To have another rant about friend's wedding

[cathyscarlett]

I posted on here recently about my friend who's getting married in November. I'm a bridesmaid, and the cost is already tipping £1,500 for each of us. She is one of my oldest friends, and she is a really lovely person, but she has become utterly self absorbed and obsessed with her wedding (which she has been planning for the past few years).

I have just received a text from another bridesmaid asking each of the six of us for £45 in order to make a 'bride goody bag' for the night before the wedding, including personalised pyjamas, make up, champagne etc. She has stated that the bride asked her to do this. It's not the cost I mind, I was planning to take champagne for the night before anyway, it's being asked to spend yet more of my money on her wedding.

AIBU to think my friend has a bloody cheek to keep continuously asking us all for more money?

[HadleyHemingway]

Be a big girl and act properly, not hide behind the Internet to vent your spleen.

Wait, WHAT? Why do people say this? Are you familiar with how the Internet works? That's what it's for !

[TheRealAmandaClarke]

its not the cost I mind
its being asked to spend yet more of my money on her wedding


Its the cost. As you say.
Just explain that it is too much. Do you not talk to the b2b?

[Spadequeen]

Can I just say, I'm so disappointed that only mixtape has responded to my post about bridesmaids, (thank you mixtape, the doves sound wonderful - you're in!). Don't you know how upset I am? Surely my wedding is the most important thing in the entire world right now

[Mixtape]

preens

I am going to appoint myself head BM. Any new recruits must be prepared to get a second job to pay for the EPIC hen weekend at La Meurice in Paris, the Oscar night worthy goody bags, and their own hair extensions.

[Spadequeen]

Oh you have so aced your audition mix!

Sorry to have hijacked / killed your thread op, actually what am I saying no it's all mememememememememe isn't it, scratch that

[BadLad]

Threads like this are why I love this forum.

[nippiesweetie]

Has she really thought about the Love, Actually request? Has she ever watched a Richard Curtis film?

Imagination runs riot

Bridesmaid is asked by bride to coach groom in wholly manufactured display of lurve. Groom and bridesmaid find they are on the same wavelength about the ludicrousness of it all and fall for one another. Groom insists he will go through with wedding but on the day, as the pretty snow falls, (November wedding, right?) he buys last minute tickets to the Maldives and they make a mad dash to the airport dressed in all their wedding gear with no luggage.

How's that for a plus one, bitchbride.

Though, from the sounds of it, the groom is pretty much on board with the nonsense.