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...

I'm sorry but you ABU, totally and absolutely U!
You should ensure that somehow you attend that wedding, you've given us lots of gems but the big day will be volcanic compared to these snippets.

Sort it out OP, get yourself invited!

Oh, you wait, it'll be pregnancy party, baby shower, after baby shower. Oh and you better not steal her baby name, no one else is allowed that name.

Kitchentable - is anyone telling her how heartless she is being, to someone whose mum has just died? Or are all of her friends who are posting as nasty as her?

God I'd pay good money to watch that car crash in action!

Oh my gawd, what an absolute cuntwhore! This level of bridezillaness is just on another level!

Please please please OP, please wait until you get to 39 pages and then post the link to her facebook page, letting her know that lots of people on a wonderful forum called mumsnet are wishing her every happiness that she deserves...

Buzzfeed material, no?!

Tali sod "nicking" the baby name - if anyone else gives birth even in the same year it looks like she'll go nuclear

I'm hoping someone announces their pregnancy at her wedding...

I'm speechless how can anyone love this woman? Hope her friend is ok and getting support from other normal friends.

I had a guest cancel the day before my wedding due to illness. It's just part of the whole wedding deal that you don't get reimbursed for missing guests.

Bet she's not paying for any of it anyway. Daddy's credit card

I'm in full agreement with the 'accidental' PMing of this derelict's name. Especially if you somehow manage to slip and send it to me

Well someone a page or two back nailed it - YES the bereaved friend IS ON FACEBOOK WITH HER. Not only that, the bereaved lady's aunt too! God people shit just went DOWN!

Aunt posted (paraphrased as it's gone now): Just came home from the hospice after watching my brave niece hold my beautiful sister's hand to find this on my Facebook feed. Bridezilla you need to STFU I hope you choke on your fucking cocktail...oh and I guess you didn't hear yet that H2B had a stripper choking on his cocktail at the bachelor party?

Bridezilla then defended her H2B, but three other people immediately started saying it was true [:o] about the stripper/BJ! Then all those posts, plus the aunts, vanished. Then the bereaved friend posted: I'm so sorry to have caused you stress Bridezilla, I just wanted to be able to tell you about mom on the phone but give you as much notice on my not attending as possible. Mom died in the early hours, I've was up all night and all day doing paperwork and so on and I really didn't sleep last night much either, sorry if this is garbled. I really need to be here to arrange a funeral for Mom, the celebrant can only see me Thursday and I can't really afford to move my flights down now (i assume bride and friend live very far apart) but I will be thinking of you on your special day. I'm stepping away from FB for a while, but I'll speak to you again when you're a Mrs. Best of luck.

How reasonable!? Makes bridezilla look like even more of a bitch but them after strippergate maybe it would have been kicking bridezilla when she was already down.

To those wondering, no, not many people really disagreed with her, or those who did were very "that is so so horrible for you, but I'm sure she's gutted she can't come" rather than "what the actual fuck did you just do!?". Having said that the people saying H2B had been a bit too familiar with the stripper came out of the woodwork FAST, the aunts posts were there, replied to, confirmed and gone within 15 minutes or so. So you do wonder if people are posed waiting to give her a reality check. Or possibly I'm not checking the feed often enough and she's just deleting anyone who disagrees with her.

Can't wait to see what future MIL will say, if anything, about her darling son's bachelor's party entertainment!

That is shocking about her posting on FB about her friend's mum dying!

I have a similar FB 'friend' who has been posting non stop about every tiny detail of her wedding plans since she got engaged nearly 3 years ago!!! Very much looking forward to the end of it next month. Although no doubt we'll have months of photos afterwards...

Eek! x-post.

Would you still go ahead witha wedding if you found that out about your H2B?!

Went to a very long standing school friend's wedding newly engaged. Wouldn't have occured to me to keep it quiet! Lots of mutual friends there, and I 'announced'our news by waving my diamond- ringed hand at them as we entered the church. To our surprise,he 'wished us happy' and asked all the assembled guests to drink a toast to us at the end of his speech. I was incredibly touched . Obviously neither he nor the bride, whom I didn't know that well , felt upstaged. People who behave like spoilt brats are not old enough to get married IMO

Choked on his cocktail - love it. Please keep us posted on the rest of the drama... and I'm sure there will be more drama!

The friend sounds lovely and very reasonable at what must be such an awful time for her.

Oh my, this is not a marriage that's gonna last the test of time. It wont even last the test of honeymoon.

What a graceful, dignified friend she had.

I hope the friend drops her after this.

Oh this is just wonderful (except for the poor woman who has just lost her mother and is being beyond reasonable considering what bridezilla has said).

My FB is so boring but someone in my family did go on a rant about people cancelling on her wedding with only a few days notice and put an open invite on FB to fill the places. I was

OMG Priceless!

Chocked on his cocktail

While I was reading page 2 of this thread the banner advert at the top said "Heading for divorce of separation?"

Cunthorse of the day goes to...

, OP are you sure she's a person and not an American day time soap?! Just awful!

All wedding dramas are laughable! But this really does take the biscuit. Is it an American thing? Or just a crazy thing?