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Say Yes to the Dress Atlanta features its first transgender bride Friday on TLC

January 13, 2016 Lori Acken Comments Off

Say Yes to the Dress Atlanta will feature the series’ first transgender bride-to-be this Friday at 9/8CT on TLC. Precious Davis, an award-winning diversity expert, social justice facilitator and performance artist who currently serves as the assistant director of diversity recruitment initiatives for Columbia College in Chicago — the first woman of color to hold the position — arrives at Bridals by Lori with a challenge for Robin, Lori and Monte. In the episode, the classically beautiful Precious seeks the perfect gown for her 1,000-guest, royalty-themed wedding at the University of Chicago’s Rockefeller Chapel. With her “chosen family” members Kenneth and Chadwick in tow, Precious hopes […]

Broadway Bride: Sutton Foster goes for the gown on tonight’s Say Yes to the Dress

November 14, 2014 Lori Acken Comments Off

Broadway babies and Bunheads fans, you don’t want to miss tonight’s all-new Say Yes to the Dress, premiering at 9/8CT on TLC. Tony-winner and Critics Choice nominee Sutton Foster visits the Kleinfeld Bridal team seeking the perfect gown for her wedding to Ocean’s Eleven screenwriter Ted Griffin (the pair wed Oct. 25 in Santa Barbara). Foster scored Tony awards for her performances in Anything Goes and Thoroughly Modern Millie and additional nominations for Violet, Shrek The Musical, The Drowsy Chaperone and Little Women. She is currently filming the upcoming TVLand original series Younger. The single-camera comedy — created by Sex […]

Say Yes to the Dress Season 12: TLC reveals details, celeb guests

September 10, 2014 Lori Acken 1

Famous faces abound when TLC’s longest running primetime series, Say Yes to the Dress, launches its 12th season on Friday, Oct. 10 at 9/8CT with the show’s first ever hour-long episode. In the season opener, former Biggest Loser contestant Tumi Oguntala — who dropped 175 pounds— is also a winner at love, arriving at New York’s Kleinfled Bridal salon to find the perfect gown to flatter her new figure at her upcoming wedding. Oguntala gets an additional, very special consultant in the form of her former Biggest Loser coach Jillian Michaels, who arrives with plenty of surprises in store for […]

Randy Fenoli returns for a new season of “Say Yes to the Dress”

December 19, 2012 Lori Acken Comments Off

When Say Yes to the Dress star [search phrase=”on” term=”Randy Fenoli”]Randy Fenoli[/search] was a 9-year-old boy bored by the cows and hay bales on his family’s Illinois farm, he defied his mother’s warning not to touch her new sewing machine and made her a dress. The next day she handed him a pattern for a skirt and he escaped the fields for good. When he was in his third semester at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, Fenoli won a contest usually reserved for older students — plus the attention of famed bridal designers Paul and Vivian Dessy Diamond, who […]

TLC’s “Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta” returns with Miranda Lambert

August 20, 2012 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Is it ever sleepytime down South? You wouldn’t think so from all of the Southern-themed series populating the airwaves these days. Amid the housewives and gator getters, Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta returns to TLC for Season 4, and does so with distinctive country flourish. Premiering Aug. 24 at 9pm ET/PT, the bridal gown drama series (yeah, it’s a reality show, but really, is it ever short on drama?) kicks off its new season with a special episode that finds country star Miranda Lambert helping her band mate from The Pistol Annies, Angaleena, to find the perfect wedding gown. […]

“Say Yes to the Dress: Bridesmaids” returns to TLC April 13

April 12, 2012 Lori Acken Comments Off

TLC is bringing back the bridesmaids … and the battles involved in dressing ’em. All-new weekly episodes of Say Yes to the Dress: Bridesmaids begin tomorrow, April 13. Set at Bridal’s by Lori, home to Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta, Bridesmaids is the highest-rated installment of the wildly popular Say Yes franchise and allows viewers tag along with the salon’s patient-to-a-fault consultants as they hunt down the perfect for dress for a host of theatrical — and sometimes comical — wedding parties. • Apply to be part of Say Yes to the Dress: Bridesmaids In the season premiere, beautiful bride-to-be Meghan […]

Super Bowl Sunday also offers programming “bowls” of other sorts

February 3, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer Comments Off

If you haven’t been living on the moon, you know that this Sunday the Super Bowl will be played (and if you didn’t know, you can find the details of the monstrous amount of coverage here). It’s become a national holiday of sorts, and also a day on which other TV networks have historically given up trying to counter-program anything new against what is traditionally one of the highest-rated programs of the year — and sometimes, of all time. But in the last decade or so, some networks have caught on to the notion that by presenting “bowls” of their […]

“Say Yes to the Dress” specials feature a “Big Bliss” favorite and a rock ‘n’ roll wife

October 13, 2011 Lori Acken 5

By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuideLLA Had it up to here with the falling leaves, falling temps and holiday madness that’s tapping on your shoulder? TLC has a pair of programs to warm your heart and make you swoon like springtime. On Oct. 14 and Oct. 21, the network will air special episodes of Say Yes to the Dress that are all about the happy ending for a few fan favorites and a rock ‘n’ roll bride whose heart is as big as her tough-and-tender personality.

“Say Yes To The Dress” fans get a double header Friday on TLC

July 6, 2011 Lori Acken Comments Off

By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuide Outside of my family, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and beer, there are few things in this life I love more than TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress franchise. I can’t help it … I’m a sucker for slap-happy brides. And the simple joy of losing my mind over what people are willing to spend on a dress they’ll wear for one day, have sealed in a couple-hundred-dollar box and never look at again. Also, Randy Fenoli. And Monte Durham. I’m especially a sucker for them. So you can imagine my delirium upon finding out […]