There's something horribly entrancing about the meringue-shaped barrage balloons that pass for wedding dresses in Britain's travelling community. There's something quite defiant too about their spectacular incongruity; just look at 16-year-old Josie, turning up for her wedding in a dress slashed to her pants. Or little Margarita, who arrives at her first holy communion wearing a pink monstrosity that's twice her bodyweight. In a follow-up series to last year's hit one-off film My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, we once more eavesdrop on these tumultuous family occasions while glimpsing a lifestyle that's full of contradictions. "Traveller girls" are heavily chaperoned, don't drink alcohol before marriage and yet wear eye-popping outfits to attract boys, who register their interest by forcing kisses on their chosen inamorata. It's known as "grabbing".
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