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By adamg on Sat, 09/28/2013 - 9:43pm
Photographynatalia watched the Globe's running of the bridesmaids through Downtown Crossing today.
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Happy
Their not my bride, however good luck to the fella/gale whose taking that plunge
They're bridesmaids, not brides
They don't have a fella or a gal who is getting married to them. They're bitter because they spent anywhere between a couple of hundred to a few thousand dollars to be a bridesmaid at some chick's wedding they don't even care about.
They threw engagement parties, showers, bachelorette parties. Some of them traveled across the country to be with the bride on her special day. Some of those women have suffered emotional distress at getting yelled at for up to a year by bridezillas. Bridezillas who made those women wear those f-cking ugly dresses. Bridezillas who lied and said "This dress is so flattering on you! And you can wear it again!"
Well here's a chance to wear it again and, as an added bonus, ruin the dress in the process.
Kudos to you, ladies!
Aside: I once burned a dress. Damn straight. I took it to a private beach in Falmouth and threw that mess into a bonfire. Just like the couple threw their marriage into divorce court six months after the wedding that I spent a godawful amount of money on.
Wow!
Wow!
I'll give you a fun bridesmaid story
Two friends of mine got married a few years ago with a Twilight themed wedding. It was a same sex male wedding and and I was a bridesmaid for one of them. They were missing a Bella so he wanted me to dye my hair so I could look like her.
Nope.
Double nope to wearing white-ish powder with sparkles.
That's the funniest bridesmaid story I have. I could write a book with the bad ones.
I think you might just have
I think you might just have shitty friends.
Why do brides act like this?
I keep hearing ""Bridezilla" horror stories like this. Brides who want bridesmaids to lose wight, change their hair color, you name it. Maybe it's because I'm male, but I just don't get it. Why are the brides so miserable about everything? I'm sure the wedding would come of reasonably well even without all this demonstrative behavior. Is it some unattainable idea of perfection, or is that too easy an analysis?
Because
Women are __________!
Bridezillas - I just don't know
When I was younger it wasn't like this. You picked out a dress, a venue, some food and had your best girlfriends be in your wedding party. It was nice.
I can't answer that question because I've never been married. I've only ever been engaged or lived with guys in a committed relationship. I'm sure my view is skewed because I'm not the marrying type.
The weird thing is that you can't predict who will and will not be like this. I know a perfectly lovely young woman who is planning a wedding. She seemed normal until he put a ring on it and she started planning her special day.
She saw The Great Gatsby movie and - BAM - all of a sudden she's planning a 1920s themed wedding. At one point she was thinking of asking her 200 guests to dress in 1920s attire.
She had a group of women frantically searching the web the other day for a wedding shoe. She got 20+ suggestions and shot down each one. They were all total wrecks over finding a shoe. These are shoes that no one will even see because her wedding dress will cover them.
If I ever get married, and that's a big if, I'm going to City Hall and then we're all going out to pizza afterwards. See you at Pizzeria Regina!
Wedding extremism
"When I was younger it wasn't like this."
You are right. Weddings are just one more thing that have gotten more extreme in recent years. Its part of the whole Kardashian-ization or Jersey Shore-ization dumbing down of America. It seems to me some women can't differentiate anymore between "getting married" and "having a wedding" which "has to be perfect". A wedding is just a party for heaven's sake, you can have a party any old time. But if you are marrying someone you love, and it results in a good marriage, it really shouldn't matter if you get married in a garbage dump.
Yup, we eloped
You bet. We went to an island in Maine, got married by the town clerk, and boiled up some lobsters and clams that night with our friends who had no idea we were getting married 'til about an hour before. Being *ahem* older kinda helped.
Not all brides do
I was a bride a month ago, and I feel fairly confident that I was not a bridezilla. I would attribute the bridezilla-ness of others to the wedding machine that society/culture has made in the last decade or so. If you feel that there is an expected way to do everything for the wedding, you will end up going insane.
I'm not sure if that explains the Twilight themed wedding though...
"Brides" as a general class don't act like that.
You only hear about the nutcases. My wife has been in several weddings and nobody ever made unreasonable demands. I think in one case the bride paid for the bridesmaids' dresses.
I love the way that woman on
I love the way that woman on the left isn't messing around with a strapless bra. I wonder if she did that for whichever wedding she wore that for ;-)
Drag racing
Looks like drag racing