Airdate: Australia’s Most Outrageous Weddings

We’re not even up against the Olympics and Nine is foisting Australia’s Most Outrageous Weddings upon us this coming Monday.

Blame Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer for this one?

Will probably rate its socks off.

Every year around 240,000 people get married across Australia. That’s more than 300 weddings every single day. Luxury cars, bouquets of flowers and professional photographers are no longer enough. Now the bride and groom have pyrotechnics, helicopters, and a guest list as long as your arm. The competition for who can have the biggest, best, most outrageous – and expensive – wedding is more intense than ever.

Alicia Loxley will take you inside a world of amazing grandeur and cultural wonder to present some of the greatest wedding spectacles you could hope to see. She looks at an extravagant Hindu-Indian fusion-Catholic wedding which is a week-long binge of celebration costing a cool $300,000. Watch as the bride and groom’s family and friends join together to let loose in a flurry of food, festivities and extraordinary Bollywood dancing.

There is an epic Lebanese wedding with a whopping 550 guests. With eight drummers, electrifying pyrotechnics and a thrilling fire-breather, the dancing begins and doesn’t stop. The night culminates in the bride performing a rock-star stage dive in her $8000 designer wedding gown.

Meanwhile at a country property in New South Wales, a Man from Snowy River-themed wedding is an almighty affair that involves a grand entrance on horseback – and ends with a dislocated shoulder and a night in hospital for grandpa.

Australia’s Most Outrageous Weddings also tags along for the wild hens night before the over-the-top nuptials – and finds one brave woman who allows her bridesmaids to plan her last hoorah as a single girl with hilarious results, including a construction worker’s special dance for the mother of the bride.

Monday, August 1, at 7.30pm on Nine.

Photo: stock image.