Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Most Unreasonable Demands From Brides


Weddings are a time ripe for all kinds of unanticipated dramatics. It could be the emotional buildup that goes into a potentially life-defining moment. It could be the delusional requests put forth by perfectionists that haven't realized that nothing in life ends up being perfect. It could be bringing together all kinds of characters that would otherwise be well advised to steer clear of each other in any other situation. Who knows? These stories from bridesmaids about the most unreasonable demands that they ever received from brides are in a whole another level of their own. 

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Text - dahliafluffy • 2y Ex-SIL was bridezilla. She wanted both a bachelorette party AND a bridesmaids weekend at the spa with multiple activities (chocolate making, fancy champagne bar outing, supper) for which we were expected to foot her part of the bill. As I was a poor graduate student at the time, I offered to contribute to my share of the brides cost for the weekend and not attend myself. Ended up getting fired as bridesmaid a week before the wedding. 979 ...

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Text - Cat_Biscuit • 2y I don't know if this qualifies but for a wedding l'm in this summer the bride wanted to have that whole mismatched bridesmaid dress aesthetic without giving the bridesmaids (there's 7 of us) the option of actually choosing our own dresses. So what she did was choose seven dresses, send a photo collage of the dresses in a group chat, and have us duke it out via text as to who would get what dress. It was so awkward and hostile. I only know a few of the other bridesmaids, a

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Text - tomatopotatotomato • 2y I was the maid of honor and the bride called me telling me she wanted me to throw her a party in Vegas. I told her I couldn't afford it. She pressured me for a long time about it. Then I threw her a pretty great party in a nice big city closer to our hometown and spent hundreds of dollars and she sighed and said, "yeah this was pretty good, but I wish it was Vegas."

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Text - cats_in_tiny_shoes • 2y Oh. Oh I got this. | She wanted to have two bachelorette parties, both of which involved flying, Airbnbs, etc. The first (Nashville) I was excited about and had been in the works for some time. Why the second? Oh, well, it was a re-do because she had a horrible time at the first! She cried and missed her fiance the whole time; decided she hated country music and therefore Nashville; was upset that it snowed in Nashville when she thought it was swimsuit weather; and

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Text - At first I felt bad, because she was so anxious and so stressed and no one likes feeling that way when traveling. So we plan a second bachelorette weekend, this time to Chicago a month later, where one of the bridesmaids lives. All excited, I love Chicago. We get there ... and she spends the whole time crying and missing her fiance; deciding she hates snow and therefore Chicago; and finally sobbing and laying down in the middle of the street because no one told our waiter it was her speci

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Text - Tintarella DİLuna • 2y Was invited to the bachelorette party... five days in advance. Of course nobody could make it, so they rescheduled. A couple of the bridesmaids put together a camping weekend, bought EVERYTHING we needed, and then the bride decided she wanted a hotel party at the very last minute. $200 a person with only a few days notice?!? I didn't end up going :( 626 ...

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Text - LPLady15 • 2y Mine aren't so bad, but I still want to play. Bride A: I hosted her bridal shower and her bachelorette party at my parents' house. She never said thank you and called me a slut at her wedding. Bride B: "Promoted" me to co-MOH so I would plan her entire wedding since I lived in the city it was happening and she wasn't. I'm guessing between my outfit, her Bach party, and weird things I paid for for the wedding (like the card box) that wedding cost me over $2k and I didn't trav

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Text - iswearimachef • 2y • ? My friend is trying to make us row in on a rowboat. In heels and a long dress. 332 ...

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Text - horsetailfeathers • 2y • ? She wanted us to purchase matching necklaces. Sounded just fine and normal... until we found out it was overpriced garbage from her sister's MLM jewelry business (she was one of the bridesmaids too!). It was her idea and she convinced the bride to go with her jewelry in order to promote the business - which included promoting it to us, of course I didn't buy anything from her, but she really turned on the sales pressure and it was an awkward 30 minutes. Thankful

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Text - ConnieC60 • 2y • ? I was forced to get my ears pierced at 13 so I could wear the same earrings as another bridesmaid. Then because I was rail thin and the other bridesmaid was a UK size 16, they padded out my whole dress - padded bodice and about three extra layers in the tulle skirt. This made wearing the dress in July a right ordeal. 119

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Text - catty_wampus • 2y Not me, but a friend. Bride and fiance living in Houston, where my friend lives. My friend is asked to be a bridesmaid. They decide they're getting married in South Carolina where fiance's family lives. Bride also decides the bachelorette party is going to be in Toronto. My friend being the loyal friend she is went to both. Said in Toronto the bride cried all through dinner, got completely tanked, and passed out by 7pm. 322 ...

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Text - 1radgirl • 2y I was a bridesmaid for a friend who was a consultant for one of those multi-level marketing beauty companies. So on top of having to buy a very expensive hideous dress, shoes, and jewelry, and having to pay for all my own hair and nail appointments, she made us buy our own "beauty kits" through her company! This included moisturizer, face wash, as well as an entire face of makeup for the big day, and the brush kit to apply it! All coming in at a cool $299!! That was with her

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Text - sunflowerdress • 2y I have had a chin-length bob since I met the bride and had to grow my hair to shoulder length because she wanted a vintage look with specific hairstyles. The hair stylist said they could work with my length but it wasn't exactly what the bride wanted so she said no. 405 ...

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Text - star_tissue • 2y Not the bride, but the bride's MIL. I was maid of honour, I planned a modest bridal shower with the bride's closest friends and family since my friend specified she didn't want anything too extravagant and didn't want too many people that she isn't close to. Everything was set. Then one day get a message from the MIL, saying how rude it was that I didn't invite most of her extended family, and proceeds to invite about 12 extra people. I was kind of annoyed but whatever. S

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Text - Stejness • 2y We all (3 bridesmaids and a family friend) had to pay $300 each to stay at the homestead venue two nights, because she had to hire the whole venue for exclusive use of the B&B homestead. .. at the time I was a single mum and lived a 15 minute taxi ride from the venue. I wasn't a fan of her cheeky tactics to keep her own costs down, but also didn't want to argue after witnessing a meltdown over someone else saying "no thanks". 151 ...

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Text - wheneveriwander • 2y Best male friend getting married, so asked to be bridesmaid. Bride had THREE showers! One for groom's side, one for her side, one couples shower. Attendance and gift for each. Registered at top of the line store only, with all designer items on list, nothing under $200. Then expensive never wear again dress, dyed shoes to match, specific hair ornaments. Wedding was at 4:00 pm, bridesmaids had to be at her house at 8:00 am, so the photographer could shots of every mome

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Text - DisloyalMouse • 2y • ? I'm ginger, I've been ginger my whole life, When I was a bridesmaid I was accused of deliberately being ginger to be difficult because all the dress colours the bride wanted looked great on her blonde/brunette bridesmaids and terrible on me. Then she got upset because some of my tattoos were going to be visible in whatever dress I wore, despite the fact that her sister (and maid of honour) also had a large visible tattoo that no one ever said anything about. Also, k

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Text - TheMarkHasBeenMade • 2y • ? I love my best friend to death but being wedding party was just expensive. part of her She had a bridal shower with gifts, some sort of "lingerie" gift-giving from everyone going to the bachelorette, stripper and night at a casino for bachelorette party, matching evening gowns for dresses, as well as a wedding gift on top of it all. For my wedding I had a bridal shower that was with my family and a small bachelorette party with some close friends. I didn't expe

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Text - kt-bug17 · 2y I had a friend ask me around five months before her wedding to grow out my pixie cut. First off, no, I like my hair and l'm not spending the time to drastically change it for someone else's wedding. Second, even if I had wanted to there's no way it would have grown out to a nice looking length in less than five months! That cut takes a year or more to properly grow out! 41 ...

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Text - [deleted] • 2y 9 years ago my best friend asked me to be her maid of honor, I lived 8 hours away so her soon to be MIL bought me a plane ticket to fly down with my then 4 month old son to buy my dress and help plan. I was there 2 weeks, went through the motions paid a $250 deposit on my dress (which was half the price). Fast forward a month or so, wedding cancelled I'm out that money with nothing to show for it. Then about a year ago, she now lives about 3 hours away from me with her new

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Text - Bennet_Elizabeth • 2y Handmade dress by a friend of the family friend planner. "Seamstress" had no idea how to fit boobs. Also, front AND back were plunging. I requested a modesty V for the front, bride said no. I bought a fancy ginormously uncomfortable strapless bra and tape to keep anything from getting loose. When I show up with my not attractive uneven cleavage my friend (bride's sister) helped me "fix" it with the gifted broach. At least my underwear wasn't hanging out, all the othe

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Text - Thea_bee • 2y • ? Bride A: a housemate at the time invites me to her wedding. Cool, we'd been living together for less than a week, but that's sweet, right? She invites me to the bachelorette party. I end up getting food poisoning the night of and she still tells me I have to pay my $175 share of a meal that I didn't eat and a night out I didn't have... no prix fixe, no pre-order for a certain number of people, just a bunch of women ordering more than they could afford in drinks, food, ve

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