Published November 14, 2008 11:34 pm -
You know you’re a redneck if ...
You get married on Country Music Television
By SCOTT NILES Courier staff writer
BUSSEY — Jessica Fifer and Jon Linville are rednecks and are proud to show it — on national television.
The Bussey couple will be featured on the Country Music Television’s “My Big Redneck Wedding 2,” hosted by Ottumwa native Tom Arnold.
The show focuses on country-themed weddings and couples who get married in their most redneck fashions. Linville plans on wearing black wrangler jeans, cowboy boots and a camouflage shirt while Fifer will be dressed in a white and camouflage dress with no shoes.
“We might even have some straw in our mouths,” said Fifer jokingly.
“My Big Redneck Wedding” searches the country to find the most downhome country couples and documents their over-the-top journey down the aisle.
This season Fifer and Linville will be one of those couples.
They said they have a lot in common, especially their love of the country and the simple life.
Linville proposed to Fifer on July 11 after they had finished riding their four-wheelers.
“He wrote ‘Will you marry me’ in the mud,” Fifer said.
The couple will marry today at the Kin Folks Eatin’ Place in Attica.
During the shoot Fifer and Linville were taken to several locations throughout southern Iowa, including Ottumwa and Oskaloosa, to show viewers some of their upbringing.
While waiting to shoot a scene at the Southern Iowa Fairgrounds in Oskaloosa on Friday, Fifer admitted to being “tired,” but still found the energy to joke around and trade good-natured insults with a couple of cameramen.
Fifer said she has enjoyed working with the crew and they look forward to the episode airing on television. The show’s producers declined to share when the episode will air on CMT.
Linville said the idea for the unconventional wedding came about because they did not like the idea of having to dress up for a regular wedding.
“We’re both farm kids and we just couldn’t see having a traditional wedding,” Fifer said.