to laugh at this second-hand wedding drama?

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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...

Must. Not. Placemark.

I'm sure cocktails won't be on the menu.

Her feed is like snapchat just now, from the posts appearing and vanishing! Only further gem I have gleaned is that the stripper seems to have been a friend of the h2b's sister (unclear whether she was paid or deliberately booked with this knowledge)!

I wonder if/where she works, I just realised it's still the afternoon over there - she was discussing the bereaved friend in the morning! I don't know why this seems notable to me, I think in my head the main fb craziness would occur between 8pm and 3am..

Some of the other wedding stories you lot are posting are hair-raising! A wedding reunion!?

I bet she will still marry him. Her defense of him was something like "stfu tiffany you don't know what you're talking about!". But I bet she marries him and in late March puts 4000 wedding photos on her Facebook page...

Is there somewhere online where we can all watch the wedding, beamed live from the helicopters filming from overhead?

I hope, OP, that you are going to take your duties as official mumsnet wedding correspondent very seriously indeed

Hilarious... This woman sounds like she would marry a plant pot just to get her special day...

It's like the mean bitches on Muriel's wedding. Wasn't there a BJ receiving groom on that too?

Not place marking, not at all

Nothing wrong with monograms DancingHat! My graphic designer husband designed a lovely one for our wedding (which now goes on the back of our Christmas cards which he designs) and has done some lovely ones for other people too.

Loving this thread. Still can't believe Bridezilla's attitude towards her poor bereaved friend!

I hope you don't have anything planned this weekend, OP. We're depending on you!

M00n I wonder if you are who DancingHat is talking about

not placemarking

This is the worst bridezilla I have ever heard of!

And I am the OP of the Gluezilla threads.

Does no-one else think it sounds a bit like the guest set bridezilla up? It wasn't necessary for her to say she couldn't come without saying why and why did she post it on her wall rather than messaging or texting?

Wow, this is the bridezilla thread to top all bridezilla threads!

I thouht my friemd who counted down to her wedding over two years. Sen oit the invites and was asking about meal choices 6 months before. Only to cancel the whole damn thing with about 20 weeks to go.

" The one year reunion of the post-wedding reunion gang"
nooooooooooooooooo surely not

Oh yes! I managed to avoid that one, by not going to the post-wedding reunion (I think I might have been pregnant) and thus having a legitimate excuse to not reune(?) after 1 year.

Ebayaholic - she had texted her and said she wasn't going and would phone later to explain. When Bridezilla freaked out the friend texted back that her mum had dies as an explanation. Bridezilla posted a screenshot of the the text conversation on FB and started canvassing opinions on whether or not you could make a weekend wedding if your mum died on a monday. I really don't think the friend can be blamed for that!.

Do you think there'll be a 5 year,10year, 15 year reunion? Maybe a few in between for good measure?

I give it 6 months tops
That is unless the groom is watching the posts from afar
Where in America is it? In mind I have a crazy 21 year old post pageant mid west Texan kind of between teen mom and my super sweet 16 ....

Oops, misread the op. Thanks bumbley.

Please please tell me she's on don't tell the bride or 4 weddings etc
The thrill pressure of the camera crew....

No changing this woman is in her late twenties!

She has just posted that she is "putting the finishing touches to the breakfast favors". Breakfast FAVORS! I'm sort of desperate to know what they are...maybe she'll post pictures.

No problem :)

When my mother died unexpectedly on a Friday morning, I was to be bridesmaid on the Saturday. The bride rang me and no commiserations, just told me not to 'even think about ruining (her) special day' by pulling out of the wedding. i was far too shell shocked to even argue, so I did go ahead. Drank a lot!

I never spoke to her again after that day, and the marriage only lasted eleven months.

I've been sat here chuckling away at this. God what I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall at the wedding celebrations

Wedding breakfast favours. So, rather than sugared almonds in a net pouch with a satin bow, maybe sugarpuffs?