to laugh at this second-hand wedding drama?

[kitchentableagain]

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...

Yes, she might post something a bit passagg like "marrying my best friend today, so glad everyone that matters is here with us" but she won't permit casual unphotoshopped photo uploads or anything else more juicy.

I'm looking forward to "People are so cruel - some asshole gave us six crystal glasses when our registry listed twelve. I mean wtf?!"

I can't believe how selfish some of you are wanting wedding puppies. I want them at my wedding and as for birthdays, how could you possibly want to steal my limelight by having a birthday in my wedding year??!!

On the "on offer" mini-debate; the term is used some in the US (midwest especially) to mean available, as in "They have a variety of vegetables on offer" but I don't think it would generally be used to mean offered at a special price, which is the way OP's bride used it.

If the OP is quoting verbatim, perhaps the bride is an expat.

Here if something is at a special price, we usually say "on sale" or "on special."

Why don't you unfriend her, or hide her posts.

It's getting pretty bloody boring reading about people moaning about what others are sharing on fb, when the answer is simple!!

but I am shamefully addicted to this stuff Well then, you have no right to complain!

It's 5:30 West Coast time. Where are the updates? If she's Mid-West or East Coast the rehearsal should be winding up and/or the rehearsal dinner getting started.

Wait, don't tell me she's a West Coast Bridezilla. That's not allowed. Well, unless she's a 'Westside LA' girl. They can be awful.

from west LA, AcrossthePond, how very dare you

Want2b, Shoprite used to be cheap but I spend less doing a mixture Trader Joes and Whole Foods than I would spend in SR nowadays. Their prices have sky rocketed.

I like that this has turned into a US bargain shopping thread while we wait for updates.

Anyway, I'm having a baby this year AND he's due around my birthday, so if any of you think you are having babies/birthdays/getting married/engaged etc this year, you can bloody think again. Obvs I'm registered at inaccessible shops and I want baby shower puppies.

Come the fuck on Bridget

when in was on holiday in the states i liked publix
they had lovely bread

I am guessing this is a New York wedding. A friend if mine was a bridesmaid at one and it had all the same elements, e.g. 'showers' for every step of the way and days and days of breakfasts and dinners. The bride was just as neurotic but less sweary. The type of gifts given at the brides engagement shower were of the 200 dollars a go variety.

The shooting and huge number of meals and showers could easily be my Midwest family, except for my family being lovely. If you have a huge family who all have to fly in for the wedding, making up extra meals and events for everyone to have more time to chat is great.

Though our wedding are much more like "here's a code to get a discount at the Holiday Inn, and the bar opens at xxxx". No Bridezillas...

Likeabadseth interesting re shop rite will have to ask my friend who shops there. She liked trader joes too but would've considered whole foods too fancy but also not sure if they'd have them in Delaware which
is where she is.

I must admit to being irked that most of my sisters have insisted on having their children in May. Both mine are in May, and I baggsied the month first.

It's bloody difficult arranging birthday parties. The last sister not to have DC has already been spoken to about acceptable months for conception.

Ok Kitchen, we're good to go....hat on, tena lady in situ sherry in glass

I can't believe we still don't have an answer to the whole Southern affair/Midwest/New Jersey debate!

totally original comment not for placemarking purposes

Headline from a story in today's Daily Fail. It's worth a read.

Bridezilla alert! Bride-to-be launches media offensive over the 'wrong' doilies - but can you tell the difference?
Natalie DeGraffenreid, from Dallas, Texas, ordered invitations from Arts by Ellie in January
When stationary firm ran out of doilies, the owner 'ordered a new pattern'
DeGraffenreid said patterns aren't similar enough and is disappointed
The bride-to-be asked for refund, but attorney from Arts by Ellie demanded she pay the remainder of her bill, according to reports
She was so upset about the situation she turned to her local ABC station to warn others from making the same mistake

Rise and shine America. Even if you are on the west coast.

rootypig I am sure you are the 'exception that proves the rule*!!!

(Post serves as both an apology to Rootypig and a stealth place mark!)

Come on, need update!!!

Taking bets now-I'm saying she's in the Midwest.

I love a wedding

Not place marking. Not me. Not at all.

Shameless pla......ah you know!