I spotted what has to be the craziest story about a Bridezilla that I have ever read, the other day. This woman insists that all her wedding guests conform to a dress code, and it's based on what they weigh. Yes, you read that right. You can read all the details in this article: Bride Demands Wedding Guests Wear Attire Based on Their Weight.
If you aren't familiar with the term "bridezilla" it's pretty easy to explain. A woman who is preparing to get married makes a bunch of unreasonable demands and drives everyone around her crazy. If you want to know more, check out: 23 people reveal the most horrifying bridezilla moments they've ever seen — and they'll make you want to stay single
The bridezilla story that I find most appalling is about the bride demanding her guests dress a certain way, though. First of all, she demanded that her guests fly to Hawaii to attend her wedding, at their own expense of course. Next, she demanded that they purchase her crazy wedding outfit --
Her guests also have to bring a formal outfit that costs at least $1,000. Yes, you read that right.
“Remember, the venue is extremely upscale, and we want to be looking our absolute BEST, ladies and gents,” she wrote. “Please, if you look like trash, so will we. All jokes aside, we want you to invest in an outfit valued at at least $1,000. This includes jewelry, accessories, makeup, and hair. Remember ladies and gents, this wedding is 24k themed for a reason.”
She found out in early December 2018 that someone had leaked her crazy clothes demands online and the post had gone viral. She then was outraged and demanded all guests come to a party and be polygraphed so she could determine who had leaked her crazy demands.
Needless to say, all of this has gotten a TON of attention on social media.
What most of the stories don't mention is this nugget I gleaned from the MSN story: "Curious for more salacious details? Well, according to the bride, she and her future husband are “spiritual healers” who met at a “psychic’s desensitization chamber” in Italy more than a decade ago."
Is a "desensitization chamber" a place where you learn to ignore other people's feelings entirely? Is her husband-to-be equally insensitive and controlling?
This couple has been together for a DECADE. That's ten years. Why bother to get married at all? In many states it's already a common-law marriage.
I should mention here that if you get married on the beach in Hawaii and you demand that your guests dress in ridiculously spiky Laboutin high heels guess what will happen? Women will stumble and stagger and trip and fall. I watched a beach wedding years ago [I wasn't invited, just sitting on a restaurant patio having a drink and watching the lunacy] and there were many women in the bridal party who could barely walk down to the beach because they were idiotically wearing spiky high heels.
Choreographed dance number with matching outfits? I doubt it. Bridezilla needs to plan on having EMTs standing by to treat twisted ankles.
Secondly, and I mean this with all sincerity, I hope nobody goes to her wedding. Any person who would demand people fly to Hawaii and pay thousands of dollars to see a wedding where they will be treated little cattle, deserves what they get. The bride deserves for all her guests to cancel. [Actually, she deserves to be slapped repeatedly, but that's just my opinion.]
I was invited to a wedding once that involved me buying a plane ticket to Miami and then taking a tiny chartered plane across the ocean for a couple of hours, to attend a wedding on the beach, at a private island. The cost was somewhere around $500-800. I was in graduate school. I didn't have the money. The bride was a close friend but she was marrying a much older, very rich guy. His friends could all afford that type of trip. I couldn't. She had her mother call me and practically beg me to go. The words "I can't afford it" didn't seem to register. I held my ground and didn't go. I sent a nice gift. Despite that, the bride got very upset with me and didn't speak to me for months afterward. [Just FYI: She ended up divorcing the rich guy because he was an abusive alcoholic. I wasn't happy about that - I felt intensely sorry for her.]
Weddings used to be about making a pledge before God and your friends and family. A wedding used to be a sacred thing, a sacrament. It wasn't an excuse to have an enormous, costly event. People didn't choreograph dance numbers. My parents had a very nice wedding but they were young and poor and the reception was at the church and merely included cake, punch, and a few mints. The "honeymoon" was one night in a hotel just over the Florida line. Despite the low-key event, my parents were married for almost 40 years, until my dad's death.
I have never been married but I still feel like as a potential guest I shouldn't be forced to spend money I don't have and conform to some crazy idea of what to wear, all to satisfy the demands of a neurotic woman with control issues.
I sincerely hope all Bridezillas get exactly what they deserve on their wedding day.