Weddings are supposed to be joyous occasions where people celebrate the beginning of something great and families come together. Well, that’s how it's SUPPOSED to be anyway. With these kinds of brides, however, even the most beautiful weddings turn into NIGHTMARES, especially for the bridesmaids and closest friends.
Read these stories to hear more about these unbearable and unhinged bridezillas!
1. 16 Shades of Blue
She asked 16 girls to be bridesmaids. In the year and a half between the engagement and wedding, all but 6 dropped out (3 were her sisters). She wanted 16 separate shades of blue and 16 different styles of dresses for each bridesmaid then threw a fit when the store didn't have that many options.
She demanded everyone pay for a week-long bachelorette party in Vegas (including her share) and then got mad when some opted out (I was a single mom/college student at the time). Her parents gave her a $20,000 budget and she ended up spending $100k and demanding they pay for it- they took out a loan they are still paying off.
She wanted everyone to have the same hair shade so she asked the two blonde bridesmaids to dye their hair (they declined). She paid for nothing for the bridesmaids (traditionally the brides pay for something- the hair/makeup or the dress) but demanded we purchase specific shoes, jewelry, dress, etc plus hair and makeup.
We paid for the entire weekend stay at the hotel she was getting married. We were all told that the costs for the wedding, not including a gift, would be well over $2k per bridesmaid. This was mostly amongst college-age women in poor/middle-class areas. She also had three separate engagement parties/bridal showers.
The final straw for me was when she demanded to see my toast a month prior so she could edit it. She ended up rewriting it totally.
I skipped the wedding totally and ended our friendship. They did end up getting married and 6+ years later he seems absolutely miserable.
Hotel_girl985
2. “Only Blonde”
The bride was blonde and all the bridesmaids except for me were brunettes. She asked me to dye my hair brown for the wedding because she, “wanted to be the only blonde.” I suggested that instead I just give up my bridesmaid spot.
Thankfully to this day since I heard the dresses and bachelorette party cost all the other girls more money than I make in a month.
Kmmurky
3. Last moments with dad
My sister had 10 bridesmaids, most of whom were her sorority sisters from college. They wanted to plan an elaborate summer weekend, while most were still in school without jobs. When I asked “Hey, who will pay for this?” my sister got pissed that I even asked.
When I also reminded all the bridesmaids that our father who had stage 4 cancer wasn’t doing so well and that maybe the bachelorette/bridal shower should be close by, they all flipped thinking I was being insensitive to the bride.
I was promptly asked not to be a bridesmaid at my own sister’s wedding over these two things. I was fine with this as she was a bridezilla and I spent time with our dying father. He died 2 weeks after her wedding day, and he couldn’t attend because he was in hospice care one day before her wedding.
To me, she put herself before our ailing father, and it still makes me mad.
SashWhitGrabby
4. Without Glasses
My ex-best friend tried to make me and another bridesmaid walk down her outdoor, uneven, tulle-covered aisle WITHOUT GLASSES. She told us the morning of the event, so we didn't have any time to get contacts or anything.
She threw a near-hysterics fit because she was convinced we would "ruin the aesthetic of her wedding".
I told her she would have a single groomsman walking that aisle if she made me walk without them.
She started bawling but her mom was able to get her calmed down enough for her to agree to let us wear our glasses so we could actually make it down the aisle in one piece. (Her mom essentially said that she is more skinny and beautiful than either of us and no one would be glancing at her bridesmaids anyway because we aren't important)
SuitcaseOfSparks
5. Don’t steal my spotlight
A friend of mine in college was getting married at 19 because she was super conservative Christian and she wanted to get intimate.
Between the time I agreed to be a bridesmaid and a couple of months before the wedding, I lost some weight. She got super pissed at me because she wanted to be the skinny one on the stage and threw me out of the wedding party.
[deleted]
6. My best friend took advantage of me!
My best friend 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, and never wore again. I have 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. 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.
SpectralShifter
7. A huge favor
My best friend just got kicked out of being a bridesmaid because she couldn't spend the $1500 to go to the bachelorette party, all the other costs were killing her. The bride told her to take out a credit card to pay for it.
One of our friends made the best comment about the situation, "she (the bride) just did you the best favor ever by kicking you out of the bridal party".
Awayfrommymind
8. Walk down the aisle
My mom was the bride, she didn't have bridesmaids but I (her daughter) was going to walk her down the aisle.
I've had purple or blue hair for quite some time, and I checked almost a year in advance with my mom that it would be okay for my hair to be blue for the wedding. I checked again every few months, and every time I was told to stop insinuating that she was a bridezilla, of course, my hair was fine.
Two weeks before the wedding, my own mother threatened to dis-invite me from the wedding if I didn't fix my hair. So I went and got it done, came home and my mother told me I was shallow for changing my hair to keep up appearances.
Getting it re-dyed back to blonde cost me over $300.
[deleted]
9. We can’t hide the dresses!
I was in a wedding where the bride planned two 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 temperature for the big day was forecast to be a high of 10*F (February wedding, NE US). The bride insisted on outdoor photos without coats “because we can’t hide the dresses!”
Everyone, including the photographer, tells her no. On the day of the wedding, she pitched a fit when we refused to do more than one quick photo.
Afterward, 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.
Hexagogo
10. My birthday
The bachelorette party was the same weekend as my birthday. We weren’t allowed to do anything for my birthday at all on the trip. Not even mention it. 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, didn’t say a word, and walked out.
She was pissed because our friends wanted to do something small for me on my actual birthday.
It was fitting that the wedding ended in a huge family drama. I definitely stopped talking to her after the wedding was over.
rational_adult
11. My perfect wedding
The bride picked $400 bridesmaid dresses. The destination bachelorette cost over $1200. She insisted on a super expensive spot for the bridal shower and registered at William Sonoma.
I was a broke college student with limited funds but managed to pay for all this crap and give a gift.
Her husband forgot his entire tux and didn't figure this out until a few hours before the ceremony.
A few minutes before the ceremony she screamed at me for like the 500th time that day. I snapped and told her either she cut it off or I will get into my car and go home.
She cut it. The rest of it went fine.
[deleted]
12. She wants another wedding
The bride insisted we (bridesmaids) make all the decorations but got pissed because they weren’t up to her high standard. All of this was a month before the wedding because she procrastinated the whole thing.
She 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 the bride was pissed because her little sister (bridesmaid who helped with nothing) “only ate simple foods so we should have just gone to MacDonalds”.
To this day she keeps saying how she wants to do the wedding over again because of how horrible everything went. It was not a good time and I don’t want to have a wedding after being a part of that disaster.
Missxdi
13. Thanks for the wedding present
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 at her wedding, it felt like all she cared about was gifts.
Smnth123
14. No makeup
The wedding was in like 2 weeks and the bride had recently asked me if I would mind not wearing any makeup. This was because only the maid of honor and her really wore 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 was 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?
Bellsonlywish
15. Picture Perfect
I was a bridesmaid at my father and stepmother's wedding. I was 16. It wasn't so much the wedding day that was a problem, but rather the prep and planning.
She spent 8 months before the wedding trying to bully me into losing weight for the wedding pictures. The closer we got to it, the more aggressive she was. Eventually, my dad got on the bandwagon too. I started dieting for the wedding but I was angry and miserable the whole time.
Everything I ate was commented on. If she was bringing home dinner, she would always ask what I wanted and then reply with, "You shouldn't eat that before the wedding."
When we went to get bridesmaid dresses, she brought her friends and very much ignored me the whole time. She had one of the employees bring me a dress and when I peeked out to ask for a bigger size, she lost it again. We got home and she screamed at my dad about it, who in turn went off on me for breaking my promise about losing weight.
The wedding happened. I am only in two pictures. Our relationship is a lot better now. A few months ago she commented that she didn't know why our photographer didn't take more pictures of me.
BabyGirlR
16. I am pregnant
I found out I was pregnant a couple of weeks after the bride set her wedding date. My due date was 6 days before the wedding, which also happened to be a 6 hour drive away. She had asked me to hold off on trying to get pregnant until after the wedding, which was ridiculous.
She got incredibly pissed at me and held it over me my entire pregnancy, and uninvited me to the wedding (I was supposed to be the maid of honor). She even talked about me in the next bed at her bachelorette party which I still went to even though I was 7 months pregnant (she thought I was sleeping).
Her grandmother also died around the same time I got pregnant and I think she took all of her anger about her grandmother not being there for her big day out on me. Surprisingly our friendship survived the ordeal and she has since apologized profusely and admitted that she was taking things out on me unfairly.
She is now trying to get pregnant, even though our other best friend is getting married soon and we’re both at the wedding.
BeagleOfDoom
17. My colorful hair
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. I had just 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 gone from brown to lime green out of nowhere I might have understood 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 talking 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.
Sweetvi0let
18. Wrong shade of purple
The bride started crying because the tablecloth was the wrong shade of purple. 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 there, etc. But no, the tablecloth was the wrong shade. We spent an hour consoling her and fixing up her makeup, while the guests waited.
smackkcat
19. “Curl your hair”
I was a bridesmaid at my sister's wedding. She is very high-strung normally, so the wedding just threw her over the top. We were getting ready and I have extremely straight hair that can't keep a curl for anything.
The hairdresser couldn't get it to stay curled and my sister started screaming at me that I was ruining her wedding because of my stupid hair.
My mom jumped in and got my hair curled with 1/2 a bottle of hair spray. My sister then blamed me for ruining her makeup because she was crying because of my hair.
Dell_55
20. Puppet bridesmaid
When my friend was a bridesmaid, she received an astonishingly detailed itinerary of how to behave on the wedding day, with notes like "9:52 am: 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.
ChestnutMoss
21. Demoted
I was MOH (maid of honor) for a wedding. I had recently finished grad school and writing my license exam. When I found out I had not passed my first section, I told her I would need to prioritize my career, she demoted me to bridesmaid and explained "It was just a position".
I learned to find out that she became very controlling with high expectations from her bridesmaids. We met up again post-wedding to patch things up and come to an understanding about what happened. She said, "If I had to do it again, I wouldn't change a thing".
Let's just say that friendship dissolved quickly after that.
2unnie
22. Too many demands
I was asked to be a bridesmaid for a college friend which was weird because we weren’t great friends, but I don’t think she had many female friends. She expected us to buy expensive designer dresses which she insisted we’d be able to wear again. We had to have matching shoes and jewelry which we were expected to pay for.
We were expected to help her DIY all her decorations. And that wasn’t even the worst part. She finally got it in her head that I’d embroider favors for all of her 150+ guests. (I have a small side business of custom embroidery). When I told her how much it would cost per favor she balked and said it was too high.
When I explained that wasn’t even what I’d charge but was just the cost of materials she tried to convince me to do it “as a wedding gift”. I declined.
Then she decided that my red hair would compete for attention and asked me to dye it brown for the ceremony. I ended up explaining that my work schedule was getting too out of control and combined with my chronic illness I just didn’t feel comfortable being a bridesmaid because I’d feel bad if I got sick and couldn’t fulfill my duties.
She seemed okay with that until I realized 7 months later that she didn’t end up inviting me to her actual wedding. I’ve never been so glad to have been disinvited to something in my whole life.
Indiareef
23. Obsessed
My best friend at the time was super jealous of our mutual friends getting married. They had been together since high school. She went off and cheated on her boyfriend. The boyfriend decides this makes him want to marry her. My best friend became obsessed with planning her wedding.
For almost two years everything was about her and this damn wedding. It was exhausting. I couldn’t afford to do anything she wanted (I was her second MOH) and she screamed at me a couple of days before the wedding and told me I was a horrible friend for not getting her anything off of her registry.
They divorced anyway.
Tinybirdblue
24. Drama queen
My sister was two hours late to her “surprise” bridal shower that she helped plan. She knew everything and was still two hours late. She then proceeded to throw a fit because another bridesmaid had to leave “early”.
The day before the wedding the best man’s wife said that she didn’t want her husband at a strip club and my sister went full bridezilla. She said, “It’s my wedding, not yours. If you are too insecure in your marriage then you should divorce” and “I never invited you to my wedding anyways, just your husband so you don’t have a say in this”. The best man quit the day before the wedding.
That night I made a joke about how she procrastinated so much she probably procrastinated writing her vows. Apparently, I hit the nail on the head and she basically told me to leave the rehearsal dinner if I was “just going to start things between me and [husband]”.
The best part is she got me drunk because she didn’t want me to catch the bouquet. I was a minor and I still caught it.
Star7k
25. Bad make up
My best friend since kindergarten got married to one of our best friends, coincidentally a guy I had dated before my best friend got with him. No awkwardness or hard feelings, since they were a much better match and I was by that time engaged to the man of my dreams.
I was the MOH at her wedding, and she had a friend of hers do our makeup.
The room we were in didn’t have a mirror, so I only got a look at myself after all of the bridesmaids had been made up.
I looked terrifying. I had raccoon eyes with heavy black makeup caked on foundation and exaggerated eyebrows and the whole look was just awful.
The worst part was that the rest of her bridesmaids looked fine.
CaptainTripps889
26. Be there for me!
One of my best friends in college was at my wedding, and she asked me to be in hers. She liked my idea of the bridesmaids picking out their own dress, as long as it was a certain color. The time came for her wedding, and she changed her mind and picked out a dress at a shop, and expected us to buy certain shoes as well as pay for our hair, nails, and makeup (for a full-time employee, full-time student, and mother, this was not easy to pay for).
She had multiple events or parties leading up to the wedding (engagement party, bridal shower, things like that) and was pretty upset if we could not attend every one.
Now, I did my best to accommodate her, but another bridesmaid was unable to attend one party, so the bride was talking to me about how she couldn't rely on her.
In the past, the bride had missed my bridal shower, baby shower, and birthday parties because of family events. How can you miss so much for one person, but get upset because someone can't make it to one of your many parties?
I'm starting to think being in a wedding can ruin relationships, so maybe it's just easier to help out but not be in the actual wedding party.
BetOnWaifu
27. Surprise trip
My maid of honor turned into the bridezilla at my bachelorette. She planned the whole thing without regard to anyone’s budget, wouldn’t tell anyone what we were doing, and did not have fun the entire trip!
She thought it would be fun for it to be a surprise for everyone but the other bridesmaids were not told where all their money was going or what activities they were participating in.
I’m sure they each dropped well over $500 for the trip and I feel awful because I’m such a laid-back person that would have been happy doing something chill and cheap.
In the end, it was a really fun trip and I think everyone enjoyed themselves (except for her who stressed in the corner all weekend)
Tayloki
28. Stop complaining!
My friend ordered custom stamps of her engagement pictures, used them to send the invitations, and was furious that Canada Post put a postal mark over the stamps. That’s what they do with stamps on mail. She made several angry Facebook posts and complained about it for over a month.
She also ordered custom napkins and was furious that the shade of purple was slightly more blue than she wanted.
Again, she made angry Facebook posts and endless complaining. On the day of the wedding, she hadn’t even thought of what to do with them and ended up just stacking them near the bar.
She spent most of her bachelorette party crying because it wasn’t perfect and not enough people came.
Not_A_Wendigo
29. International wedding
The bride asked all of her bridesmaids to visit her country for the wedding, which would include having to book an international flight, find lodging, etc.
It was only halfway through the actual wedding itself that we found out she was having four weddings in four different locations and that she was visiting each of our respective countries to have one.
She just really needed all the bridesmaids to fly in for this one because of reasons. She wound up cheating on her husband and getting divorced in under a year.
Absolute waste of time and money.
Teii
30. Cover your tattoos
A friend asked me to be a bridesmaid because she had “no one else left to ask”. Okay, thanks. I stupidly bought the ugly brown coloured dress anyway and a few months before the wedding, she dropped a bombshell on me.
She knew prior to all of this that I was almost completely covered in tattoos. So then I was told that I would have to get all of my tattoos airbrushed/covered by makeup. Apparently, my having tattoos would ruin her church wedding or photos.
I understand how she didn’t want anyone but her to have their tattoos showing but what I don’t get is why she asked me knowing I have them and waiting until I already bought the dress to order me to cover them. When I explained that I didn’t have the funds for that (I was a poor university student who had already used a paycheck to buy that ugly dress), she told me it wasn’t her problem.
Thankfully, I begged out of the wedding by scoring a summer internship and she found a random woman to stand in and bought the dress from me.
Haiku25
31. August wedding
The wedding was in August, in the afternoon, in Ohio. Over 85 degrees and over 80% humidity. The bride had always been simple and down-to-earth and said that was the wedding she wanted. We asked how she wanted our hair, makeup, jewelry, etc., and she said, “Don't go out of your way, just be natural”
She showed up at the church with the maid of honor, and both had spent the morning at the spa getting humidity-proof makeup and updos.
We all looked terrible next to them. She told us after the ceremony that she had added outdoor photos in the park to the schedule, so we were outside in the afternoon in the sun, heat, and humidity, melting and sweating.
Then she got upset that we were too tired to dance and party in the evening and most of us left the reception early.
Usename13579
32. You stole my veil
My cousin moved to New Zealand from England and got married a few years later, I had waist-length hair and got 6 inches of my hair cut off before the wedding so it was in good condition (it was going in an updo anyway so this didn't matter).
I flew halfway around the world for this wedding and my cousin was mad because my boobs were bigger than hers.
When we got our hair done as a trial run she asked the hairdresser if she'd cut 6 inches off my hair so it matched her other bridesmaid, I obviously interrupted and said no.
She got angry at her aunt for not wearing a designer dress. She lost her veil and blamed every family member who flew over for stealing it.
Hollabile
33. Focus on me
The bride had a floral dress so everyone else was not allowed to wear floral. One of the bridesmaids was very masculine and cried for days when the bride told her she had to wear hair extensions and a dress, she told all big-chested girls they had to wear neck-high dresses and show no cleavage, which is a little hard.
She made her maid of honor get her dreadlocks cut off. She asked me to give a speech and then wrote it for me. The minute you concentrated on any other commitment than her wedding you apparently didn’t pay attention.
That day is the only day I’ve ever been happy I had contracted gastro earlier in the week.
BecBoney4
34. Wedding in Vegas
My mother was asked by a friend of hers to be the Maid of Honor. Of course, seeing as this was her big day, she was thrilled. That is until her friend demanded that she pay for her own food at the wedding, her own ticket, and her own hotel.
This would have been reasonable if that hadn't totaled to 5k because it was in Vegas. My mother tried to explain to her, that with her making barely 30k a year (with 3 kids) that just wasn't possible.
The bride FREAKED, calling her fake and rude. She ended up not going to the wedding
Selina_kyle00
35. The wedding ruined my friendship
I was the maid of honor and the wedding ruined our friendship. So many Bridezilla moments but here’s what comes to mind off the top of my head in no particular order.
She insisted that I buy personalized tea bags for the bridal shower (they said something like “BridesName+ GroomsName for Eterni-tea.” she had never drunk tea in her life!), she didn’t like that I used plastic teacups to display the dumb things in and insisted I send the shower invitation exactly as she designed/demanded (never mind she wasn’t paying).
She got mad at me for getting a skin allergy test two weeks before the wedding because I still had a mark on my back that you could see if you were 2 inches from my right shoulder. She also got mad that another bridesmaid focused on their child while the bride was screaming instructions at rehearsal dinner.
She almost called the wedding off the week before because she found out her fiancé had looked at porn even though she forbade him from doing so. She got mad at me because I mentioned to someone that she got her hideous wedding dress on sale, and sent pictures of herself in her hideous sale dress as thank you notes.
whereismyscrunchie
36. “Better come back and clean up”
When I was about 19 I had a friend get married. I was working a part-time, minimum wage job at the time so I didn’t have a lot of money. She made us buy our own dresses (white ones), shorts and vans. It was an expensive outfit I would never wear again.
She eloped and got married in a courthouse. She still expected us to go to the “wedding”, which was really just a reception. She also lied to me for months about being pregnant. The whole night she was extremely rude to everyone, yelling at us about where to stand and such.
Her family is friends with my family so my mom and grandparents came and when I went to sit with them she yelled at me to go stand at the gift table with like 4 other bridesmaids. I ended up peacing out and my phone died. I got home and plugged it in and there were tons of texts and voicemails from her screaming about how I “better come back and clean up”.
We didn’t talk for MONTHS and never really addressed the situation again.
tairanasaurusrex
37. Teen wedding
I was the maid of honor for my friend who was 19 and a college freshman. We all had no money. She asked the other bridesmaids (4) and me to come to her city for the whole week before the wedding to help her get things ready.
We decided to plan her bachelorette party with her sister during this time. The bride got mad at me for spending an hour with her sister planning the party. Apparently every hour of my time that week belonged to the bride. We had to buy $150 dresses, and $100 shoes and then pay $70 to have the shoes professionally dyed.
She was unhappy with almost everything we did and saved all the homemade decorations until the last minute. During the reception, she took her first birth control pill, claiming she didn’t want to get pregnant. I told her that she needed to start taking those at least a few weeks before the honeymoon if she wanted them to be effective, so I asked one of the guests (a friend of mine) to go buy her protection for their wedding night.
The lack of planning, lack of communication, and lack of consideration for our budgets and time made her a BRIDEZILLA. Also, they divorced after 2 years, and the bride never bothered to change her name.
julietdeltaoscar
38. A dress from Target!
My wife was a bridesmaid at her cousin’s wedding.
The wedding was incredibly cheap and thrown together, but the bride got mad because she wanted all the bridesmaids in these expensive dresses and she was wearing a dress from Target.
[deleted]
39. You should not have invited me
Bridezilla got engaged and asked me to be a bridesmaid while I was 6 months pregnant. She assured me it was completely fine. She excluded me from all the activities and girly hangouts she had with the other bridesmaids (we were all mutual friends).
At the time she'd explain that it was to let me rest and "knew I had a lot on my plate", I told her I'd love to go to dress fittings and wedding planning in cafes but I was never invited. Then she started to get really mean. She made jokes, both behind my back and to my face about me gaining weight while pregnant.
She kept being coy about the details of her day, I had no idea whether we were meeting at her house for hair and makeup or at her mum's.
So the day of her wedding arrives and I take a stab and go to hers, the bridesmaids are all there and have been since the morning when they went to a cafe without me.
At her wedding, I met her new inlaws and they were in mourning. The MIL wore black and I overheard her make a comment to her friend about her son's previous ex being lovely. His family was deeply religious and ran their own congregation but Bridezilla wasn't and it really caused a rift between the two families.
Her SIL managed to cut her own hand and smear the blood on her wedding dress "accidentally" during the reception. I kind of understood why Bridezilla was so frustrated/taking it out on me.
I shouldn't have put up with it but I did. Since then I've cut off contact and feel so much better for it.
Kittie_purr
40. Flat shoes
My sister's wedding, she wanted me to buy shoes of a particular heel size, since I was taller than her and the other maids. I ended up wearing flats because there were no pale gold sandals with 2-inch heels. I got told off by all my aunties for that.
I wonder if she will think back to her wedding day and genuinely appreciate that she was taller than everyone. As for me, my maids are doing whatever they want with hair nails, and shoes. I got infinity dresses from eBay for $20 each.
I just care that they’re there.
ButtisLove
41. “Insensitive bride”
I got "fired" because I couldn't afford the bachelorette party. She told me to ask my parents for the money even though I had told her my Dad had just had cancer surgery and I was not getting any money from my parents for school.
I had been scraping to buy the $200 dress she wanted (fortunately fired before I bought it) and could not afford the 1-2k for a weekend trip to Vegas.
We haven't spoken since.
[deleted]
42. My wedding, my way!
I was asked to be one of 5 bridesmaids because we were all the same dress size. First, I got a pixie cut 6 months before the wedding (my hair grows quickly and it was pretty short, to begin with), and I was almost booted from the wedding party.
She kicked out another girl for a pair of shoes she wanted to wear. We got into an altercation because I couldn't help decorate the reception hall even though I lived 100 miles away and worked and went to school full time.
On the day of the wedding, it was raining and cold, so the planner suggested we move inside for the wedding, and the bride threw a royal fit until it was moved back outside (thankfully it was sunny by the time the wedding started). Then the bride made her and the groom leave the reception early because she wasn't feeling well, which ended the reception 3 hours early.
Additionally, none of the bridal party got free drinks, and at weddings I've been to that did not have an open bar, that was never a thing! That may just be a custom where I grew up.
[deleted]
43. Most demanding bride
I was a bridesmaid at my sister’s wedding. I had to make sure all my tattoos were covered and my dyed blonde hair was perfect to her standards. It took me a year to get to her perfect hair standards.
On the day of the wedding, her wedding planner confided to me that my sister was terrifying and the most demanding/on-top-of-things bride she had ever worked with!
Piangere
44. Happy ending by the inlaws
The bride was super demanding that everyone fly across the country to her wedding. I got there a week early to help and she was micromanaging everything from the shade of white on the tablecloths to the spice level in food (too cheap for caterer).
We would ask her how we could help and she directed my husband to set up napkins on tables in an overlapping pattern (turquoise on white on turquoise on white) so he spent 4 hours doing it.
She flips out when she comes back and says he’s ruined her wedding. Why? When he set it up the way she wanted, she couldn’t see the monograms on the napkins.
Her in-laws cuss out my husband, assure her that nothing will be allowed to go wrong today, and then a team of them descend on the tables to ‘fix’ it. Still went to the wedding, but we haven’t spoken since.
Laudanum21
45. The new best friend
The bride had been my best friend since Kindergarten, and we had talked about being at each other’s weddings for over a decade. I had moved to another state by that point but she still asked me to be her maid of honor. Obviously, I said yes.
She kept things pretty chill until I arrived one week before the wedding. I had flown down six months earlier to pick dresses (which we ended up having to buy ourselves, no subs allowed, and they were over $1K each...) then took one week off work to come down and help with pre-wedding prep.
I worked full-time in healthcare where it was pretty difficult to get time off, and I honestly thought she would be appreciative. Oops. I get there and her “new best friend” is HORRIBLE and is completely feeding the bridezilla behavior. I felt like I didn’t recognize my friend at all.
Suddenly I was being bossed around like a peasant girl, and was regulated to sleeping on the floor (I have medical issues that make that hard and my friend knew this, so I had been promised a pull-out couch to avoid a hotel room, but all that went out the window when the new girl showed up), and was uninvited from the bachelorette party. I ended up staying at home with her little sister, and I wish I had had the courage then to speak up and just leave instead of only the little talk I tried to have with my friend about it.
At the actual wedding, things didn’t get much better. The bride’s mom was crazy (always has been) and her BFF Jessica was even worse. The bride and I had a discussion before I even flew down about keeping Jessica away from the bride and properly corralled. Easy, right? HA!
The price for me asking Jessica to not enter the room during the first look was: my phone being stolen (I conveniently found it in Jessica’s bag during the reception, but don’t worry, she was just taking it to the lost and found), my speech ending up in the trash, snide comments all night long and, oh yeah, my $1000 dress being lit on fire during the send-off.
She tried to claim it was just a spark from the sparker that did it, but the fire started at the back hem and no one was behind me.
The new bestie didn’t make the wedding go any smoother. She actually snatched the mic from me during toasts in a drunken fit, ripped the bustle button off of the bride’s dress, and then blamed it on me, and tried to regulate my drinks at the open bar to just ONE, which was the last straw and the one I called her out on it.
All in all, I paid almost $3000 for her stupid wedding, and from what I hear from mutual friends they’ll probably be divorcing soon anyway.
ChandlerStacs
46. Reality Check!
Not a bridesmaid, 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 bridesmaid 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.
BARDLover
47. It’s a “WE” thing
I was the groom and my bride INSISTED that because all the bridesmaids dresses were the same and that the groomsmen’s attire all match EXACTLY as well.
After settling on the look “we” wanted for the big day beach wedding I talked to all the groomsmen and asked for shirt sizes, pants sizes, and if I remember correctly their shoe sizes.
Then I went out and bought all of their outfits. I was NOT about to subject them to spending their own time coordinating and shopping and all that grief.
And heaven forbid if something wasn’t right.
It only cost me a couple hundred dollars, but to me, it was worth it. It was only a white dress shirt, khaki slacks, and brown sandals but to my wife, it meant the world.
Porkchop2022
48. Nowhere, West Virginia
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 stuff, and leaves). She wouldn’t even go. Can't remember what idiotic thought process decided that.
She demands her 20-something bridal party fly from Seattle to her hometown of 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 of months later.
She's a crazy one.
Panda_Mon
49. I did it first!
I’m watching events unfold. 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, my other friend, 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 A’s reception.
Madame_Kitsune98
50. Lies On Lies
The bride had 2 weddings. Pretty different financial backgrounds between us and I was a friend of the groom who became a friend during their engagement. She had one wedding in the local state where she grew up and one destination wedding a month later.
She couldn't decide which dress to get, so she bought three. I was the maid of honor at the local event and was supposed to be at the destination wedding. I had to overdraw my bank account to attend and cover expenses so I was really a bit in awe at all the extravagances.
It was a 3-hour ceremony with 2 venue changes "I want what I want!" and "It's my day!" "I gave people for that!" Still ringing in my ears just thinking of it. She spent 60k in credit card debt on her perfect day(s) which she told me the day before she had not informed the groom.
The best part was when she was in her second wedding dress change, she started to scream about how things weren't exactly what she wanted.
Standing there half-dressed and drunk yelling about how the cake wasn't perfect. (3k cake that was transported from another state was slightly smushed on the back side from hours of travel)
The whole bridal party was just standing there in the hallway waiting to take pictures again so I told her to shut up, said I wasn't going to come to the wedding in Ireland, reminded her that her hundreds of guests could hear her drunk ass, and fixed her bustle. She was such a little tantrum-throwing jerk.
At the end of the Irish dancing groups, the toasts, and her wedding dance (that was choreographed) her PAID wedding planner offered to give me cocaine for putting up with such a spoiled jerk. The lady did it loudly in front the an aunt who later told the bride.
Yeah, it sucked. She is a great girl too, just a terrible bride and drunk.
Gigatroness
51. Answer Now
Wasn't a bridesmaid, but the bride was super controlling and prone to panic attacks.
If people hadn't RSVPed to the shower, bachelorette party, or wedding BEFORE the date listed, she had a mental breakdown.
For example, if the RSVP date was Oct 1, she was panicking on Sept 20. The bridesmaids had to call people up and tell them the bride was freaking out and having panic attacks because they hadn't responded yet so they needed an answer today.
SalamandrAttackForce
52. Pink Horror
I was asked to be a bridesmaid by a girl I knew in high school but wasn't really friends with. We worked together a few years later but we weren't really friends outside of work. I said yes anyway. I was there through all the planning. Went to wedding fairs with her, viewed the venue, and helped the pick her dress, and anything she needed, I was there.
Anyway, she was always complaining about her other bridesmaids, how she only had her sister as her dad made her and her brother's girlfriend, etc. They hadn't helped out or showed any interest. Everything that could be booked and arranged in advance was sorted in under two months.
The wedding wasn't for two years but she wanted to be ready. I agreed to pay for my dress as she was a bit stuck for cash. We agreed £100 was reasonable as long as it was a dress I could wear again. I found a few nice ones online for about £80. She bought one for £30 and it was an awful, China knock-off kind of thing.
She sent it back.
Then I didn't hear from her for a few months. I figured we had years still to plan and just waited for her to get in touch.
When she did, she was asking for pictures of her trying on dresses so I sent them over and assured her again how excited I was to be a part of her special day.
She went a bit quiet and explained she thought I had dropped out. I was shocked and asked why, when I had been there every step of the way so far and she'd made no attempt to contact me. She mumbled a bit and said she'd tried but I knew she hadn't.
Anyway, she said they'd all gone out and offered bridesmaid dresses. If I went to get a fitting by Friday (impossible, I was away) I could still get mine. I asked for a photo of the dress. It was awful, like a washed-out pink nightie. We'd all said we'd like a dress we could wear a bra in.
This one we couldn't at all and I'm the last person you'd see in pink. So much for being able to wear it again. But I sucked it up and asked how much. £350!!! Insane. I was furious she'd basically cut me out of the wedding and then expected me to pay for such an ugly dress I couldn't even afford.
Needless to say, I wasn't a bridesmaid and didn't go to the wedding.
Wolfgirl2345
53. Baby Face
Wasn’t so much a bridezilla but it felt like one. I was in the wedding party (groomsman not bridesmaids) but the bride decided she didn’t want the groomsmen to have facial hair. She wanted us all clean-shaven.
I initially said screw that (I had kept my facial hair neatly trimmed short short beard for over ten years at that point) but literally no one else backed me up on it and I caved to social pressure and clean-shaved.
The first time I had been clean-shaven since I was 16. It was awful.
I have a horrible baby face without my scruff, my skin tone was a bit off and I was in such a foul mood I couldn’t enjoy the wedding at all. My parents ended up apologizing a few days later as did the groom saying they should have backed me up but it was too late at that point.
Hunterofshadows
54. Forgotten Gift
My wife's best friend is a florist by trade, and she gifted her services to decorate her friend's wedding. (Big cost savings). The wedding goes as planned, and all is good.
Afterward, Bride & Brides mom gets pissy at the florist friend who didn't give a gift in the wedding card, and "didn't even cover her/husband's plate." Let's conveniently forget the $1000 in floral products gifted to the wedding, it's a rift that never healed between them since.
Hard_at_it
55. Family Over Wedding
I couldn’t attend my friend’s last-minute destination wedding because I had to visit my dad out of state to handle hospice arrangements- he was dying of cancer.
She threw an absolute hissy fit, attempting to guilt trip me because I couldn’t afford to make two plane flights. That was the end of our friendship.
theuncannyvalleys
56. Fatherly Inconvinience
Not a bridesmaid, but my mom was a wedding photographer for many years.
Long story short, 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?!!!?"
Remberzz
57. Cheapskate
The short story is that she lied. She lied to the venue about the number of guests that were attending. Effectively packing us like sardines.
She lied about having a "day of" staff. That meant that on the date, the bridesmaids spent the day hanging flowers, running to get kegs and waters, pouring the champagne for guests, and setting up the entire venue the day before.
She lied to the hair and make-up personnel about the number of people who were obtaining services in order to get them to come to the site. This forced guests to get hair and make-up done in order for "the bride not to have to be charged extra".
She lied to the catering about the number of guests, this caused them to run out of food and alcohol. All in all, I think her lies saved her $1500, but cost her close friendships as her attitude toward the whole situation was indignation instead of being apologetic.
Yelloworchid
58. You’re Out
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.
Volcanicpale
59. The Color Of Royalty
There was a big issue with the wedding I was just MOH for. The color theme for the wedding was royal purple, lilac, and cream and all the bridesmaids had to wear royal purple colored dresses in a very specific 80s style - which you can probably imagine is quite difficult to find.
We all ordered our dresses (they were $14) when we found out that one of the bridesmaids couldn't fit into any of the available sizes.
She said she would try to lose weight as best she could and fit into the largest size by the wedding, but by then the dress was no longer available.
She tried to coordinate with the bride for a similar dress, but none that she found were exactly the same color. She ended up dropping out of the wedding entirely because the bride wasn't satisfied after she'd bought dress number five.
You'd think people would be a little more sympathetic.
Skiylark
60. The Huge Exposé
Got married in March. My wife had a MOH picked out for like 7 months, college friends, but we all slowly saw the friendship deteriorating. I went to high school with her and she was notorious for being, to put it nicely, a jerk.
My wife befriended her in college not knowing about how she was in HS. I thought “Hey, whatever, people change” and boy was I wrong. We helped her leave a toxic relationship multiple times because she kept going back to the guy.
We saw her snap at people and ruin friendships with other people and thought “Won’t happen to us” Wrong again.
About a month before the wedding she started blackmailing my wife because she bought a veil without telling my wife and expected us to buy it from her full price.
Her blackmail? Texts, between myself and my wife. (My wife has some slight bdsm kinks) that she sent to her phone while my wife wasn't paying attention.
Threatening to show everyone that I’m abusive. She went and found blackmail on my wife before they even had any problems, that was my wife’s last straw, and kicked her off the bridal party.
Chose someone who probably should have been the MOH the whole time and continued to have a great wedding.
joedracke
61. “You’re too much”
A 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 at 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.
[deleted]
62. Don’t burn bridges
My best friend from high school grew up fairly spoiled and expected all 13, yes, 13 of her bridesmaids to spend close to 800+ on the dress, shoes, nails, etc.
I backed out politely because I was working full-time trying to afford college on my own. She flipped out and ended up not even inviting me to the wedding.
3 years later she contacted me on Facebook asking to "catch up".
Turns out her husband had been cheating on her, took all of their savings, and filed for divorce.
ciaobella88
63. Weekend Away
A friend from college. We spent three months planning her bridal shower. She was not at all involved. When she finally looked at the plans 1 week before the party, she said it “wasn’t what she’d had in mind.”
She then delays the wedding, which every one of her 400 guests had already made travel accommodations for so that she can have her dream bridal shower.
She plans a $25,000 weekend in Vegas. Booked a presidential suite for herself and economy rooms for us, which she expected us to double up in. Wanted us to pay for the trip between us all evenly (25,000/7=3570 per person). And this isn’t even including her!! She said “You’re my bridesmaids, you’re kind of supposed to pay for my bridal shower.”
I didn’t have that kind of money at the time and told her so.
Same with five other bridesmaids (the other two were her sisters.) So she and her sisters have the bridal party on their own.
Day of the wedding, she informed me I needed to dye my hair (and pay for it myself) because my hair color was too similar to hers and it would be distracting. “There aren’t enough redheads so I was thinking you could be a redhead.”
To top it all off, she informed us after the ceremony that to save money, we wouldn’t be served a meal along with the rest of the guests. “You already had the privilege of being in my wedding, so, what more can you ask for?”
I didn’t contact her again after the wedding. She reached out to me to ask how to return my gift for store credit. I never replied.
ligamentary
64. Not even the discount could save her
My wife got roped into doing the photos for her step-sister's wedding. Normally my wife would charge between $4000 and $6000 for this, and we were flying across the country to attend this wedding mostly out of family obligation. So the bride was getting an amazing deal.
Over the course of six months, the bride became incredibly hateful on social media, constantly starting drama, was mean in her save the dates, and changed venue and locations several times. We knew it was going to be a crap show but we’d committed so we bought our plane tickets and planned to come.
The week before the wedding, the bride goes totally psycho and posts nasty awful things about half of her wedding party, including my wife. So we decided to cancel the photography and not attend the wedding, wasn’t worth it anymore.
The bride's own mother was so ashamed her her behavior that she didn’t attend either. All total they had 8 people at their wedding, and only got cellphone pictures. We had a nice little vacation and visited a lot of friends in the area.
Benfranklyblog
65. Short but deadly
My best friend turned out to be a bridezilla. She is normally a short (5 feet tall), giggly, fun-to-be-around person EXCEPT the whole time she was planning her wedding. She became a total control freak and nothing made her happy.
On the day of her bachelorette party, she didn’t even try to have fun. We had a spa day planned, followed by dinner at her favorite restaurant (we had asked her mom to ask her subtly/not so subtly), and an adult demonstration (it is a bachelorette after all). She ended up complaining the whole day, and when we got to the restaurant she said: “I don’t know why you guys picked this place, I don’t like it that much.”
During the adult demonstration, she didn’t even participate. Let me tell you, the mood was not fun. On the day of her actual wedding, she screamed at the hairdresser because she wasn’t getting the hair right and made her restart at least 5 times.
She had decided beforehand who would carpool with who but we decided to go against it and pick who we wanted to carpool with. She was furious at us. She made a scene before taking the bridal photos. After that, it was all a show. In front of everyone she was playing the “Oh this day is absolutely perfect just as I planned it to be.”
If you ask her today how her wedding day went, she just says that it went by too quickly and doesn’t remember much. Last note. As bridesmaids, we must have spent upwards of $500 each for the dress, makeup, hair, and events. We never got a thank you.
I’d love to say that she went back to her normal fun-loving giggly self after that, but the reality is she remained the control freak and we have drifted apart.
Gigglesandcake
66. That can’t be me
Not a personal experience, but I’m getting married in 2 weeks and when my MOH picked me up for my bachelorette, she mentioned a girl from work who is a bridesmaid at her friend’s wedding in the Spring of 2020.
Apparently, the bride for that wedding apparently has already pitched a fit that her bridal party didn’t throw her an engagement party, and that they refused to rent a cabin that will cost $400each for a group of 10 people.
This was for her bachelorette, for a wedding that is over a year and a half away.
It stressed me out just hearing her tell the story because I have felt guilty for asking my girls to do much of anything. I cannot imagine being that way.
SinsOfKnowing
67. Welp, at least it was a Vacation
My wife-to-be was the maid of honor for a destination wedding in Costa Rica. There was a falling out between the two of them, weeks before, on the night of the bachelorette party when the bride decided to get too drunk and straight up ostracize her (my fiancé) in front of her other friends that she was in a sorority with.
My fiancé is not in the sorority. They were college roommates for 2 years. Bridezilla Called her names, blatantly ignored her for no reason, and was quite the demanding person up until the wedding.
My fiancé, myself, and my fiancé’s mom, dad, and brother went to Costa Rica for the week, for HER wedding mind you.
Her family spent $15,000 for this trip in total. The bride acted as if we did not exist on the day of the wedding or the days prior at the resort.
Whatever. We had a good vacation regardless of her coldheartedness. My future brother-in-law and I DJ’d the event for free and kept her 30 or so guests Dancing all night.
We get married a week from today, and my fiancé was big enough to invite her (not as a bridesmaid, obviously). Bridezilla decided to not respond with a yes or no. Their relationship has been radio-silent since. So much for college best friends.
YoshiCudders
68. Never Again
Overheard the bride drunkenly tell a mutual friend on her wedding day that if she could do it all over again, she wouldn’t have had me and a mutual friend in her bridal party (I was the MOH).
I planned her bachelorette party (with the mutual friend) from another country and dropped a lot of money on it personally so she would have the party she wanted. I gifted her a pair of Jimmy Choos for her wedding day along with a beautiful ring with her wedding date engraved.
I had to fly to Europe for her wedding, use a hire car to get around, and help with loading/transporting wedding items back and forth. I was up that morning arranging with the hotel to deliver breakfast/coffee/ tea for the bridal party. An old friend decided a week before the wedding she was going to fly from Oz to surprise the bride, so I had to arrange that surprise and find a hotel room for this friend and speak to the groom to check with catering and arrange a seat for her without the bride knowing.
I stepped in to help the make-up artist as she was running behind schedule. I walked the venue to make sure things were on track, There are more things she did throughout the night that infuriated me. I was treated like a slave, and spoken to like one.
I catered to her every freaking whim from 6 am until midnight...and then to overhear that! Apparently, her wedding day was ruined because the calla lilies in her centerpieces wouldn’t stay suspended in the water vase like she wanted. And it was all my fault because they slowly floated to the top.
The next day she is all hugs and kisses saying it was the best night ever and she couldn’t have done it without me, I have never wanted to falcon punch a bitch so hard in the face. I will never EVER be a bridesmaid again.
AmaGlugGlug
69. Hush
My best friend wasn’t really a bridezilla about the wedding. But she asked me to host an after-party because the reception was non-alcoholic at a church fellowship hall. So she wanted to invite her friends to my house afterward to drink, sit around a bonfire, and celebrate.
I was told there would be 15-20 guests. I made food for 20 people. I bought flowers and decorations. I bought enough beer and made enough mojitos for 20.
4 hours after the expected start time of this post-reception hootenanny, she and her husband and one other friend showed up.
I was livid. I laid into her. I got drunk and went to sleep. The reason for the delay? She wanted to open presents first. The reason for no one showing up? She neglected to tell anyone.
Workity_work
70. You better Calm Down
Brother of the bride checking in: I was in the party because our father passed away, and I gave her away at the ceremony.
After the rehearsal, everyone went back to her house before dinner. Our mother, a master at baking, was putting the finishing touches on the wedding cake, while on chemo for breast cancer and barely able to hold the bag of frosting. My sister noticed some small detail was not good enough and was standing there, red-faced, screaming at my mother that she was ruining her wedding and her life.
About 20 guests are staring in disbelief.
I shouted at her "Hey you want to walk down the aisle with two fucking black eyes?" My aunt grabbed my sister by the arm and took her to another room for a chat. That seemed to cool her down a bit.
The ceremony went off without a hitch, the reception was fun, and the cake was beautiful. No one mentions the incident now.
dinnerwdr13
71. Oh, That Went Well!
Not a bridesmaid but was at a wedding where we had a bridezilla, maidzilla, and MIL-zilla all at once.
Dad and I watch the run-up to the wedding go down the toilet basically from the start. MILzilla and maidzilla are flipping out at just about everyone for such incredible slights as ruffled hair and small creases in clothing. MILzilla specifically had a tantrum at me that my hair was a mess because I had been sweating.
It was 90+ degrees in a California summer, at an outdoor wedding. Of course, I was sweating. Maidzilla made the mistake of yelling at my dad that he was too tall for where he was supposed to stand in the pictures. Unfortunately for her, Dad was a drill sergeant in the 82nd for almost a decade.
The ensuing shouting match went one way, and one way only.
Day of the wedding: The ceremony went fine, much to my surprise, and we got to the party. Most everyone is having a decent time. Except Bridezilla, who was intoxicated and taking issue with the music. Music that she had picked out in advance.
In the span of the party, she picked no fewer than four fights with the DJ, who eventually threw his hands up, put the music on shuffle, and came out to the patio to get drunk with me and the misfits.
Oh, and maidzilla tried to offer my dad, who was a DEA agent at the time, some cocaine to "lighten up." That went well.
DevastatorCenturion
72. Strike Two, You’re Out!
Can I rant about my bridesmaid instead...?
She: aren't you going to invite me to your wedding?
Me: uhhhh.. It's halfway across the globe and I'm gonna have two weddings in both countries but okay, if you would like to come to the other one can you be my bridesmaid too then?
She: omg of cz..! But please make sure you get married during summer. I don't want to go all the way there for an autumn season.
Me: well..... that has to depend on my own schedule but I'll see if I can think about something..
She: and you'll have to pay for my flight ticket and lodging expenses too. I want to do some sightseeing in another city (the capital) too so you'll have to think of the lodging there too.
Me: I'm already paying for the tickets for my whole family (8 of them) so I'm a bit tight money-wise. I can provide lodging and you can stay as long as you want, but it'll only be in the City I live in, not the capital.
She: LOL I'm not gonna be your bridesmaid if you can't even provide me that..
I told her that I relieved her from the other bridesmaid role too and she could just come to the other wedding if she still felt like it.
Cassey7926
73. Sandwich For Your Trouble?
After paying 250 dollars for a dress in a color I hate, and being dragged around all day without Eating the full day we finally get to the wedding after pictures, etc and the people in the wedding party get served cold cuts. Not just cold cuts...freaking finger food.
And there was not even enough to serve the wedding party never mind the rest of the guests. People were ordering pizza at the fucking venue. Leading up to this I had gotten engaged and didn't tell anyone because I didn't want to take away from her big day. Days after the wedding I told the freshly married bride who proceeded to just stop talking to me. It's been over 3 years now.
There are also 3 other people who were in her wedding party she no longer talks to. Well...you're the one who has to look back at those pictures and remember all the people you treated like crap.
Moving on to my wedding a year later... My mother was so freaking awful I actually want to have a redo of the whole thing. She literally made the whole event about her. The guests were extremely limited and mostly her friends...she was a jerk the whole time and basically made me cry every fucking day leading up to it.
bmwbaby
74. “Let ME Watch”
My best friend is a dancer. She was hired to do a joint bachelor and bachelorette party, set up by the bride. It became clear quickly she had set it up like this so she could watch her groom to make sure he didn't have too much fun.
The whole time, she was sitting on his lap, making him watch their mutual friends getting lapdances. My friend was instructed that if she needed to speak to the groom, address the bride instead.
She showed up to the venue to see the bride yelling at their friends to pose for pictures with the dancers, or they're going to "ruin everything."
She was the most controlling bride my friend had ever seen. Her man couldn't even have a drink without asking. She kept ordering him to smile. The best man joked with my friend that she was so good, that they'd invite her to the divorce party to perform because there was no way a man could live like this for long.
Mollymolotov666
75. Mother Dearest
I recently attended my father’s fifth wedding in August of this year, of which I was, not asked but required to be, a bridesmaid.
About 24 hours after the wedding, my new “stepmother” was screaming at me in front of the entire wedding party for not referring to her as my mother.
Keep in mind, my real mother is very much alive and we are very close.
ConspiracyBarbie