Flattery Will Get You Everywhere

We’re thrilled at all of the positive attention our show is getting! Our website has gotten hundreds of thousands of hits and our staff can barely keep up with all of the applications we’re getting from quality, smokin’ women.  But perhaps the biggest indication of our self-stated (and therefore unquestionable) success is the recent rise of a particular “mock blog.”

Here at “The Mormon Bachelor,” we’re taking ourselves and our quest for love extremely seriously. This is not a joke or a vanity project. If the ABC hit “The Bachelor” has taught us anything, it is that emulating that show is the surest possible way to both live LDS standards and find eternal love.

But then comes “The Mormon Bachelorette,” an obviously fictitious website aimed at mocking our efforts to find true internet/reality based love for our Bachelor. At first, we found the website amusing. After all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and the girl on the Bachelorette seems nice enough. And yes, we can see that “The Mormon Bachelorette” is clearly fake – a parody of modern vanity. We don’t want to seem like we don’t have a sense of humor. We get it – it’s a joke. We realize that we are not supposed to actually believe any normal, not-desperate male would agree to this process. And we will admit we laughed at the site’s intentionally hilarious interview and road trip videos and application questions.

But on some level, we can’t help but be disappointed. After all, we worked very hard on our website. We hand selected all of the blog clip-art ourselves, which makes it our professional property. Sure, being “professional” is defined by being paid for your efforts, which this does not qualify… but still! We think it speaks to how seriously we are taking this process.

But at the end of the day, this isn’t about us, or any mock blogs. This is about love. About finding Mrs. Right. It’s our sincere attempt to get as many girls as possible to convince us why they are worthy to go out with our Bachelor, and then to get over 20 to agree to pay to go out with our Bachelor, and to allow us to tape them for our amusement.  And not just our amusement, but YOUR amusement. You see, this was never really just about us. We were always thinking about YOU!

So go ahead - mock us all you want. But if our show isn’t the recipe for sincere, unconditional, eternal love…. we don’t what is.