We were attending a wedding of a good friend and his bride. My husband was in the wedding party while I was not but I kept being mistaken for a member of the wedding party. Of course! I thought, since my husband was the best man. Chasing my two year old daughter, I didn’t give it much thought but I was wearing a new dress from Target and my only concern was keeping it and my toddler’s clothes presentable until after the photos. It wasn’t until the bride’s party came out that I realized we all had the same dress. At least the bride had sided with frugality and reusable re-fashion! If only they’d let my husband wear a suit instead of a tux… then the frugal fashion trend would have been a great hit. — Tamara

A good friend of mine got married recently and I saw a side of her that I had never seen before. I would say the days before the wedding were ok, it was the day of the wedding that surprised me. My friend got married in a Gym sort of setting with a stage. There were 3 rooms in the back next to the kitchen that were supposed to be used for the bridal party to get ready in. Unfortunately what the place forgot to tell us was they were letting voters use the room that day so we had to use one of the much smaller rooms next to the stage. Every time one of the voters would peak around the corner she would scream at them and start crying. I felt her pain, but then she turned around to me and said you have to go and take care of this. I was helping the flower girl get ready and did hear her but I guess she thought I didn’t because she said, “Excuse me, I know you just heard me. Get out there and fix this.” Ok, first let me explain that she is my best friend but I was not in the wedding. i was back there helping everyone else get ready. Fast forward to the beginning of the ceremony where she is having a nervous breakdown screaming in her dressing room about calling off the wedding because no one can do anything right and she has to do it all her self. Insulting pretty much everyone in the room with her. Now, usually this very petite little girl is very quiet and sweet and has never raised her voice a day in her life but this day brought out the absolute worst in her. She had officially become a Bridezilla. — C.M.

A good friend of mine was getting married. I had been at the birth of her son (she was single at the time) , been up many nights with her struggling to care for a newborn, and she even lived with my husband and I for a few months while trying to find a home for herself. So, when she met someone and he proposed, we were all thrilled, and it seemed natural that I would be in her wedding party. It was going to be an informal affair, in the backyard of a dear family friend. We made the invitations together, went shopping for the modest decorations together, and shared our excitement as the day approached. I had a beautiful velvet dress my father had given me that I had never worn, and she agreed it was perfect to wear. One week before the wedding, the forecast called for rain. My bride to be friend panicked – how could she continue with a backyard wedding in the rain? She scrambled, made phone calls, and booked a chapel. Now, the wedding suddenly took a more formal turn – after all, they were in a CHAPEL now. She wanted the groomsmen all in tuxes with red cummerbunds, and she wanted me in a red dress to match. And she wanted ME to buy the dress. I had no budget for this last minute dress. I combed second hand stores but found nothing. The result was, my friend asked me not to be in her wedding party anymore, as it would not be picture perfect if I didn’t match. I almost skipped the wedding altogether, as I was so hurt by this petty rejection, but I decided to be strong and go. At the reception, the bride introduced her wedding party, and then introduced me, saying I would have been in the party but we had ‘Bridesmaid issues.’ More like Bridezilla issues. — Kassandra

I recently had an encounter with a Bridezilla. Durring the dress fittings for my wedding last year, my bridesmaids and I were trying on our dresses and making sure they all fit correctly and making any last minute alterations. Granted we bought our dresses at a high end store but what we encountered we never expected. We were almost done with our dresses when this rich, selfish girl came in, she must have been in her ealry 20’s, she was with her bridesmaids and demanded that me and my party leave (using explicit words) because it was her turn to find a dress. The store owner politely explained that we were almost finished and that her appointment was not for another 20 minutes, she threw such a fit because she had another appointment (like it was our fault she scheduled them so close) that me and my party decided to just leave. The poor store owner was horrified. Some people just feel they are entitled to special treatment. — Stephanie

My first time in a wedding party would be my last. I was only 12 when my uncle married his girlfriend of more than 10 years but being a part of the wedding party was more than enough to sour me to such events. From the length of time it took her to pick out our dresses, 6 months… we only received them 2 days before the wedding, to the dresses themselves… full length black and white Victorian dresses in August, it was 90º and humid! If the dresses weren’t enough, she insisted we all buy and wear real pearl chokers and even the youngest members of the bridal party had to wear full makeup, which after about 5 minutes in the heat felt like wax melting down your face! I swore then I would never take part in a wedding again unless I was the bride. Now at 25, I have not participated in any other weddings and I am not even sure I’d want to go through such things for my own nuptials. — Ashley

My friend is a wonderful girl, but when she got married, some serious control issues really came out. Her husband had strong opinions about what the bridesmaids wore. It was unusual for a groom, but for some reason, he did not want them to wear red. My friend didn’t really want red, but wanted him to know in no uncertain terms that she was running the show. As a result, her bridesmaids wore an absolutely horrendous shade of crimson with a black crocheted jacket. It was a disastrous look, especially with the clashing red roses that they carried. One of the girls was so upset with what the bride made them wear, they no longer speak. My friend also decided that they had to sing at the reception. None of the girls can sing and it was embarrassing for them and for the guests as well. When the couple registered for gifts at a local department store, the bride-to-be refused to even consider the china, glassware, or stainless that he liked. Even if she liked something that he chose, she would veto it. Not surprisingly, they are divorced now, but she told me that every time she looked at the pictures, all she could see was how terrible the wedding party looked. At the end of the marriage, she was stuck with a lot of household items and furniture that she hated. The upside is that she now wonders what she was thinking and has vowed not to be so rigid in the future. — Janet

My husband and I own a Bed & Breakfast overlooking a lake and we often host weddings on site. Last summer we had this Bride who was furious because there were no sailboats out on the lake that day. She complained that - all of the photos on our brochures and website had sailboats in the background, so why wouldn’t there be any out there on this, most important of days? She accused us of deceiving her and told us we ruined her wedding photos now that she didn’t have her picture perfect setting. Worst of all was the fact that, after explaining to her that we don’t actually own any sailboats and therefore have no control when they’re on the lake, she replied by saying: “Better start calling your neighbors!” — Gloria

My sister was getting married and she was hell on wheels!! I had never seen someone have such a baby hissy fit over having pink ribbons on her bouquet instead of “salmon”. Honest to God, the difference was not that noticeable. She micro managed everything and I wanted to quit the wedding but you can’t leave your sister. She made sure every detail was to her specifications and the only thing she let her husband do was pick out the alcohol. Even that was wrong because he did not get the right things and she still complains to this day about that. — Kate

Oh my goodness…is all that I have to say about one of my co-workers that was a bridezilla. First, she got engaged in December of 2006 and the wedding was not going to be until December of 2007. What a long year! Everyday, from the moment of the proposal…this girl did nothing but complain, complain, complain. If it wasn’t the groom’s mother, it was complaining about the bridal place getting something wrong. All of us here at work knew every little detail. Plus she was trying to lose weight on top of that so maybe that is what made her a true bridezilla! Now, I am not married but after this ordeal, I didn’t want to hear anything about another wedding. — April

One of my cousins got married last year and I was a bridesmaid in her wedding. About 2 weeks before the wedding the bride calls me up to ask me if I would mind not wearing my engagement ring at her wedding since it would distract people from looking at her ring, and she really didn’t want anyone in the bridal party sporting jewelry bigger than hers. Can anyone beat that bridezilla request?? — Alexis

When my best friend got married to a guy who wasn’t living in the same state that she was, there were one or two times during the planning when the stress got to her, and she pretty much lost it. I remember once when she and her fiance were trying to decide on color schemes for the groomsmen, while chatting online. Her fiance said that he wanted them to have blue ties, and she said that was fine. Then she asked what color blue, and he said… blue. You know how men are. She’d been getting really stressed about planning the wedding without him, and she tried to nicely narrow down the choices for him (cerulean, sky blue, midnight…) but he kept saying blue. Finally, she threw the webcam out the window. We took her out for a drink after that! — Jo

When my friend was getting married, she was on edge over every detail being just perfect. I was one of several bridesmaids. She ordered our dresses, and then when they arrived, she said the color purple wasn’t the exact shade she wanted, so she sent them back and paid for a whole new batch of dresses! I thought she was nuts, or rich, or both! Who cares if the dresses were just 1 shade lighter than the centerpieces? But she insisted! Later on, when we went to pick up the wedding cake, they had saved a little sample for the bride to try. Well, we were in the car, I was driving. My bridezilla friend takes a bite out of her cake sample and spits it out! It was supposed to be chocolate with raspberries but they put cherries in it instead of raspberries. She hates cherries! So we had to make a wild u-turn and go back and demand they bake and decorate a totally new cake not using cherry this time. I thought her head was going to explode - she was so mad! — Bethany

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