Say Yes To The Dress Your Friends Say Yes To

Most afternoons on Tuesday's and Thursday's after my last class of the day I head straight to the library to continue working on the numerous projects that have taken over my life. However, on this particular afternoon I was able to go home, eat something that wasn't ramen, and turn on the television. Flipping through the channels one show caught my attention that I haven't seen in a long time: Say Yes To The Dress.  

Seeing that no one was around to watch me indulge in the high fashion wedding dress industry, I decided to watch what kind of wedding dresses were out there. I decided to watch two episodes before going back to the library. 

For those who are unaware of how the show works, brides and there entourage come into Kleinfeld Bridal and "Say yes to a dress". Kleinfeld sells more designer dresses than any other store in the world. Friends and family come in to help the bride pick out the perfect wedding dress for her big day. Multiple women are featured in each episode, along with information about themselves, their fiancés, and the drama their guests bring. 

One bride in particular was back to get a fitting for the dress that she had picked in a previous episode. She brought her mother and a friend to see her in what the dress would really look like. Her comment moments before entering the dressing room was, " If my friends don't like my dress then I don't know what I am going to do."

Those words made me think a double take of what she said. Why would her friends have that much power over HER wedding dress? I always thought that it was suppose to be what you liked and wanted, friends would guide you but preferably just be there to have a good time. She had a beautiful dress picked out and it looked stunning on her. In the end, her friend did like the dress she picked. 

Her thought process on deciding what dress to pick reminded me of Predictably Irrational. " Overall, those who made their choices out loud, in the standard way that food is ordered at restaurants, were not as happy with there selections as those who made their choices privately, without taking others' opinions into consideration". 

So for Say Yes To The Dress producers, maybe they should recommend that brides come alone?Leave the mother-in-law, sister, cousin, aunt, girlfriend's options out of it.