to wonder when Bridezilla Fever will end?

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I know there a few threads on this at the moment, it really does seem like n epidemic! Just from my own experience, in the last 2 weeks:

1. A woman at my work is no longer speaking to me because I announced my pregnancy on the same day she was giving out her wedding invitations

2. My so-called best friend of 10 years has argued with me and made me feel guilty non-stop for the last 2 months because my due date is the week of her wedding

3. Another friend of a friend demanded asked if several people could take the day off work before her engagement party to do decorations- she'll be too busy at the hairdressers to help you see

4. Another friend of friend posts on facebook several times PER DAY about her wedding plans (ideas for flowers, table centres, dresses, etc) and if no-one comments she comments herself: "No one cares about my wedding then? Fine! Guess that will make the guest list shorter!"

These are just in the last fortnight that I am aware of. These women are all in their late twenties but seem to lose all sense of perspective when it comes to their wedding. I got married 5 years ago and it was nothing like the circus that some weddings seem to be now- all that mattered to me was marrying DH.

AIBU to be worried where it will end?

Wasnt there someone on here who made their BMs agree to not get pg before her wedding? Or she was the BM that had to agree? I read about it on here anyway, and was more that the BMs agreed than I was about the bride asking in the first place!

I've never actually met a Bridezilla in real life.

Bogeyface the girl in example 2 asked me to be her BM when she got engaged. I explained that as we were TTC, and I might be heavily pregnant or have a small baby at the time of the wedding, I didn't think it would be fair for me to accept the offer. She told me we should stop our fertility treatment so that i didn't have a due date around the time of the wedding. I assumed she was joking. Given she has been a complete cowbag since I told her I was pregnant (despite me being in and out of hospital with bleeding), we can assume she was not in fact joking.

Treefotum nope not a pregzilla, just that several nosy colleagues guessed and asked, I told them the truth, that I am pregnant.

I think setting up a website for your wedding is an excellent idea - not making everyone register though. If I were doing it now I'd put the link on the invites but also provide the usual info sheet.

I have a website (well, a blog) which just contains wedding photos, FWIW.

A friend was church warden for a while. He received a letter that made him decide to resign his post:

"My daughter was married in X church on Y date [not long after the clocks changed]. We have now noticed in the photographs that the church clock shows the time as 1pm, when the wedding was in fact at 2pm. The wedding photos are ruined and we demand compensation."

billgranger sums it up for me. While perfectly sane, rational people can get a bit wedding-feverish, I have yet to experience a surprising full-blown Bridezilla transformation among my friends. I think you either have a propensity to it or not.

Two of my best friends and myself have all recently become engaged and are planning summer 2013 weddings. If anything, we're all a bit at all the spotlight and tend to play it all down.

I plan to do any Zilla stomping on MN and leave my friends, family and colleagues well alone. :)

Thing is Vivi, it can strike where you least expect it. My friend in the post above, had always said she wanted a small wedding. close friends and family, probably abroad, low key, etc. Ha! Fast forward 2 years and she is now planning full on country house wedding with meringue dress and pouring over lever arch files full of magazine cut outs of table centrepieces. Not that there's anything wrong with that in itself, but it is a complete about-face and she seems to have completely lost her grip on reality in the process.

My friend has demanded asked her BM's not to wear any fake tan for the wedding day as she doesn't want to look paler than them in the photos

you need some new friends, worryingtrend!