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Wedding planning is not for the faint-hearted. And although much of its burden goes directly to the newlyweds, a solid share of stress comes to the bridesmaid, aka a good or best friend or two, or ten, who have been there since the beginning of the romance.
But everything is more or less survivable unless the bride turns into a bridezilla. Watch out for the first signs—delusional and stubborn behavior, lack of patience, and sacrificing others for their personal gains. And who is better equipped to share what it’s like surviving a bridezilla wedding than the bridesmaids who’ve been to nuptial hell and back?
Let’s see what they had to say when one Redditor posed the inquiry “Bridesmaid of Reddit who was involved in a bridezilla wedding, what happened?” and it’s not gonna be pretty, let me tell you that.
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#1
I had an ectopic pregnancy in which the baby attached to my fallopian tube, which then burst, and I almost bled to death. Well, my friend got engaged shortly after that pregnancy, and when she asked me to be her bridesmaid, she said that I would be 'required' to wait to try and have another baby until after her wedding..."
"Not because there would be a small child at the wedding, and not even because she didn't want me to be 'fat' at her wedding. But because if I lost another child, it would take the attention away from her engagement and wedding! I was so shocked that I declined and haven't spoken to her since
Wonderful 4 years ago
Such a stinky smell but some people wear it like it's the most beautiful and fragrant perfume.
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#2
The father of the bride had a heart attack, and as he was being carried out on the stretcher, the sobbing bride yelled, 'How could you ruin my wedding like this?!'
Tiger Pearl 4 years ago
Not the neck, the heart... Literally and figuratively for that poor man. I hope he has other kids that love him more...
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Raine Soo 4 years ago
The bride is a disgusting person. I hope that karma catches up with her. The poor father.
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Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 4 years ago
I really hope he survived and changed his will. And I hope that was before her future husband said:'I do.'
Eva the Egg 4 years ago
What the actual f*ck. I feel so bad for her father, he deserves better
Billy The Kid 4 years ago (edited)
FKN HORRIBLE B***H!!!! I hope her husband put in for a divorce the next day.
If you've ever attended a wedding or had one of your own, you know how much work, sleepless nights, and anticipation there is under that beautiful, once-in-a-lifetime facade. But it's no secret that some weddings turn sour for various reasons; sometimes things go against the plan, other times it’s plain luck deciding to turn its back on you, and occasionally, it’s the toxic environment which makes both the preparation and the big day into something you’d rather forget.
So in order to find out why wedding planning turns sour, what you should do if it does, and how to handle a bridezilla on the loose, Bored Panda reached out to Rhiann Janak Gouabeche, the CEO of Lucy Till French Wedding planners that cover some of the most beautiful places to say ‘I do’ out there, from Provence, the French Riviera, to the French Alps, and Lake Como.
#3
I couldn't attend my friend's last-minute destination wedding because I had to travel to visit my dad — who was dying of cancer — to handle hospice arrangements. She was pissed, and tried to guilt-trip me because I couldn't afford both plane flights. That was the end of our friendship
Eva the Egg 4 years ago
What kind of friend gets mad over you visiting your dying father? Doesnt seem like a friend to me
Flash Henry 4 years ago
One of my cousins stopped talking to us because we couldn't afford to fly from the US to Spain (and pay for car + hotel) for her destination wedding.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
Sod her. Hopefully one day she will be so sad and lonely person and realize that life isn't always about her
#4
My wife's best friend is a florist, and she gifted her services to her friend's wedding. Well, afterward, the bride and her mom got pissy at her because she didn't give them an additional gift. Let's conveniently forget the $1,000 in floral products she gifted to the wedding! It's a rift that has never been healed
Marianne 4 years ago
This is a more than generous gift! Like so often, they should not have mixed friends with business.
Ivana Bogdan 4 years ago
I don't know, I think it's upon "friend" and not mixing. You all seems like you would understand and appreciate if your friend did such thing for you, right?
Load More Replies... LesAnimaux 4 years ago
You know, if I ever get married, I'd love all my loved ones have a great time too. It's a celebration after all and me in a white dress should evoke enough laughter as it is. S**t's gonna be hilarious.
Rhiann, who has planned over 50 weddings in the south of France, told us that if you’re feeling tremendous pressure when planning your wedding, you’re probably not alone.“Did you know that wedding planning is ranked one of the most stressful jobs in the world, just after soldiers and firefighters?” She continued: “While I've only ever put out one real fire at a wedding, I stomp out emotional fires all the time.”
First off, in order to make sure things go according to the plan and you don’t bury yourself under so much stress you can no longer enjoy the moment, Rhiann suggests hiring a professional wedding planner. “It is the number one thing you can do to keep your wedding and stress levels in check. Professionals spend on average 250 hours planning each wedding. Unless you have the time to do this, finding the time is stressful enough without adding all the doubt surrounding wedding etiquette.”
#5
She wouldn't let our friend — who had breast cancer and was in chemotherapy — sit down after walking down the aisle
Cynthia Humphreys 4 years ago (edited)
What I don't get is this...there were likely other guests who knew of the woman's health condition. Those that 'let' the bride refuse to allow that woman to be seated is just as bad as the bride. Shameful.
Chicago Dog Lover 4 years ago
If I had been the bridesmaid, and was feeling very charitable that day, I would have sat down anyway. If I had not been feeling charitable, I would purposely collapse!
#6
Planner here. Bride invites ex boyfriend to wedding because “he’s just a really good friend”. During reception her husband of 2 hours goes to the bathroom, she plants a kiss on him. Notices I saw and promptly reminds me to mind my business. At the end of the night, catering informed me they hadn’t settled their bill. If they didn’t get payment that night there would be an additional fee charged. I run outside and let them know before they drive off. Two days later I get a call from groom who informs me the bride is extremely upset with my “unprofessionalism” and wants a refund. She wasn’t happy that I “made a scene” by running outside to tell them about the bill, in an effort to save them from additional charges. I asked him if he was aware of the scene she made when she kissed ex BF on the dance floor while he went to the bathroom. He hung up.
Azure Adams 4 years ago
Screw them then! Planners should put clauses in their contracts about bridal behavior and extra fees and team up with law firms... could be a major boon
Dre Mosley 4 years ago
She was banging her ex before that marriage and continued after the marriage. A "friend." Riiiiiiight.
Emily D 2 years ago
For real?! Are you a witness to this? If so, please spill some more tea 🍵
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Having said that, Rhiann believes that planning your wedding can truly be a wonderful experience where you learn about what you want to share with your guests about your couple. “Do you love food? Focus on that. Are you big into music? Hire a great band. Love yellow? Be original with your color palette. No matter what, don't lose sight of the fact that weddings are parties where 2 people have fallen so much in love that they just have to celebrate it with their friends and family!”
#7
My best friend left me out of her bridal party because I was overweight and her mother thought that would limit bridesmaid dress choices and throw the wedding photos off
A Head 4 years ago
Ugh. One of my wife's bridesmaid was very overweight, and another had fallen very ill and had to have a heart transplant at the age of 25, which resulted in a large scar running from her neck down her abdomen. What did my wife do? She had the dresses custom tailored to fit one, and cover the scar of the other. Because she loved them. 24 years later, the photos are still great.
Chicago Dog Lover 4 years ago
My mother-in-law told me I "couldn't have a wedding without dancing." I politely made it clear we'd be having the wedding we wanted.
Monty Is Fiennes 4 years ago
Yeah I have one sibling ...my bro... his wife didn't want me in the bridle party coz I was a goth and my "mood" would bring the day down....
BananaJo 4 years ago
if you aren't already married, when it's your wedding do the same to her. ( Btw you can downvote this if you want but I honestly think that "best friend" should know what it feels like)
Lucas 4 years ago
Or just walk away and be grateful you've learned who your real friends are. Revenge only takes you down to their level and they'll not have any startling realisations - these people never do.
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#8
After the ceremony was over, the bride informed us that in order to save money, the wedding party wouldn't be served a meal along with the rest of the guests. She said, 'You already had the privilege of being in my wedding —what more can you ask for?
earringnut 4 years ago
I don't mind the meal part. It's the narcissism that gets me.
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PrincessPatton 4 years ago
I would pick up my gift and leave. She already had the privilege of me being in her wedding —what more can she ask for?
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Also send her the bill for clothes and hairdressing; the timestamp on it will make a nice memento to a friendship lost.
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Dan Buczynski 4 years ago
*walks over to gift envelope birdcage or whatever, picks the card I'd left in there for the couple, rips open envelope and removes money, goes to Wendy's*
Wonderful 4 years ago
Screw that. I'd order a pizzas to be delivered to the reception. Move all the centerpieces off your table and pile up the boxes. Then stare at the bride as you take each bite. Have all the wedding party stare at her while eating delicious pizza.
Load More Replies... Capelli rosa e patate 4 years ago
See, not serving food is ok. Saying THAT, is so not. How snooty
Chicago Dog Lover 4 years ago
My husband was best man in a wedding where the groom expected him to spend $2,000 (US) on a suit. On top of traveling to Ireland at Christmastime.
Valerie Smart 3 years ago
Y’all nicer than me apparently. I would have cussed this b***h out just on her entitlement alone.
The professional wedding planner reminds everyone that “Love is at the core, and if you remember that and focus on what you love while letting a professional handle the nitty gritty, you won't ever become the dreaded B word!”
Speaking of the dreaded B word, there are just too many bridezilla stories surfing around not to ask Rhiann about it. “A bridezilla is someone who loses her cool when it comes to wedding planning, usually snapping at friends, family, and suppliers when these people are only trying to help,” she explained.
#9
The final straw for me was when the bride demanded to see the toast I'd written...so she could edit it. She ended up rewriting it altogether, and I ended up skipping her wedding.
Viviane 4 years ago
The bride banned me from toasting her. She'd heard my speech at her cousin's rehearsal dinner. (Her husband's relatives are pretty straight-laced, so maybe it's better that my jokes about her ex-boyfriends will never see the light of day)
Stille20 4 years ago
...in fairness, that sounds like a smart move on her part. I wouldn't want someone to make jokes about my exes in front of my husband's family.... or even my family.
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Daphne Williams 4 years ago
Let's be generous here - I've heard some awful toasts at weddings. Maybe the bride didn't want to be embarrassed.
Holly Molly 4 years ago
She rewrote your toast, you rewrote your decision to attend her wedding haha
#10
I lost some weight between the time I agreed to be a bridesmaid and the wedding. Well, the bride threw me out of the wedding party because she wanted to be the skinny one on the stage!
earringnut 4 years ago
How do such insecure people end up finding someone to marry them
Load More Replies... StrawberryParfait 4 years ago
This is not a picture of a bride, this is a picture of a girl in her Quinceanera dress.
Tarryn Louise 4 years ago
Far out man... congrats on the weight loss! I hope the weight loss also included losing the 'friend'.
Moreover, a bridezilla should not be confused with a demanding bride since “it's a most important day, and it's entirely NORMAL to have particular and important desires.” Rhiann continued that “a bridezilla, though, is a DIFFICULT bride because of the way she expresses those desires and treats those involved in the wedding plans with hostility, belittlement, or lack of appreciation.”
#11
The bride was blonde, and all the bridesmaids were brunette except me, so the bride asked me to dye my hair brown for the wedding because she wanted to be the only blonde.
Full of Giggles 4 years ago
I’d color my hair ombré blue or green. She’ll still be the only blonde.
Azure Adams 4 years ago
Tell us all you told her to go and f**k herself after leaving the whole thing and ending the friendship
Kim Lorton 4 years ago
Ok, I’d be talking to her mother and seeing what she says and if she says the same thing, then I would skip it all together!
#12
My ex-best friend tried to make me and another bridesmaid walk down the uneven outdoor aisle WITHOUT OUR GLASSES, saying they would 'ruin the aesthetic' of her wedding! And she told us the morning of the wedding, so we didn't even have time to get get contacts! Her mom was able to calm her down by reassuring her that she was skinnier and more beautiful than both of us, so no one would be looking at us anyway.
Yort 4 years ago
The mother is the one who saved the wedding in this case, though.
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Maren Gärtner 4 years ago
Sometimes I just can't believe this people behaving strange just on their wedding day.
Tarryn Louise 4 years ago
I would have gone home. Problem solved, 1 less person to be looked at.
James Mills 4 years ago
obviously everyone is going to look at the bridezilla they want to see her fail.
The second after the bride comes the bridesmaid. “A bridesmaid is one of the most important roles you can be honored with in the life of a friendship,” Rhiann told us.
As a bridesmaid, “you should be excited, support the union, and let the bride know that! The Maid of Honor is the most important bridesmaid. It is her job to plan the bachelorette party and to make sure all the bridesmaids are getting the right clothes, shoes, earrings for each event so that the bride doesn't have to.”
#13
I've had colorful hair for years now. It's quite the investment-- I go to a salon to get it done, and buy high quality products. When my best friend asked me to be her MOH, my hair was neon pink. Three weeks before her wedding, she requested that I color my hair to a natural color. I was SHOCKED. She offered to give me $100 to get it done (lol). I had justttt gotten my hair done (a plum/red color, quite tame in comparison to what I've done in the past)
If I had just randomly went from brown to lime green out of no where I might understand her frustrations, but at this point I hadn't seen my natural color in like 3 years!
I never changed my hair, we got into a screaming match at her bachelorette party and she drunkenly revealed that her mom hated my hair and would not stop bitching about it. We cried and hugged in the club bathroom and all was well.
Her mom didn't speak to me at the wedding and I'm okay with that.
Tiger Pearl 4 years ago
Aww poor thing was stressed about the wedding, and then her mom was probably adding to that tenfold!
Lisa Shelton 4 years ago
Somewhat of her fault for letting her mother push her to fight with her best friend.
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Viviane 4 years ago
My photographer was kind enough to tell my mother to lay off when she was getting in the way.
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Jenifer Riggs 4 years ago
Bad Mother, its not her wedding why should she control how everyone looks?
#14
My best friend just got kicked out of a wedding because she couldn't afford to spend the $1,500 to go to the bachelorette party. The bride told her to take out a credit card to pay for it!
Marianne 4 years ago
The amount of money American women are expected to invest in their friend's weddings is insane: expensive dresses, hair-do and make-up, bridal showers, bachelorette parties, presents ... In Germany, we do not traditionally have a "bridal party". We might have a bachelorette party, but bridal showers are an unknown thing. Also everyone can wear what they like and buy in their price range.
giovanna 4 years ago (edited)
Marianne, i was thinking the same thing, I live in the north of Italy. We can have bachelorette parties - usually a day at a spa and a dinner with your friends - but not everybody does this, and definitely we don't have bridal showers. And definitely guests are not required to buy a specific dress or spend that crazy amount of money
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Deborah B 4 years ago
Surely the showers, hen dos and bachelorette parties are supposed to be organised by the bridesmaids, in line with their own budgets? The bride is meant to graciously accept their plans, whether it's a weekend in vegas, a night out, or an afternoon tea in someones garden.
Valerie Smart 3 years ago
B***h please. You are not a person to be demanding that from your bridesmaid. I said it before and I’ll say it again. You are getting married, not curing cancer. Gtf over yourself.
Susan Egan 4 years ago
She had to pay to go to the party? I need more info. No matter, she should be happy to avoid that wedding.
All the bridesmaids have a lot of responsibilities coming at them on the big day. Rhiann says that “bridesmaids need to show up, be on time, and make the day and wedding events all about the bride.” Simultaneously, they shouldn’t forget that “It's not their time to shine, they are the supporting role to the leading lady, and should boost, never take away from the spotlight.”
#15
It was 10 degrees Fahrenheit in February, and the bride insisted on outdoor photos WITHOUT COATS because 'we can't hide the dresses!' Even the photographer told her no, and she pitched a fit! Years later, she still complains about how her bridesmaids ruined her wedding
Full of Giggles 4 years ago
No, you ruined your wedding by never learning how to read a calendar or weather report.
Y T 4 years ago
Weather report??? It's not like she can cancel just because it's going to rain!! Wtf.
Load More Replies... Susan Trevaskis-Owen 4 years ago
Ridiculous. We have pics of my mother & her bridesmaids wearing coats in the snow (February wedding, in Canada), and not once have we looked at them and thought, "Gosh, wish they had chosen to freeze so we could see their dresses..."
StrawberryParfait 4 years ago
She couldn't have panned for some nice matching coats or wraps for her bridesmaids if she wanted outdoor photos? Poor planning on her part.
Nadine Debard 4 years ago
If some photos with a coat can ruin a wedding, that doesn't seem to be a great one...
wyatt hollingsworth 4 years ago
what the f**k! the FREEZING point of water is 32 degrees Fahrenheit!!!
Tarryn Louise 4 years ago
I had to check, but that is -12 Celsius for us non-Americans. Also... SCREW THAT!!!!!!!!
#16
My dad had the audacity to die 6 weeks before the wedding, and she couldn't understand why that superseded her wedding details for me. I met my husband at her wedding, haven't spoken to her since.
Verena Gitterle 4 years ago
She was not deserving your friendship, but you meeting your husband at the wedding makes up for that.
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
Plot twist: her husband was the groom at this bitches wedding and she also saved him. If that was the case that would honestly be amazing.
Kim Lorton 4 years ago
Woah...special place in hell for women like that! No empathy or sympathy let alone compassion! She’d be gone!
Bored Panda also spoke to Roberta Torresan, a professional wedding planner and designer based in Rome, Italy who specializes in gorgeous luxury weddings. Roberta said that it’s no secret that “some brides-to-be tend to get very obsessed by the small details of their wedding, and sometimes they take it to the extreme. Perhaps it is because they really want to have everything under control but they cannot manage the planning process properly.”
When asked how to not turn your wedding into a stressful experience, Roberta said that it’s not easy since “no brides or grooms (99%) have ever planned a wedding before. So asking for help is ok, but sometimes this solution might be worse than the problem.”
#17
Not a bridemaid, but a witness to one.
The bride got walked out on by her entire bridle party, except her maid of honor. Of course it was because no one loved her, and everyone wanted to ruin her day, not because she ripped a bridemaids dress from the neck down, in an open area, because it was too white ... it was the dress the bride insisted on all the maids wearing.
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
After that, I wouldn't be surprised if no one loved her and everyone hated her. jfc..
Kim Lorton 4 years ago
What a bitch! I’d be sending her a bill for the entire dress, and a letter from a lawyer stating she assaulted her, ripped her dress she made her wear, and payment better be coming in a timely manner or be taken to small claims court!
Whopdeedoo 1 year ago
A little confused. Did the MOH decide to quit because the bride was a monster, or was the MOH the one who ripped the dress?
#18
She had her bachelorette party the same weekend as my birthday, but we weren't allowed to do anything for my birthday on the trip, not even mention it. Well, on my actual birthday, some of my friends got some balloons and a little cake from the hotel. They tried to keep it a secret, but Bridezilla came into the room, saw everything, went completely silent, then walked out, pissed
Jozie 4 years ago
I understand she wanted it to be about her but she should at least be able to eat her little cake from the hotel in peace with her balloons.
OhForSmegSake 4 years ago
My friend got married ON MY BIRTHDAY. She made the entire reception sing Happy Birthday to me while I stood there blushing ❤
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Two Silly Pups 4 years ago
I just can't see any real friendship in these stories. Like why does my wedding celebration exclude any mention of my friends' lives? I celebrated my wedding WITH my friends, not despite them
GirlFriday 4 years ago
I don't understand how bachelorette parties became a weekend trip and everyone has to worship the bride. In my day, the bachelorette party was going to a bar and dancing and then we would all spend the night at someone's house and eat junk food.
Cori 4 years ago
My wedding was the day after my niece's birthday. There just weren't that many dates available at our venue and there were other family matters that we also had to plan around, which further limited our choices. I felt terrible about it. We made a point to do a birthday party for her at a fancy icecream shop to try to make up for it. It is possible to celebrate two separate things at once.
Monty Is Fiennes 4 years ago
No offence but... NO!! she shouldn't have planned her hens party the same weekend as a bridesmaids birthday, if she wanted it to be all about her.... I just wouldn't have gone....
The wedding planner continued: “You may want to hire a professional planner, but be careful, are you really willing to let a planner take care of your own wedding? Sometimes I prefer to be honest and suggest that a bride plan her wedding by herself,” Roberta told us.
#19
When my friend was a bridesmaid, she received an astonishingly detailed itinerary of how to behave on the wedding day, with notes like "9:52am: Compliment the bride on how she looks on this, the most important day of her life". On the actual wedding day, the bride repeatedly got angry with my friend for not adhering to the itinerary. This was after several months of the bride expecting my friend to be available at a moment's notice to take care of any wedding chores. They haven't spoken since the wedding day.
Susan Mercurio 4 years ago
When I was 13 and in Home Ec class, all of the other girls only talked about their wedding day and what their dresses would look like during Marriage and the Family. However, I had to help at home, including with my two younger sisters -toddlers - so I knew all about dirty diapers and scrubbing floors. Finally, I told them all off. This is why.
Katrin Krueger 3 years ago
Entitled women are so relieved they can finally "rightfully" be the one making the demands when they put on that bridal dress.
Valerie Smart 3 years ago
Brides demands of husband: 7 am you wake up. Don’t touch me don’t even attempt to wake me up 8am : you go to work , I’ll still be sleeping 12pm:, call me to tell me I’m beautiful 5pm : you best be headed home 6pm: we eat whatever the hell I just fixed. Some people call it food 9pm :,you may touch me a little Next day : husband files for divorce
Cathleen Morris 4 years ago
IMHO ... These — oh, what shall I call them? “Semi-entitled pond scum versions of human females,” seem to have an irrational & utterly delusional concept going on, i.e., their place and importance in the food chain of Life. I’m kind of feeling the true dwelling is: bottom layer of pond mud below the world they pretend to inhabit. Total, sad losers
Tarryn Louise 4 years ago
I would have shared the list on social media and blocked her stupid ass.
#20
Not a brides maid but one of the groomsmen. The groomsmen were forced to work through the entire post-wedding ceremony, cleaning up peoples shit and trying to make sure things go well. When we tried to hide and take a break, we got yelled at by the bride and her mother to keep working. Needless to say I no longer talk to them.
Valerie Smart 3 years ago
My thought exactly billy!!! Wtf are they to do this to someone! I would have thrown the trash in their face and walked the fu k out
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Kelly Hartle 4 years ago
You ask people to be part of your wedding because they're your friends, not your servants.
Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago
Doing what exactly, they are supposed to attend to the bride and groom not do cleaning up...
FluffyDreg 3 years ago
I wasn't aware groomsman were synonymous with waiters....
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“My suggestion is to listen to the bride's requests and try to please her without questions. It's her wedding,” the luxury wedding planner concluded.
#21
She kicked someone out of the wedding party who couldn't make it bridesmaid dress shopping because she was sick and had to go to the hospital
osbkids 4 years ago
Yeah, selfish and ignorant. I often wonder, how long will marriage last with such a toxic sociopathic women.
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Dippin Dot 4 years ago
I was kicked out of a wedding party because I lived 3 hours away and couldn't go bridesmaid dress shopping. She was supposed to be in my wedding 5 weeks later (I was engaged and set the date FIRST), and her grandmother happened to plan an entire family vacation abroad that weekend that she would feel horrible if she missed for my wedding. So I told her to enjoy her vacation. We haven't spoken since.
Kim Lorton 4 years ago
That is pure and simple unforgivable. I would no longer be her friend, ever.
Azure Adams 4 years ago
Wow! And you didn't leave in order to show you don't enable that kind of behavior
#22
Friend asked me to be a bridesmaid in her shotgun wedding that was to take place in a little over a month. She has us order semi-expensive dresses and they HAD to be altered to a certain length. Shoes had to be ordered. Toenails had to be painted neutral color and fingernails had to be French manicure. We weren’t allowed to paint our own nails-we HAD to get them done at a salon. Hair HAD to be done professionally by her hairstylist. And we were not, under any circumstance, to have bikini tan lines visible. Mind you, this was right after summer. I lived in an area where beach attire was usually the only attire and everyone had visible tan lines.
I eventually had to tell her that I could not afford to have everything done professionally with such short notice. I would be happy to do my hair and makeup. My hair was so short I couldn’t do an updo. She told me her mom could pay and then I could pay her back. That was the final straw.
I sent an email to her telling her I could no longer be in her wedding. She was pregnant, about to get hitched, and now I was adding to her list of problems. I valued the friendship and told her such, but just couldn’t do what she was asking.
I hadn’t heard from her for YEARS. Until one day she sent me a message, asking for me to buy from her MLM campaign. FFS.
Seabeast 4 years ago
Amway, Mary Kay cosmetics, those awful leggings... that sort of thing.
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Triv 4 years ago (edited)
MLM, in context, seems to be multilevel Marketing. FFS seems to be For F**k's Sake.
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Azure Adams 4 years ago
Now she's even more pathetic and doing MLM. Cut her loose and cut your loses
Katrin Krueger 3 years ago
This took place in the US, right? It is such an unknown concept here in Germany. The entitlement is beyond me. Hopefully this doesn't catch on here.
#23
I didn’t make it to the wedding. I was best friends with the woman, literally we did everything together. She assembled her wedding party and didn’t invite me. She threw me my bachelorette, witnessed my marriage, etc. I found out later I wasn’t invited because I was overweight and her mother thought that would limit bridesmaid dress choices and throw the wedding photos ‘off’. At least I know, dodged a bullet.
Jenifer Riggs 4 years ago
Again, Mother's should not be controlling their daughter's weddings. It should be what the bride wants, regardless of how it "looks"
Y T 4 years ago
If you couldn't make it to the wedding why do you complain about her not including you? She obviously has done a lot of things for you. Stop whining.
FluffyDreg 3 years ago
Great reading comprehension; it's not as if it had the words "and didn’t invite me." in the paragraph..... Oh wait
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#24
Not a bridesmaid, wife was a cousin to the bride. This happened a few months ago. Bachlorette party a few days before wedding, my wife didn't go but her sister and other family went. A couple male strippers there, lots of alcohol. Suddenly bridesmaids realize the bride is missing. They find her in her hotel with one of the strippers...who happens to be black. She freaks and tells everyone she was raped. Cops come. Stripper arrested. Wedding canceled. Everyone feeling sorry. Detective on the case doesn't believe her story and bride finally comes clean. Her mom and my wife's mom still believe she was legit raped by the stripper.
earringnut 4 years ago
Women like that ruin the lives of actual assault victims. She is less than a flea in my mind.
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Helen Haley 4 years ago
99% of women know better than to falsely claim rape. It diminishes all victims credibility and will drag you through public mud. She did the dumbest possible thing she could do.
Monday 4 years ago
She should have been charged. Something like a fake rape claim should go on your permanent record to protect future partners.
Load More Replies... RoseTheMad 4 years ago
As an ACTUAL victim, who ended up with severe mental illness as a result of my "experience", f**k this f*****g bitch of a woman, you do NOT get to lie about this s**t, you do NOT get to pretend your life is ruined, especially at the cost of the accused's life who's is actually ruined. You do NOT get to pretend you know how it feels. F**k off.
Dirk Daring 4 years ago
I have friends - men and women - who are strippers, and this is one MAJOR reason why they NEVER get into bed with a client.
Isaac7lego 4 years ago
I hate when people falsely accuse others of rape. you are ruining the other persons life!!!
Jenifer Riggs 4 years ago
Prime example of racism still existing today. Disgusting, why believe her just because the stripper is black?
Catlady6000 2 years ago
It's not that they would be more likely to believe her rape story. It's how they would react if they knew she was with a back man willingly. I live in the South, and I've seen/heard of white women, especially, going to sad, ridiculous lengths to keep people from finding out about interracial affairs
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#25
My best friend got married and she was actually very calm throughout the whole planning process and on the wedding day. However, the day after the wedding she texted me and sarcastically said “thanks for the wedding present”. I was planning to get her a present with my next paycheck. However, I was in such shock she texted me that. Especially after I spent ~$800 (dress, alterations, shoes, nails, makeup, hair, hotel room, etc.) to be in her wedding. It felt like all she cared about was gifts.
Helen Haley 4 years ago
I refuse to attend or be in weddings. I've dropped countless thousands on weddings over the years. Because I never plan to marry, this will never be reciprocated and no one even bothers to get me a birthday card. I'm now against the gratuitous expectations of both weddings and baby showers.
Mimi777 4 years ago
I don’t blame you one bit. It’s messed up how you always remember to get them something but no one remembers your birthday.
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Dre Mosley 4 years ago
I would have let her know that I had plans to get her one, but not anymore.
Susan Egan 4 years ago
I was shocked the first time I learned the bridesmaids bought the dresses. If I was in your shoes I'd wrap up the dress/shoes etc. in some pretty paper and make it your gift.
J.A. Rogers 3 years ago
Unless things have changed drastically lately, proper etiquette allows up to one full year after the wedding to send a gift. But even were that not the case: What a tacky, immature bride!
#26
She reached out after the wedding to ask me how to return my gift for store credit
Monday 4 years ago
Not necessarily. She may have received a duplicate item or been gifted something she'll never use. Heck if I were to get married and I received 3 blenders as wedding gifts of course I'm going to return 2 of them.
Load More Replies... StrawberryParfait 4 years ago
Gifts should always include a store's gift receipt without the price on it so the recipient has the ability to return if it they so choose. Sometimes people get duplicate gifts, especially at things like weddings or showers. This does not mean anything negative, necessarily. Next time, include the store's gift receipt, and avoid all awkwardness.
Davor Jelacic 4 years ago
So? Id rather know exactly what a person wants then guess around and deal with the fake "its great" thank yous...
Diane Phillips-Herman 4 years ago
This is common. Some people buy unnecessary things or you get doubles.
Lauren Potts 4 years ago
I understand, but the bride should have just done research or asked someone else.
Niamh Gallagher Kerr 4 years ago
This one I could understand for our wedding we got several sets of cutlery (we kept them & they come out for special occasions) however if I could understand if the bride had received several of the same item. The bride may have gone to the person she knew best. We may not know the full story.
Aunt Messy 4 years ago
I had several people give me gift receipts with their gifts so that I COULD exchange them if I needed to. As my aunt said, "I have no idea what will go in your house because I've never seen it (we lived across the country from them), so if you see something you like better, go for it!" It turns out that she would have happily given us a gift certificate but her husband demanded a box for us to unwrap. We exchanged it.
#27
Picked $400 bridesmaid dresses. Destination bachelorette that cost over $1200. Insisted on a super expensive spot for the bridal shower. Registered at william Sonoma. I was a broke ass college student with limited funds. But managed to pay for all this crap and give a gift.
Bonus points: her husband forgot his entire [friggin] ux and didn't figure this out until a few hours before the ceremony.
A few minutes before the ceremony when she screamed at me for like the 500th time that day I snapped and told her either she cut her [mess] or I was getting in my car and going home.
She cut her [mess] . The rest of it went fine.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Cut her shît. Grow up, BP, you’re making the stories sound off.
Susan Egan 4 years ago
You should never let "friendship" put you in that much debt. Her choices should come out of her pocket when they get that high.
Azure Adams 4 years ago
Cut your loses. And what is this whole "cut her mess?" Do you mean knock her s**t off?
Monica Redford 3 years ago
Best way to deal with a bridezilla! Had to do the same to my bestie 30 minutes before the wedding reminding her that my 2 kids where her flower girls.
Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago
That was not your fault the groom must have been spitting chips too.. LOL
#28
Bride insisted we (bridesmaids) make all the decorations but got pissed because they weren’t up to her high standard. All of this a month before the wedding because she procrastinated the whole thing. Wanted to plan the bridal shower herself cause she thought we were incompetent. During the bachelorette party we went to a decently fancy restaurant and bride was pissed because her little sister (bridesmaid who helped with nothing) “only ate simple foods so we should have just went to mcdonalds”. To this day she keeps saying how she wants to do the wedding over again because of how horrible everything went. There is so much more to this but I’m already border-line exposing myself (we are still currently friends) by saying all of this haha. It was not a good time and I myself don’t want to have a wedding after being a part in that disaster
Anne Marieke Fransen 4 years ago
My niece had a beautiful wedding but an unhappy marriage. Please keep your focus on the important things in life
kevin 4 years ago
Yeah, but to these people, the wedding is the more import things in life
Load More Replies... Billy The Kid 4 years ago
Yeah great idea to have the wedding again. At least we get the opportunity NOT to turn up
Kelly Hartle 4 years ago
One person I know had a wedding on the Miracle Mile with a jazz band, artichoke-stuffed chicken breasts and an open bar. Her sister used the money to make a down payment on a house, and got married at a state park instead. Guess which marriage is still going?
Mickie Shea 4 years ago
I be a wedding officiant and there are brides who mess their own weddings. Most do not.. Make your wedding enjoyable and fun.
Sandra Llewelyn 4 years ago
Why do people do this? If someone treated me like this I would walk away delete and block all possible contacts.
Azure Adams 4 years ago
Cut your loses and end that one. She's showing you her real self and wow! You still want to remain friends with that?! Have some self-respect. History with a person does mean being disrespected and putting up a shitty attitude because "thats how they are." You're worth more
#29
I had to wear very high heels that didn't fit right, which was made even worse by the fact that I never ever wear heels. Her ceremony was well over an hour and the bridesmaids had to stand on the stage the entire time.
Taking those heels off after the ceremony was simultaneously one of the worst and greatest feelings ever. My feet wanted to murder her.
Monday 4 years ago
This doesn't seem quite as bad as the rest...It's pretty common for wedding party dress code to include high heels. My question would be why they didn't fit right? Did the bride order the wrong shoes or did the bridesmaid in question buy the wrong size herself?
Kate 4 years ago
It could also be the style that the bride wanted that wasn't compatible with the bridesmaid's feet; I know while I can wear heels, I can't wear any with the very narrow pointed toe because my feet are wider and get squished in them (and not all shoe companies offer 'wide fit' shoes.)
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W. 5 4 years ago
"I had to" -if she made you do it although she knew it was painful for you, she's not a friend. I wanted my friends to have a good time at my Wedding, enjoying everything. But I seem to have no idea how to do a wedding, we just had a small ceremony with 12 people, no dressing rules, a nice dinner and a party in the garden It costed about 2000 Euros (incl.clothing and wedding rings) and we had a wonderful day. I fondly remember it though the marriage did not last, we separated after 20years.
Viviane 4 years ago
20 years is not bad. Some of these bridezillas might get divorced far sooner.
Load More Replies... N G 4 years ago
I more or less did this to myself on my wedding day. I NEVER wear heels, but I knew my feet would be partly visible and (at the time) affordable flat bride's shoes were like rocking horse sht. (No way was I going to spend 400% of the DRESS cost on SHOES!) So I wore heels. We got married in a hotel, where the bridal suite included complimentary dressing gown/robe and slippers. The slippers were my footwear of choice from the moment the photos were over! They were cute and matched the dress - I wish I'd thought of it beforehand!
Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago
That was not really a bad ask.. you were just not the high heels type..
#30
The bride — who was one of my best friends and very frugal — asked me and her other bridesmaid to HAND-MAKE all of her wedding decorations! I put in 15 hours a week hand-making decorations while also working and going to school full time!
Rose the Cook 4 years ago
When rather than how, and for how many guests. They might not have had the luxury of 8 months to prepare and there may have been hundreds of guests.
Load More Replies... Monday 4 years ago
Did she ask nicely? Did she say thank you? This doesn't seem like a bridezilla thing to me unless she was super rude about it.
Your_local_introvert 4 years ago
I think it's more of the fact that she had them make her wedding decor without (seemingly) any help from the bride. It seems like the bride expected her two bridesmaids to be able to make all of the decor by themselves, all while juggling work and school. The bride could have been more considerate, especially since we don't know the time frame of this. They might have been informed with only a two months notice to the wedding, that's hardly fair.
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Sorry, but this has got nothing to with the bride but all with the person who was foolish enough to take on such a chore. No matter in what way the bride asked her, if she didn't have the time to make these decorations she could have said no.
Donna Leske 4 years ago
Can you not learn to say"No"? And you don't have to say "sorry, no" just "No."
Carrie Roettger 4 years ago
Yeah, my daughter and really everyone handmade the decorations for her wedding. It wasn't a big deal
Iðunn Ýr The Icelandic Panda 4 years ago
This is the same as nr. 39. Same person, SpectralShifter, but the 39 is much better explaned.
Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago
Did she help at all? Was she thrilled ? Many do this but usually willingly, or not at all.
Frances Mccloud 4 years ago
Don’t have such high expectations! And at least pay for the supplies. Being frugal is one thing, but expecting them to make and pay for supplies is just being cheap! If there was 8 months do it yourself!
#31
Bride started crying because the table cloth was the wrong shade of purple. So she thought the whole wedding was “ruined”. Never mind that she was marrying a nice man, all her friends had flown in for the wedding, her family was all there etc etc. But no, the table cloth was the wrong shade. We spent an hour consoling her and fixing up her makeup, while the guests waited
Kristal 4 years ago
I obviously don't know the exact situation but based off this text, the bride could have just had an anxiety attack. Weddings can be very stressful and things build, then something so insignificant, like the color of tablecloth, can just push it all over. I have definitely reacted similarly in my life over seemingly stupid/small things, but it was an accumulation of a few things not JUST the small thing (I have REALLY bad anxiety, medicated and all that fun jazz)
Monday 4 years ago
Yeah this seems like a "straw that broke the camel's back" type situation. Probably wasn't about the cloth at al.
Load More Replies... InvincibleRodent 4 years ago (edited)
I think when things like this happen (a big huge freakout over a very minor thing nobody would otherwise give a crap about), it's almost never about the actual thing itself, but more a culmination of events, or simply about something else, and that was the straw that broke the camel's back. Maybe the groom isn't actually all that nice. Maybe she doesn't want to marry him. Maybe she doesn't want to marry ANYONE, either at all or right then, and is scared. Maybe something completely different, or a collection of all of the above. It sucks for everyone involved, of course (I mean, it's a friggin tablecloth, for most people I'm pretty sure even they are like "what the hell, why am I crying about this, it's a TABLECLOTH, what is wrong with me" but they just can't stop), but man... these stories make me sad.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago
Honestly, this might have been the result of too much stress for too long. I've seen it happen before.
Premislaus de Colo 4 years ago
I guess this kind of behaviour might be a result of high psychological tension and lack of total convenience that she's going to marry the right person projection onto things like wrong shade of tablecloth
Daphne Williams 4 years ago
It sounds like she was actually anxious about getting married, and was transferring her stress to minor things.
#32
The bride had 16 bridesmaids, and she wanted 16 different styles of dresses in 16 different shades of blue for each of the bridesmaids. She threw a fit when the store didn't have quite that many options
Viviane 4 years ago
How does the bitch even have 16 friends?? Maybe she has a huge family?
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Kerstin Fransen 4 years ago
People casually having 16 bridesmaids, whereas I barely talk to 16 people altogether.
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
bridezilla probably refused to let them eat anything fattening in case they ended up "too fat" and "threw off the aesthetic/wedding photos" e_e
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#33
I bartend at a catering joint. “Bridezilla” would honestly describe like 40% of brides at our weddings. They can be extremely demanding, always blamed us, the bartenders, for the limitations of our venue or their own contract. Ran out of the special order scotch on our bar? You shoulda ordered more bottles.
#34
Not a bridezilla story, but I was in 3 weddings in the span of one year and one interesting thing I noticed was that there is always one bridesmaid that the bride stops being friends with after the wedding. You can start to see which bridesmaid it's gonna be about half way through the engagement.
#35
She got pissed at her mother in law for wanting to throw a second bridal shower for her (plan it, send invites and everything for her. Bride does nothing, walks in, gets free [things] , leaves). Won't even go. Cant remember what idiotic thought process decided that. Demands her 20-something year old bridal party flies from Seattle to her hometown of bumf*ck nowhere West Virginia for a weekend to do the bachelorette party. Won't help them pay for their airplane tickets. They also have to fly back there A SECOND TIME for the wedding a couple months later
Your_local_introvert 4 years ago
My question is, why is there a SECOND bridal shower, why is the MIL planning it when the bride obviously doesn't want it. I wouldn't have gone happily either, I would have seen it as a huge waste of money. I understand the issue with the second part, but what's up with the first??
#36
This wedding is in like 2 weeks... The bride has recently asked me if I would mind not wearing any makeup because only the maid of honor and her really wear makeup. I was pissed and confused... The bride doesn't wear makeup ever. At the last girls night, I suggested we mess around with makeup and see what you'd like for your wedding. She refused, saying she's not going to wear it.
What the hell kind of request is that? Like do you think other women attending the wedding aren't going to wear makeup. Plus, your [friggin] moh wears pyramid scheme make up in green and black in normal day life. What the [hell] do you think she's going to wear to your wedding???
juice 4 years ago
it seems the bride wanted to look the prettiest, so she's making her friend show up with no makeup. the friend is commenting on how ridiculous this is, because other people at the wedding will inevitably be wearing it. makeup should be a choice, it seems pretty rude to ban it (seemingly for the bridesmaids only) at a wedding of all places
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#37
One friend is getting married in the beginning of the year. Her former “best fraaaand” has been super jealous ever since Friend A got together with her man and has been actually happy. So, we’ll call her B, and it will become apparent as to why, got with a guy early in the summer. Within weeks, she gave up her lease and moved in with him. Think three weeks. It’s been less than six months, and they got engaged. Because A got engaged a few weeks ago, B got engaged last week. B? Just HAD to set her date before A. She HAS to get married FIRST. The only planning she has done? She has reserved a crappy “party room” in a run-down municipal building. She could wait, save money, and have a decent wedding on a budget. But no, the B has to get married FIRST, so she can rub it in A’s face that she’s HAPPIER, god damn it. My money is on B announcing her pregnancy at at A’s reception.
Two Silly Pups 4 years ago
I see not one forked up life right here... (or maybe the guy's life, too)
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
Where I am from, having a wedding in a Fire Hall is pretty standard and you know what? it is pretty nice and ridiculously cheap. But if your massive ego gets in the way, you can go somewhere expensive and unnecessary. It is your life, not mine.
Lindsey Judd-Bruder 4 years ago
My ex-best friend was like this. Everything I or my son did or got, she and her son had to do or get bigger and better. It's just one of the many reasons I don't speak to her anymore...
#38
Granted I am 25 and just getting settled into my career, but my best friend expected me to spend over $2k on her bachelorette party-this was to fly to a resort and didn’t include food/activities/etc. Granted she and most of her friends are in their 30s but there was no way I could pull that off on top of everything I had spent just being in the wedding. I participated in everything I could but heck no I couldn’t drop that kind of money.
Lindsey Judd-Bruder 4 years ago
It IS bridezilla to expect that of all your friends. Very, very few people I know, would have $2k to spend on a bachelorette party...
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Laura Dawson 4 years ago
All of this crazy spending at weddings is insane & alien to me. Who is it really for? The couple or is it to show off to guests or it is all for the pics that will get posted to social media? A lady I used to work with in her mid thirties was a manager so on a decent wage, was engaged herself with a young child & had just moved into their forever home, she had a large group of friends & was always at some event twice a month. She would spend a fortune on weddings, even if it was someone she wasn't really that close to, she would have to buy a new outfit, get her hair done, the lot. She admitted she did it because she wanted to seem "together" if someone looked at her but it was all a lie. She's now in £15k worth of debt & has had to take on a second job in the evenings to help pay her bills monthly. It's shocking people spend a fortune on one day for all the wrong reasons.
third molar 4 years ago
WhTs the point of bachelor/bachelorette parties anyway! How is it important for a successful married life?
#39
It was a best friend of mine who was very frugal, so I figured she was going to have a reasonable wedding and bachelorette party. I had shared my monetary concerns with her too, that I worked and went to school and couldn’t take off much time. She didn’t have that many friends so It was only me and one other girl as bridesmaids. She asked us to hand-make ALL her decorations for the wedding (I put in 15 hours a week hand making decorations, all outside of working and going to school full time). Then she planned a week long bachelorette party out of town, also asking us to foot the bill, not to mention our dresses which I wanted to find something affordable (but she picked designer matching dresses that we had to pay for...never worn It again, been trying to sell It online). I spent nearly 1k on the whole ordeal, not to mention I did her hair and makeup for free for the wedding. I just felt largely taken advantage of and unappreciated. We are no longer friends because we ended up working together (after the wedding) and she tried to screw me over at work. It all makes me very reluctant to agree to be in someone’s wedding again, even someone I thought would be considerate of everyone else’s budget and time
Patricia Healton 4 years ago
You forgot your lack of backbone. If you can't afford it you can't afford it.
#40
Had to tailor a men’s sized tie down to fit my ten-year-old child because the bride refused to let him wear a child’s sized one because it wouldn’t “match.”
#41
Bridesmaid to a bridezilla here. The bride spent a lot of time crying and carrying on whenever she didn’t get her way because “it was her wedding and we should all do exactly what she wanted.” Which is not to say we didn’t- we sure did. She wanted everyone to justify her irrational and horrible behavior because it was all about her. She didn’t enjoy it much when I told her she was wrong for kicking someone out of her bridal party , terminating the friendship, and pitching a fit because a girl couldn’t make bridesmaid dress shopping because she was sick and had to go to the hospital. This is also coming from the same woman who got angry and didn’t speak to me for months because I didn’t come see her to congratulate her on her pregnancy when I was home on furlough for a week at Christmas.
#42
Was dealing with a break up that girlfriends knew about. While in her car on the way to a dressshop go try on bridesmaids dresses, she's asks when I will be getting married. I softly tell her, "I'm not." Her reply, "bitter." Suggesting I was bitter that I was not getting married. To her credit, I saw her in the gym weeks later, guess she was doing the bride diet of excessive exercise and limited calories and accepted my hurt - surprised feelings and apologized
Your_local_introvert 4 years ago
Still rude, some people don't want to get married.
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#43
I was in a wedding where the bride planned two separate bachelorette weekends for herself and got mad at anyone who couldn’t/wouldn’t spend two 3-day weekends at ~$500/each away from their husbands/kids/jobs. The week leading up to the wedding the temp for the big day was forecast to be a high of 10*F (February wedding, NE US). Bride was insisting on outdoor photos without coats “because we can’t hide the dresses!” Everyone, including the photographer, tells her hell no. Day of she pitches a fit when we refused to do more than one quick photo. Afterwards, she stopped talking to 75% of the bridal party because of their refusal to accommodate her outrageous demands. To this day, years later, she still complains about how her bridesmaids ruined her wedding.
ManThisWebsiteIsFrickinGood 4 years ago
Yep, the earlier post was in a different thread, by the photographer.
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Dilly Millandry 4 years ago
The marriage is more important than the wedding. Friends and family are more important than the wedding. You are not going to be a 'princess' for a day, but a bride and only one of two people getting married. Things do not have to be 'perfect' and the harder you try the more likely it is that something will go wrong - are you still married to a person you love at the end of it? Honestly, it is ridiculous how some people blow these things out of proportion.
Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago (edited)
Completely agree. My partner & I (I call him my husband but we've never legally married) have been together for over 13 years & I 'd rather have the $40, 000 (US) my sister spent on her wedding for a down payment on a house.
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Anna Banana 4 years ago
Most of these are surreal to me because in my country nobody tells the bridesmaids how to dress. Everybody wears what they like, and nobody equates nice wedding pictures with people matching up with the decor. Of course that's the culture I grew up in, and if everyone agrees to follow a certain theme I have no problem with that, I recognize it could be fun - but then articles like this happen and I'm left flabbergasted at how some people can just ruin the fun for everybody.
Your_local_introvert 4 years ago
Yes, I personally would love "matching" dresses (at least the same style or colors) but the people in this post are taking it way to far.
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GirlFriday 4 years ago
My 20 year old niece was asked to be a bridesmaid, she accepted because she was really close with the couple and felt honored. She is also a college student and works part time. About two weeks after agreeing to be in the wedding, she got an email from the couple demanding a $1,000 contribution from each member of the wedding party. What does this $1K get them? NOTHING. They would still have to pay for dresses and travel and parties, etc. There was also a "social media" policy they had to sign which stated they would owe the couple money if they posted anything about the wedding on their personal pages. All posts were to be done on the couple's wedding accounts and any other posts would cost the poster $100 each. The entire wedding party stepped out of the wedding after getting that email.
PrincessPatton 4 years ago
To be honest, I don't think that these marriages can be happy and lasting.
Mimi777 4 years ago
I’ve been to two that were like that. One ended after two years. The other ended after about 8 months. Both were bridezillas. Both had expensive weddings. One was always complaining about not being about to afford to fix her car that had a ton of issues and not having their own place to live they had to live with the bride’s parents but were somehow able to spend thousands on a weddings. I don’t get it. They’re more concerned with one day than anything else.
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Rebecca Broscombe-Adams 4 years ago
Are these people really good friends? My friends, I'm damn sure would tell me to stfu at the first sign of this behaviour. We were married 21 years ago on out 10 year anniversary. I planned everything to be inclusive and fun for everyone. 3 hen parties for differing wallets, the guests chose all the evening songs. Booze flowed on that rainy Thursday in February and we all still talk about it! Our children were best men, I wore a black dress with a gold coat and train finished with ostrich feathers in a castle and I still have my husband and all the same best friends. If you've got this far, thank you for reading, it's been really uplifting putting this all down on a corner of the internet forever :)
Paul Mitchell 4 years ago
These are off the scale narcissism. I pity the poor blokes who ended up with this lot; they will be scarred for life.
Chris Jones 4 years ago
You'd think this would make some of them think twice. So grateful for my simple, small wedding that was just about love and not about image.
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Kristy Nelson 4 years ago
I wanted to comment on almost all of these. What is wrong with people? Good riddance!
Lunar Bicycle 4 years ago
Marriage is great, big weddings are a waste. My wife and I were were supposed to get married at a beautiful waterfall that poured right on to the beach. Our friend was our officiant, and we invited six people. My wife wore a simple but beautiful green silk dress, perfect for a March wedding on the Oregon coast. Turns out the tides were crazy and the waterfall was inaccessible. We picked another spot just up the beach, got married in high wind and light rain, and couldn’t be happier.
Dilly Millandry 4 years ago
The marriage is more important than the wedding. Friends and family are more important than the wedding. You are not going to be a 'princess' for a day, but a bride and only one of two people getting married. Things do not have to be 'perfect' and the harder you try the more likely it is that something will go wrong - are you still married to a person you love at the end of it? Honestly, it is ridiculous how some people blow these things out of proportion.
Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago (edited)
Completely agree. My partner & I (I call him my husband but we've never legally married) have been together for over 13 years & I 'd rather have the $40, 000 (US) my sister spent on her wedding for a down payment on a house.
Load More Replies... Anna Banana 4 years ago
Most of these are surreal to me because in my country nobody tells the bridesmaids how to dress. Everybody wears what they like, and nobody equates nice wedding pictures with people matching up with the decor. Of course that's the culture I grew up in, and if everyone agrees to follow a certain theme I have no problem with that, I recognize it could be fun - but then articles like this happen and I'm left flabbergasted at how some people can just ruin the fun for everybody.
Your_local_introvert 4 years ago
Yes, I personally would love "matching" dresses (at least the same style or colors) but the people in this post are taking it way to far.
Load More Replies... GirlFriday 4 years ago
My 20 year old niece was asked to be a bridesmaid, she accepted because she was really close with the couple and felt honored. She is also a college student and works part time. About two weeks after agreeing to be in the wedding, she got an email from the couple demanding a $1,000 contribution from each member of the wedding party. What does this $1K get them? NOTHING. They would still have to pay for dresses and travel and parties, etc. There was also a "social media" policy they had to sign which stated they would owe the couple money if they posted anything about the wedding on their personal pages. All posts were to be done on the couple's wedding accounts and any other posts would cost the poster $100 each. The entire wedding party stepped out of the wedding after getting that email.
PrincessPatton 4 years ago
To be honest, I don't think that these marriages can be happy and lasting.
Mimi777 4 years ago
I’ve been to two that were like that. One ended after two years. The other ended after about 8 months. Both were bridezillas. Both had expensive weddings. One was always complaining about not being about to afford to fix her car that had a ton of issues and not having their own place to live they had to live with the bride’s parents but were somehow able to spend thousands on a weddings. I don’t get it. They’re more concerned with one day than anything else.
Load More Replies... Rebecca Broscombe-Adams 4 years ago
Are these people really good friends? My friends, I'm damn sure would tell me to stfu at the first sign of this behaviour. We were married 21 years ago on out 10 year anniversary. I planned everything to be inclusive and fun for everyone. 3 hen parties for differing wallets, the guests chose all the evening songs. Booze flowed on that rainy Thursday in February and we all still talk about it! Our children were best men, I wore a black dress with a gold coat and train finished with ostrich feathers in a castle and I still have my husband and all the same best friends. If you've got this far, thank you for reading, it's been really uplifting putting this all down on a corner of the internet forever :)
Paul Mitchell 4 years ago
These are off the scale narcissism. I pity the poor blokes who ended up with this lot; they will be scarred for life.
Chris Jones 4 years ago
You'd think this would make some of them think twice. So grateful for my simple, small wedding that was just about love and not about image.
Load More Replies... Kristy Nelson 4 years ago
I wanted to comment on almost all of these. What is wrong with people? Good riddance!
Lunar Bicycle 4 years ago
Marriage is great, big weddings are a waste. My wife and I were were supposed to get married at a beautiful waterfall that poured right on to the beach. Our friend was our officiant, and we invited six people. My wife wore a simple but beautiful green silk dress, perfect for a March wedding on the Oregon coast. Turns out the tides were crazy and the waterfall was inaccessible. We picked another spot just up the beach, got married in high wind and light rain, and couldn’t be happier.
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