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to laugh at this second-hand wedding drama?

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kitchentableagain · 24/02/2015 14:03

It's second hand because it's actually happening to someone I know vaguely on FB who is in America.

She is getting married! And man, does everybody need to know about it! So far she's had:

An engagement shower (which seemed to be a party just for her thrown by her mother)

An engagement party (for the couple and potential invites to the wedding)

A wedding shower (same again?)

A bachelorette party (hen do)

Sent out save the dates (which I'd never heard of before her fb post about "looking out for them"), invitations, RSVP cards. And on and on.

Many many public dramas on the way, including rants about the fact that some people RSVP'd "sorry I can't attend" AFTER getting their save the date cards - she sent the save the dates SEVENTEEN MONTHS before the wedding. I'm sure most people had lost them by the time the correct year rolled around!

Anyway the wedding is this weekend (yay! An end to it all!). This week's FB drama is that people are cancelling last minute. She posted a screen grab of a text convo today though that has had me scraping my chin all day (my jaw is on the floor). It said:

Friend: Wanted to warn you hun, I won't be able to make it on Saturday. I'm so sorry. I'll call you tonight.
Bride: You know what, DON'T call me. You're the second to do this. So sick of selfish people wrecking my special day.
Friend: Mum died this morning.

Bride is on FB asking her friend list AIBU to think that "if her mum died on Monday then she could totally attend a wedding on Saturday".

Amazing.

And before anyone says it, yes I know I should unfollow/unfriend but I am shamefully addicted to this stuff... Blush

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FunkyZebraHat · 25/02/2015 10:28

blatent placemarking

MonkeySeeMonkeyDooo · 25/02/2015 10:29

Gluezilla (parts 1 & 2!) got linked in another thread recently. It was a classic.

PlumpingUpPartridge · 25/02/2015 10:34

I've just single-handedly reduced the productivity of the UK economy for the day.

Sorry.

MonkeySeeMonkeyDooo · 25/02/2015 10:35

Totally forgot how big it got!

Lweji · 25/02/2015 10:36

I've just single-handedly reduced the productivity of the UK economy for the day.

Sadly, not just of the UK.

bumbleymummy · 25/02/2015 10:45

Noooooo! I have a paper due!

PlumpingUpPartridge · 25/02/2015 10:48

I can imagine Angela Merkel pursing her lips in the next big economy speech and saying 'Due to SOMEONE'S ill-considered actions, we have not met our targets for February. Fuck's sake.'

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kitchentableagain · 25/02/2015 11:00

Well her wall is disappointingly drama free today. A lot of yesterday's drama, including the whole thread about the bereaved friend, is gone. She did just post a mini rant about one of her bridesmaids leaving her shoes near a window and "fading the damn silk out" though. I wonder if they are peuce...

Is she real..idk. I think she is. She's been on fb since 2007, this engagement/wedding "story" has been appearing in her comments since 2012. Her privacy settings are actually quite high, and she doesn't have a "follow" option (which I would expect if she was trolling for attention and why I'm too scared to actually out her!). BUT I have never met her, I don't even know if the person I first saw her posts through has actually met her (i've pm'd to ask but she will just be getting up). Do sorority members consider that enough of a link to "friend" strangers? And yes, the person who said I could be making this all up is also right (i'm not but I would say that wouldn't I!?), this is the internets after all.

I suppose I don't really care if it's real, I laughed so hard at the cocktails comment I don't even care. If it turns out she's a figment of someone's imagination then I will still chuckle thinking about it. If the possibility of it being fake bothers some people then just don't read it I guess.

I will try to continue to update any gems over the weekend. I'm DYING to know what the wedding favors (for the reception) are. The picture-coasters had me in stitches. When would you ever use them? I have a friend who gave out coasters but they had a French theme and the coasters were four scenes of Paris, so slightly more useable that the couples mugs!

I'm off to read the linked threads now! Thanks partridge!

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TaliZorahVasNormandy · 25/02/2015 11:21

I dont know, there might be a sanctification of slamming down a cup on Batshit and Cocktail's faces.

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 25/02/2015 11:22

Satisfaction*

theladylovescupcakes · 25/02/2015 11:33

Following this, such entertainment!

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 25/02/2015 11:34

Hey Kitchen dare you to post this on your FB page.

Yes its a actually called that.

to laugh at this second-hand wedding drama?
LabradorMama · 25/02/2015 11:43

Shamelessly place marking for further updates

Hippymama · 25/02/2015 12:04

Me too :) love a good bridezilla thread!

Bogeyface · 25/02/2015 12:06

Anyone who doesnt believe it could be true, go on YouTube and look up Bridezillas. It was a long running series and some of the brides on there make this one seem quite sane.

My personal favourite was a spoilt brat who decided that she didnt like her vv expensive gown after all (about a week before the wedding) and was determined that her mum and dad should buy her a new one. In order to force them to, after they said no, she chowed down as much fried chicken and doughnuts as she could so it wouldnt fit and they would have no choice but to buy the new one she wanted. Iirc, they still said no and she had to be shoehorned into the old dress, but from her reaction I suspect it was the first time anyone had ever refused her anything!

elQuintoConyo · 25/02/2015 12:10

Funny thread and, sadly, believable.

Shame on you Strokethefurrywall for calling anyone, anyone, a cuntwhore . BZ sounds like a right bitch, but that ^^ was uncalled for.

IncompetentCavewoman · 25/02/2015 12:25

I've got one that's not a dead mother Bridezilla story but a dead grandmother...

My niece was born many years after my mum had died. Ie: she never met or knew her.

When she got married it was in the church where my parents had married and mum is buried. When my mum died, dad was left on one wage having to bring up 2 kids and buying a gravestone was (understandably) not a priority. We had to survive. So her grave is unmarked although we know where it is, and no-one else needs to know where it is, so that wasn't a problem. My brother has never visited it or taken flowers - he loved mum very much but that's just not his way. I always did, though.

About 18 months before niece married this bloke she'd only met a couple of months before the engagement announcement, she announced she was going to put her wedding bouquet on my mother's grave so we would have to (a) show her where it was and (b) buy a headstone. As it would be embarrassing for her new PILs to see her grandma in an unmarked grave. She had never shown any interest in visiting mum's grave til it was a showboating centrepiece. I have the same problem my dad had when mum died - living on one wage and have 2 young kids so buying even half of a headstone was never going to happen. Especially as it had never been anyone's priority til two snobby golf-club total strangers might be offended by its non-existence.

I refused to stump up half, so it didn't go ahead. And the plan to ostentatiously weep and wail after the wedding, placing flowers on the grave,for a person she never met or knew, was quietly shelved although my SIL had to go there the day after and leave the flowers.

I hated the fact the Bride wanted to use my dead mother as a sort of emotional look-at-me- centrepiece on her big day. And I didn't care whether my mother would have liked it or not as the whole thing ended up being deeply upsetting. Bottom line was the bride was only in her early 20s and immature for her age and was always renowned for having the emotional intelligence of a dried pea.

I can laugh at Bridezillas again now but for a while it was a sore point. Wink

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kitchentableagain · 25/02/2015 12:41

cavewoman !? Who even thinks of that as part of their wedding!? That is truly nuts.

My RL friend has messaged to say she has NOT ever met bridezilla, but HAS met "toddler on hip skank" cousin.

I have never really encountered a bridezilla in real life. I did work with a woman who cried for twenty minutes one morning because the florist only had the wrong sort of lily. At the time I thought she was being a twat. Okay I still think that. But all the bride's I've known and been to the weddings of were quite calm and relaxed and understood it was their big day, not everyone else's.

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SlightlyJaded · 25/02/2015 12:47

OP you have DUTY to PUT IDEAS INTO HER HEAD.

I would suggest posting this on her timeline:

"Oh Wow, just noticed you are getting married - congratulations! We love American weddings in the UK. Please tell me what ice-sculptures you are getting, it is a swan? (I really love Ice Swan's - so it's finger's crossed from me!) Also would love to hear what fireworks you have gone for and how many doves you will be releasing (although I hear that some people now choose to release wild geese?) and can you post some pictures of the wedding-puppies? My cousin had the CUTEST wedding puppies - 16 baby Labradors with pink bows on their heads and helium PUPPY BALLOONS attached to their collars. Everyone said it was totally the best wedding they had ever seen! Anyhow - would love to see your stuff as your wedding sounds amazing".

You can obviously substitute fully invented wedding-puppies with nonsense of your choosing :)

We need to see what happens to the Bride when she realises she has failed to plan ESSENTIAL ITEMS

[evil]

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 25/02/2015 12:55

Now I am sad that I only had one, fully grown Labrador at my wedding (well, at the photos outside the church afterwards). Why did no-one tell me I could have had sixteen puppies with bows on their heads!! Shock

fairnotfit · 25/02/2015 13:00

wedding puppies

How about a Lucky Turkey as well?

KatieScarlettreregged · 25/02/2015 13:04

Noooo
She needs a lucky swan and to be encouraged to have pictures taken with it.
What with swans being all friendly, like Grin

MerryMarigold · 25/02/2015 13:09

The wedding puppies has made my day! I'm dying to read all about Gluezilla, having heard of her before...

ScrambledSmegs · 25/02/2015 13:11

I've got visions of 16 Labrador puppies with pink bows on their heads and helium balloons attached to their collars floating off into the clouds.

Shock