My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding Comes to TLC

I saw the first two episodes yesterday. As a Catholic, I wonder if the Catholic Diocese of Westminster has a required premarital program, as most dioceses in the US? Even if the newly weds are travellers, this seems young. I also wonder about the modesty of some of these dresses for a wedding. I'm not a prude, but a long dress with a cutaway front and see-through corset doesn't seem appropriate to receive the Sacrament of Marriage. I think the grandmother that planned a private First Communion had the right idea. That poor little girl in the huge pink dress @ the school First Communion!

…Sacrament of Marriage. I think the grandmother that planned a private First Communion had the right idea. That poor little girl in the huge pink dress @ the school First Communion!

Had the same questions – the FHC dresses, the wedding dresses, the immodesty is shocking.

I understand that part of it is a "display of wares" and these girls are actually chaperoned to a nth of their lives. But in church proper, in front of the Blessed Sacrament??? Put on a shawl or a jacket for it!

Well, its interesting to see there morals are so high along with the hims of there skirts.

U r judging them by Anglo standards tho. (judging in an opinion, not religious def)
They are of a VERY different culture. Many cultures are shockingly less worried by cleavage. . Just saying. We need to remember that the RCC makes cultural allowances in these things and always has. It is part of the beauty of the church.

They are technically British, so I don't think it's Anglo vs. Hispanic. It is NOT just the cleavage. It is the fact that 16 year old girls are allowed to marry 19 year old boys.

Also, cleavage is one thing, but the vulva and thighs are another.

It is the "look at me" stopping traffic I gotta out do you ism that is contrary to what we are taught as Catholics, regardless of our culture. from the CCC 2521 Purity requires modesty, an integral part of temperance. Modesty protects the intimate center of the person. It means refusing to unveil what should remain hidden. It is ordered to chastity to whose sensitivity it bears witness. It guides how one looks at others and behaves toward them in conformity with the dignity of persons and their solidarity.

2522 Modesty protects the mystery of persons and their love. It encourages patience and moderation in loving relationships; it requires that the conditions for the definitive giving and commitment of man and woman to one another be fulfilled. Modesty is decency. It inspires one's choice of clothing. It keeps silence or reserve where there is evident risk of unhealthy curiosity. It is discreet.

2523 There is a modesty of the feelings as well as of the body. It protests, for example, against the voyeuristic explorations of the human body in certain advertisements, or against the solicitations of certain media that go too far in the exhibition of intimate things. Modesty inspires a way of life which makes it possible to resist the allurements of fashion and the pressures of prevailing ideologies.

2524 The forms taken by modesty vary from one culture to another. Everywhere, however, modesty exists as an intuition of the spiritual dignity proper to man. It is born with the awakening consciousness of being a subject. Teaching modesty to children and adolescents means awakening in them respect for the human person.

2525 Christian purity requires a purification of the social climate. It requires of the communications media that their presentations show concern for respect and restraint. Purity of heart brings freedom from widespread eroticism and avoids entertainment inclined to voyeurism and illusion.

2526 So called moral permissiveness rests on an erroneous conception of human freedom; the necessary precondition for the development of true freedom is to let oneself be educated in the moral law. Those in charge of education can reasonably be expected to give young people instruction respectful of the truth, the qualities of the heart, and the moral and spiritual dignity of man.

2527 "The Good News of Christ continually renews the life and culture of fallen man; it combats and removes the error and evil which flow from the ever-present attraction of sin. It never ceases to purify and elevate the morality of peoples. It takes the spiritual qualities and endowments of every age and nation, and with supernatural riches it causes them to blossom, as it were, from within; it fortifies, completes, and restores them in Christ."

Ug. I wasn't bashing u ladies. I didn't see it. The pics only show cleavage and big huge 70lb dresses. Yes technically they are British, bit they are more gypsy. I'm just saying their ethnic culture is different. I bet they felt they were being modest for church.

As for 16 marrying 19. That's not very unusual in any culture. Young? Yes. But many people get married young and have wonderful marriages.

I didn't think you were bashing, Martha. I just didn't think you knew what was upsetting us.

I think the entire community should be commended. For years the things that I have heard of gypsies is nothing compared to what was shown last night. If we could take half of the morales that this tiny community has and somehow instill them back into our you people and our society, maybe we would not have so many youth in jail and so many suicides and drugs. Yes they are married young, but it worked back in the Lords day and in the days of Laura Ingalls, and those woman seemed to survive just fine. These young women know what they want, and they are not sleeping around before hand to get it and what is truly amazing is the young men respect that. God Bless them. My heart goes out to the two communities that were destroyed.

At first I was focused on the clothes, but then I started listening to what the people were going through and the way they were treated and how they live. I started listening to how they work together as a community and a family and the rest didn't seem to matter, how they were dressed didn't seem to matter, the Blessed Virgin, and God and everyone else that was present in that church that everyone seems to think would be offended by the way the girls were dressed would be more offended by mans inhumanity to man. Those girls may not have been dressed appropriately by the standards that some of you think are right, but the color of your hearts are hidden from everyone but almighty GOD. Hopefully, it stands up to what he thinks it should look like. Heres hoping the hem is not too short or too frilly or too pink like the gypsy girls dresses. To all you little Gypsy community's Good luck from us here in Canada. and God Speed wherever your fight takes you.

Big Fat Gypsy Weddings is the WORST show ever. A colorful large car wreck! A ''documentary'? Must have taken 10 episodes for the UK to realize it is BAD reality TV. Leaves more questions than it explores. Like how deep Catholic tradition means showing up and not knowing how to take communion. From the looks of it this deep rooted Catholic tradition is to go to Church twice both times in a dress that leaves the Q – how'd they pay for that?

The whole knocking down of nothing that looked mobile left nothing but negative impression.

The term "gypsy" is derogatory, the equivalent of calling a black person a nigger. As someone of Roma descent living in the United States, this show is horribly offensive and misrepresentative of Roma lifestyle. This show represents these people as trashy and backwards, reinforcing the stereotypes Europeans have persisted for centuries. Disregarding the long history of discimination and prejudice the Roma and Travellers have endured from enslavement to the Holocaust, this show is insulting on the highest level.

Do some research before you make judgements. Don't just rely on a TLC show.

It is the Gypsies who live in Eastern and Southern Europe and the Balkans who call themselves Roma. It is thought they came to Europe from India in the 15th century.