• RE: Joe Millionaire Finale--My Crazy Prediction,Bebo, 11:53 AM, 02-03-03
• RE: Joe Millionaire Finale--My Crazy Prediction,SurvivinDawg, 12:01 PM, 02-03-03
• RE: Joe Millionaire Finale--My Crazy Prediction,Q, 03:32 PM, 02-03-03
• RE: Joe Millionaire Finale--My Crazy Prediction,AMAI, 08:10 PM, 02-03-03
• RE: Joe Millionaire Finale--My Crazy Prediction,MellowYellow, 05:16 AM, 02-04-03
  • Another French contribution to the world,dajaki, 08:50 AM, 02-04-03
  • RE: Joe Millionaire Finale--My Crazy Prediction,Swami, 11:06 AM, 02-04-03
• I'm still convinced . . .,dajaki, 08:54 AM, 02-04-03
• Exactly when is the finale?,bebekid, 03:34 PM, 02-04-03
  • RE: Exactly when is the finale?,Loree, 05:11 PM, 02-04-03
  • RE: Exactly when is the finale?,MellowYellow, 00:37 AM, 02-06-03
• RE: Joe Millionaire Finale--My Crazy Prediction,AMAI, 06:42 PM, 02-04-03
  • RE: Joe Millionaire Finale--My Crazy Prediction,N305AS, 02:48 AM, 02-06-03
    • RE: Joe Millionaire Finale--My Crazy Prediction,SurvivorOverlord, 09:33 AM, 02-06-03

>The show will end with "Cinderella's
>Wedding". A coach and
>four, fancy gowns, liveried retainers,
>the whole nine yards.
>It may not be a
>legal wedding, according to French
>law. They may call
>it a 'dress rehearsal' or
>a 'what-if fantasy' for Joe
>and his chosen. Maybe
>the bride will have a
>choice of legal wedding or
>dress rehearsal, who knows?

This would fit with the story/pictures in the Globe, which do refer to a wedding that wasn't legal under French law.

I remember from the episode beginning where Evan is sitting on a sofa in a sweater, and the way he starts talking, it sounds like he's about to spill the beans to his choice. So it appears that they will at least have the decency (ahem...I'm using that term very loosely here) to let him tell her in private instead of dropping the bomb in front of a crowd.

Royalty, shmoyalty...EVIL rules!

Your prediction isn't any crazier than anything else we've seen (especially subtitled). You may recall that on another thresd, I brought up speculation about a double twist... that after Evan makes his speech, there will be another big twist in the offing.

So we'll see what happens. All this stupidity is part of what makes me just love this show.


Contradictions don't exist. If you are faced with a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Sounds as plausible as any other I have heard. It would work well also for FOX. Simply end with a long awaited wedding, for once on one of these shows, but in fact it is not a real wedding.

I think you may be on to something. Maybe we will get more of a glimpse tonight, as to what the end will look like.

It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leaders without question - States: The Bene Gesserit View. All States Are an Abstraction.

I don't think it's a crazy idea at all, Swami. It may even have been the plan all along, providing the girl agrees to stay with Joe Evan after she learns the truth about the money.

As for when the secret gets out, it sounds like it may already be slightly out, but I expect there won't be any mention of it until the one girl remains. Then it might be used as an incentive to go thru with the wedding, because Fox will pay for a fancy do.

It's fun to speculate as to what will happen. Not many shows to go!

You are absolutly right, a Cinderella wedding would NOT be legal by French laws.

Every French wedding starts at city hall, legally binding agreement signed with witnesses in front of state's legal representative (usually mayor himself). Usually held in the early morning with minimal attendance, immediate family and close friends only.

From there or after a break in which the couple switches to the formal wedding attire (traditionally brides still wear white in France, however orange blossoms, the floral symbol of virginity, is no longer the flower she carries and then displays in her home under glass on the mantel since Joan of Arc is believed to be the last unwed french virgin, *giggle*) and the wedding party parades to the local church, by carriage, by car or on foot. There a mass is conducted and attended by acquaintances, and anyone with a couple hours to spare. Bridesmaids in matching dresses and ugly dyed pumps to match are reserved for royal weddings. There is no demarcation between the families in the church or elsewhere, all just sit together.

From there a gathering of "friends" of the couple (there you have the folks who are not close enough to have at reception, but yet don't want to leave completly out) share hors d'oeuvres and drinks.

The focal point of the wedding album is the group picture. The photographer sets up bleachers to accomodate all who will be at the reception. This pic is taken before the seven course dinner, before anyone shows signs of imbibing.

On to dinner. This consists of eating (very well I might add, as weddings are usually remembered as to what was served), drinking (same as eating except ten fold, bad wine is never forgiven), dancing (or something close to it), toasts (anyone can and will toast at any given moment), jokes (sexual innuendos are favored) and silly party games (such as the ladies' contest where the winner will blow up the balloon first, squeezing it between her thighs).

The newlyweds vanish. In the Berry region, the guests then make sure all the liquor is finished so that there will be no unwarranted liquor charges on bill, and tailgate through the countryside looking to the whereabouts of the sleeping couple. The leading car will make a couple of stops where the couple is not sleeping but where there will be drinks waiting. Finally the bride and groom's honeymoon room will be crashed into, they will be woken up and made to eat an horrid mixture of chocolate and champagne, and drink along with the drunken road crew.

What wedding would be complete without a hangover breakfast? Again the guests gather, tired and by now cynical. Officially the wedding is over, the couple's parents left to split the bill down the middle. However Sunday leaves guests on their own at mini parties to watch soccer and place bets on the duration of the wedding.

So a traditional wedding would be a kick to watch, and the french love displaying the group pictures of the weddings they have attended, pointing at each guest in picture and exaggerating whatever they know, heard or suspect about them, so there wouldn't be a problem finding attendees.

That settles it! I'm dragging my husband off to Provence to renew our marriage vows! LOL Thanks for interesting bit of info this a.m.

>>since Joan of Arc is believed to be the last unwed french virgin, *giggle*)<<

Oh that comment made my morning!!! *giggles along with Mellow*

The French wedding sounds great, except the part about waking up the newlyweds. Of course maybe that's why we Americans & Canadians try to get the heck out of town on our wedding night!

Swami