A wedding planner’s six-month-old nephew passed away unexpectedly in his sleep. The funeral was the same day as their client’s wedding, and the planner let the bride know they’d send an assistant to oversee the wedding. Apparently, the bride wasn't having any of it, and the wedding planner had no idea the words that were about to leave her mouth.
"She tells me that I need to send my assistant to the funeral and that I better be at her wedding. It took me a few seconds, but I calmly stated that I’d be sending her money back and that no one would be covering for me. Nicest way I’ve ever said f*ck off. I really wanted to slap her."
-- Imabigdiva
For this one, it's important to note that the bride was blonde. A bridesmaid dropped out of her friend’s wedding because the bride asked her to dye her hair brown. The bride wanted to be the only blonde at the wedding party. Apparently, this isn't an uncommon request? Someone else had a similar story...
"My best friend asked me to dye my hair from blonde to brown because her other bridesmaids all had brown hair and she wanted to be the only one with blonde hair. She did pay for me to get it done at a professional salon, so I didn't mind too much, and her photos did look amazing after. However, I definitely have a few friends who thought I was crazy for agreeing to that request."
-- charmedistheone
Disaster almost struck when two bridesmaids were asked not to wear eyeglasses while walking down the aisle the day of the wedding. The bride said they would ruin the “aesthetic” of the wedding. As if that wasn't enough, the wedding was on uneven terrain (outside), and the bride didn't tell them until the morning of, so there wasn't any time to put in contacts.
"She threw a near-hysterics fit...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 more skinny and beautiful than either of us and no one would be glancing at her bridesmaids anyways because we aren't important)"
-- SuitcaseOfSparks
A chair went flying through a window while a decorator was on site. The bride was pissed because there was an extra chair in the back, so she chucked it through the window. That's certainly one way to solve a problem, but why was the extra chair such a major issue?
This one came from a wedding planner. They said, "I was helping decorate a wedding and the bride came in and literally threw a chair through a window." There isn't any other information, so we hope the wedding planner managed to keep it all on track after that. Maybe it was a zen thing?
An entire bridal party was banned from speaking to the bride. Only her mother and maid-of-honor had the pleasure of speaking to this silent bride. While we'd like to think that this was a cultural thing, it wasn't. The person went on to explain a little more, and it sounds like the wedding shouldn't have happened in the first place.
This honestly sounds like a huge recipe for disaster:
"Nope, [the wedding was in] the United States. We all held our breath during the ceremony; the wedding had been called off before. She also didn’t get along with his family. We found out afterwards he had proposed while drunk."
-- SpecialEndeavor
A bridezilla sent an email to her attendants asking them to not “wear anything other than a basic bob or ponytail” and not to have a “full face of makeup.” This came from a viral email from an attendant that had had enough of these stupid little rules. This was only the tip of the iceberg.
The rules go on to say:
- Do not record during the ceremony.
- Do not check it on [Facebook] until instructed.
- Everyone will toast with Rémy. No acceptance. [the champagne of choice]
- Lastly must come with a gift $75 or more or you won't be admitted.
All we can say is wow.
What would you do if there was a medical emergency in the middle of the wedding? What if it was a parent? Even if the wedding doesn't stop, you'd think the bride would at least be worried, but not this one. One Redditor decided to spill the beans on something her mother saw.
"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 yells, 'How could you ruin my wedding like this?!!!?'"
-- remberzz
Weddings and all the parties that go along with it are on another level. They're insanely expensive, so some couples try to push that amount onto other people. This Redditor explained how her friend was booted from being a bridesmaid because she couldn't afford to go to the bachelorette party...
"My best friend just got kicked out of being a bridesmaid because she couldn't spend the $1500 to go to the bachelorettes 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 over the situation, she (the bride) just did you the best favor ever kicking you out of the bridal party'."
-- awayfrommymind
"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.
"Plans $25,000 weekend in Vegas. Booked 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 informs me I need to dye my hair (and pay for it myself), because my hair color is too similar to hers and it would be distracting. ‘There aren’t enough red heads so I was thinking you could be a red head.’
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?’"
-- ligamentary
"There were a lot of moments. One of my favorites was her 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 in 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 huge family drama. I definitely stopped talking to her after the wedding was over."
-- rational_adult
Weddings are stressful, and some brides handle that stress better than others. This bride had everyone walk out on her except the maid-of-honor. After reading what she did, we're honestly surprised that the maid-of-honor didn't follow along behind everyone. We're also gonna guess that she did some pretty bad stuff before the wedding...
"The bride got walked out on by her entire bridal 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 bridemaid's 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
The brother-of-the-bride witnessed his sister yelling at the cake decorator for ruining her wedding and her life. He was in the wedding because their father had just passed away, so he took over giving his sister away. The mood definitely shifted when she started yelling at the cake decorator, but we'll let him tell the story...
"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 notices some small detail is not good enough and is standing there, red-faced, screaming at my mother that she is ruining her wedding and her life. About 20 guests are staring in disbelief."
-- dinnerwdr13
So this one is a doozy (and long). The person telling the story is the groomsman's high school best friend. He starts by explaining how the bridezilla wants him to spend $600 on a dress for his four-year-old daughter, who was to be the flower girl. The bride also wanted to take the four-year-old (alone) to get her hair and makeup done...on a toddler. On the day of, the bride wanted to see the kid practice scattering the petals. This is when things get awful.
"The poor kid got yelled at for “not scattering the petals evenly”. Then she got yelled at for watching a butterfly instead of paying attention to the Bridezilla yelling at the rest of the wedding party."
Along with that after the reception, the four-year-old wanted to dance with her "Uncle," aka the groomsman. Well, "Bridezilla decreed that NO ONE was allowed to dance with the groom but her. She would make an exception for him to have one dance with his mother. "
-- mrscake76
Everyone in the bridal party signed a contract. While we'd like to say that the wedding was held by some big-wig, and the contract was basically "don't spread this to magazines," it wasn't. It was a normal everyday bridezilla who had a very specific contract for the bridal party concerning their appearance.
These were the rules:
- We wouldn't get any fake tans because no one was allowed to be tanner than her. Also, no tan lines on our lesser tanned skin.
- No false lashes, her lashes were to be the longest.
- No teeth whitening. Her "smile was to shine the brightest"
- $400 bridesmaids dress & $100 shoes + $250 rented jewelry we had to buy on our own
-- AccomplishedOlive
"My brother's brother-in-law was getting married. He had a daughter from a previous relationship who was 10 or 11 at the time of the wedding and he had a second child that was 2 with this new soon-to-be wife. The new wife wouldn't allow the older daughter to be at the wedding because 'She's not mine and I don't want her distracting people.'"
Another incident from the same awful woman, "One year, at Thanksgiving, that older daughter came up to her dad and asked if she could just spend the night at his place. Before he could answer her, his wife (the evil stepmother) all but screamed, "Absolutely not! It s not your day and you know you are not to be in our house when it is not your day to be there!" The poor girl just kind of shrank, went and sat on the couch, and was sad for the rest of the night. "
-- wildescrawl
The bride and mother-of-the-bride were outraged that the florists couldn’t fulfill their order for the bridal bouquet. She asked for the mother-of-the-bride’s (MoB)cattleya orchid corsage, the groom’s boutonniere, and six groomsmen boutonnieres three hours before the wedding. The flowers were out of stock, and the pair weren't happy choosing from the inventory on hand. They stormed out, confident they could get the flowers they wanted down the street. After they left, the florists put together the order. Sure enough, the MoB comes back.
"I figured that was that, but my boss told me and the other girl to start on six simple dendrobium orchid bouts. Meanwhile, she threw together a ribbon-wrapped bridal bouquet with some white roses that were nearly past their prime and some more dendrobium orchids. Sure enough, twenty minutes later the MoB slunk back in and meekly asked if we were still able to assemble what they needed. We did. We also charged her a very large b*tch tax- ahem, rush fee."
-- Haceldama
"A few months back, I had a bride who wanted a Navy to white ombre cake made with white sponge. Now, dark, rich colors like that in white cake sucks. they always taste terrible because they have so much gel coloring in them to get them right. However, you can do it, if they're willing to have the dark layers be chocolate. Navy is especially easy, thanks to blue velvet. I tell her this when we're planning. "But I want white cake!" I tell her I'll do all but the last few in white sponge. She agrees, and I make the thing and drop it off.
"I come back to pick up the staging stuff the next day, only to find my whole cake sitting there. I was told that when they cut into the thing and fed it to each other, she freaked out over it being chocolate and refused to let any of the cake be served. Apparently, she forgot that she had agreed to have the bottom tier have two layers of blue velvet, so she threw a massive temper tantrum over 'the cake being wrong' and how I ruined her wedding, then locked herself in the bridal suite. if she wouldn't have been a little psychopath and let the staff cut the cake like they should have, she would've seen that 90% of the cake was white sponge like she wanted."
-- notasugarbabybutok
"Had a bride flip her shit at me and my band mates because our instruments weren't white or salmon coloured to fit in with the decorations and she was saying we would ruin the photographs. Even though I was playing during the reception and all the photos were already taken.
A sunburst jazz bass, blue Stratocaster, and a red drum set aren't going to ruin your pictures darling."
The funny part is what shut the bride up. Someone suggested that she could always buy them new instruments to match the wedding. The original commenter came back and had the perfect reply for this bridezilla:
"I proposed that. It shut her gob fairly quickly after that."
-- orbital_cheese
Bridezillas are tough to deal with, especially when one thing goes wrong. Granted, the cake is a big thing to go wrong, but at least make sure it's your cake before losing your mind over it. This one woman went totally coo-coo at a bakery when she saw what she thought was her cake.
"I once worked in a bakery and we had this bride freakout that her cake wasn't right and proceeded to smash it to bits with her fist. She smashed the wrong cake. Like wtf. Anyways the cops allowed her to wash her hands before placing her in handcuffs. I felt bad for the future husband and the couple that ordered said cake. People are cray cray."
-- Foxlust
One of the biggest fads for weddings is the bride and groom learning how to do something to surprise the other person. Sometimes it's their language (if English isn't their native tongue) while other times it's dancing. This romantic groom took the time to learn how to sing a romantic song for his awful bridezilla.
"I was at the wedding of an ex-boyfriend several years ago and he had planned & practiced singing a Frank Sinatra song to his new wife. He went up & took the mic and, with the band backing him up, began singing the song (I can't remember what it was) - His new wife suddenly stomped across the dance floor & up on the stage, grabbed the mic from him & said - "I HATE that fucking song & I don't want to hear it." They were divorced about a year later."
-- AverageJoe5555
This one was an anonymous post:
"My fiance and I are having a lot of issues right now, we can't stop fighting and I don't know what to do. I quit my job because wedding planning was taking up so much time, and my fiance is refusing to get a second job. He doesn't understand that I don't have time to get ready for work, drive to work, be somewhere else all day, and drive home.
I need to be HOME to plan this wedding. I'm trying to find a job from home but it is difficult. I asked him to get a second job and he won't. It really pisses me off because we are spending $80,000 on this wedding and he keeps saying that we should spend less. UH, HELLO, NO. This is MY WEDDING I have been dreaming of since I was little and I REFUSE to have anything but my dream wedding. How can I convince him to work a second job to pay for this? What happened to 'Happy wife, happy life'???????"
Being a bridesmaid and a mother to a new baby can’t be easy. Things only get harder when the bride doesn't understand half of what it takes to actually care for a newborn. Apparently, some people don't get the message. One person anonymously shared the story of her bridezilla versus her newborn baby.
It started with the bridesmaid asking if she could have her dress altered so that she could feed her new baby. The bridezilla absolutely refused and said that the baby couldn't be fed during the actual wedding. Um...what? Instead, the bride told the bridesmaid to drive home (which would take her around 30 minutes), take off the dress, feed her baby, and return to the wedding. Pretty ridiculous, right?
"I'm a manager at a banquet hall that's popular for weddings. We had this one young waitress who was studying to be an artist and she's very good. Sometimes during wedding ceremonies (when staff weren't able to do anything anyway), she would sketch the ceremony and give it to the couple as a gift. I nor any other management had a problem with this as it was basically free marketing and the couples always loved it. One time she did her drawing as usual and gave it to the bride who then screamed 'I didn't ask for this! I don't want this stupid sh*t!'"
And then ripped it up in front of her before dropping it on the floor. The waitress was so embarrassed but she picked up the paper and left the room quietly, but the guests were obviously horrified by the bride's behavior. I later found out the groom profusely apologized to the waitress and gave her $50. What's even worse, the same bride then complained to me the next day that her privacy was violated which caused emotional distress and therefore she wanted a full venue refund and the waitress fired. All of this...because she was offended someone gave her a free drawing."
-- PWcrash
This one just makes us feel uncomfortable. It's from an anonymous Facebook post:
"When you arrive today, please bring your invitation and wristbands & ID. Parking will be across the street from the venue. As noted on the invitations, guests will be segregated by race when it's time to eat."
But wait! It gets worse! It goes on to detail:
"We will have 2 tables of blacks, 2 of Asians, 9 whites, and 2 Hispanics. You will be given your table # and seat # upon entry. You are not allowed to move to other tables other than what you are assigned. Tables will be separate but equal. See you there!"
This incident was told by a cousin of one of the bridesmaids, and honestly, we're not sure why brides focus on some of the weirdest stuff. For some reason, this bridezilla had a weird thing for her height. She and her seven bridesmaids had to all be the same height. That's alright until you realize that the tallest stands at 5’10” while the shortest is 5’3”.
The cousin states, "That's right. This girl needs 7.5-inch heels. The short bridesmaid brings up how impossible this is going to be, and the bride goes on a rant about how it's her day and her vision and this is a small request so freaking get over it."
"As of yesterday, she told both the tallest and the shortest bridesmaid that they were ruining her day and that one of them had to drop out of the wedding party. She would let them decide which of them was a real friend and which was a fake friend."
This was a Facebook post from a bridezilla asking for help for her insane request:
"How do I tell my fiance that I don't want his daughter at our wedding? I put 'no kids' on the invites so I thought he'd get the point, but he keeps mentioning her being there?"
People began to point out how crazy she was and so she edited, saying:
"Edit cause people keep asking the same dumb questions: She's 3. I am marrying him not his crotch goblin. That's his mistake, not mine. I don't want her there because she's needy and makes everything about her AND I said no f*cking kids!"
"A bride once called having a melt down because her friend got engaged as well and was planning to get married in the same year as she was... Apparently, it was her special year and not just a day. She threw a huge fit that this girl was only getting married to 'steal her thunder'."
It gets worse somehow:
"Yes, because no one else can have a life at the same time as you. Her friend's date wasn't even in the same month or season. Hers was in October and her friends was in June.... Brides sometimes don't think rationally."
-- sillykitty1990
Nah, some of these people really don't think rationally.
"I'm a photographer and came onsite the day of a wedding to meet with the planner/coordinator who promptly told me to be careful around the bride. Apparently at the rehearsal the prior night the bride thought the coordinator was taking too much of her time (after two questions), and relayed through her bridesmaid that the coordinator was no longer allowed to speak to the bride or even look her in the eye. All communication would have to go through a family member from there on out."
I had worked with this coordinator in the past and knew her to be a consummate professional and pleasant person to be around. She had actually assumed the bride would get over her tantrum the day of the wedding, but nope, still no talking or eye contact. The coordinator tried her best to keep the wedding day going smoothly...
Also should mention that when I came onsite for the wedding, I was able to locate the bride by the sound of her screaming at her hair/makeup artists. By the time I came into the bridal suite, she had switched to screaming at her bridesmaids for looking prettier than her and made them change their hairstyles to 'look uglier.'"
-- retrofuturist
A musician to the band was forced to jump ahead 30 minutes (to get the wedding back on time) and play “Hava Negila” for the Hora, as per the bride’s screaming instructions. The only issue? The groom was having a smoke outside…for the whole dance. The bride was in tears by the end.
"The groom was outside having a cigarette because the wedding was running 30 minutes late. He knew the schedule and thought he had time for the cigarette. In the end, it was the Bride's own stubborn insistence that led to the tragic ending. She was the captain of her own Titanic, and we were the band playing as it sank. I sometimes wonder how that marriage worked out."
-- Jawhun
"About 20 minutes later she was screaming at some poor front desk employee accusing her of stealing her wedding boots. The manager intervened and after a long talk the photographer told them he had a photo of the boots on the staircase of the church, and asked if she had worn them since... when she said no she told our place it was our job to have picked them up and made sure she had them (the church was not related to our place at all)."
"THEN shortly after she started opening the wedding gifts frantically inside the ballroom and screaming at anyone and everyone, guests included, saying someone stole her wedding certificate. After that, our manager gathered the wedding staff and told us to take off our uniform jackets, Empty them in front of him, then to clock out and go home. Which we all did, none of us stole anything, and we heard the next day the maid of honor had the certificate and after we left the wedding was shut down completely. Room left as is for the bride to come back to in the morning."
-- CapitanMyCaptain
