It seems most bridezillas are so crazed and so consumed with outlandish requests during the lead up to their wedding that very rarely do they realise how irrational their behaviour really is.
So what happens when the wedding is over, they’re no longer the centre of attention and all they’re left with is rocky relationships and murky recollections about deranged actions and frenzied outbursts?
One bride can tell you. And it ain’t all that pretty.
Writing into Slate’s Dear Prudence agony aunt, self-confessed ‘Bridezilla No More’ told the story of how she has gone from crazed bride whom everyone was terrified of, to one who is now consumed by guilt with and struggling relationships.
The newlywed wrote that her ridiculous antics weren’t just reserved for her own fiancé, or bridal party, but stretched far and wide in their implications.
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“I spent hours poring over bridal magazines, dragging friends to bridal shops, and telling them they were ignorant or worse when they disagreed with me over silly things like the exact shade of ivory I needed for napkins,” she wrote.
But it wasn’t just the small things that got on her nerves. The bride was fixated on the fact her bridesmaids would look, and feel, perfect on her day.
“I told one of my bridesmaids to cover her tattoos. I told another to lose weight. I drove my maid of honour to tears with my constant demands and emails.”
However, perhaps most dangerously, it was her meddling with her husband’s groomsmen that has done the most damage, admitting she made her fiancé “drop his brother as best man when I heard him tell my fiancé to end our relationship because I was crazy”.
To this day, ‘Bridezilla No More’ acknowledges the flow-on effects to her behaviour have been serious, admitting that after the wedding only one of her bridesmaids still talks to her and that her husband’s relationship with his brother is strained because of her actions.
Seems like quuuuuuuite the pickle to us. Perhaps the moral of the story is don’t go crazed? Or if you’re not confident about that, avoid marriage all together.
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I recently watched my beloved sister-in-law turn into a bridezilla for her engagement party- I don't want to think about what it will be like for her wedding.
She is bossy in her day-to-day life, so it wasn't totally unexpected, but it did get a bit out of hand and she was quite rude to her family, bridesmaids (her maid of honour is a saint!), and even the groom. Her brother threatened to not attend the wedding if she was going to be so rude and unappreciative- her family put in a huge amount of time and effort.
The (almost) funny thing is she goes on about how important family is to her and how important marriage is, but then she basically treated her fiancé and her family like slaves.
Having witnessed this show, my husband thanked me for not behaving in a similar fashion when we got married- he says he would have called it off if I had and I really believe him. Thank heavens I only had a few weeks and no idea how to plan a "real" wedding.
I honestly don't understand why people go so INSANE over one day that really is about 3-4 hours long all up. The priority should be on the MARRIAGE, not the 'wedding'. That's why so many give up so easily in marriage. They care so much for a *ceremony* and getting it so perfect, and don't actually care about the afterwards and what the ceremony is meant to mean. It is all about being a star for a few hours, then after the wedding day/honeymoon has been done, it is like "what now?" A MARRIAGE is entirely different to a wedding.