Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Wedding Shows

i'm single too, and is not big deal, IS NOT!!

well, i like the occasional wedding tv show, but a whole tv network!!! is just too much

Over-the-top wedding fantasies aren't the only game in town...I have a secret fantasy where WE marries the SciFi Channel, and they give birth to the movie "Bridezilla Meets Mothra," in which bad dialogue overdub rules and Rodan makes an appearance toward the end, But like so many fantasies, it just will never happen.

Sarah, you rock! And super Kudos to you for appearing in spandex and a sports bra! You looked great, and don't worry, our special days will come!

:)

It seems you women lose touch with the real meanings of a wedding. It's more about sharing your love for that special someone on a special day with your closest friends and family. Not looking like a model or having the right decorations. I'd like to see a wedding planned by a husband for once just to see what happens.

I have watched these shows and there seems to be a reoccuring theme of 'losing weight to fit in the wedding dress'. Here's a better idea: buy a dress that actually fits, not something 2 sizes smaller that you hope to fit into in 6 months.

LOVE THIS.

i love this segment! there has to be an episode about salads because that appears to be the official meal for us women (apart from yogurt of course). I was driving one day and actually saw a Jack in the box truck with a huge ad on the side saying: "Forget diamonds, salads are a girls best friend". comedy gold!

Ironically, Sarah Haskins is the biggest womanizing misogynist of the Infomania staff. It's weird...

This is brilliant.

I can't believe the whole Bulging Brides show. The "THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO LOOK LIKE IN THE FUTURE" bit is horrible.

Shows like this make me proud of my little, tiny wedding ceremony. (And the fact that I didn't scream LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN at everyone...)

fen-fen?

at 1:52, does the bridezilla say "fen-fen"?

if so... what is that?

This is literally the best thing I have ever seen, and I made an account on this website just so I could leave this comment. Sarah Haskins needs to make many, many more of these. I also like yogurt.

Thank you. I will make many more! What things do you see marketed towards women that drive you nuts?

Thanks for showing how over the last 50 years people have distorted the idea of weddings into this expensive unrealistic fantasy. Companies make tons of money exploiting women's childhood fantasy of being Cinderella. Wikipedia says. "The diamond engagement ring did not become the standard it is considered today until after an extensive marketing campaign by De Beers in the middle of the 20th century, which came to include one of the most famous advertising slogans of the 20th century: 'A Diamond is Forever.'"

I told my best friend if some was to ask me to marry them, i wouldn't want a diamond engagement ring.

to me it's over-rated.

If you are on bridezilla, i feel sorry for your "future" spouse.

i hate self absorbed idiots.

Wedding mania :)

"fen fen" is fen-phen, a diet pill that used to be widely used but was pulled from the market for causing health problems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fen-phen

Sarah Haskins, I love you! As the other person said too, I made an account on this site just to make this comment! Can I be updated just when you do a new Target:Women?? That's what I wish for in life...

Sarah Haskins was interviewed on The Bastion today. I know because I was the interviewer!

http://www.thebastion.org/2008/06/inside_with_sarah_haskins.html

Now let's please get her a gig on the Daily Show.

I personally think they need to calm down the wedding crap, statistically more people are cohabiting couples these days. I believe weddings would be the majority however, same-sexed couples are limited rights and entertain these stats. I personally have focused my educational goals on cultural influences on communication and institutions such as the "marriage" and all the stimulation increases the fantasy. More then 50% of all marriages end in divorce, so happily ever after is, really not the correct message. Education and age have everything to do with a successful marriage. People who are ages 18-24 when they storm the isle have the highest failures in recent stats.
I feel that the fairy-tale is only real when it exists in our rational thoughts. Those shows blatantly reveal that most weddings fail to meet "rational" expectancy levels and intact have "coined" behavior. It may be my worldview that is jaded....I can take myself on. I am lucky to have a guy who relates to my choices and views..but we feel the pressure to tie the knot by our society but have focused on life, education and businesses. People value our accomplishments in reverse....well what are they waiting for?,,,,,creating our life first! Then creating the fairy-tale....nope really I already have it. Peace to all you eager beavers... and understanding to all the others....

kmarie

haha My girlfriend was a bridezilla in her recent wedding. We've barely spoken since and I plan on letting her go since this is not the kind of crap I can muster patience for.

Big fancy weddings have never interested me and prior to May I had never attended one. Now that I've seen it play out firsthand, I am 200% convinced that elopement really was the best option.

Target Women is the best stuff on the internet.

I agree that the ads where the dad is an idiot and mom has to do everything need to be mocked- the whole "my husband is so incompetent, but fortunately I do all the dishes" thing is pretty annoying. But even worse is that if men do appear in commercials featuring cleaning products, they are generally not using them, but instructing a woman on how to use them! Some distressed housefrau can't get the grass stains out? Never fear! A man can show you how to be happy again!

I just went to see my first wedding! They happy couple wore regular formalwear and drove around the marina until they found a nice, romantic spot on the pier to do the wedding thing at. Kids threw rose petals. Kissing happened. Good times. Good, inexpensive, times.

I will marry you Sarah Haskins. Because these segments have made me fall in love with you.

I think what most people now-a-days are fixated with is the concept of money and how money buys happiness and that spending more money on your wedding will make it better. Granted, yes somethings are worth having at your wedding however the more expensive it is doesn't mean that it's going to be better. With the divorce rate up at 50% and possibly higher, why spend thousands of dollars on your wedding that possibly could end up just being a waste of money?

I've seen a few of those wedding shows and personally they make me feel sick to my stomach for being a woman. I feel like the wedding shows (like bridezilla) are kind of similar to MTVs my super sweet sixteen where the bratty sixteen year olds complain about not having Nelly at their party.

Society makes me sick.

thanks Sara for helping me feel less paranoid about the terrible body image expectations the media places on us. you have a great body!! I found myself getting self-concious watching the bride shows and was sucked into the idiocracy and tantrums of these self-absorbed women, They're only acting like what they see on TV anyways.