The
Wedding Album, Volume I
Since
I don't come from a large family I've attended more telenovela
weddings than real ones. Most of my married friends had modest
celebrations (including a lunchtime City Hall ceremony and the couple
went back to work) so live weddings have not been a regular
experience for me. Is that why I enjoy the wedding scenes beyond the
“felices para siempre” element of the story?
No
matter; when one is addicted to telenovelas as we are, we get to see
lots of weddings. What baffles me is that finding stills of ones
that are not in the finale is not easy for earlier productions.
Having said that, here are some excellent wedding photos from
Televisa's dream factory:
Corazón
Salvaje (1993)
This
novela swept the awards in 1994 and these two weddings were
incredible
For
those who didn't see this stupendous series, I will provide the link to it during the discussion (Andres and Aimée marry in episode 12; Juan and Monica marry in
episode 23).
Abrazame
Muy Fuerte (1999)
Maria
del Carmen had three wedding ceremonies (the first one interrupted)
but finding photos of all three was not possible. However, here are
two of them:
Pasión
(2007)
Despite
the zillion costume errors in this series, the weddings looked
interesting:
Alborada
(2005)
Huge
costume error on Diego (facial hair not compatible with clothes, which are out of date) and Luis (the boots are 180 years out of date) but
Hipolita's dress is on the money:
Una
Familia Con Suerte (2011)
Pancho
married twice, both to attractive ladies:
Doña Fernanda and Octavio:
Yo Compro Esa Mujer (1991)
Corazón Salvaje (2009)
Ramona (2000)
Our most adventurous bride, as she flees one wedding for another:
Abismo
de Pasión (2012)
Our
lovely traditional bride, Delores (this should be a perfume ad):
Now for the champagne!
Volume
II will be up the weekend after the finale of La Que No Podia Amar.
That was beautiful! Thank you!!
ReplyDeleteMe permitarías pedirle algo? Didn't FELS have a triple wedding? Do you think you could find a shot of that?
ReplyDeleteFELS will be in volume 2, along with other stories' multiple shots.
ReplyDeleteI was having problems with this one because of an issue with Photobucket, where I store my pictures. I also didn't want to make this so long I'd get a message that it was too long for a page.
BTW, does anyone know the way to guarantee that you can get two pictures in the same row? I get it as a hit-and-miss but it is a struggle.
Thanks Urban. I love that photo of Lolita from Abismo. You're right, it should be a perfume ad. Thank God you didn't include her groom Horacio.
ReplyDeleteAdditional thanks for all the hard work you put into finding these photos and livening up our weekend blog visits. Much appreciated, amiga.
UA - what a lovely anthology! We girls always like our Cinderella happy-ever-after weddings, don't we?
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many boda interruptus there have been in telenovelas, too.
There have probably been quite a few of them, but it's not easy to find photos of them. AMF had one (as I mentioned in the text) but since I couldn't find any stills I would have to find the episode and do a screen grab. It was in a huge church with full pews and Pablo Montero was wearing a white or cream traje de charro.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering whether Aracely Arambula held some kind of a record for the number of bridal gowns for that series, but somebody could have beat it by now.
I just updated this to add the boda interrupta of Ramona (I'm sure it's a different dress) and a different one from CS 2009 (I can't remember which photos of Juan and Regina are of which). What a contrast over 18 years for Eduardo Yanez as the groom and what a come-down he must have felt with regard to leading ladies.
ReplyDeleteI'll never forget how exciting the elopement scene in Ramona was back in the day. I still miss Eduardo Palomo.
Thanks UA. I got married in a courthouse, my parents didn't like my choice because of his religion, Methodist! We showed them didn't we, still together 44 years later.....and I wouldn't change a thing about the wedding! But for some reason, I love the bodas in novelas, the dresses, the flowers and everything! I especially love the required audience pan, and we know all the back stories.
ReplyDeleteI see your boyfriend Pablo Montero made the cut, he was a handsome bridegroom, wasn't he!
Oh, the old novelas, we didn't realize that we were enjoying the golden era of production, the newer offerings just aren't as good! So glad you chose Corazon Salvaje 93 and Ramona, two of my all time favorites! Edwardo Palomo was so handsome and such a wonderful actor, I miss him!
Have any of you read the book "Ramona" on which the telenovela was based? I bought it for my Kindle, but haven't gotten around to reading. I never had the opportunity to watch the telenovela version, and am wondering if the book version is as good and the reputation of the telenovela?
ReplyDeleteNo Doris, I haven't read the book!
ReplyDeleteWith the multiple Spanish channels available now, I imagine many of the old novelas will be re-run. Is there a service that notifies us about up coming offerings? It is hard to keep up to date on all television programming.
Blogger just asked for my cell number too!
If you get Latele Novela Network you can check its website for the start date of Kassandra, which stars Osvaldo Rios. It's being promoted right now on the air but they haven't yet announced the date.
ReplyDeleteMost of what they show now is Brazilian, but one of those is the original El Clon.
Thank you so much! What a fun viewing.
ReplyDeleteRamona, one of my all time favorites that never seems to make it to the top of the various "best" lists. I forget about it myself as I think I watched it at some odd time, long after it had run on Univision. KdC and EP at their best.ate and E
Thanks for this, UA.
ReplyDeleteI was so delighted to see the photos from Ramona, my first, and still sentimental favorite, TN.
One of patients learned that I was studying Spanish and recommended that I watch it. I became enthralled.
One week that summer some friends of ours (former neighbors) from California were visiting and because by then I was so hooked that I insisted that everyone watch each evening as I did a running translation (and this was before I discovered CCs). We'd drink Margaritas as we enjoyed the show.
Doris and Sandy, about the 2nd episode they watched, one of them said, "Hey, Ramona was a real person. We've toured the Ramona House and I've read a book about her."
I haven't read the book, but I sure as heck enjoyed that show.
Carlos
Doris
ReplyDeleteWe had to read Ramona in high school. It was very dated then and that was years ago. It bears absolutely no resemblance to the novela which i thought was horrible, excluding EP who was gorgeous and talented.
Decie Girl - Thank you for your comments. I'll keep that in mind when I read the book. Maybe, someday, the telenovela will be re-broadcast. ~sighs hopefully~
ReplyDeleteSandy in Tn - LOL - a "mixed marriage" is what some denominations would call that. Gotta watch out for those Methodists.... they're so friendly, forgiving, and non-judgmental... yipes. =;-0
ReplyDelete(that's currently what we are)
Carlos, I'm embarrassed to say that I had never realized that there was a real Ramona, but always knew that in a historical context, the fundamentals of the story were true! I'd buy it the book, but have never gotten over, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
ReplyDeleteUA, thanks for the Latele Novela link, I've bookmarked it.
Decie Girl, did you think that the novela didn't do the book justice?
Doris, we took the easy way out, we're both Presbyterians!
ReplyDeleteUA, it's been a few years since I put photos into recaps so I'm a little rusty. To put two photos in the same line, I THINK all you have to do is to select SMALL for both images, and mark one as left and one as right. There is some detail about whether or not to put a space and/or a line break between the two photos. I don't remember exactly; play around with it.
ReplyDeleteIf you already do that, and still they end up one above the other, then the problem must be the image size. I know that in PAINT you can change the image attributes to change the size; just keep the proportions the same.
Do you mean that you want the two shots perfectly aligned instead of staggered by 1/4"? You can force that by playing with the HTML code a little. e-mail me for details, and describe EXACTLY what you want to accomplish. paulah88@hotmail.com .
The REALLY tricky task is putting THREE images into one line, like this recap:
http://caraycaray.blogspot.com/2011/04/lfmb-295296-41311-new-lety-renewed.html
Bodas Interruptas? The one that sticks in my mind is in Fea, Lety's dream wedding to Aldo, when they drag Fernando out of the church in tears. Cap 297 of 300.
ReplyDeletePaula, gracias for the tips about the photos. I'd like to improve the layout of posts like this and I hope that any more will look better.
ReplyDeleteFor anyone interested, here is the Wikipedia article about Ramona. It's interesting how she has become a legend.
All recappers, can we all start using the jump break feature? Eva, Telemundo, and the Wedding Album got crowded off the opening page and this wouldn't happen if we all put jump breaks in our articles after the first or second paragraph. Thanks.
UA, thanks fo giving us this very entertaining album. I'm still smiling at William Levy's wedding costume for Pasion. Pretty, pretty, pretty--satin sash, flowing locks, and wreath of blossoms. His smile looks just a little sheepish to me. I hope they rerun Pasion one day.
ReplyDeleteLa Paloma
UA thanks for this post. I only started to see TNs in the past few years and have only heard of some of the oldies. It was great to see the pics!
ReplyDeleteKaren, perhaps the best novela of all time can be found online. Corazon Salvaje (1993) is a masterpiece with the best actor chemistry I've ever seen.
ReplyDeleteThanks UA! I have heard the raves about CS but haven't seen it yet. Has the DVD for it been severely edited like most Televisa productions?
ReplyDeleteKaren, when you look for CS, be aware of which one you're looking for. There is the 1993, 1999 with Eduardo Polomo (many people's favorite), and 2007 which many consider a travesty. (Correct me if I have the years wrong.)
ReplyDeleteThe DVD of the 1993 one is the worst; it's less than 5 hours. Makes nice video wallpaper, but that's it.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen the 2009 version on DVD, but it's 12 hours long (the current max). Considering that it was 135 episodes, that's about 10% or less.
None of these are going to satisfy if you saw the original. Watch CS 93 at that link. The quality is adequate, but there will be no subtitles.
Thanks Paula and UA. I'll check out the "classic" version of CS soon.
ReplyDeleteGuau UA, thanks for putting this all together for us. Many of these are before I started watching novelas on a regular basis. I totally agree that Lolita is a very beautiful bride.
ReplyDeletePaquita
Guau UA, thanks for putting this all together for us. Many of these are before I started watching novelas on a regular basis. I totally agree that Lolita is a very beautiful bride.
ReplyDeletePaquita