Real or satire?

Ash.J.Williams

With Waterford whispers really nailing everything in sight these days I honestly cannot tell if this article is real or a satire of gluttonous relics of the celtic tiger?

http://www.independent.ie/style/weddings/its-a-physical-and-emotional-rollercoaster-lisa-cannon-overwhelmed-with-vera-wang-wedding-invitations-usherettes-and-tom-ford-suits-31129082.html

MonkeyTennis

That made me a wee bit angry and a wee bit sick in my mouth

Real.

It would be fake if it was "TV3 presenter marries guy who doesn't like rugby".

Who does he play for anyway? A Google search suggests he is a rugby "star", but he doesn't look like Brian O'Driscoll or the angry fellow who used to play for Munster.

Ash.J.Williams

Richard Keatley 2 caps 2009/10 Celtic Crusaders, sheffield Eagles Wales Rugby union U18's, U21's, Swansea rfc 2001–03, Connacht Rugby 2009

gramar

"Specifying to the caterers what kind of cutlery is a task in itself. It is just a massive physical and emotional rollercoaster”

The prosecution rests your honour.

Ash.J.Williams

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Richard Keatley 2 caps 2009/10 Celtic Crusaders, sheffield Eagles Wales Rugby union U18's, U21's, Swansea rfc 2001–03, Connacht Rugby 2009

They use the "star" term very very loosely.

dmc17

gramar wrote: »

"Specifying to the caterers what kind of cutlery is a task in itself. It is just a massive physical and emotional rollercoaster”

The prosecution rests your honour.

I want one of those thingies for picking up the food and one of those other thingies for cutting it.....Ah feck it, just give everyone spoons!

kneemos

gramar wrote: »

"Specifying to the caterers what kind of cutlery is a task in itself. It is just a massive physical and emotional rollercoaster”

The prosecution rests your honour.

Never knew there was such a thing as specifying cutlery. Use whatever the Hotel puts out surely?

efb

It's the most vacuous article I've seen in a while- and that takes some doing with the indo!

Kimbot

Just get sporks and all will be grand.

Mr Freeze

That person/star needs a reality check....badly.

Now to drive home and decide what cutlery we will dine with this evening on our reheated left over lasagne.

LoonyLovegood

I feel like getting sick reading that.

henryporter

VIP Magazine? Vacuous Imbecile Pr*cks!

MRnotlob606

The Independent is a rag.

Maximus Alexander

I need to start applying my Daily Mail policy to links containing independent.ie

sligojoek

http://www.independent.ie/style/weddings/lisa-cannon-plans-three-hen-nights-in-the-run-up-to-romantic-florence-wedding-31120743.html

There's more

Frog Song

She's always come across as a right pain in the hole, this just reiterates that.

Harry Palmr

The comments underneath are all you need to read. Amazing they have been published - clearly no moderators on the indo

ps why was the OP on the indo site in the first instance eh eh?

El Weirdo

And there was me thinking that trying to pay a mortgage and keep the kids clothed and fed was difficult.

I hope it pisses down on her wedding day. Actual piss, too.

Neyite

He's as bad. Wearing the actual suit that Daniel Craig wore in Skyfall.

Actually, it could be a match made in heaven. Giving the Kartrashians a run for their money anyway.

LeNNoX

wtf... that's the biggest load of sh*te I've read in ages.

@jonny24ie - sporks ftw

porsche959

Only five Tom Ford suits in the country?

Let's all chip in and buy one just to mess with the stupid woman's head.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Bubbly Lisa will be joined by her close pals for a medieval-themed hen weekend in Galway.

Two bottles of your finest Bucky from the Benedictine monks it is, followed by a few Jägerbombs in the GPO and guzzling down garlic and cheese chips in Supermacs at half two. A night fit for the most elegant of maidens.

Sleepy

I couldn't get past the second paragraph... sorry AH, I just couldn't do it.

somesoldiers

wouldn't credit this with a read when I see who it's about. I saw her at the Ploughing Championships a few years back trying to do one of their talking heads sequences through thousands of people and she was getting very irate that people were getting in her way

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

I was at a party recently where a newly married D4 head was discussing her wedding. Overall it went well, apparently, apart from if she was doing it again she wouldn't put the concert pianist quite as near the veranda doors because when people were going in and out the piano music kind of clashed with the four chamber musicians in the reception room. In her own totally ingenuous words "I hate when that happens".

Maximus Alexander

Matias Slow Hurricane wrote: »

Two bottles of your finest Bucky from the Benedictine monks it is, followed by a few Jägerbombs in the GPO and guzzling down garlic and cheese chips in Supermacs at half two. A night fit for the most elegant of maidens.

In fairness, that sounds like a great night.

The Backwards Man

This makes me want to ram the Indo down the throat of the bastard of an English teacher that told me I wasn't intelligent enough to be a journalist.

Jesus Wept

James Bond suit. Is he 12?

The Backwards Man

Darrell Long Salmon wrote: »

I was at a party recently where a newly married D4 head was discussing her wedding. Overall it went well, apparently, apart from if she was doing it again she wouldn't put the concert pianist quite as near the veranda doors because when people were going in and out the piano music kind of clashed with the four chamber musicians in the reception room. In her own totally ingenuous words "I hate when that happens".

I can empathise with that actually, it's like when you're making the dinner watching Pointless and the freesat box in the kitchen is a bit behind the Skybox in the living room. Really annoying.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I can empathise with that actually, it's like when you're making the dinner watching Pointless and the freesat box in the kitchen is a bit behind the Skybox in the living room. Really annoying.

It's kind of like when Aldi doesn't have the cheap 20c noodles so you have to get the 80c ones and then you can't afford bread? Am I doing it right :pac:

looksee

That is so far beyond sad and pathetic. I don't really care about the amount of pointless, nit-picking detail she does for her wedding, but it is sickening that she regards it as 'stressful', and that there are evidently people out there who would be impressed by or even interested in this sort of garbage.

Mr.Crinklewood

Could try and wreck her wedding by infiltrating the catering company and getting her the wrong spoons.

Or am up taking things too far?

The Backwards Man

Darrell Long Salmon wrote: »

It's kind of like when Aldi doesn't have the cheap 20c noodles so you have to get the 80c ones and then you can't afford bread? Am I doing it right :pac:

Yeah, what you should do then is buy a lemon and a cucumber from the super six, and have a healthy well balanced carb free meal for 78c:)

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Yeah, what you should do then is buy a lemon and a cucumber from the super six, and have a healthy well balanced carb free meal for 78c:)

Bollocks to that. Delicious carbs.

The Backwards Man

looksee wrote: »

That is so far beyond sad and pathetic. I don't really care about the amount of pointless, nit-picking detail she does for her wedding, but it is sickening that she regards it as 'stressful', and that there are evidently people out there who would be impressed by or even interested in this sort of garbage.

Never underestimate the vacuousness of the general public

Harry Palmr

With any luck Islamic State will see this as their chance to take over Ireland.

Pumpkinseeds

Ah, sure new money shows:rolleyes: All that name dropping Vera Wang invites etc etc. All money and no class, it sounds like she's hoping if she throws enough money around on 'famous' things, that she'll have a tasteful wedding. Maybe she's afraid people will realise she has no class or taste.:D

Magico Gonzalez

Tom is wearing such and such a suit by blah blah.

No, you simpering cretin, just now he is probably wearing something casual, at the wedding he WILL be wearing that suit that doesn't make him look like Daniel Craig.

I can stand the crushing lack of awareness, the poor taste and the monstrously cringeworthy cheap name dropping, but fck you and your trendy "Tom is wearing.." nonsense. Unless he turned up to the interview in the suit, in which case he should have been shot in the balls.

amdublin

Ah the poor girl with the vera wang invites costing a fortune. I'll light a candle for her on Sunday.

While whoever she is comes across as a vacuous simpleton, if they're spending their own money on their wedding day and it brings them happiness, let them at it.

It doesn't appeal to me and it sounds like consumerism gone mad, but they have the right to spend their money on whatever empty cachet they think ostentatiousness will buy them. It's not really for us to judge, not that that will stop me. I'll judge the paper harder for considering this a newsworthy article.

PandaPoo

I was hoping for 'it will all be worth it and I'll get to marry the man of my dreams' at the end.

Nope. Just moaning about how expensive her taste is. Right.

smash

I couldn't read past "Vera Wang wedding invitations"

jimboblep

The credit card bill will last longer than the marriage

Frigga_92

If planning your wedding day is causing you that much stress, you're doing it wrong.

It all sounds like something out of a Ross O'Carroll Kelly book.

Grays Sports Almanac

Bubbly Lisa

= Lisa is a complete and utter head melter.

osarusan

Candie wrote: »

I'll judge the paper harder for considering this a newsworthy article.

Exactly this. She is hardly the first person to be overly enthusiastic about their own wedding day plans and preparation and consequently assume people will be interested in hearing about it.

How exactly the Irish Independent believed that this would be something even remotely interesting to its readership is beyond me.

Aidric

When an article isn't attributed to a writer there's a fair chance it's going to be a joke-shop. See the Daily Mail for further.

My money is on Barry Egan for this one.

Cold War Kid

osarusan wrote: »

Exactly this. She is hardly the first person to be overly enthusiastic about their own wedding day plans and preparation and consequently assume people will be interested in hearing about it.

How exactly the Irish Independent believed that this would be something even remotely interesting to its readership is beyond me.

It's been doing this kind of shoite for years, although not to the same extent as its Sunday edition.

I know it's her choice and that, but what I find objectionable is the "hardship" stuff she's whining about. Bintery gone up to 11.

DeadHand

Seem like a nice couple best of luck to them.

It's seldom I'm speechless but ffs.......