Kitty? |
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| Swanage |
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| Happiest day of their lives |
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| Frillage |
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| WTF? |
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| Speechless |
The Turks love a bit of frill and the big day is all about being ostentatious. Not unlike our friendly gypsies.
It is, however, the wedding album photographs that tipped me right over the edge. Not only are they photoshopped to within an inch of recognition, the happy couple are then superimposed onto various “romantic” generic backdrops; a sunset, a castle, a beach, in the clouds……?
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| My fave |
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| Ahhhh |
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| Rising from the ocean |
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| Superimposed? Nah |
My husband and I asked for our photos to be as simple and plain as possible. The photographers could not understand why but agreed.
When we were presented with our photos, already mounted into a grotesque brown hard plastic album (not our choice) we had a flick through marvelling at the purity of our skin and the reddening of our lips. (Yes I jest not). However it was the last photo in the album which made me wet my pants.
They had added a moustache, yes a moustache, onto my husbands top lip. Not a full on Tom Selleck bush, just a smattering of bum fluff. Seriously.
When my husband asked them why they would do such a thing, they replied.
“It looks nostalgic”
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Scanned photo evidence to follow
All photos courtesy of google.co.uk
Muhahahahaa, this made me howl. Those dresses are serious blancmangesque! What the hell is going on with that woman's breasticles?She looks like she has two bald men in her top!
Oh and the Dad giving the bride away like a sacrifice to the cloud gods is hilarious.
I can't wait to see the bum fluff evidence
Thanks for cheering my afternoon up!
xx
LOL hurry up and put the pic on – otherwise I will have to pop over and find it for myself!!!!! what is it with photoshopping your wedding pics – on one of our close ups they removed V's mole lumpy thing just because they thought he looked better without it!!!!! Thanks for the compliment Mr photographer!!!!!! x x xx
I can't wait to see the picture!
I thought dresses were bad in the shops here in Cyrpus but they are nothing compared to those beauties!
I remember when you first showed me the bum fluff moustache photo and how cross B was! The flying brides and creepy eye photos remind me of the odd time I had to kill time in Turkey. I used to seek out horrors in the photography shops and marvel at them. What a culture difference! Glad to have you back x