S14.E05: Fashionably Absent

[Lady Lucy]

I'm confused about Erin's vow renewal. I didn't hear her say they didn't exchange vows the first time but if she did say it . . . Seems like she had a very nice wedding:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/fashion/weddings/erin-yitzhari-abraham-lichy-weddings.html

 

 

[Salacious Kitty]

3 minutes ago, Lady Lucy said:

I'm confused about Erin's vow renewal. I didn't hear her say they didn't exchange vows the first time but if she did say it . . . Seems like she had a very nice wedding:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/fashion/weddings/erin-yitzhari-abraham-lichy-weddings.html

 

 

Article is paywalled. Can you summarize?

[Lady Lucy]

Wedding announcement in the NY Times:

Erin Yitzhari, Abraham Lichy

July 1, 2012

Erin Dana Yitzhari, the daughter of Dorothy R. Somekh and Eliahu Yitzhari, both of New York, was married Thursday evening to Abraham Lichy, a son of Regla Lichy and Dr. Jacob Lichy, also of New York. Rabbi Doron Aizenman officiated at Cipriani Wall Street, an event space in New York.

(Picture of the couple)

Mrs. Lichy, 24, graduated from the State University at Albany and is studying for a master’s degree in real estate development at New York University. She and her mother work at Halstead Property in New York, where the bride is a real estate agent and her mother is a broker. The bride’s father is an investment director at Triangle Assets, a real estate investment firm in New York.

Mr. Lichy, 29, is an associate at the New York law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin and received a law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. His father is a radiologist with a group mammography practice in New York that bears his name, where the bridegroom’s mother is the manager.

[tranquilidade]

3 hours ago, kristen111 said:

Sai’s faulty robe they sent her is called a “second”.  My Mother was a bookkeeper in a sweater factory.  It was flawed.

I thought the reference about the missing "s" related to Jenna's jumpsuit not the Versace robe.

[Baltimore Betty]

1 hour ago, tranquilidade said:

I thought the reference about the missing "s" related to Jenna's jumpsuit not the Versace robe.

Yes, it got confusing.

[kristen111]

3 hours ago, Baltimore Betty said:

I guess I missed something, Sai's Versace robe was a seconds? Was it the lettering that off center or a flaw in the fabric, what was it?

I think it was Jenna’s jump suit someone sent.  Name was spelled wrong.  My mistake.

[bichonblitz]

On 8/14/2023 at 11:56 AM, PrincessPurrsALot said:

Another alternative - given the way they reacted to her spending the evening with her son and goddaughter, she may not have wanted controversy over that decision.

Also another alternative- Don't answer the phone and let them see you are decorating a tree with your son! I guess production told her she would be getting a call and she had to answer it. These reality shows are all so organic and random, right? lol

[kristen111]

23 hours ago, Sheenieb said:

I'm going to chalk Jenna referring to Christmas decorating with her family as an "event" to a poor choice of words. I don't blame the ladies for being confused because if I heard "event," I would assume that it was a previous engagement as well. The drama could've been avoided if she said "plans" or explained that she was spending time with her family. 

Jessel is too serious and defensive. She's the cast bitch, so she's playing her role well.

Sai has to let it go about the Hamptons and the lack of food. Erin could've been a better host, but Sai is going on too much.  

I wish I could afford Jenna's castoffs. 

Talk is cheap.  Sai tells her people what to do, then takes credit.  Maybe she lit some candles.

[ladle]

I agree that the whole tree-decorating "event" debacle, including the call the women made to Jenna, reeked of producer intervention from start to finish. And I'm disappointed! Obviously I'm not naïve enough to believe that this show is 100% "real" but, in my opinion, it's at its best when the women are just riffing on each other and the drama emerges more organically. 

[izabella]

On 8/15/2023 at 7:14 AM, tranquilidade said:

https://www.domino.com/design-inspiration/brynn-whitfield-real-housewives-new-york-apartment-tour/

 

On 8/15/2023 at 7:35 AM, Pi237 said:

I don’t know why everyone seems to love the black and white floor tile, but it seems to be so popular.  The Beverly Hills wives have it in their places as well. It never seems to match the surrounding furnishings to me.

I think it's because it works as a "neutral" with pretty much any color kitchen.  I'd like her kitchen floor better if it weren't peel-n-stick "tiles."

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The fact that Whitfield’s one-bedroom is a rental hasn’t stopped her from making updates—the kind that can be easily reversed when she moves out, at least. The green-tiled floor in her tiny galley kitchen wasn’t her speed, so she found peel-and-stick squares on Amazon to put on top. It only took her a few hours, during which she even took a Zoom call. “I think that day I just told people I’m going to be off video,” she says. Her time-saving trick? Lay all the black pieces down first.

 

Edited August 17, 2023 by izabella

[Portae]

On 8/17/2023 at 10:28 AM, ZettaK said:

I agree that the women are annoyed because Jenna is treated differently by the producers (I'm sure she signed a different contract than the rest of them because she was well known, and Bravo really wanted her to join the show). By telling the others about Jessel's comment (old cackling hags) played the game of the producers by creating drama, so she is not unaware of reality tv. 

 

Yup. And Jenna is playing this naive awkward thing for all that it's worth. You think that you have an "event" but can't remember what it is? Meanwhile, you have arranged for matching jumpsuits, a caterer, and handled all of the the logistics for production to be in your place on that night. Or you delegated. But still. Jenna doesn't strike me as a person who wanders through life. I see her much more as a "the dog walker needs to come get the pooch by 2pm because the housecleaner needs to scrub my apartment before production shows up to film at 5."