Dearly Beloved

The segment director asks Zibbora's grandmother questions like, "Are you excited to see Zibbora get married?" and gets answers like "Yes" and "Umm-hmm." These are major reality faux pas, since complete sentences tell the story. Finally, Zibbora's grandmother gets it down, with her own version of the pull-string toy phrasing: "Yes, I am excited to see her get married. We have been waiting for this for a long time."

But while her grandmother dabs at her eyes with Kleenex upon seeing the gown and her wedding planner scrambles outside to actually find a place for the nuptials, Zibbora remains calm, even stoic. Is it weird getting married on television? What if the resort doesn't work out?

"I don't really stress about it," says Zibbora, shrugging in her blindingly white strapless gown. And that's that. No "bridezilla" here, just a pretty 20-something girl in a pretty dress, hugging family members on cue and twirling when she's told. That's the kind of bride Brown looks for. With a reputation like his, he can now afford to be selective about the couples he works with.

"I can pick and choose the weddings I want to take, on whether I think it's a good personality fit," he says. And since Brown works nearly every hour of the day, either filming shows or planning boring, old non-televised weddings, getting a bride he can stand is of the utmost importance. Even if her taste sucks.

If brides ask for "something that looked like a combination Mexican/Mardi Gras," Brown says, "I say, 'We need to trim these colors down. Get some sophistication.'" And if, as Zibbora did on camera at the Married Away shoot with a $1,400 tiara, a bride declares she must have something way out of her price range, Brown just keeps offering new suggestions until they find a compromise. After all, with 8,140 square feet of marital shrinery at StarDust, there's always something else to buy to build the perfect wedding.

In the end, Zibbora and Torei didn't get evacuated. Brown says "everything went beautifully" on Munson Island. No matter what happens in the first half of the reality wedding show, in the end, perfection is always achieved—or orchestrated, if you've got the right wedding planner.