What really pissed you off when you were a Bride?

Shananah · May 2009

Doing a little fun research - when you were a bride...what made you crazy in the planning stage? What prompted your worst (pre-wedding) bridezilla moment? What did you think was the biggest rip off? (if any.)

Mabzie · May 2009

i had a pretty laid back wedding and reception. my decisions were easy and no one butted in. only thing that made me angry was that my mom and dad didnt want to get along and my mom decided she was going to invite her boyfriend (whom i hate hate hate) without my permission.

BlairWaldorf · May 2009

I think my only "Bridezilla" moment was about 5 hours before the wedding, when I realized one of my BM's and the reception coordinator had tied little pink & green bows to EVERYTHING in the reception. EVERYTHING.

I went through & untied everything, pulled ribbons off the cake cutter utinsils, off the candelabras, & off the corners of the tables. I kept say, "This is RIDICULOUS & TACKY!"

umm...except I was the ridiculous & tacky one for doing it. But oh well.

starcolls · May 2009

it wasn't really anything in particular but i got annoyed several times when one or more of my bridesmaids tried to suggest that i do something differently from the way i was doing it. and not in a constructive way, more like "this is a pain for me, so i am going to suggest this instead and make it seem like i am being helpful".

tdalbey21 · May 2009

My biggest Bridezilla moment was when my hairdresser couldn't fit me in to color my hair a week before my wedding. I was calling with plenty of time to get in but he was being difficult. I ended up cancelling my wedding day hair with him and scheduled with a new girl. I went to see the new girl and she had to go home sick and couldn't color my hair. I HAD to have it done that day! So, I called another girl and she worked me in. Luckily, she did a great job and I still go to her now 3 years later!

**cookie** · May 2009

Honestly, I can't think of anything that p!ssed me off except the rain. That's because I was having my ceremony outside but it all worked out perfectly in the end. The Rain Stopped!

katieL09 · May 2009

everyone telling me there opinion on what i should do and how i should do it !! Drove me nuts. No bridezilla moment!!!

nofreespeeches · May 2009

i got married in vegas (we lived there), so we had a package that included a wedding planner... and i used the same girl the whole time, i really liked her. then the day of the wedding it was someone i hadn't met yet, and it pissed me the fvck off. she didn't understand that my uncle would give me away, kept asking why- so i finally screamed at her that my dad died when i was 7. she immediately left.

KB0426 · May 2009

Nothing at all! I had a wonderful stress free day. My parents paid for everything and the place we used was all inclusive meaning cake(we got to choose), reception, centerpieces(we got to choose) and Limos. So really we just had to pick the photographer and DJ. Honestly the whole thing is a rip when you figure it is one day, one 18,000 dollar day.

AliciaSpring · May 2009

I was not really uptight about anything so no bridezilla moment for me actually all of my bridesmaids commented on how cool I was about the whole thing I was mildly irratated people were late to the dress rehersal considering the late people were my family

We shopped around a lot for everything so I did not think anything was a rip off however I wish we had gotten a videographer.

Chief_Carters_Lady · May 2009

I was pretty level headed, but the girl who I paid in cash two months before hand didn't show up to do my hair...

taelir · May 2009

My family tells me I was pretty laidback throughout the process.

The only time I got uber-pissy was two days before the wedding. The church called to "inform" us that they booked a wedding one hour prior to ours.

These are Catholic weddings. There's no such thing as a 20-minute ceremony.

It also meant we had to cram ourselves into a tiny freaking room to try and get ready at the church.

I threw the BIGGEST hissyfit when the wedding before ours showed up 15 minutes late.

Lilly923 · May 2009

DH and I wanted a small, private ceremony but thanks to MIL (and her cell phone/check book) that didn't happen... I had a few bridezilla freak out moments with her over this.

MrsPatterson · May 2009

I had two things that pissed me off equally. ?First thing was that DH's grandparents chose not to come to the wedding because they winter in Florida and refused to fly up to Michigan for the wedding (despite us telling them we were going to pay for their tickets), even though DH is their only grandchild. ?

The second thing was also from DH's side, surprise surprise. ?We invited his aunt and uncle, and the invitation and RSVP card were addressed as such (Mr. and Mrs. John Smith). ?When they returned their RSVP saying they were attending, they had also written in the names of their two children and the uncle's mother. ?I was so irritated at how rude that was! ?

4realyo · May 2009

My biggest nightmare was when I got my arms waxed the week before and the lady ripped my skin off to giving me contact dermititis. This caused mem to have to beg my dermatologist to see me and get steroid injections in my butt the week of my wedding. After that, I was pretty okay with the fact that my sister's BM dress didnt fit and she only wore it for the 20 min ceremony & then took it off.

browneyes_24b · May 2009

My worst moment was at rehearsal. My sister decided she wasn't going to stand up for me (like literally stand up at the front of the church) DURING rehearsal. Yeah. It was pretty awesome. Turns out, the wedding went better without her up there, so it all worked out!

kle+spd · May 2009

The only time I got really upset was when my grandfather (who im not close to) TOLD me he was bringing 3 other family members I had never met because they wanted to meet me for the 1st time at my wedding! Then the day before, they ALL (including my grandfather and his wife) decided they couldn't come! After all that I was so mad I still had to pay for them!

peppermintgirl · May 2009

The only time I really threw a hissy fit is when people didn't RSVP. We only invited something like sixty people, and I think maybe five RSVPs came back. Everyone's reasoning seemed to be that because we weren't having a fancy wedding, they figured it didn't matter if they told us they were coming or not. I even saw someone out at a bar a week beforehand and asked if they were coming, and they said, "Oh, well, we're planning on it, I guess...". I couldn't understand why they didn't get that we NEEDED to know since we were going to have food and we were buying them all booze. My dad and stepmom couldn't take the time off work because they wanted that time to go on vacation the next month. The rest of my family just didn't respond at all.

In the end, we maybe had twenty people show up. Three of the five RSVPs we got didn't show. I didn't get too upset over that, as the important people showed up, and we all got more booze because of it.

Oh, our photographer did decide to have his four year old son tag along. I really didn't feel it was appropriate for him to be hanging around after the ceremony when we were all playing drinking games and the like.

Pennylane824 · May 2009

I had the wedding coordinator at our country club switched on me TWICE. Once was a month before the wedding, which caused me to go into bridezilla mode a few times. Especially when we showed up for the rehearsal and she told me the piano that we had been told we could use for the ceremony "was only for show and hadn't been tuned in years." Dear Lord I thought I was going to lose it.

Then we got to the rehearsal dinner and it took them forever to get all my guests their drinks and me a glass of wine which made things worse. DH actually got up and poured me a glass of wine because I was having a freak out.

The day of I was TOTALLY calm and laid back which is soooooooooo not like me!

localbs05 · May 2009

When I walked into my reception I looked at my cake and realized it was not the one I ordered. At all. This was the FUGLIEST cake I have ever seen. It looked like a kid made it. At that point I just stood there and laughed, there was nothing I could have done. At least DH and I can laugh about it for years to come.

I LUBBINS YOU! · May 2009

My worst bridezilla moment was actually AFTER the wedding. This happened when I realized that my MIL was truly staying with us after the wedding.

Nothing beats that.

sam19 · May 2009

The stupid douches at the bridal shop not refunding our money for a dress that CAME broken and not willing to fix it for free because it was our fault.

mfransdell · May 2009

I get overwhelmed easily so planning the wedding was full of bridezilla moments

People 'helping' also annoyed the crap out of me. just like pregnancy, everyone has an opinion. I had a friend of my moms who was invited as a guest and she seriously would not leave me alone. She took it upon herself to take one a lot of my DIY tasks without asking for my input...or if I even needed help. It was nice that she wanted to help but I ended up with a bazillion tacky decorations dropped off on my doorstep daily and had to find a nice way to ask her to back off.

As for expenses...flowers were a huge rip off. I see you are in LA. Check out the Flower market in downtown. I did my flowers myself. We spent under 300$ had so many flowers left over adn i still get compliments.

DanielsWife · May 2009

The whole effing thing pissed me off.

We were going to have a nice, small but dressy wedding at a popular location in BG, but no one at the freaking wedding license office told us that, the weekend we were going to have it, every single magistrate would be at a convention that weekend. And in KY, you have to personally know a judge for that person to perform a ceremony (we didn't do the Catholic thing due to circumstances - like having to do pre-Cana w/my ex-bf and his FI). So, we ended up getting married the Sunday before in a hastily put together backyard ceremony at MIL's.

The last ceremony, in January - when we did the Catholic thing - my dress didn't fit: because I was pregnant! The only thing that upset me that day was DH's flaky family not showing - the same ones that now feel this overwhelming need to throw me a baby shower. Oy.?

bannedmonkey · May 2009

The one thing that really bothered me was that the wedding coordinators at my venue kept changing. One quit, and the next two were fired. That means I had FOUR by the time it was all said and done.

Mrs.R0908 · May 2009

No bridezilla moment for me... I was pretty laid back. My future MIL was helping with flowers and insisted they needed to be a certain way which I didn't agree. When the flowers arrived that day I realized she went and changed them to what she wanted! I was so mad but never said anything to her as I didn't want to cause any problems. I didn't really see anything as a rip off, however I did regret not having a videographer...wedding was a blast and it goes so fast.

kiki4 · May 2009

Nothing made me crazy...the way I looked at it, as long as we were married at the end of the day, I really didn't care if the flowers were hot pink and should have been light pink.

PizzaBride · May 2009

My MIL. She thought that she got to decide on the guest list, and when I refused to invite 200 people to the hall that held only 150 she accused me of refusing to invite her family to my wedding.

DH and I eloped (partly because of her), but I know if I had gone through and planned the whole thing I would've freaked on her!

deb2126 · May 2009

I put up with a LOT from the in-laws trying to take over the wedding. They picked the flowers, tent, food, invited 20 people that weren't on the guest list...they did so much. Well, I held it in until the actual wedding day! I set up the decorations and everything with my family and friends, went to get my hair done and came back to things moved around, HORRIBLE toile bouquets...and blow up palm tree water holders...I looked out the window and saw this and looked at my sister and said "NO THEY DID NOT! IT'S ALL CHANGED!" I would have walked right out in my wedding dress (as guests were coming) and changed it back if my sister hadn't caught me! She had my brothers move the stuff to a place where it wouldn't be seen in pictures, but wouldn't make the in-laws upset. Oh, what would I do without my sister!

jessicaclare · May 2009

My biggest one was when my dad called me and told me that I wouldn't be able to get cranberries for my centerpieces because they were out of season. *insert hysterical crying fit at work here* I have no idea why that set me off.

I also ALMOST had a bridezilla moment when my dad's GF showed up wearing a dress that was one shade of champagne darker then my dress. She ended up looking stupid, though, because everyone was talking about how tacky it was, so I'm glad I never said anything.

orleyl · May 2009

I am so not a girly girl, so I am not really a bridezilla type but I had a double wedding with my sister who was a total bridezilla. The thing that annoyed me most was my bridezilla sister freaking out over every little thing. The site was the biggest rip off bc we chose it for an outdoor ceremony on the beach but since it rained we were stuck inside. So we could have had a better location if we knew it were going to be inside. Oh, well.

WildHorseFeathers · May 2009

When my ILs told my DH he shouldn't marry me, and that I'm an evil person and will make him move to Mexico. Then that wedding rehearsal my SIL comes crying to me begging me why I didn't let her in the wedding. My bridezilla moment? I stood up at that point got 2 inches from her face and said, because you hate me and you're an absolute b!tch that would try to take the limelight of MY WEDDING! That's why! Phew, glad I got that off my chest.

sgrl · May 2009

My MIL trying to live vicariously through my wedding.

The drugged-out hairdresser who almost made my little niece cry because HER HAIR WAS TOO CLEAN.

Pennylane824 · May 2009

Oh! I also forgot- My MIL offered to do our cakes as a gift to us. I wasn't real happy about it, but I decided to run with it and pick other battles to fight. Then one day she said she wanted DH's cake to be a football cake and she could put it on that fake green grass........ all I could imagine was an 8 year old's birthday cake and I lost it. Shortly after that she offered to pay for our cakes rather than do them herself. Thank GOD!

DMBMamma · May 2009

Here was my issue, kinda long pre-story....I tried to make it easy, painless, and affordable for my bridesmaids. I paid for their hair, jewelry to match their dress, and wristlet size handbags (cute little brown leather coach wristlets even that matched their dress) and I know that even though my bridesmaids hosted my shower, my mom paid for it. So no money came out of their pockets for that either. I had one bridesmaid who couldn't afford to pay for her dress when it came in ($139) so the bridal store was calling me every day threatening to send the dress back since they had been holding it for a month with no payment from the bridesmaid. Finally she went to get it when my husband told her he would just go pay for it so I would stop being harassed. And after the dress issue, she never got it altered because she didn't have the money. And she is a larhe hipped, skinny wasted girl, so it needed to be altered. She looked terrible in it. She had safety pins all around the top holding it up, and it was too long on her so she was tripping on it all night. If she had only told me altering it was an issue, I would have given her the money. But she didn't, and almost 2 years later I am still irritated when I think about it. I have issues with letting sh!t go, I guess.

TarheelsInNJ · May 2009

We had a 7pm wedding, followed by an 8pm dessert reception. When I was emailing caterers, someone said, "You're not going to serve any food? I just wanted to make sure, because I thought that was weird."

Um, did you just call my wedding weird? You're clearly not getting my business!

Ivana_Stolichnaya · May 2009

I invited a friend and she replied with a "+ One Guest" on the RSVP. I thought, 'Ok, I didn't know you were with someone and I invited just you, but ok'

As the wedding drew closer I asked her about where she was planning on staying for the wedding. She looked at me with a weird look and said, "I'm sorry, I'm not going to be able to make it" I said, "It would be nice if you could have said this a little earlier since I made room for you and your guest (wedding was three days away) she then said, "Oh, I never had a guest, I wanted to make room for one in case I found a date"

We wasted $200 on her dumbass.

JCapp8306 · May 2009

What made me crazy in planning stage would have been DH the day before our wedding. ?He was in Georgia (Military) for the entire planning part, and when he came back the week before he thought we would just hang out and do nothing... I had things to do, and he was never as prompt as I wanted him to be. ?We had our reception at my parents house, and one of his friends threw up on the porch the night before!! ?DH thought it was hilarious and insisted on telling everyone. ?I wanted to call it off that night.

What prompted my worst bridezilla moment? ?I bought this really cool guest sign-in book where the guest fill in how they know me, either draw a pic of themselves or use one from a photobooth we had, what they see in our future, ect. ?Either my grandmother's or my mom's maid hid them right before we arrived from the church and had no idea what we were talking about. ?I looked crazy running around my mom's house in my big white dress looking for this guestbook while guests were trying to tell me how nice I looked and what a great wedding ceremony I had. ?I wanted to cry!!! ?The maid ended up finding it the next day, and I gave it to my sister for her wedding.... ?Like I thought, it was a hit.

Biggest rip off? ?Because we had the reception at my parents house, my dad hired security and the fire department. ?I could see the fire department, ?since we had many brush fires a few months before, but come on!! ?My father is so paranoid.

livinreality · May 2009

Definitely Bridesmaids, not sure why they agree to be them but somewhere in the process one of them should have stepped down, but didn't so that created interesting moments... she did not talk to me at the rehersal or wedding but that was probably a good thing.

Also MIL and mother wanted us to have 2 pastors, this was completely horrible and the only thing I straight out no to and it was completely unpleasant dealing with them ganging up on me, I was not very nice.

Our invitations were pricey but they turned out nice so I was okay with it but we could have saved money there

5dogs · May 2009

My ex-husband's sister was a walking nightmare. She showed up in a hootchie mama red satin prom dress (she's 28) two sizes too small with lucite stripper shoes & a knockoff LV clutch.... and she wasn't wearing underwear. We know this because she sat down to put on her "Cinderella" shoes and spread her legs.

I didn't want the big to-do wedding, I wanted to elope & put the money towards a house.

This makes me a little more thankful that my divorce will be final next month.

SouthernCJ · May 2009

The delivered the wrong flowers to our reception. Wrong flowers meaning Nothing But Petals instead of what we had asked (and paid) for. I walked into the reception, grabbed someone's cell phone, and ripped a new one to the florist they weren't soon to forget. But I got refunded $500 from it. I laugh everytime I picture myself crouched beneath an escalator at the reception site, in full wedding gear, saying words no bride should be saying.

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