My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

Entering the world of 21st Century gypsy and traveller weddings, where ancient traditions meet modern fashions in an ostentatious culture clash, this film follows four gypsy and traveller families on their wedding day.

Considered on the shelf at 20, in gypsy and traveller communities many girls get married soon after their 16th birthday with the support of their family.

The weddings are visual spectacles: brides and their families compete to have the most flamboyant dresses; girls parade into church in enormous dresses that sometimes weigh more than the bride herself. Although the women look sexually provocative there is a tradition of premarital chastity that is increasingly unusual in Britain today.

Gaining rare access to this fascinating and often misunderstood community, the film uses the prism of the weddings to reveal a culture where marriages between first cousins are acceptable but having children out of wedlock is still taboo and divorce is unheard of.

Used to being taunted, this is a community that lives alongside but detached from mainstream society. It is a community of contrasts, living by centuries old religious and cultural traditions but at the same time embracing the gaudier extremes of the celebrity- and fashion-obsessed times in which we live. * Channel 4 (Cutting Edge) * 1 x 60mins * TX: 9pm 18/02/2010

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[DeadlyTeaParty]

They're thieving layabout scum!

There was a whole pile of them shits in our local town. (This was in 2007)

One wee shit came into a stationary shop. He was looking at a colouring in book, he wanted it but had no money; As you'd expect. Thankfully the lady behind the til had the brains on her to not fall for his bullshit. He was trying to nick it by saying "I want to show it to mummy, I'll bring it back.... I promise" These episodes are just propaganda to ty and make the pikies look good!

[DeadlyTeaParty]

Yeah you're just jealous because I've got money and you shitting on the road side like a dog.

like I said... your traveling scum aren't even a race. :)

[MegaDeLacey]

No, unfortunately..This is an Imposed Interpretation?....Puttin a Patch over "Root Causes"?.....Yea i said to the Israelis,go back to the '67 Border Line????It would have been possible to make a "2 State" Solution?...Really!!!...But now,it's impossible????

[Kat Langer]

No. Not smiling happy people holding hands. But you don't have to go around pushing your hate in peoples faces! by the way, "Divide and conquer" involves one leader in power forcing a gap between the people disagree so that they're unable to join. the only people stopping you from peace is yourselves and the people you let influence you! Does no one learn from shootings or bombings or the recent decap. of an English soldier for "Allah". FFS.

[MegaDeLacey]

Nice Comment!....Smilin Happy People holdin Hands?...Yea Idealistic?......Until ya have to live in a "Divide n Conquer" Society????

[Kat Langer]

**whether



[Katherine Langworthy]

JEEPERS! so much hate in the comments. We're all people! wether you're White, Black,Asian,Gypsy,Buddhist,Ara­bic,Aussie, or Amazonian it doesn't matter!anyone can steal,anyone can slut around or get a boob job or whatever i wouldn't segregate it to one race or culture by who they are.Farr out.It's like saying saying"EW i can't believe you put vegemite on toast..jeez i'm just an Aussie!".No one is better than the other, when people think like that,you start to get incidents like in London today :(

[MegaDeLacey]

With a nose like that i'm not suprised,ha ha!!...Still,you think you're so civilised?....Sounds like irrational "Bigotry" in my book!

[DeadlyTeaParty]

Well you have no manners or morals. I've said plenty of things to people's faces before and I'd do the same to you. I'm starting to smell a rotten smell though my screen, I think you need a bath. Has it been 4 years since you had a bath? Or do you'd wash yourselves in piss filled rivers?

[MegaDeLacey]

Yea ya are a "Funny Bigot"brave behind your computer ,ha ha