Bride Spends Over $200,000 On Custom Pnina Tornai Dresses!! | Say Yes To The Dress

This bride wants her entire bridal party looking their best, so she commissions Pnina Tornai to design dresses for ALL of them, which leads to the biggest purchase in Say Yes To The Dress history!

From season 13 episode 11.

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[chucksbella]

When someone spends $100, 000 on dresses they expect perfection. Umm .. when someone spends ANY AMOUNT on a wedding dress they expect perfection.

[allrightyougotit]

The consultant had a huge smile all the time, just thinking about her commission for the $200 K sale! 😆

[lydiamac]

They charged her all that money for a custom dress made for her and when it didn't fit they charged her again? That's not right. A custom dress not fitting is the fault of the designer

[tracyinja]

As A South African I know all to well how competitive wealthy Africans in power positions get. With so much squandered and stolen money, the governments and their cronies leave our country poor while they live obscenely luxurious lives, labels are everything. The ultimate in bad taste, overkill of label culture.

[lauradelaney]

Imagine knowing your daddy is a corrupt government official whilst deciding to appear on a very popular show so you can boast about how you’re spending innocent Angolan citizens money on multiple dresses…. The definition of brazen and shameful.

[susanhighfield]

I find the price of these dresses obscene; how can people spend that much money on a dress worn for a few hours. Pnina Tornai says she makes them to see a mother cry...no it's because she is making a fortune. Give me Gok Wan any day who can make a bride look totally stunning for far less.

[gabriellaberglund]

How can that red dress cost 30K?? Pnina must be laughing all the way to the bank

[snsn]

These rich people always have more money than sense. That girl who flew from whichever African country should be ashamed of herself. There are very skilled seamstresses in any given African country.

[elisekellett]

$500 for a tiny little net veil is outrageous. A blatant RIP off. That's just BS.

[honeymcdonald]

This just shows money (stolen) does not equal taste. My sympathies to the people of Angola and my sympathies to anyone who thinks Pnina has any taste at all.

[marquette_houghton]

A few minutes on Google tells me that a) the average Angolan wage earner made about $27 US a month between 2018 and 2019, and Angola ranks 136th out of 180 on the Corruption Perception Index with a score of 29/100 (the lower the number, the more corrupt the government is perceived to be). That a cabinet minister can afford to drop $200K on wedding dresses for his daughter smells to high heaven. If I lived in Angola and caught this segment, I would be plenty angry. What in the world was TLC thinking when they made and aired this segment?

[susanperry]

A friend of mine was a refugee from Angola. Her family lost everything. I find it abhorrent that these people would spend all of that money when most of their countrymen live in poverty.

[lisaandothers]

"I'm having a big wedding with 800 people"

Meanwhile, in Greece this is just a family gathering

[jscho]

There has only been one other episode that has out right made me mad before. It is the infamous one with the worst mom ever when Randy gets so livid about the way she treated her child, when he has always wanted one himself. If you've seen it, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Anyways, the fact that the first bride spent $200k on all those over the top expensive dresses when 50% of her country live in poverty made me completely sick. Talk about a corrupt government. Jesus.

[donnaokoniewski]

Despite extensive oil and gas resources, diamonds, hydroelectric potential, and rich agricultural land, Angola remains poor, and a third of the population relies on subsistence agriculture. As a Cabinet member, of Angola, I wonder what daddy is doing to help his constituents get out of poverty. Clearly, the resources are there. Oh yeah.... they all went for his daughter's wedding.

[monalisasssmile]

i can’t imagine being an angolan citizen knowing that 200k was spent so someone’s daughter’s for dresses that will be worn once when that money could have been allocated to the country’s benefit

[itsasecret]

I’m genuinely curious does Pnina actually make the / design dresses herself or is it like a cruella devil situation where there’s just a bunch of designers laboring away and pnina gives the stamp of approval..?

[amidala]

Basically "How can a person spend that much on a dress when there are starving kids in Africa ..." taken to a whole new level.

[annettereynolds]

30k for a dress that you're just going to wear to sign your wedding certificate in? 200k overall? You could change someone's life with that money. My friend made my wedding dress to my specifications just for the cost of materials. If I had all the money in the world, I wouldn't change it. You couldn't buy that in any shop

[WhirledPublishing]

"Cabinet Member" as if we're supposed to think very highly of her as she spends a fortune on dresses while her people are starving in horrifying poverty ... I want to take a good look at her.