If you’re expecting everyone around you to put their lives on hold until your wedding day, how do you even know you’re a bride? Or, a bridezilla, to be precise.
Take, for example, the British mother who recently posted on chat forum Mumsnet about her Maid of Honour daring to have a life in the months leading to her wedding. The MOH’s crime? Getting engaged.
How very dare she.
The bride-to-be explained in a post called “AIBU with my MOH”, (written under her username ‘FireHazrd’- a foreboding indication of what’s to come), that she was getting married in three months’ time, and was concerned her friend would be distracted by her own life, rather than concentrating on hers.
“He didn’t propose, they just sort of agreed on it,” the woman explained, inferring the inferiority of her friend’s engagement.
Whilst she assured everyone that she’s “delighted” for her friend, she’s also “pissed off” that the couple didn’t think of her, first.
FireHazrd also knows that her MOH is prone to be easily distracted into thinking of her own life – for example, when she dragged her along to a wedding fair and the friend dared to utter what she might want for her own wedding.
The bride-to-be even accused her friend of “forever doing stuff the minute I decide to and randomly tagging on to my interests” – because it is entirely uncommon for women to become engaged and get married.
Not.
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Well, me personally thinks nothing is wrong with the bride. She purely worried about the preparations of her own wedding that she started to worry that the one who supposed to help her and the groom will instead worrying abt her wedding in the future. She is happy that her MOH gets to tied the knot but maybe she should stay focus in helping her friend whose wedding are nearing (in 3 months to come).
I think what's most worrying is that after having been through illness and bereavement it is 'the day' and 'the fuss' that she feels she needs. Obviously many brides get excited about wedding planning and the bells and whistles that come along with it but ultimately what's most exciting about it all is that it is a formal celebration of the couple's love, that they are officially becoming part of one another's families and that they have a lifetime of adventure together to look forward to. Does this girl really want to get married or does she really just want to be a bride?
I seriously hope that the marriage lasts longer than the wedding planning but I'm afraid of the expectations that the bride is creating for the wedding and the ever after.