Demon Clown Baby

After American Idol is a new show called The Real Wedding Crashers. The Bride and Groom invite a tv crew to come in and crash the wedding.

Odd things happen at the wedding, like the preacher talking on his cell phone during the service, or knocking over the wedding cake. The guests are horrified or annoyed or just surprised.

Additionally, several special guests are singled out for pranks lasting several days. One guest is made to believe that he accidentally ruined the wedding dress, another feels responsible for hiring a singer that turns out to be awful.

At the end, all is revealed, and many of the guests are relieved and laugh about the whole thing.

Some other guests though apparently didn’t sign waivers and their faces are blurred on television. To them, I say Well Done.

This is a funny show. Don’t get me wrong, it’s funny. However, being funny isn’t the same as being okay. It’s immoral and dishonourable to lie to people and that’s what much of this is. A practical joke that takes a few seconds is perhaps defensible as a joke and not a lie, but one that lasts hours and days is not able to be defended.

But apart from that, it’s actually just lame. I’ve only seen two episodes, and I don’t think I’ll watch any more. The bride and groom always talk about how they wanted a memorable wedding that people would be talking about.

Well, then why not do something actually memorable? Not only is all the “memorable” stuff just staged, but the b&g don’t even come up with the ideas. They call the tv show, and the show does it all. That’s it. And it’s a tv series, not a special. That doesn’t make their wedding special at all!

It’s not clever, it’s all phony, it’s all manipulated, people were made to feel bad on purpose so everyone could laugh at them. If I were a guest, I would not be impressed.

If you want a memorable wedding, then have one because you’re actually clever, smart, interesting, special enough to come up with something and carry it out. If you must arrange for something “horrible” to happen that was actually planned, don’t turn around and tell everyone it was all planned!

At my wedding, the wedding cake (3 layers, separated by dowels and roses) started to fall over just as my wife was cutting it. The photographer saw it happening, and with his warning, I was able to catch it in time. Very memorable (if you were there).

Now, how would my friends feel if I told them it was all planned out? That would just make it stupid, instead of a mildly amusing reminiscence.

Other things, l having actual pieces of toast for the Wedding Toast, are completely planned of course, but they are just straight up cool, and don’t rely on phoniness or lies.

So, have some self-respect and don’t hire a tv show to crash your wedding. Besides manipulating people, it’s not even neat. It’s just lame. Come up with something on your own or just play it straight.