Four Weddings

Dare to win the honeymoon of your dreams....

So why would a beautiful bride want to compete with three other brides on her special day? Maybe she likes a little competition, maybe she wants to be the center of attention, or maybe she wants to win a dream unknown honeymoon with her new husband.

The TLC reality television show, Four Weddings gives four brides a chance to compete with each other for that special dream honeymoon. Four Weddings isn't just a competition show that offers entertainment to its audience, the show is inspirational for future brides, demonstrates how to be behave when competing, offers a new experience, and forms new relationships and bond with the contestants. Viewers not only are entertained for the hour of the show, but they learn so much from the experience of the brides on the show.   

Four Weddings is a competition, reality show that shows four brides competing against each other for a chance to win a dream honeymoon. Each bride is a guest at each others wedding. There the judging guest brides rate the bride on their overall experience, food, dress, and the venue. After all the brides attended each others weddings, they sit down one last time to give their overall comments of the weddings they attended. The brides then eagerly wait for a limo to appear, carrying the husband of the winning bride, and a card revealing the location of the unknown honeymoon. After the winning bride is announced, the viewers cans see the score card for each bride which shows the points each bride has received in each category in which they were judged on. Every bride thinks that her wedding is the best. What better way to judge than to have brides as guests to each other's weddings! 

Four Weddings is a great show for future brides to watch. Because the show focuses greatly on the features of the wedding, viewers are exposed to so many different and unique ideas. You can basically plan your own wedding by watching the show. For instance, the show always highlights the centerpieces that are displayed on each table. Centerpieces are essential to a wedding because it lays out the theme of your wedding. So the table centerpieces should be a reflection of the theme of your wedding. Each episode shows you four different centerpiece ideas. So just by watching one episode, you have four ideas that you may like, dislike, or like but you want to modify a little to give it a little personal twist. An academic journal by Stein reveals a review of a book explaining the value of wedding shows and how the shows are helpful to its viewers, "Engstrom believes that the reason it is not that difficult to picture is because this image has been drilled into our heads by countless types of mass media." (Stein 614) Every episode of Four Weddings is constantly showing wedding dresses, venues, food options, and decorations, all in which are different for every bride on the episode. So by viewers watching the show, they are being exposed to so many different ideas for their own wedding. This applies for the viewers who are getting married or ever plan to be married sometime in their future. The show also highlights the bride's dresses. The brides usually have very different style dresses such as a princess ballgown, mermaid dress, fitted dress, or a glamours bedazzled dress. A bride watching this show can see some many different types of dresses which can make dress shopping for her a little less stressful because she may have an idea of a dress she would like to wear for her big day. Cause who doesn't think about marriage and how they would plan their wedding?  This is why Four Weddings is a great show for a bride planning a wedding to watch. Shows like this make the wedding planning process easier on the bride.




Four brides eager to prove to one another that their wedding is the best, and deserves to win the unknown honeymoon, can create some bridezillas. Four Weddings is a competition show and competitions can sometimes bring out the bad in someone. Of course the show highlights those scenes of the brides being catty and the small disagreements. An interview from THEList shows Linsie, a former bride on Four Weddings discussing how she felt after watching her episode of the show, "Linsie noted when she first saw her episode, she was definitely taken aback at some of the girls' comments. However, for the most part the girls seemed to get along swimmingly." The comments are essential for the judging portion of the show. Every time a bride gives a score, they have to explain why they chose to give that score. Four Weddings shows how four eager brides are able to judge one anothers wedding while still playing nicely. You can see this come into play at the end of each episode when the brides come together after they have been to each others weddings , before the winner bride is revealed. The brides compliment one another of their wedding and make some comments on the things they enjoyed the most about each particular wedding. Unfortunately, only one bride can win. And while the three other brides who didn't win the honeymoon are obviously upset, they all congratulate and show their support for the winning bride.The show really demonstrates how to be a good sport and maintain a good character while competing in a competition.



Four Weddings offers an amazing, once in a lifetime experience to its contesting brides. Not many can say that they shown off their wedding on a reality television show, while competing with three other brides for a chance to win a dream unknown honeymoon. Shauna is a former contestant of the show, she reveals: "I had a fabulous time with the whole experience. Everyone that we worked with from TLC couldn't have been nicer or more accommodating." (Weld, par. 12) Even with cameras and the TLC producers at Shauna'a wedding, they did not cause any problems and made her experience with TLC positive and she was able to enjoy her wedding as she normally would have if she wasn't on the show.


 By the end of the show the brides have formed a bond and a friendship with one another. In an interview, brides Michelle and Shauna discuss their relationships with the brides, "Michelle made fast friends with the girls on her episode and said, "What made [being at strangers' weddings] ever easier […] was that the other girls were so nice, and after a while, you just feel like you know them." Shauna also had a great time with the girls on her show, but she did mention that the brides hadn't seen each other since. She blames the distance, and we're just going to have to believe her." (Weld par.10) The participants in both Michelle and Shauna's episode were very friendly towards one another and they all because good friends.So along with competing on a well known reality t.v show, and potentially winning a dream honeymoon, brides gain an awesome once in a life time experience, learn social skills, and make three new friends along the way.

Works Cited

Stein, Andi. "The Bride Factory: Mass Media Portrayals of Women and   Weddings."  Journalism and Mass Communication, vol. 90, no. 3, Autumn. 2013, pp. 613-615.    EBSCOhost, web.b.ebscohost.com/.


Winch, Alison. Webster Anna. "Here comes the brand: Wedding media and the                      management of transformation." Journal of Media & Cultural   Studies, vol . 26, no. 1,          February. 2012, pp. 51-59. EBSCOhost, web.b.ebscohost.com/.

Weld, Kirstyn "The untold truth of Four Weddings."  THEList,                             http://www.thelist.com/25422/untold-truth-behind-four-weddings/. 

Klein, Kristen. "What It's Really Like Being on a Wedding TV Show." Bridal Guide, 
  http://www.bridalguide.com/blogs/real-brides-speak-out/four-weddings