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This weekend, in case you've had your head in the same sandpile as the one the Original Three sisterwives normally use, is a Brown Wedding Weekend!
Yeppers, not only will we be treated finally with Maddie's wedding from six months ago, Maddie's bonus sister Mykelti also tied the knot with fiance Tony in St. George, Utah yesterday.
Now, far be it from catty old me to say something like "Oh, Mykelti planned it that way to take away some of Maddie's wedding thunder."
Nope. Those words will pass neither my lips, nor my fingers as they dance across the keyboard. Rather, I'd like to make the observation that, if St. George Utah is notoriously hot in the summer and cold as a witch's you know what in the winter, couldn't she have planned her wedding to occur when the weather would be more...hospitable?
And since I am on a roll, how about this observation. You know, Jangle (aka Janelle...long story) has her Strive with Janelle Program? Can you imagine the positive publicity she would have garnered if Mykelti and Tony had used her services? Like, showing a picture of a now svelte Tony, with the caption "Results after two months with my trainers!"
But we are talking about the Browns, who are well known for letting opportunities slip through their meaty fingers like...like...well, you know what I mean.
MSWC, anyone? Sorry, I couldn't resist!
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Anyway, last night while I was watching Sister Wives via a well-known streaming video service, it suddenly dawned on me why Tony looked so familiar.
Call me silly, but he looks a lot like the late comedian, Freddie Prinze!
Except Prinze's physique was damn fine, if you know what I mean.
But they both have those darling dimples. OK, here's to the new couple's happiness!
(PS, I predict Mykelti will announce she has a Tony bun in her oven sometime in January, 2017. ...Please, Mykelti. Prove me wrong, OK?)
Now it's PARTY TIME!!!!
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GET SET FOR MORE SISTER WIVES FUN AND GAMES!!!
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Lots of flashbacks in the first 15 minutes, including several repeats of Janelle's seeing the spark between Madison and Caleb immediately (at a funeral).
ReplyDeleteAlso, the Browns have to set up the tables and décor for the wedding themselves, as if a resort in a destination wedding location would allow that and forego service charges.
Kody hasn't written the vows on the morning of - he has a 30-minute book, when they only want 10. He's so insightful.
At a funeral...when she was only 16. If a 26 year old man was flirting with my 16 year old, I would not be okay with it.
DeleteAmen. But they didn't start a relationship until she was in college, right? Thank goodness he isn't currently married to two other women at the time he marries her a few years after high school graduation.
DeleteWhat also is messed up is the kids from her uncles marragie to Calebès sister would be not only her cousins but her nephiews as well.
DeleteThey keep saying they didn't start dating until she was in college, but I doubt it. What 26 year old man texts a 16 year old trying to develop a "friendship?" That's called grooming.
DeleteDezi the friend expresses surprise that Maddie's getting married two years out of high school. Earlier here and/or in previous episodes (they're all a boring blur), Maddie says that she and Caleb were dating for three years. That would mean that she was in high school while they were dating. She went to college for a year, gave up her scholarship and moved to wherever he was.
DeleteThey just lie ,lie ,lie about everything.That may backfire someday.
DeleteWas that mentioned in a reinactment? The wedding was a bit ago. She is 21. They showed the graduation the next calendar year six months later. I believe she might have been 17 when she left for college? I also think at that age three years could mean rounded to three years. Marrying at 20 is no big deal in that part of the country.
DeleteDesi says that they graduated from high school two years ago while the make-up artist is getting the bridesmaids ready for the wedding. I believe that Maddie got married at 19, and she may be 20 now.
DeleteEither the Browns are revising history yet again, or they're performing polygamous math. But, if she dated Caleb for 3 years, she was dating him while she was in high school. When she announced her engagement to the wives and Kody, they supposedly didn't know who she was dating, even though it should have been going on under their noses.
They met at (talked and spent time together) at her uncles/ his brothers funeral gathering. She was 16. That was her story on how they met.
DeleteIt doesn't matter how they shake it, she was 16, he was 26. Show before last night the women, Janelle and aunt Erica both were admiring the photo from that gathering and commented on how they all saw chemistry and a spark. I guess in their world a spark between a 16 year old girl and a 26 year old man that clearly drinks a lot (based on his puffy bloated face) in my world is called creepy, unacceptable and calls for constant monitoring so that there are not more " connections"
If my teenager moved out of state to be closer to him I would involve the law.
They had to know this was going on and they approved. All of Janelles big talk of college is all crap as soon as one of these girls finds a man.
How is he not related to her if her uncle was his brother? All of that confused me. The uncle was Kody's brother so it was a blood uncle....:/
DeleteI wonder if the AUB arranges marriages along family lines. They sound far more intermarried then the Amish could dream of being.
Maddie is 21 (according to Wikipedia @ Sister Wives). They have her birthday as: "November 3, 1995"
DeleteAgain, this show so far is another Kody-docudrama.
ReplyDeleteIf there was a drinking game based on how many times so far Kody has used the words "I" and " me" we could all forgo watching and instead pass out.
OMG, he is SUCH an attention hog.
"Who gives this bride away?"
Delete"I do. KODY BROWN."
Idiot. Couldn't even mention her mother and bonus moms. And who says their whole name at that question? But of course he and the wives will say they aren't familiar with monogamous marriages and that is why he biffed it.
We heard again this week how polygamous ceremonies aren't full of flowery words or ceremony. Polygamists just do it (per Christine). Meanwhile, we suffered through Robyn's wedding dress drama and her marriage into the family, as well as the committed ceremony. Despite all that, helping Maddie plan a wedding was well beyond the wives.
DeleteI suppose he thought everyone would forget who he was...Kody Brown...polygamist with 4 wives and 18 kids. As if....
DeleteSay it ain't so..another hour to go.
DeleteHow many more times are they going to repeat and repeat minutia !!
Wow, this is really tedious !!!
The wedding is all about Kody!
Delete- Kody's not seeing the wedding dress before the ceremony, even though the groom came to see her that morning, before he went for a shave.
- Kody's special vows, based on his never-seen-before book of poems/reflections, etc. on Madison.
- Kody's bonus reflection that he officiated Logan's bar mitzvah, even though they're not Jewish, it's not in polygamy (nevermind AUB), and he's not a rabbi.
- Kody-Caleb wedding photo, which will probably hang over the mantles in all the McMansions.
Yes, yes, yes........all about Kody.
DeleteI found his talking heads THIS epp especially intolerable !!
Just disgusting to watch him in action....and thinking of how much similar footage of this narcissist had to be cut to fit into the show slot. Uhhhh, he is repulsive !!
I distinctly remember in the episode when Maddie went to college that Kody mentioned he couldn't remember her childhood. Now he has a journal? Yeah, right...that's got Robyn written all over it. I would say Jangle but I don't think she would give a darn...just shrug her shoulders and say "I don't know what the big deal is" and go on her way.
DeleteA journal that Janelle tweeted he has shown her a few times. He doesn't share his poetry with his wife except for a few times? I thought they had such a great intellectual connection. Sad.
DeleteNow that the secret Kody Khronicles have been revealed, I'd very much like to see the producers eliminate all of Kody's airtime and instead have Garrison and Gabriel read (and comment on) excerpts from the Kody diaries, as needed for context or entertainment value. And David Jr. and Truely could put the excerpts in real terms, as needed.
DeleteYassssss!!!!!
DeleteWhen Maddie said "A bunch of chiefs and no Indians" I was aghast. First we say First Nations or indigenous peoples .That expression she used would be considered racist. This is a cultural difference between us and the U.S. I am surprised Maddie grew up with that expression considering Janelle supposedly was studying First Nations when she was living in that teepee,
ReplyDeleteIn the US we don't use the term First Nation or indigenous people, we usually go by Native American or American Indian. On the reservation I grew up on, we went by Native American, but it's pretty split in the country about what term people prefer. I personally see Maddie as culturally ignorant because she seems so flippant about her words.
DeleteKody on his love for Maddie:
ReplyDeleteI am handing the baton of love from me to another man...
EEeewww! Just EEEEEEeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!
I have yelled out "yuck!" at least three times during this episode when Kody was talking about his love for Madison.
DeleteYup, inappropriate and cringe worthy. I don't know if Maddie caught it all during the ceremony or whether she'll notice it when she watches it on tv, but I was uncomfortable for her.
DeleteThe ONLY good thing about this episode is a Twirling Truley.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe that Maddie didn't include her biological sister in her wedding party- especially since she includes Truly. The girl looked really disheartened, and I believe that she's the only biological sister. Also, she was in all the couch scenes in earlier episodes, talking about how wonderful the wedding would be
ReplyDeleteLogan walks Janelle down the aisle (in possibly his only scene). Kody missed his chance to run up and down four times.
The wistfulness/sadness in Savanah were painfully obvious. Would it have been so hard for Madison to include her only blood sister in the wedding party? News flash Madison: you hurt your sister's feelings by leaving her out, especially when you included four of your bonus sisters, a bonus brother, and a bonus nanny in your wedding party, and went out of you way to acknowledge your bonus moms and Erica. (Not sure if Caleb had any of the Browns stand up with him; I couldn't finish watching this shit show, uh, I guess it's "poop storm".) In the end, reading how it turned out, Savanah can count herself a very lucky girl to be left out of this fiasco of a wedding.
DeleteI thought that was really sad too, her little comment about "I don't have a part in the ceremony but I'm the sister of the bride so I guess that's special." Poor thing.
DeleteI'll start by saying that Maddie looked beautiful and leaving Kody out, the wedding was a success. Savannah should have been a bridesmaid, she could have been paired with Erica's younger son. It may have been just the type of oversight that will happen with a 20 year old bride. That's what the mother of the bride is for, to catch these things. But I don't think it was deliberate, and hopefully Maddie will make it up to Savannah. No wedding is going to be perfect. Considering Maddie was dealing with her father's ridiculousness, she did very well.
DeleteThis was such a genuninely sad moment. This little girl was hurt. She was forgotten. Janelle definitely needed to give Madison a gentle reminder to include her. That kind of slight will stay with Savannah long after the cameras and TLC have disappeared. Shame on Madison..and Janelle.
Deletekimbagirl,
DeleteI thought the very same thing. If Maddie, for whatever reason had overlooked Savannah for the wedding party, then Janelle, Savannah's "mother," should have diplomatically intervened.
But then we are talking about Janelle, aren't we??!!!
Sad for that child, and you're right, she will carry that deliberate slight for a very long time.
Totally agree with you all. Savannah is too old to be a flower girl, but she could have made her a junior bridesmaid - it could have been an even more special role then, as she could have walked down the aisle alone (center of attention) and didn't even need to have a groomsman to walk her down the aisle then. It surprised me that Madison didn't include her; Maddie's tweets seemed to show a special relationship and special closeness between the two sisters. Sad.
DeleteAlso chiming in to say I agree with everyone that this was so very inconsiderate not to include Savannah. I didn't understand why on earth Madison would leave her out. Makes me think Someone in that family really makes it clear that they are all "equals" and no one can be singled out to be special because of their bio connection. If Savannah was singled out for a junior bridesmaid role over the other younger girls would they think it was unfair? (Robyn's girls - I'm looking at you in particular) Could Kody and Krew really have been the reason Madison was discouraged from including Savannah? Janelle is unconscious and totally spineless for allowing it to happen.
DeleteCj, get ready for an avalanche of comments and yes, plenty of snark in the coming days about this one.
ReplyDeleteKody just *began* the officiating by saying he was going to go through the meanderings of his wedding experience.....and that he has four wives (yep, he says that)...and then on to a commercial.
Geez Louise, it sounds like it's a classic clusterfudge. Maybe this episode I can get through without falling asleep...
DeleteDon't count on it. This is the first episode I have turned on since maybe King Sol was born, and it was unwatchable.
DeleteI can't take it, it's embarrassing and I wasn't even there, the groom kneeling in front of his father, Oh my goodness just horrible. Knighting the groom, wtf , this ceremony is ridiculous. Kody and his rambling verbal diarrhea is just beyond any other stunts he has ever pulled. What was Maddie thinking asking him to do anything but walk her down the isle, sit down and shut up is beyond me. This has to have been a requirement from TLC, that he be center ring in the "destination" wedding. This is so over the top Kody Kody Kody. Who got married? This is nothing but the Kody show!!!!!!!
DeleteIf I would have hired him as a paid officiant and he "performed" the ceremony like that, I'd have ripped that check out of his hand faster than I don't know what. How embarrassing for the bride and groom!
DeleteThe fact that Maddie was under her birth weight at 8 MONTHS OLD is extremely disturbing. Wouldn't an 8 lb 8 month old be in the hospital?
ReplyDeleteLabbie didn't he just say a few minutes ago at least twice she was 6 mo. old. He is such a drama queen. No wonder he forgot about the rings. The rings were not about a Kody story.
DeleteHe said six months and then eight months. I know he thinks the story is meaningful...I'm just wondering how it didn't warrant a CPS investigation.
DeleteAnd none of that story belonged there! Ahhhhhh!!!! That was a rehearsal dinner speech, not a wedding homily.
DeleteLabbieLover yes! She totally would have. Was it Maddie that Meri mentioned that she breastfed because Janelle didn't have enough milk or something? Was she that underweight because she wasn't getting enough to eat?
DeleteI'm not a pediatrician, but I was taught that Failure to Thrive (which is what Kody called it) was more related to poor nurturing than poor nutrition.
DeleteFailure to Thrive is initially flagged by weight.
DeleteAgree with Anon 1:39pm - failure to thrive is flagged by weight (significant loss of it and/or inability to gain it). And it doesn't just affect babies.
DeleteIf we believe their story, Madison wasn't gaining weight because Janelle couldn't produce enough milk and that's why she didn't gain weight. And then Meri nursed her a couple times. But for eight months? Janelle tried unsuccessfully to nurse her and she didn't gain weight for eight months? The way the Browns tell the story sounds like neflect as no alternative to Janelle's breastmilk was offered (except for Meri, a couple times).
DeleteWhen I was in nursing school and worked for a bit in a pediatric office, newborns often lose weight in the first 10 or so days-common and normal--but after that alarms go off.
DeleteOne woman had inverted nipples and had a hard time getting the baby to latch on, but she really wanted to nurse. The pediatrician felt badly about labeling the baby with a diagnosis of FTT, but told the parents she had to. These were college-educated people who wanted this baby; the local la Leche league was encouraging the mom a lot (unfortunately it seems like la Leche sees not nursing as FAILURE) but the FTT dx was a wake-up call to try something different. This was at just a few weeks old (maybe no increase in weight or less than birth weight).
The mom began pumping he milk (nipples worked okay with pump) and the baby improved immediately.
My own experience was such that after about a week of raw nipples and beginning to dread latch-on, AND the week follow up in which the ped. noted normal (I think 10 %) weight loss "that'll be as low as it gets--he'll gain steadily now" I was overwhelmed, got bottles and formula, and couldn't believe how much better that was for me AND for my baby--since a healthy outcome is the most important thing (not necessarily the experience of physically nursing).
Tried again to nurse my second one--even had a La Leche counselor who also is a breastfeeding consultant help me. Still switched after 4 days. Such a relief. The helper did seem to react as if I had lost at something, or that I had failed somehow by not nursing.
Yes, the initial colostrum and antibodies, etc. that the mother can give in the first days of life is very important.
One of my friends who had a baby later than I had mine (by several years) had a hard time with nursing, as well, but toughed it out. The nipples generally will heal up, etc., and she pointed out that nursing is so much less costly than buying formula. She looked at me, knowing the emotional conflicts I had undergone in regard to nursing and said something like "I guess you just keep nursing despite the pain if you really love you baby."
(nice friend, supportive)
So, something should have been done about the Maddie situation. Could they not afford formula? Didn't Christine get WIC or some type of supplemental income for 'single' mothers. How could they have let it go on and on like it seems that they did?
Reminds me of one of the human dev. guys and the psychosocial stage of infancy of "needs met or not met". Maddie may joke about marrying her father after the last few years of kind of pushing him away and slightly rejecting him before us (when she was first brought to college), but I think there is a need for Maddie along that very early "needs met" stage, of wanting all the things she and/or her mom did not have in relationship or nurturance.
Not surprising she found an older settled dude.
In stark contrast is Mariah. Man, if it had been Mariah not gaining weight, something other than what was done with Maddie would have been done, I'm pretty sure.
I'm guessing that Madison was not taken for well baby checkups at the recommended 1,2,4,6,9 month periods. An infants brain is still developing in the 1st year and is one of the many reasons good nutrition is paramount. Depending on the cause of Maddie's FTT, she very likely may have been hospitalized. In the nicu that I work in, nasogastric tubes are frequently used to feed underweight infants with feeding problems.
DeleteThis is cringeworthy.
ReplyDeleteI'm speechless. This has to be the worst, most embarrassing episode yet. I'd be sorry for them, but they're grifters who lack self-awareness and any broader perspective.
DeleteI actually felt embarrassed for Kody. I know he makes a fool of himself weekly in front of thousands of people, but to have 400 guests, family, and a nervous bride and groom willing him to shut up. Is he intellectually challenged, a narcissist or possibly have ADHD? Something ain't t right with that guy. But what really grinds my gears is how he thinks he is smart, culturally aware, and a good dad and a good husband. It has to be narcissistic personality,
DeleteKatie, IMO, Kody is a narcissist - thus the dozens and dozens of I, I, I's in every thought he expresses. I don't think Maddie's wedding guests numbered 400; it looked more like 100 to me. I think Mykelti is the one who supposedly was inviting 400 and where they found that many people to attend, IDK, unless they were mostly Tony's friends in St. George.
DeleteKody is a terrible public speaker. He just said "poop storm."
ReplyDeletePoor Mykelti only rates a commercial for her wedding.
ReplyDeleteIn the opening episode this season, the Brown "adults" publicly belittled Mykelti by labelling her: crazy, ditzy, a misfit, immature, impetuous, not as mature as Maddie, and not mature enough for marriage. They gave her no props for returning to college, and they revealed they had no idea what was going on in her life in St. George, didn't pay attention when she brought a man home to visit them multiple times, and had pawned her off to the pawn shop parents. How sad that Mykelti grew up and lives with that kind of judgment and lack of acceptance/love. Could their own lack of parenting skills and lack of parental guidance have anything to do with the "adults'" issues with Mykelti?
DeleteBTW, my favorite moment in SW history was when pawn shop mom Dawn told Kody, "It isn't about you."
I know for a fact in all of SW history no one, no one has ever put Kody in his place ever like she did. Haven't we all wanted to say that every show?
DeleteIn narcissistic families they are going to have their favorites. I get the feeling Mykelti is one of the scapegoats. It sounds to me like Mykelti has sought even surrogate parents due to being ignored---the pawnshop people.
DeleteI had a bad thought about Mariah, she seems to be an extreme narcissist, she is not that pretty and is mean. I thought hmmm if Meri's daughter had a bunch of grandchildren, her standing in the AUB family would grow and this would make up for her having only one child, but I kept thinking "Whose going to marry Mariah? Hopefully I'm wrong and they'll arrange her a marriage too. I thought it was rude when they were all on the couch talking about how their family was SMALL for AUB poly families, and that Christine and the others didn't take the slack up for Meri.
Oh My, how, as Janelle would say.....how aach-ward.
ReplyDeleteDuring the commercial, TLC showed a few clips of Mykelti's wedding !!
And yes, Mykelti's eyebrows had a life of their own. !!????
Surely TLC could hire a makeup artist for these people. They always look over made up. And what's the deal with the eyebrows? So very very dark!
Deleteshe had a picture of twitter the night before her wedding coloring her hair at home. It looks like she colored her brows also. how unfortunate. when coloring brows they are super dark a few days or more till the color washed off some.
DeleteWell as we have seen in several past end-of-season tell-all's, TLC seems to hire makeup artists for the Brown ladies who specialize in drag queen makeup.
DeleteAnd what was with Janelle's eyelashes? Good gawd, don't any of them ever look in the mirror? She looked like a clown with the much too long and thick lashes and the poorly blended blush and eye area concealer. SMH
DeleteAt least the wives' dresses were more flattering and appropriate for this wedding than what they've worn in the past.
Aw man, all of those wedding pics of Mykelti--who looked lovely in the bridal shower pics that I saw--with the eyebrows that remind me of Meri and Janelle's prank eyebrows in HI.
DeleteKody used the word Stoic but it sounded like Stoyk.I think that was a scripted line.His crying during the ceremony was irksome to say the least. I do not think Meri will win a popularity award for shouting out the rings were not given out. I think Erica was not crying over her Mom but because she did not get her forever with her husband.It was at the time those words were being read she lost it.I really felt for her.The knighting thing was silly and awkward to me.Now Kody is a Jew and the Queen of England. My he likes to bestow honours upon himself.Theft is his way of life.
ReplyDeleteKody made a mockery of the Jewish religion and their bar mitzvah ceremony when he staged that stunt with Logan. For him to think he could do that, or should do that was a mockery of the ceremony. Sure, have a coming of age ceremony if he thinks it's a good idea, but to formally name it and use the same rituals was wrong, imo. He thinks he's so powerful and all-knowing and he just plows ahead with his hair brained schemes not thinking OR caring that what he's doing or saying may be totally inappropriate. He doesn't care and feels the issues someone may have with him is their weakness or misunderstanding. He's an oaf.
DeleteThe mothers of the bride dresses, let's discuss.
ReplyDeleteSaw the clip for next week . Only saw the top of Christine's. She unlike her daughter had a extra layer but I it looks like she thought she was going to a ball. Janelle would have been best served with a structured dress. In my culture only the bride wears white but the wedding party has a lot of white.They worked poor Meri like a dog.I want to know what everyone thinks Mariah is going to announce.
DeleteYou are kind in suggesting Janelle should have worn a "structured" dress.
DeleteMy thought is more blunt. How about some "control" under-garments at the very least. All lingerie and bridal stores have them even for plus sizes.
But I get your point. Her dress material was too light and thin which made it adhere to all curves and etc.
Meri did her usual "vest" thing, but thankfully, it was green and not denim. Meri does prefer to wear *green* to Kodyworld celebrations, doesn't she? (blink, blink)
Christine looked pretty.
Sobbin looked okay topping her dress with her signature accessory..the short, too-small jacket. This time done in "brown"! Should we guess as reminiscent of her wedding where all the wives wore brown??
Everyone in the bridal party should have wore spanxs , especially Kody.
DeleteAnonymous @ 7:49, I thought the bridal party wearing white/off-white was a little 'off', too.
DeleteI hated the groomsmen outfits, with those thin suspenders and often shaved heads they looked like racist skinheads from 1980s England. All they were missing was the face-stomping Doc Marten boots.
DeleteI seriously think Kody forgot the rings on purpose. He wants all the attention he can get and the entire family will be talking about how kody forgot the rings for years to come. It's part of his shtick. He loves it! AND there are plenty of 26 year old who are sexual predator registries for contacting 16 year old girls. Why didn't the family call authorities or Kody at the very least have a serious man to man "leave my daughter alone your a grown man get someone your own age" talk? I would never allow a 26 year old man to lurk around my 16 year old and call it a spark and romance. Shame!
ReplyDeleteI feel exactly the same way. I have a 16 year old and if a 26 year old man was trying to have a "friendship" with her I would be alarmed, not endeared. Whether(definitely if?) he was her sorta uncle or not. I would end it them peruse legal action if that didn't work. Grown men don't befriend teenagers, they groom them.
DeleteThe LDS wear rings but it's not part of the temple ceremony. They just put them on all on their own with no vows. I wonder if it's the same with FLDS AUB whatever the heck he was/is why wouldn't they remember rings? Why was this man in charge of it?
DeleteYes Kody was trying to make every aspect of the wedding about him . He wanted to make sure that no one would forget that he was the dominant male figure in the Browns lives . He goes my like to relenquish that crown to anyone.
DeleteThe Browns were definitely trying to rewrite history and Kody
Made a point of telling us that Maddie was
An adult when Caleb approached her .
Kody forgot the rings and brushed it off that it's not a big part of their ceremony. He essentially blew off the vows, also not part of their ceremony. If rings aren't that important, why were Claddagh rings such a big deal for the sister wives and MSWC?
DeleteBut, Meri was supposed to be "the zilla." She should have made sure that Kody had the rings. Instead, she snapped out of her couch stupor to yell, "He forgot the rings," and that became the annoying teaser for the week. Forgetting the rings was the least of his transgressions in that ceremony.
It still blows my mind that my parents were 16 and 25 when they began dating. Of course, that was in the early 1950s. But still, it apparently didn't raise an eyebrow here in northwest Illinois. They got married when my Dad was 26 and my mom was 17 (and it wasn't a "shotgun" wedding!
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DeleteYes, he definitely seems immature. I had no idea he was that much older than her.
Deletekms- Right? Why was Kody in charge, when they all acted like a traditional monogamous marriage ceremony was this bizarre and foreign thing? Between these 5 adults have literally none of them ever attended a regular wedding or rehearsal dinner? Why didn't they cover the order of the ceremony in the rehearsal so that Kody didn't forget one of the biggest parts??
I find it hard to believe they've never seen a regular wedding or rehearsal dinner on tv or in a movie before. They've probably been present during one being shown and hid their eyes and covered their ears for fear the big bad monogamous world might taint their precious plyg ideals.
DeleteI personally feel that their underlying mockery of what should have been a very special ceremony has to do with the adults jealousies, insecurities, and disdain for the fact that their children are choosing and enjoying monogamy rather than living their ridiculous and damaging polygamist lifestyle .
DeleteI totally agree that they are jealous and try to cover by acting like they are seeing what a wedding is like for the first time,almost laughing at the grandness of it all. As much as they act like they hope their kids choose polygamy..I wonder if deep down the moms are praying that they don't, and are relieved that so far..they are rejecting it.
DeleteYou very well may be right.
DeleteBefore we talk about the dresses, let's look at Kody's vest that came from kids section of the store. I kept wanting for a button to pop off and hit someone in the eye. And not to be rude, but the men were all dressed like Amish or Mennonites. Interesting choice...I guess. ��
ReplyDeleteDuring the reading of the afore mentioned fake diaries I was unhappy when Kody threw in about Maddie finding a "righteous" man. That is a word I have seen bandied about by men in polygamy who have done cruel things to women and children.Can Caleb ever be considered "righteous" to Kody with a whole different belief system?They called Caleb a boy or kid a few times.Caleb said if he shaved he would look 12.Nice try. Caleb is an older bald guy married to a needy young woman.Hopefully Maddie does not carry her failure to thrive theme throughout her life.She mentioned how many times Caleb made her think of her Daddy.I will leave it to the experts to analyze that.
ReplyDeleteHaha! Hilarious! Agreed!
ReplyDeleteSo...
ReplyDeleteThe IDIOT ruins the groom cake surprise
Mangles the vows,
Indulges his need to hog the limelight,
Forgets the giving of the rings,
Has all the poise and sophistication of a bungling 14 year old speaking to a girl for the first time,
Is dressed like a guy who just discovered all his clothes are too tight for his beer gut but either there is no time or he is too lazy to get new ones, so he wears them anyway....
So how happy do you think Maddie was that she chose him to officiate??
Or did TLC make that the hook for filming their wedding??
Or did Kody himself negotiate it??
Inquiring minds want to know, because as our hostess CJ would say.....this was indeed a "Clusterfudge!!!"
I think he forgot to cut/comb his hair too.
DeleteI think Kody negotiated it. I think he manipulated Maddie and paid her a little bit of attention so she would go along with it. How sad. Kody took the money from this episode for sure.
DeleteAmused, perfect wrap up of a horrible mess. It was embarrassing, shocking and all insane.
DeleteSurely, surely TLC "encouraged" Maddie to have her father do the ceremony? She had to have known he would have done a terrible job.
DeleteI really would love to know what financial arrangement Madison and Caleb worked out with TLC. Besides the paychecks for the magazine photos, etc. Do we think Kody actually lets them negotiate for a cut of the payout for that episode??
DeleteI still don't understand why Maddie would have Kody conduct the ceremony knowing for so many years she has acted like she can't stand him. If I was her I would be worried he would have Robyn standing next to him the whole time. If he's failing as badly as you say that shows he has no experience as a priest holder or the leader of their church that is one of their living rooms.
ReplyDeleteIn the end, Madison got the wedding ceremony she deserved, despite knowing better. Her and Caleb cashed the TLC paycheck (and the various magazine paychecks), no doubt.
DeleteThis was her last chance to get attention from daddy. I'm sure she just wanted to marry the guy she chose. If it's easier to let the attention hog have a role than fight it during the happiest time of her life so far, not a stretch. There really was no dream wedding. Remember when he dad married thee were no cameras for the ceremony? She has seen how her famliy does a party.
DeleteSomewhat off the subject;....but Truly could sure use some speech therapy. I am shocked that her speech seems to get WORSE over the years. Now Solomon is picking up on her speech patterns. All their available time.....Just saying.
ReplyDeleteI didn't understand (figuratively) what Truly was saying in the talking head. She would switch her dress with Madison's wedding dress so Caleb wouldn't marry her. Then, she cackled like a wicked witch. Isn't she the girl who's been in princess fairytale land for 6 years now? How is that nice or something to highlight?
DeleteKing Sol said that he wanted to marry his mother. I'll skip over the Oedipus Complex and just worry about how Kody will knight him at his wedding.
Perhaps she is getting speech and they are just being private about it?
DeleteHave they ever said what they were doing about school for the younger ones? Didn't Christine homeschool the oldest kids when they were in elementary? If Truely is going to public school hopefully she can receive speech therapy there.
DeleteHad Caleb been drinking more since he joined the Brown klan? His face looks so red and puffy in his talking heads .
ReplyDeleteI noticed this too, but in all fairness didn't he JUST lose his mother? Perhaps he had been crying and/or drinking more lately? That's got to be rough right before getting married.
DeleteWe're all the grandparents at the wedding? I didn't see Cody's mom.
ReplyDeleteWho gives this woman in marriage?
ReplyDelete" I do.....Kody Browen"
Janelle looks award as she acknowledges that he is the center once again. Not crediting the wife that birthed this child...or the other wives That raised them. Wouldn't The good Kody Brown type say Her Mother's and I do?
Yes, so true angel on the wall... He is quick to tell us he has 4 wives but never gives them credit for anything that might take away from his spot light.
DeleteGiving credit to the wife is Husband 101. Considering he has four wives, hey guys did you know he has four wives?!, he should know this. Just a few small changes on his part could go a long way in the not-a-cuddle-sac.
DeleteSo, is the news story correct? McKelsie (sp?) invited 400 people to her country club wedding? Where is this grifting clan coming up with that much $$$? Four hundred guests? I hope she kept Kody at a healthy distance. Maddie was completely overshadowed by her father's antics. I had to ff through most of the episode. Btw, the "knighting" or whatever, was stupid.
ReplyDeleteOops, it's Mykelti.
DeleteYep, the reports were that the guests totaled 400 people. I don't think it was that expensive of a wedding, though. It was held outdoors in December in Utah; their food budget of carne asada and chicken tacos couldn't have cost that much, and the pic I saw of the outdoor area didn't look very elaborately decorated. PLUS, the family makes plenty of money for doing the show and they can afford it. It's the least they can do for their children, IMO, considering all the years they probably really scrimped and saved when they were on welfare.
Deletethe family makes plenty of money for doing the show and they can afford it.
DeleteI beg to differ with you on that one. The fact that Kody announced the selling of the Lehi house via Twitter 2 weeks ago tells me that's how they financed Mykelti's wedding. If that location was a country club, I'll eat my chapeau! Two of the pictures released show Mykelti and her new husband standing in front of what looks like a bulletin board. Same with a picture of Kody and Christine.
considering all the years they probably really scrimped and saved when they were on welfare.
Yep, Christine certainly scrimped, while Janelle saved as much of her income. I'm not sure how Meri fit in because her "a
continued: her "apartment" was definitely the nicer of the three in the Lehi house.
DeleteAnd let's not forget during this scrimping and saving period Kody managed to get himself an expensive Lexus convertible. While the original three drove wrecks. Who can forget Janelle's car window held up by duct tape? Or the bald tires? Yep, that Lexus was money well spent...NOT!!
I don't think Mykelti's wedding was very expensive either. If it had been held inside the 'country club', then yes, but to hold it outside, out of season, and with a buffet style of reception food, I don't think so. It sounded and looked more like a budget event than anything elaborate or costly.
DeleteAm I getting this right? Was Mykelti's ENTIRE wedding and reception held outside? (I haven't seen the episodes due to a crappy "on Demand" schedule, and "reality tea" site hasn't been reviewing...).
DeleteIf so, that's nuts.
Are we to now assume that the Idiot has written in his little black journals highlights and quips about all EIGHT of his daughters, his bevy of little princesses?
ReplyDeleteOne would hope so for the sake of the other SEVEN daughters witnessing his love and remembrances for Maddie!
Also, has he predated and fictionalized similar journals for Sobbin's daughters too?
And did Kody conduct the Jewish ritual of coming of age for his other FOUR sons???? Did he even understand the solemnity of that ritual?
That would be like a non-Cathoic/non-priest bestowing one of the Sacraments of that faith. Religious rituals are not like screen plays to be performed by anyone who thinks they are "cool" !!
As a professed plyg, he should know that!!
Yikes, he is truly an Idiot.
Seriously. The Brown's purported purpose of this show (it's not cash flow?) is to reveal how polygamy is a positive thing (uh, not so much). If the Brown's religion and kul-cher are so great, why on earth are these cultural drifters constantly co-opting other religions and cultures.....Rabbi Kody presiding over Logan's bar mitzvah (?!), the Seder table episode, Christine with her "namaste" on her twitter account, dreamcatchers, and now a British knighting at a non-denominational American boho wedding? (Not that any of them save for Maddie knew or were capable of looking up the definition of Bohemian or boho). Good for Mykelti and Tony theming their wedding around his actual heritage or the Brown clowns might have shown up wearing saris, set up a Maypole, and danced around it while smashing the plates, with Kody dressed as Tevye singing: "If I were a rich man, daidle deedle daidle daidle daidle deedle daidle dumb. All day long I'd biddy-biddy-bum, If I were a wealthy man." Which brings us back to the real point for their show.
DeleteHa,ha,ha hilarious !!!
DeleteWhynotbrotherhusbands that was genius,hilariuos as stated-and sadly true.
DeleteHilarious!!!
DeleteSo funny...just picturing it now ! Ten minutes in CJ's living room is more entertaining than a whole episode of sister wives, sorry let's make that a season.
DeleteOMG, Tevye Brown! Oy, what a knucklehead. Didn't watch so I look forward to more feedback and how you all would rate the wedding.
DeleteI definitely believe their show and People mag $ paid for These weddings. Even if Mykelti somehow got a caterer to serve food for $15/person, that's $6,000 before any rentals, tax, servers, drinks, and service fees. Considering Janelle tweeted names of Maddie's vendors, they must have grifted discounts or freebies. Lame of those compainies becauyhow many of us are heading to Bozeman or wherever MT for a wedding cake.
"Considering Janelle tweeted names of Maddie's vendors, they must have grifted discounts or freebies."
DeleteArk of Snark,
Exactly right !!
Unless asked specifically, how many non-plyg, non-grifting parents would tweet names of bridal vendors they are using *and paying*?
After years of watching the Browns reward benefactors with such PR pumps, they are not fooling anyone.
Now to be fair, maybe, just maybe, TLC works these voucher-vendor deals with the provision that the Browns tweet their names. Either way, as usual, the Brown grifters get the freebies!
But what is interesting is that Janelle could muster the energy to tweet the vendors' names but couldn't trouble herself to email the venue to get a list of accommodations so the traveling family would know in advance of their arrival.
Do you feel lucky punk? Well what a nice touch, quoting Dirty Harry during a wedding ceremony.
ReplyDeleteWas this yet another reference to his daughters cookie ? I mean what the hell is this guy talking about? First he's knighted , then he's king and in the next breath he is a punk getting lucky. This is schizophrenic ADHD, crying non stop, poop storm, just insane. Make it stop.
Maddox said in a TH that it didn't feel any different now that they're married. And Kody still thinks she was a virgin at the wedding? C'mon...
DeleteI thought Kody said "feel lucky, UNC" ! As in reference to Maddie and Caleb being related!
DeleteSave for women hundreds of years ago sending their unfortunate daughters off on months long sea journeys to be united with their arranged husbands in faraway lands, Janelle may be the only mother in history to tell her daughter to fatten up before her wedding. Was that really preferable to paying for another dress alteration? Was Janelle a weight-loss/lifestyle "guru" at the time? Way to go, Janelle. Way to aim low. Way to not STRIVE!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, yes!!! The new weight loss guru of the family, telling her daughter to fatten up. Way to go indeed!!!
DeleteToo funny, whynotbrotherhusbands
Kody, "the Gospel is all about love and marriage; it's what makes the world go 'round."
ReplyDeleteIn my Bible reading, I missed where marriage is one of the two major tenets of the Gospel. I should attend Kody's church to learn more about the Bible.
You don't have the Gospel of Kody Brown in your Bible? Oh, wait, it's not in mine either.
DeleteAnd speaking of Jangle-Janelle......
ReplyDeleteAs if her desire to "go fishing" the morning of her daughter's wedding (which really is a perfect metaphor for Janelle's persistent MO) wasn't inappropriate enough....her reception "speech" to her just married daughter was insanely non-celebratory, un-motherly and just plain bizarre.
If Janelle really wanted to warn her daughter of the many possible pitfalls of marriage, how about doing that as they sat making the dream-catchers, instead of bringing that doom and gloom to the reception festivities. WTH!!! What was she thinking?
Janelle injected her systemic misery into a happy occasion just as effectively and deliberately as Kody inserted his manic ego.
What twisted cretins !!!
And nice try, TLC and Janelle, to try to mitigate how much she blew it by then filming the talking head (which are always done after the fact) where Janelle says she doesn't like all the platitudes of "be happy and I love you and best wishes." She says in the TH that she wanted to "keep it real" in her speech.
DeleteNo, she showed just what is in her mind and heart.
Very sad for her daughter and her other kids.
Amused, so true not very celebratory but to me that was a gem.Janelle left for two years when? It was almost outright stated that Meri was the cause of that split. Yet as it turns out after three years you can really come to hate someone you married.She also opened with not liking those trite little sayings.That did not reflect well on Kody.I noticed his practised line that she looked lovelier than the bride fell flat in the face of Janelle's dislike for lame blather.He did not even sound like he believed it himself.I doubt Janelle would want Maddie thinking too hard on the pitfalls of marriage BEFORE she got the deal done.
DeleteDosn't Janel have the "I kiss better then I cook" sign over her stove, a gift from Kody?? isnt that considered trite??
DeleteYeah, in her TH she was mocking speeches where people say "Ever since you were a little girl etc etc etc"...which is EXACTLY what Kody just did in the wedding ceremony.
DeleteSo I have decided I like Caleb even less than before.He maybe had no idea where that ridiculous knighting thing was coming from but once it happened he said it made him realize the responsibility of marriage etc. His talk with his brothers that day made him realize this was a special day? He is not the brightest crayon.They said he gave up his career to help his widowed sister.What career? A job is not a career.As for how he treats Maddie I did not get a good feel from the dance scene.He was fairly flinging her around the dance floor.No tender loving first dance.I expected Kody to do that but not the groom.It brought to mind that movie"Seven Brides for seven brothers" when the men have to be trained to be civilized.Speaking of brothers where were their families? I did not see all these relatives that had to be put up.
ReplyDeleteSpot on,nonsharer.....!!!
DeleteNope, he surely isn't too bright if his light bulb finally went off at that late moment. Would like to think that when TLC turns on the talking head cameras after the fact, there is a mind freeze and folks just spout inane sentences. But I doubt it in his case.
And batsh*t...you got that perfectly about the dancing. Ha !!
Yes. really, it looked like two kindergarten kids being told to dance. Perhaps Kody and Caleb should have danced together.
I thought the same thing! He really reminded me of Kody this episode, from his "joke" on Maddie the morning of the wedding to the aggressive dancing...and the dumb comment about how before he met Maddie he thought you just married someone you could tolerate.
DeleteAgree about the dancing nonsharer. He and Kody both aggressively twirled Maddie exactly the same. Like they were competing to see who could dislocate the bride's shoulder first.
ReplyDeletelol I laughed so hard at these!! The awkward aggressive arm shuffle!
DeleteI tried to watch this last night but had to turn it off after 10 minutes. It was supposed to be a wedding and it became the Kody show again..can't stand it. He is just too much to take. Nothing about him is sincere and he sure can't fake sincerity and get away with it. It's just so offensive
ReplyDeleteMemo to Meri if she launches her "Zilla" bridal consultant gig...
ReplyDeleteWhen lining up the couples for the wedding party's aisle march...giving each couple a "number" at the one and only rehearsal, requesting them to count off and line up all by themselves in numerical order relieves the need to stand there and usher each one out.
WHY do these people have to make SUCH a big deal out of everything??!!
I quit watching the show a few years ago, but I love to come here and read the comments you guys make! They are 10 times better than the show EVER was!
ReplyDeleteEither Comcast or TLC set up SW on a hard-to-access 'on Demand' schedule (need to wait forever to access). I've missed the last two weeks. Now I realize that I can be done with watching the actual show and content with this blog catch-up.
DeleteDone, comcast and tlc. This is the wrong show to have reduced access to, wtf.
Meri says " OMG Mariah caught the bouquet" did it knock her teeth out or knock her off her feet?? that thing was HUGE!!!
ReplyDeleteSo what is Mariah's big announcement going to be next episode?
ReplyDeleteDespite TLC's attempt to hint at a shocker (and don't they always do the ominous cliffhanger to guarantee viewers for the next epp), my guess is that Mariah will announce a new path/location of advanced studies, a legitimate job offer. Or maybe a book deal on the table to reveal the underbelly of Kodyowrld with a TLC offer thrown in for her own spinoff plyg gossip show.
DeleteOR...she got a new puppy.
Yes, yes Amused, Mariah catches the garter belt and then the cliff hanger is she has an announcement that summons all the parents together...which seems to be the rescue reaccurring theme this season. " the library talk/announcement " in which I believe you are on the money here. Probably a job offer that she leaves school for, God knows these people never finish ANYTHING! Why would their offspring be any different? But the book deal and puppy are hilarious. You are too funny.
DeleteMaybe Mariah is going to announce that she is engaged to a polygamous family as a third wife.
DeleteI think Mariah is gong to go to a different country to do volunteer work.
DeleteI think Mariah is going to tell her parents that she has a girlfriend. Though I think that Meri already knew.
DeleteI didn't even get as far as the wedding part, It just was too much.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Maddie, or any of the soon to be marrying female offspring in the Brown family, ever thought of sitting the 5 parents down and making them watch a "monogamous wedding" ceremony on any of the thousands that are readily available via Youtube home video, tv shows, or movies. They could have learned, so simply and quickly, about the ceremony, the order things take place, how to behave, the symbolism and meaning of the various parts rather than the disrespectful and mocking display they put on with Maddie's wedding prep and ceremony.
ReplyDeleteDoes that make too much sense or is it too simple? Or, have the Brown clowns seen "monogamous weddings" before and were they just showing their natural dumb, insensitive, clueless and classless selves? Their behavior was simply cringe worthy.
This. If you're so baffled by how a traditional marriage ceremony goes, google it.
DeleteYou're so right, it really was only a youtube search away. Many churches even make short 15 minute videos moving through the ceremony step by step while explaining all the symbolism. Or they could have just asked Caleb's Father.
DeleteTLC has no shortage of wedding shows they could have watched, even gypsy ones! But if he's the priest of his church, he should already have the info...but wait...he doesn't do any priest work. Forgot for a second that Kody might actually want to do something right, loving and professional for his daughter! My bad. It's a huge honor to be asked to conduct a wedding, and he showed once again what an immature dipshit he really is.
DeleteWell. Kody was a disaster as an officiant (surprise surprise) from the stupid knighting ceremony, to the awful homily, to forgetting the rings...but Janelle's reception toast was atrocious. She is so checked out of life and emotionally oblivious that she thinks it's appropriate to talk about how much you're eventually going to hate each other.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone notice Kody saying that they have 18 kids "right now"? What are the chances Robyn's going to have another baby? I get the feeling that shop is closed.
He keeps saying he's done with trying to marry again, but I do wonder if Robyn ever flat out says "no" to any more children (instead of "let's wait and see", "I'm holding my womb hostage for Meri's will", or "When Sol stops sleeping in my bed" - to now be replaced with "When Ari stops sleeping in my bed", you know any excuse he might actually buy) . . . or whenever she reaches menopause (whichever comes first) ~ if he'll end up marrying a fifth wife then. Something tells me he feels downright obligated to keep reproducing, and if Robyn ain't going to do it, he'll start letting his eyes roam to whomever would be willing.
DeleteJust my two cents :)
P.S. I was legitimately concerned that Caleb was going to yank Maddie's arm out of her socket during their dancing *o*
I don't know but that last home birth with a completely blue baby finally coming out was really scary for me and I knew it was on tape and the baby was fine. That ol' mare is not what she used to be. She held out for the last five years to get that marriage license. She is definitely done. But it appears cousin Mindy is in training to be the next breeder.
DeleteCJ, can you add Mindy's twitter feed to the parties? Surprising how much she tweets about kids and the Brown kids primarily, of course. Lots of post I read to mean she enjoys being single. Could that be because of who she lives with and is neighbors with? Do they pay her to be the nanny for Sol and Ari-whatever?
DeleteI can't believe Kody actually said that Maddie was the most beautiful bride he's ever seen. Wonder how his 4 wives felt about that statement!
ReplyDeleteI wondered the same thing
DeleteLooks like Tony wore jeans to his own wedding. Zoom in and the pockets are stitched with the curve of a jeans pocket.... definitely not a nice dress pant pocket. My husband has khakis he wears to work that's nicer.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was interesting when Kody was on the couch talking about he didn't understand why Maddie was making a big deal about him not seeing her dress before the ceremony. He stated that he didn't care about the dresses or the clothes...
ReplyDeleteOf course I'm sure most of the audience can remember the great big ta-DA over how Kody just H A D to go wedding dress shopping with Robyn and when Christine was obviously upset over that fact he says how "its my wedding too and I want a say in it"
Not too mention when he was packing for a trip to see Robyn during their courting days when he was maticulously packing his pink shirts a numerous pairs of sandals. Yuck, he is too a clothes horse and yes the wedding dress fiasco from season one was our very first glimps of the cracks in the perfect plyg picture they were trying to paint us.
DeleteUgh. Kody is just an attention whore, as others have pointed out above. His officiating was all about him and really bad.
ReplyDeleteBut I have to say major props to Maddie for being totally calm and relaxed about the rings. Ridiculous that he forgot them. But she was awesome, so quickly and calming just kind of blowing it off saying, "It's not a problem. We can do it later." Very cool bride.
A very cool bride....or an already embarrassed 19 yr old painfully aware of the cameras recording it all for public viewing, and struggling to not make it any worse.
DeleteI am just watching Sunday night's episode, my snark:
ReplyDelete1. Caleb is a controlling creepy predator who preyed on a young teenage girl.
2. Kody waits until last minute to write the vows so he doesn't have to help set up for the wedding and festivities and struggles. Google, youtube Kody. Ever heard of it? Easy to get examples of monogymous weddings.
3. Yes. Agreed. Truly and King S seriously need speech therapy. I hope the mothers are getting this much needed help for these two.
4. Tired of the story of how the love sprouted between a predator and a teen girl. He is NOT a kid. WAS NOT A KID. He should feel ashamed and like another poster noted, belongs on a sexual predator registry.
5. Nobody that is a novice to whiskey can take a straight shot like that. Caleb definitely has had a few and is no newbie to the drinking scene.
6. Caleb forgets his Chinos. Such a stupid joke. He is such a drone.
7. 12 year old my ass! Again, agreed with previous poster. Old, balding, red faced boozer. Hardly would look 12.
8. Soooo bored and irritated! I am about done. I just need to see the Kody officiating show all have been talking about.
9. I had to fast forward to the wedding. I cannot watch a half hour of rehash AGAIN.
10. RIDICULOUS. EMBARRASSING. ARROGANT. GROSS. BOOOOORING. Done TLC. Show something real and unscripted. Meet up with Hunter, Logan and the other older boy at a bar and give them a few shots and get them talking. That I would watch.
Little late ,after your very apt description I remembered someone else who courted a high school girl-Kody.They were going to add another number two wife who was in high school but it never worked out for Kody.Boy,did that girl ever dodge a bullet. I wonder if she watches the show and shudders thinking about what might have been.
ReplyDeleteI was just going to mention about that girl. She's probably thanking her lucky stars she dodged that one!
DeleteIs Mariah's big news next week that she's finally realized she's a lesbian?
ReplyDeleteI think she's announcing she's going to graduate school on a scholarship and will be moving back east.
DeleteDoubt she's coming out because she was too happy with the news and then there is a huge smiling shot of Christine's mom. I just don't see a person coming out have a "joyous news" look on their face; would be more nervous and uncomfortable.
DeleteWith so many siblings and female relatives, let alone friends to choose from, how the HELL did Mindy end up being one of the five bridesmaids? Maddie had sisters to spare.
ReplyDeleteSee in the twitter feed that Christine is rattling off name of photographer so bet there was a trade in the mix.
I personally feel that their underlying mockery of what should have been a very special ceremony has to do with the adults jealousies, insecurities, and disdain for the fact that their children are choosing and enjoying monogamy rather than living their ridiculous and damaging polygamist lifestyle.
ReplyDeleteYes I totally agree with this comment . What I've always found so curious is the fact that the Browns claim that they are polygamists for religious reasons . If this is truly their belief, why would they not be bothered that their children aren't following this lifestyle which they believe is the only path to heaven and for all of them to be together in the after life ? There is no true conviction of their beliefs Nd no sadness that their children are choosing a life that will not gave them all joined together after death .
DeleteAgreed 1000x with both comments.
DeletePiper, I completely agree with you. Great insight. I've never felt they were committed to their lifestyle for religious reasons and your addressing the fact they're not bothered by their children choosing monogamy is a prime example of it.
DeleteI have a relative who is Mormon (not polygamous, just LDS, Mormon) and they believe very strongly that their family members must also choose their religion so that they can be together in the after-life. They're in their 50's, with young adult children who are all Mormon, but their parents and siblings are not and they're very upset about this. It really bothers them and I cannot ever see them accepting the marriage of a child of theirs like the Brown's have done if they didn't stay within their religion. IMO, the Browns have chosen polygamy for the lifestyle "benefits" and not for the religious aspects.
Piper, agency. Also the fact that Kody and Janelle did not remain in the faith they were raised in and Kody spent 2 years trying to get people to convert into the LDS means conversion isn't an issue. No polygamous parent, except Robyn, wants all kids be polygamous. They can't all be polygamous because they will never birth enough women for all their sons to have 3 or more wives at once.
DeletePiper, polygamy gets you into the highest level of heaven, but there are other levels of heaven. Now LDS say marriage gets you into the highest level of heaven. But there are exceptions for those who die young,etc. it all falls apart when not every person in the family makes it into the highest level of heaven. Who cares if Kody has three or more if he doesn't make it there or two of the wives don't? The latter day movement was begun during a time where people were always leaving family to journey elsewhere. The notion of being together with them and just not in heaven with God in death was the main draw.
DeleteI think the mainstream LDS church allows "baptism by proxy". I know this because a dear friend who is LDS told me several years ago that she had had me baptized by proxy so that we could be together in Heaven. I was actually touched by the sentiment, but as a Catholic, I find the doctrine a bit sketchy.
DeleteIsn't it ironic that their "secret ceremony" of marriage in their so called faith, is constantly explained to us as being so sacride and special. Serious, holy and cloistered for it high covenant to God that it explained as divine.
ReplyDeleteBut Maddie's conventional monogamous wedding was treated with such irreverence and HAP hazard bizarreness. I believe the exchanges of rings is an oath and the essence of the union and it was just a joke. The ridiculous ramblings of Maddie's health issues, quotes from Dirty Harry movie and scattered thoughts of Kody's journals ( he was prouder of his journals than Maddie) just all so disrespectful to their special day.
sums it up
DeleteI couldn't agree with you more, Lisasumms!! I'm often offended by the ridiculous talk about monogamy that the Browns often engage in and their comparisons of it to polygamy only show me how uneducated they are about any religion, especially their own.
DeleteThey made a mockery of the symbolism and sacredness of Maddie's wedding and I felt badly for her and Caleb.
Also, Janelle referred to marriage as a sacrament in "their" religion. Marriage is a sacrament in other religions as well, Catholicism to name one. And marriage in any church is considered a holy and sacred thing.
DeleteI assume Kody left out the ring ceremony because it is a sign of fidelity. The thought of exchanging rings and vowing fidelity and monogomy was just to much of an affront to his polygamist sensibilities.
ReplyDeleteKody may indeed be a train wreck of scattered impulses and self-promotion.
DeleteHowever, he is also very calculated in how he tailors his actions and presence. If he saw no value in the monogamous ring ritual, then yes, I could see him doing an "Oops"..my bad, forgot about the rings."
Madison tweeted that her baby was kicking up a storm while she watching the wedding episode. She is 3 1/2 months pregnant by her dates. A bit early for that kind of kicking ! More fuel to the fire of the rumor that she and Caleb were actually already married months previously, while Caleb's mother was still alive.
ReplyDeleteThat would be so much better story if they married early so Caleb's mom could attend.
DeleteAgreed, I wondered about that during the episode. Even if at the justice of peace would have made for a romantic and loving gesture and then the big to-do in the summer. Maybe that is why the tv charade wasn't taken too seriously. Makes a lot of sense.
DeleteAnd isn't that always the way with Browns...what you see is not what is the reality.
DeleteA 3 1/2 month fetus kicking up a storm...hmmm, not believable. But good for her for whatever trimester she is "really" experiencing!!
She looks bigger than 3 1/2 months along and with a first baby you can rarely feel them at that stage. I also wondered if they had gotten married earlier bc it kind of looked like they were living together already when jangle and dezi went to make the dream catchers
DeleteAgain, these Browns just irritate me at their lack of ability to adult:
ReplyDelete1) Maddie, it's your wedding, your dad obviously doesn't know what he is doing. Write your own frickin' vows! Google some if you don't have time.
2) Rest of the Brown adults, frickin' GOOGLE an order of service for weddings!!! It lays it all out for you in various way, and then you can just cut and paste things where you want it if you don't like it!
HOW DO THEY NOT KNOW HOW TO GOOGLE STUFF IF THEY DON"T KNOW HOW TO DO IT? Oh wait, that's the Brown MO. "We don't know what we are doing, so we will just randomly think of stupid ideas (knighting someone? A Bar Mitzvah for someone who isn't Jewish?) and throw it all together like crap. And we don't have any friends who aren't polygamous, so no one else knows any better to tell us that these probably aren't the best ideas..."
GAH! Sorry, rant over. More to come as I watch the rest of the episode, lol.
I absolutely cannot get through this episode. I have sat down 4 times and attempted, but never make it more than a few minutes. I think I'm going to skip this one.
ReplyDeleteGotta get this off my ample chest too...
ReplyDeleteEvery time they say Bozeman, Montana or I see it on the screen, all I can think of is that episode of The Big Bang Theory where Sheldon's apartment was broken into, and he decided to find a new place to live, and he decided on Bozeman, Montana. As soon as he got to the train station, someone from Bozeman stole his luggage and he promptly returned to Pasadena, CA.
Thinking about that when Janelle said "Bozeman is actually a destination place for fishing and weddings," I about laughed out loud.
Mariahs news is either school or marriage.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Mariah's news is either school or marriage. I hope it's school. If it's marriage, I hope she won't be a plural wife (though it might be a hoot to see her try to integrate into Nathan Collier's family). Maddie and Caleb's wedding was cute, but Kody was way out of line in his comments. He sounded as if he was giving Maddie's eulogy, not extolling her praises. And Janelle--33 minutes of exercise and only covered 1.3 miles--it it a walking challenge or a crawling challenge?
ReplyDeleteOk, I'll give Kody this one - Mormons don't do rings in their ceremonies, even normal LDS ones in the temple, so I get that he totally forgot. However, if he had had a proper order of service written out that he was following, then it wouldn't have happened.
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