This week, Nicole Warne — better known on the internet as the wildly popular Gary Pepper Girl — detailed the intricacies of her pre-wedding prep for Into The Gloss.
Before she began, Warne wrote: “All that beauty and health and fitness—the bridal overdrive I see so many people jump into leading up to their big day—was never something that appealed to me…until it happened to me.
“I’ll be honest with you: It’s a lot of work. It’s tedious. It’s expensive. It’s a commitment. But I don’t have kids just yet and I feel lucky to be self-employed, which made it doable. I also understand if my wedding prep isn’t for you or your schedule.”
Warne is, more than anything, correct. The preparation she wrote of was extravagant and time-consuming and certainly expensive.
It included, but was not limited to: Having a personal trainer three times a week, taking private pilates classes twice a week, a specific diet of plant-based protein, vegetables, some complex carbs, fruit, and natural fats, Chinese herbal tonics for the skin, facials three times a week, having her teeth whitened and five custom couture dresses.
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I don’t care how anyone chooses to prepare, as long as the only way I’m expected to pitch in is by eating the cake ;)
I don’t know why her prep struck such a chord, but one reason may be that there are so many women out there right now, in the midst of their own wedding-prep-induced breakdown, that their stressed-out brains just couldn’t cope...This was the straw that broke the bride’s back. Especially since Nicole clearly enjoyed her prep process (I have no idea how, but there’s no accounting for taste, right?).
I'm not uncomfortable with her wedding prep. It makes absolutely no difference in my life. It all just seems like a bit of a waste because at the end of the day, she looked beautiful but no more beautiful that many other brides I've seen who did a lot less prep.