Review: ‘Wedding Day’ on TNT
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Unlike other couples-based reality shows, ‘Wedding’ takes holy matrimony seriously, food for thought in this time of marital upheaval.
TNT’s “Wedding Day,” which premieres tonight, is a show aimed straight for the heart strings by way of the tear ducts, but it may stir up as much anger as joy.
Following the blueprint of the failed “Extreme Makeover: Wedding Edition,” the producers of ‘Wedding Day’ select a deserving couple who cannot afford their dream wedding and, with the help of devoted family and friends, give it to them. (Or as close to it as those sponsors donating goods and services will allow.)
If there is a certain product-placement quease-factor -- the shots of Chandon, the rehearsal dinner speech by a sponsor’s rep -- ‘Wedding Day’ is still a welcome antidote to shows like “The Bachelor/Bachelorette,” ‘Hitched or Ditched’ and ‘Bridezillas” in which heterosexual marriage is used as either a game-show prize or backdrop for peevishly bad behavior.
Read the entire review of ‘Wedding Day.’
-- Mary McNamara
Photo: TNT
