Dream wedding
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Dream wedding |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 1992–2000, 2008, 2012–2013 |
| Production company |
Endemol |
| length | 120-150 minutes |
| genre | Game show |
| Theme music |
Miracle - Gordon (1995-1999) Love is a Wonderful Thing - Michael Bolton (1999-2000) My Word - Ayman (2008) |
| idea | John de Mol |
| Moderation |
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| First broadcast | January 19, 1992 on RTL Television |
The dream wedding was a German television show that was broadcast on RTL from 1992 to 2000 and produced by Endemol . With up to 11 million viewers, the show was one of the most popular German television programs of the 1990s . Dream Wedding was moderated by Linda de Mol .
A total of 92 issues were broadcast on RTL.
After the occasional repetition of old episodes on Super RTL , the game show was reissued once on May 11, 2008 on ZDF .
On December 21, 2012, RTL broadcast another new edition of the dream wedding, moderated by Susan Sideropoulos and Yared Dibaba . However, after the second episode was broadcast at the beginning of 2013, the new edition was discontinued because the audience response was below expectations.
Subject of the broadcast
The idea is that one partner in a relationship applies for the show without the knowledge of the other partner, who is then embroiled in a situation devised in cooperation with the production company, in which he surprisingly makes the marriage proposal without the other partner knowing suspects. The whole thing is recorded with a hidden camera and later made public on the show.
The structure of the show was relatively simple. In each broadcast, three couples competed against each other, with various (small) prizes as the main prize and a dream wedding to be won. The couples were presented one by one. The marriage proposal, recorded with a hidden camera before the broadcast, was integrated into the performance. This was followed by a short conversation with the moderator and a first game. Photos with the faces of the candidates by morphing transformed into celebrities. This had to be guessed. The faster this happened, the more points there were. The other two couples were introduced on the same principle. This was followed by the second round, in which points could be collected again, after this round the couple with the lowest number of points was eliminated and received a consolation prize. The so-called “champagne” game, in which the couples always had to take a piece of champagne glasses from a tower, was very popular for this round. The couple who lost the tower were eliminated. The pie game was also legendary: a couple types how many (at most 10) answers they think they know to a question (e.g. romantic cities, headgear of the newlyweds, etc.). If the other couple wants to take on more with one answer, they get the question. If the number of answers has been met within 45 seconds, each answer is given one point, otherwise the opponents get the points. The pair that has 20 points first is the winning pair. The second placed couple received a consolation prize and the winning couple were allowed to have their dream wedding, of course not without an appropriate wedding gift.
Part of the program was that the bride and groom were allowed to choose their wedding outfit before the show, of course without the man seeing the bride's dress. In a final game, in which the prize was 1 million DM for the car that had already been won, the bride and groom had to kiss for a precisely specified period of time (million kiss), which no couple in Germany could do.
The highlight of the show was when the bride came down the stairs in her wedding dress. A “show wedding” was then held directly in the studio in front of the studio guests and the couple's friends and relatives. There was no studio wedding ceremony for the first few years of the show. The price was not a car here either, but "only" room furnishings. The couple then sat in a Rolls-Royce and drove to the wedding ceremony. Some pictures were shown behind the scenes and in the next sequence the real ceremony of the two could be seen in the registry office. This ceremony had to be repeated in Germany because it was a German registrar who held the wedding in the Netherlands. This was ineffective under German law.
Individual evidence
- ↑ M. Reufsteck, S. Niggemeier: Traumhochzeit . In: Das Fernseh-Lexikon (2005), p. 1234
- ↑ RTL starts the new edition of "Traumhochzeit" in December , accessed on December 2, 2012, 6.47pm