This local spin off of a British reality show boasts ghetto weddings, Bridezillas and more. By Rebecca Davies I've had a reminder set on my calendar for the launch of Four Weddings South Africa for months. I still miss Come Dine With Me South Africa, the show in which four sometimes quite unstable strangers rated each other on the quality of a dinner party.Four Weddings takes that concept to another dimension: four brides compete to throw the best wedding. Pause for a moment to consider what this entails. On your (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime day, celebrating your marriage in front of the ones you love, you also have three hyper-competitive strangers present who tell the cameras afterwards exactly how disappointing they found your canapés, or how ill-fitting your dress was.story_article_left1Who would be insane enough to do this? Admittedly the victorious couple wins a honeymoon to Mauritius - but considering the amount of money they tend to spend on their weddings, there's little indication that they couldn't afford to buy their own. Explaining the financing of her wedding, bride Storm smirked: "Daddy's paying for everything." Storm also won the honeymoon, which just goes to show that there is no justice."I'm not a Bridezilla," one explained in an early episode. "I just want everything to be absolutely perfect." Isn't that sort of the definition of a Bridezilla? All the women who have appeared on the show seem, on the surface of things, to be quite nice - except when it comes to discussing each other's wedding. I've seen student protesters show more charity to Blade Nazimande. "Let's be generous," three contestants agreed sweetly, scoring a venue, and settled on 4 out of 10."So all of the people on our table need to share this starter?" asked Jacqueline in horror as a platter arrived at Sharon's wedding. The main course was curry, much to Dinah's distaste. "I really don't like Indian food," she announced. "Nothing against Indians - I just don't like their food."This being South Africa, there are intriguing race and class dimensions on display. In the first episode, Pretty disparagingly described Dinah's nuptials in the township as a "ghetto wedding". The other brides rolled their eyes at Dinah's wedding-day highlight - in which BMW gusheshes did doughnuts in the parking lot. Dinah got her revenge by getting Pretty to reveal her inner "township girl" via dance moves.story_article_right2"The wedding gown is the most important thing for each and every one of us here," said Nthabiseng, in the second episode. Jo-Anne looked distinctly awkward. It soon became clear why: Jo-Anne and her groom were getting married naked, and the majority of guests were nude as well. Jo-Anne described the wedding as a "clothing optional weekend", but the other brides weren't tempted. They wore swimming costumes and giggled awkwardly throughout. There were some tense moments. When the priest said the happy couple should "relieve each other", he fortunately just meant that they should take off the fabric concealing their ring tattoos.You'd have thought that being exposed to all that naked flesh would have loosened the contestants up, but apparently not. "Those boobs just wanted to fight their way out," was Storm's disapproving description of Sizakele's dress.Other than Jo-Anne's nudie gathering, all the weddings we've seen thus far have been extremely traditional. Small unconventional touches are high risk, it seems. Sharon's decision to have her bridesmaids wear bright pink onesies drew ridicule from the other brides. Jacqueline distributed popcorn to the guests to have them throw kernels at her instead of petals, but Pretty ate most of it. I hope these brides commissioned their own wedding videos to commemorate the special day...