Derek Peth - Taylor Nolan - BIP 4 - Discussion

sosleepy wrote:

Ash2214 wrote:Out of the more well known and fairly recent couples like Sean/Catherine, Ash/JP, Jade/Tanner, Carly/Evan, they were offered tv weddings that were completely paid for. Personally, I think that speeds up the process and leads to them getting married in a much quicker time frame. Perhaps if the currently engaged couples were offered the same that would make them speed it up. If not, why rush, especially since it seems like they’re all living normal and committed lives together.

I think that as long as a couple from this show is committed then they stand a good chance. Taylor and Derek never appeared to be committed. All jmo.

Yeah, but then you have the Chris and Des example. They were offered butkus and still did it on their own in under 2 years. Holly and Blake didn’t get a tv wedding, under a year til marriage. Correlation doesn’t equal causation, but certainly, there is strong circumstantial evidence that, at least within Bachelor World, if you get married, it’s quickly. Otherwise you just become the next Charlie and Sarah or Byron and Mary (who also respectively were commited and loved each other.) Basically if you consider the engagement real and want to be married, you get married. If you don’t and you don’t, then you don’t. 

Back to Taylor and Derek. Never liked Taylor, something really off with her. Jim Halpert light was just kind of meh, ok to me.

Alanna wrote:I was always in the “it’s just piece of paper” camp before but my bestie got married a few months before me and says it does feel more weighty and more “real” now. So I guess we’ll find out  

I do wonder if some of the married couples would have split if they didn’t marry quickly? Like, I would leave right now but we’re married, so might as well try and work through it? Versus the unmarrieds, who find it easier to leave during a rough patch? Kind of a backwards theory from the typical- they weren’t as committed in the first place.

Ash2214 wrote:

sosleepy wrote:

Ash2214 wrote:Out of the more well known and fairly recent couples like Sean/Catherine, Ash/JP, Jade/Tanner, Carly/Evan, they were offered tv weddings that were completely paid for. Personally, I think that speeds up the process and leads to them getting married in a much quicker time frame. Perhaps if the currently engaged couples were offered the same that would make them speed it up. If not, why rush, especially since it seems like they’re all living normal and committed lives together.

I think that as long as a couple from this show is committed then they stand a good chance. Taylor and Derek never appeared to be committed. All jmo.

Yeah, but then you have the Chris and Des example. They were offered butkus and still did it on their own in under 2 years. Holly and Blake didn’t get a tv wedding, under a year til marriage. Correlation doesn’t equal causation, but certainly, there is strong circumstantial evidence that, at least within Bachelor World, if you get married, it’s quickly. Otherwise you just become the next Charlie and Sarah or Byron and Mary (who also respectively were commited and loved each other.) Basically if you consider the engagement real and want to be married, you get married. If you don’t and you don’t, then you don’t. 

Back to Taylor and Derek. Never liked Taylor, something really off with her. Jim Halpert light was just kind of meh, ok to me.

I specifically referenced the more well known and recent couples because it was correlated to the recent well known couples that are still engaged. Besides Des and Chris, the final couples that came off of one of the three shows currently airing that are married all got tv weddings. I do think it speeds up the process. Do I think these married couples would have gotten married within 9-16 months if they had to pay and plan for their own wedding? No IMO.

But back to Taylor and Derek, I do agree about something being off about her. I’ve always found to to be pretentious as well. JMO

Aria wrote:I just think that even the couples who weren't offered a TV wedding, like Blake/Holly, Des/Chris, and the Bachelor-adjacent couples like Chris/Peyton, Deanna/Stephen, and Elizabeth/Tye also did it within that 2 years. Just something in the Bachelor water! Time moves more quickly. Even Arie/Lauren didn't get the TV offer and their weddding date. It's just easy, IMO, when you're rich, like all these couples are.

Personally, I would rank the couples from greatest to least possibility in getting married: Jared/Ash, Arie/Lauren, Bryan/Rachel, Jojo/Jordan, and Kaitlyn/Shawn. It'll definitely be interesting what happens next! IMO.

Alanna wrote:Guys idk much, but I would say I’m not too worried about J&J in particular because I think she’d rather kill him (and herself) than allow another chick to sink her claws into him one day  I am very interested in what happens to K+S and B+R though because I think K+S are at a tricky point and I just find B+R an interesting match in general.

Alanna wrote:Maybe by the same token, some of these couples are staying together longer precisely because of sm. I just saw this article on the bank these contestants pull in from sm, and this is a minor player. I can only imagine how much the big name girls who are engaged to their guys (their f1’s) are pulling in.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.refinery29.com/amp/2018/06/201153/instagram-influencer-salary