Part 2 essay
May 16, 2008
sara925
I used to think that brides to be were mean, rude, stuck up and bitchy, but now i realize that there is a lot of stress. The stress is from planning the wedding. If a girl has these hopes and dreams about her wedding and something goes wrong it is horrible. I learned this by going through the stress first hand. The only thing that went OK was the rings. We got those then i tried to pick out my dress, the ones i liked were either very expensive, or out of stock. The people at the bridal shop were rude, brought me gold dresses, and snatched things out of my hands. The vases we ordered were the wrong color. They were a blue green instead of cornflower blue. They only cost $90 and to send them back we would have had to pay $121. Which is insane!
What i learned from all this is that if a bride to be has to deal with all of this she has the right to be a bitch. I’ve had my wedding planned since i was a little girl and when everything went wrong i started to think that my dream would not work. I think that this fits the old saying “Walk a mile in some one else’s shoes” this fits because you never know how it really is until you do something. I would probably still think that brides blow everything out of proportion but now i know that is not true and they have a right to be bitchy. Everyone only expects to get married once so you want they day to be perfect.
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fulwilem | May 16, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Sara,
I’m just guessing here, but isn’t the “Bridezilla” phenomenon fairly recent? I mean, when you were dreaming of your perfect wedding as a little girl, did you imagine you’d be cursing at your bridesmaid or getting mad at the groom? These shows certainly show the darker side (truer side?) to the whole wedding industry and the dream of the serene and beautiful bride!
In many ways, it strikes me that one of the things you’re investigating in your pe film is the discrepancy between your “ideal” dream of the wedding and the real. What had you imagined as a little girl? How are the constraints you’re working under changing, revising, or complicating these dreams?
Megan
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kmiddleton | May 16, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Hi Sara–I notice that in the first part of your film treatment, you talk about what you want to show, but not what you’re trying to figure out. I think Megan is on to something: you might be circling the question: how is a real wedding different from the wedding that I imagined, or that I’ve been told to imagine? Or better yet: how am I different from the bride that I imagined that I’d be?
We talked about how you could spend some time “setting up” your audience: showing them all of the things they think they know about weddings—perfect pictures, dresses, happy couples, etc. Your realities (the rings, the dress, the vases) put a big hole in that dream of perfection.
I’m also curious about a particular line in your piece above: “If a bride has to deal with all of this, then she has the right to be a bitch.” That’s a great line. Think about how to expand it—”a bride can be a bitch when…” “a bride can be a bitch because…” I think there’s something really specific here for you to tell, and it’s linked to Megan’s comments above. It’s not okay for a bride to be a bitch all the time, right? Only in certain situations, with certain causes?