Home > Factual > Big Fat Gypsy dress maker to get her own apprentice style reality show? May 24th, 2011 by Anna Howell. 1 Comment We watched in amazement as Thelma Madine, chosen dress maker to the travelling community, transformed gypsy girl’s weddings into huge, fantastical fairytales due mainly to the size and grandeur of their wedding dresses and now we are going to be given an insight into how it is done, according to The Mirror. Thelma, who owns the unique wedding boutique, Nico in Liverpool, has been making over stated and some would say over the top wedding dresses for travelling brides for the past decade. Many boast thousands of crystals and working mechanisms to light the dress and even moving ornaments too. Since the success of Chanel 4's Dispatches spin off series, ‘Big Fat Gypsy weddings’, an unprecedented amount of attention has been thrust upon the designer who even organised the entire wedding of the couple who went head to head with the Royal wedding, and...