The first thing everyone asks her, Thelma tells me, is, 'Are you a gypsy?' "No," she says ... It wasn't until she started designing communion dresses that Thelma started on the path that led ...

The first season of the television show Big Fat Gypsy Weddings won a Bafta nomination ... It wasn’t until she started designing Communion dresses that Madine started on the path that led ...

But despite the flashy outfits, the First Holy Communion is still an ... from her impossibly heavy wedding dress. A series special — My Big Fat Royal Gypsy Wedding — was broadcast the night ...

Big Fat Gypsy Wedding dressmaker Thelma Madine has revealed she has already closed her 2017 books for First Communion dresses because she's been flooded with orders from Northern Ireland and the ...

But one of the most shocking elements of the first episode ... she is sharing the communion with her non-gypsy schoolfriends, who are bemused by her over-the-top dress - inspired by Lisa Dowell's ...

tiara-wearing youngsters taking stretch limos to their first communion. The Channel 4 series Big Fat Gypsy Weddings has shown us teenage girls who dress like glamour models, dance like Shakira but ...

This episode looks at the milestones in a Gypsy girl's life leading to the biggest day of all - her wedding. From first Holy Communion (described as a 'dress rehearsal for her wedding day') to the ...

A children's boutique owner claims her shop has been hit by Big Fat Gypsy Wedding fever. Maria Cliffe’s young customers are shunning traditional holy communion and bridesmaid dresses in favour ...

Channel 4's Big Fat Gypsy Weddings returned with added palm ... the youngster also revealed what she is most excited about at the Communion: "The dress... and receiving Jesus Christ." ...

For the past three years, the Archdiocese of Newark has been gathering new and gently used dresses, suits, shoes and veils for children preparing to receive their First Communion. This year ...