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Pregnant after a Loss
MrsPatterson
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Stolen from 2nd tri: What pissed you off when you were a bride?
MrsPatterson
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I am loving reading the reponses to that one over there, and I wanted to hear what you ladies have to say! ?Spill your Bridezilla moments!
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Re: Stolen from 2nd tri: What pissed you off when you were a bride?
The only thing that pissed me off bad to the point I thought I might blow a gasket was that DH and I wanted to rent a beach house for the weekend and do a co abcehlor/ette party with all our friends and close family. We would jsut split the cost among everyone and it would only have been like 75$ a person. Not bad right? Well his friggin sisters all didnt want to and said it was too costly. So instead the three of them took me our for a seperate party to see a play and have dinner...which ended up being double the price. DH and I were so steaming hot! Funny... I still am a little pissed about that.
I totally thought of another big one after I wrote and had to add. Ok so originally DH and I wanted a destination wedding with his fam, mine and our two closest friends. We paid for our wedding and planned to pay for everyone to go! DH's dad refused b/c he wanted his mom there, so I said fine I will pay for her too. Then he said well i want my siblings there (he has 7) I was pissed b/c of course we werent going to get married without him so bye bye destination wedding hello expensice city wedding that we had to pay for! Oooh I feel better!
I would flip out when people said "don't worry" ?My tirade was something like "it's the most important day of my life and if I want to worry I'll worry."
My highlights were making one of my bridesmaids redo her hair and crying before my outdoor wedding b/c it was raining. ?I just kept saying "I'm NOT getting married in front of a cake." Good times. ?Luckily, it stopped raining and I got married in front of the mountains. ?Our 5 yr anniversary is in 4 months!
We asked our parents for their guest lists very soon after we were engaged. The lists were not that big (including our guests, about 100 people), so we chose to get married in the small church that I attended while in college - about two hours south of the church my family was attending. Then, after we'd already booked the reception venue, my MIL decided that we had to invite the rest of her ginormous family. We're talking third cousins and people my DH had barely ever heard of, let alone actually met. SEVENTY extra people! DH did not want to stand up to her, and to her credit, she did offer to pay for the extra guests.
But the problem was that the church was small, and could only fit about 100 people total. We explained this to her and offered her the option of inviting the extra folks only to the reception - I figured she wouldn't want to do this, because it was so unbelieveably tacky. Nope, she went for it. And in the end, I ended up having to send out invitations to the reception, with "ceremony cards" inserted into the envelopes of those who were invited to the whole shebang. I was so embarrassed!
Two things pissed me off--one was that one of my bridesmaids got totally trashed at our jack & jill shower in the middle of the day, during which she pushed me off of her when I asked her to stop drinking, swore at my DH and announced to various people that we weren't going to make it and that he was controlling of me. We are no longer friends, needless to say. Even though she has tried to get in contact with no apology for her behavior.
The second thing was that while DH and I were sitting up on the alter at the church during communion, he was telling me who his cousins were that I'd never met (huge family) and noticed two girls he didn't know...I didn't know them either. Found out his aunt let their daughters bring friends to our wedding...how rude and inappropriate!
DH and I had a pretty small wedding and we didn't have a get away limo. ?Instead we were just 'getting away' in our car. ?But we did ask his sisters to make a Just Married Sign for the back. ?
Instead of doing this, they blew up condoms and put them all over the car and wrote obscene things all over the windows. ?They also managed to tape sausages on the trunk. ?It was heinous and tacky and it almost made me cry. ?
I thought it was my obnoxious cousins who did it - and I was even more pissed when I found out it was his sisters!!?
My STEP-MIL does that make sense? ?DH's step mom...had eye surgery the week before our wedding. ?Of all the mom's she had been the most pushy about how things should be at the wedding...
The day before the wedding she took not ONE (the prescribed amount) but TWO vicodin ON AN EMPTY STOMACHE...which trust me, she has had enough procedures to know NOT to do that...and ended up in the hospital from dehydration and didn't make the wedding.
That was minorly irritating, but where it gets bad is this...
My photographer was a friend and someone who I give freelance jobs to if I am too busy. ?The deal was I would pay her to do the shoot, she gave me the images with her pricing, and any $ made off reprints would be split 50/50 so I could make some $ off it too-her wedding gift to me. So my Step-MIL after all this and missing the wedding had the audacity to rake ME over the coals about the reprint pricing and how long it took to get them and how long it took to get the website up (all of which was work I did, not my friend). ?Then after getting the pics, went and made copies of them for other people in the family to "stop them from being raped on prices" which is not only in bad taste but also a violation of federal copyright law.?
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I never made a big deal about it, but I did point out that the reprint prices for my wedding pics were half what I charge when I do photo jobs. ?She was just so ungrateful and all that after putting herself in the hospital and missing the wedding because of her own stupidity was too too much for me. ?
OMG my SIL got married 3 months before me and at our cookout the day after the wedding she brought out all HER wedding pictures in an album and took it apart because it was messed up and was literally putting it back together with a screwdriver in the middle of our living room floor with all our guests around and even asked some of my friends to help her. Then she passed it around of course.
I mean, I don't mind her bringing them to show us privately but really, was that the best time???
She also wore a very very light pink dress to our wedding and in some pictures she looks like the bride without a veil.
Can you say AW???? lol
BFP #2 = 3/30/09 DD born 12/9/09
BFP #3 = 5/17/11 EDD = 1/27/12
18 months
My sister is bipolar and has serious emotional issues. She's also a couple years older than me and couldn't deal with the fact that I was getting married before her. On top of it, she and her boyfriend broke up two days before my wedding, although she still brought him as her date (weird).
Well, at my rehearsal dinner she got completely trashed and proceeded to act like a fool in front of my whole extended family and future in-laws. Then she had a total break down and sobbed loudly in the middle of the room for an hour while various people tried to comfort her, I tried to ignore her, and my parents tried to get her to leave. I was so humiliated!!
I was just gonna let it go, but then a few weeks later she tried to apologize to me and she just had a ton of lame excuses and then she said, "I do this at every wedding I go to." Like that was supposed to make it better, and seriously, who's still inviting her to weddings?! I was even more pissed that she couldn't just be accountable for the fact that she drank WAY too much and then made a huge scene in front of everyone, when she could have just left and tried to remember for one weekend that it was not all about her.
On the day of my wedding, one of my bms was three hours late. She missed the getting ready and pre-wedding pics, so in half of the pictures I'm a bm short. (She said she just lost track of time).
The morning of the wedding, I got a phone call that six of DH's cousins (who had RSVPd they weren't coming) were indeed coming, and were upset when they heard a rumor we had assigned seating at the reception. They wanted to me to rearrange the seating immediately so they wouldn't be embarassed when they didn't have an escort card. The most annoying part was that these people were from TEXAS! They flew here; it obviously required some planning--they probably could have clued us in to their attendance prior.
I had a major meltdown when my reception restaurant called 3 weeks before the wedding to tell me they double-booked me and I was out of luck. (This was a destination wedding in Vegas which we had completed all booking 4 months in advance).
?Luckily my husband is good at yelling at people. ?The restaurant helped me book our last minute reception for 50+ people at an even nicer restaurant and doubled our deposit upon returning it to us--this took care of our open bar and then some. ?In the end it was even better than I had imagined, but in the moment it gave me a total anxiety attack!