It’s hard to imagine it’s been a year since Sister Wives last graced our television sets.
But here we are.
It wouldn’t be an episode of Sister Wives without Kody Brown freaking the hell out about the latest wedding in the family he has to foot the bill for.
When Sister Wives Season 8 Episode 1 got underway, Kody and his wives were the ones who went venue hunting for Mykelti’s wedding.
If Kody is the one handing over the cash, he wants to make sure he can get things for the best price possible, and that’s a good thing.
Far too often, reality TV stars squander all of the money they make from appearances and wind up in a horrible position when the cameras stop rolling. We’re looking at you, Speidi!
Mykelti and Tony were going for a whole different theme for their wedding.
“The theme of our wedding is going to be Mexican vintage because I think it sounds cool and what I’m trying to do is bring two cultures together,” Mykelti said to the cameras.
“Mexican is Tony, vintage is me. We don’t want to serve a $ 50 plate for everybody. We’re going to do something simple, inexpensive: a taco buffet.”
But Tony thought that came with some big drawbacks: The Brown family are not good at making tacos.
“When you go to Mykelti’s house, and you want a taco, a really white taco comes out… we want street tacos with like, real steak,” Tony admitted.
This was music to Kody’s ears because he likes to keep spending to a minimum, but the venue then dropped the bomb that inside caterers absolutely had to be used.
“We want to give Mykelti this awesome wedding, but 400 people is a lot. She has to realize somewhere in her mind that that’s really expensive. We don’t want to feel like we’re being taken advantage of,” Christine tells the camera.
“We want to give her the nice awesome wedding that she and Tony want, but 400 people is a lot.”
The inside caterer also charged $ 30 per plate so 400 guests would amount to an astronomical figure.
“We’re just starting out here, but I’m standing here in a bit of shock thinking that we could deal with the reality of 400 people,” Kody says as though he is getting ready to use GoFundMe to pay for the event.
Meanwhile, Meri was still trying to move on from the whole catfish scandal and decided it was time to make some changes.
She wanted to open an inn at her family home in Utah, and she seemed ecstatic at the prospect of it.
As expected, Kody was less than enthusiastic about all of it. He wanted to know the ins and outs of it before agreeing that it would be a good idea.
“Going through this process, this is my first reaction, and I’m very sorry for this–what value is this to us, even to Meri?” Kody said in a confessional.
“It’s three hours away. How is she going to manage it, how is she going to run it? The reason my concern is there is because every bed and breakfast I’ve ever known of is family-run…It doesn’t have affordability to have employees.
“You have to do the work yourselves.”
Will Meri’s business venture get off the ground running? Will the wedding live up to Mykelti’s expectations?
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Sister Wives continues Sundays on TLC!