For all you Bridezillas out there

[Mutley]

I understand that this is your special day and you want everything to be perfect. Seriously, I get it. But when you stop at my desk to Bridezilla me up every ten minutes, I'm really not very interested in your problems any longer.

This has been a message from your local Please Be Nice To Those In The Service Industry, Inc.

[MrScorpio]

1. Amen, brother

Been there

[Mutley]

2. I mean, come on!

I've seen her twice since I posted this.


:banghead:

[MrScorpio]

4. And no amount of smiling and happy talk will satisfy them

Where are Valium Cokes when you need them?

[Mutley]

8. Ha, just give me a tranquilzer dart so I can ninja her to sleep.

:D

[LeftyMom]

3. Yeah, but it still beats the old job, no?

:shrug:

[Mutley]

7. It does.

And I have to remind myself of that every day.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. 'Bridezilla'

is not a verb.



:P

[Mutley]

9. It is now.

:D

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Why are you dancing on the grave of language?

:spank:

[Mutley]

15. I am not dancing on the grave of language.

I am a language revolutionary. I will be the subject of study in linguistics classes for decades to come.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Any money in that?

Or is it enough that you just get poked and prodded?



:D

[Mutley]

21. Mostly poked and prodded.

But I've made a deal with Oxford and I get a nickel for every sale of a dictionary that has my definition of 'bridezilla' contained within.



:D

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. Oxford?

Snob. :eyes:

[Mutley]

55. Wouldn't have it any other way.

:o



:D

[badgerpup]

46. "To Bridezilla"...an infinitive verb

How would you conjugate that? It's probably an irregular one...

First person singular: I Bridezilla

Second person singular: (informal) You Bridezilla

Second person singular: (formal) Thou Bridezillaeth
Formal/informal usage would probably depend upon the degree of formality of the wedding ceremony itself

Third person singular: She Bridezillas
(Due to the connotations inherent in the root word "bride", I don't think that "he" is usable with this particular verb. Same with "it"...being gender neutral, using "it" in conjunction with the connotations and basic definition of the infinitive verb 'to Bridezilla' would constitute an oxymoron)

First person plural: We Bridezilla

Second person plural: same rule as for second person singular, methinks. For formal usage, add an 'ers' to the word 'Bridezillaeth' to indicate plural Bridezilla-ers (e.g. Thou Bridezillaethers!). Informal usage could include the term "Y'all".



Third person plural: They Bridezilla (dear gods...run for cover! There's a pack of Bridezillas Bridezillaing and they're heading this way!)

Future tense: hmmm...that would be the same as the infinitive "She's going to Bridezilla your ass from here to next week."

Forget what tense this is, but to be (or to have been) Bridezillaed would indicate that a person had gone Bridezilla on you.


So glad I'm not involved with anybody who's getting married...:scared::hide:

[Left Is Write]

59. Technically, it's not a word at all, so we might as well verb it.

:D

[Mutley]

60. I like to verb words.

Especially around Oedi.


:D

[Oeditpus Rex]

65. That does it!

No more noogums for you.

[Oeditpus Rex]

64. ...

[Left Is Write]

67. One of my favorite Calvin strips.

"Strips" being a noun here, not a verb.

[Taverner]

6. Once again people (the bridezillas) think they are much more important than they are

Probably should show her this every so often:

[Mutley]

10. I think her head would explode.

Hmmm, I wonder if the printer in the back has enough ink for all that black...






:D

[Taverner]

53. That doesn't sound like such a bad thing

Sad thing is, she'll probably breed and populate the world with her progeny.

[Mutley]

57. Hopefully they'll be rebellious types.

[Darth_Kitten]

11. Where do you work?

We need details.

[Mutley]

14. A hotel.

Since certain individuals who have a history of stalking DUers who give out too much information may be reading this, I'd rather not disclose the hotel or the town.

[Darth_Kitten]

16. What's Bridezilla doing to you today?

:shrug:

[Mutley]

20. Just bitching about EVERYthing.

The grass where the ceremony is being held is an inch too long, there are too many people on the (public) beach, the people who own the private condos next door are grilling steaks and the smell is bothering people with the wedding, it might rain tonight, there is too much/not enough food, a man three floors up has his child on the balcony and is talking too loudly, the man ahead of her in line took too long, I refused to give her the room number of a woman who cut her off in the parking lot...

***sigh***

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. Why

did she choose to be wed there? :shrug:



And, holy fuck, do I feel sorry for the poor slobstard she's marryin'.

[Mutley]

27. Hey, he chose to marry her.

Dumbass.

And I think some people wouldn't be happy no matter where they got married.

[Oeditpus Rex]

32. Somethin' tells me

he may not have known of her 'zillaness — at least, not to this extent.

[Mutley]

35. 'Bridezilla'

Is not an adjective.


:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

43. It is now

:D

[Mutley]

47. I'll bet you don't have a deal with Oxford, though.

:P

[Oeditpus Rex]

61. Nor would I

Fuckin' Ivy League fuckers. :eyes:

[Mutley]

62. Well, I'm sure my people could call Webster's for you.

:hide:

[Oeditpus Rex]

63. Your 'people' are too busy planning a divorcezilla

Or at least a trial separationzilla.

[Mutley]

68. I pay my people to multitask.

:D

[Oeditpus Rex]

70. Workzilla?

:P

[Mutley]

71. Bosszilla.

:D

[Oeditpus Rex]

72. I'd better not take this any further

Dog knows where it could lead.



















:scared:

[Mutley]

73. I win.

:D

[LeftyMom]

24. You should really stop that rain thing. And who ever heard of people on a beach in the summer?

On a Saturday no less?

Go find the groom, and tell him you'll distract her while he runs. Have the airport shuttle ready, he needs to go far, fast.

[Mutley]

29. Yes, the terrible customer service in this place is just unacceptable.

I want my room comped...

wait.


:o

[MrScorpio]

19. Like I said, sis

Been there, done that

[Blue Diadem]

12. There are no bridezilla's..

it's everyone else who has a problem don'tcha know?

Thank goodness when my daughter got married, it was small and private. However, my DiL's briefly lost their minds.. I swear I had no idea who those girls were for that period of time.

[Mutley]

17. I can't imagine being this much of a bitch if I ever get married.

If I am, I hope someone smacks me in the head with a 2x4.

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. You wouldn't be

You'd be too panic-stricken to move. :D



:hug:

[Mutley]

30. You're probably right.

:D








:hug:

[Blue Diadem]

41. I wanted to use a 2 x 4 a couple times. (I kid, I kid)

The first one taught us so much..that this too shall pass as long as we do not ask questions, always nod in agreement, do as we're told and stay out of the way..oh and of course, be ready with the checkbook. The 2nd one really wasn't all that bad, but there were a few times that really shocked me.

At least I didn't have to witness their dealings with the service industry, I would have spoken up and gotten myself in all kinds of trouble.

Sorry you have to go through that.

I think once you've been on the receiving end, chances are you would never do what you've witnessed or had done to you.

[Kutjara]

26. Weddings seem to be a reality distortion field for some people.

They go into full Bridezilla mode, run around with their hair on fire for months, make everyone's life miserable, freak out every five minutes on the actual wedding day, and then claim forever after that their wedding was "just perfect" and "so lovely." What wedding were you at, woman? 'Cause it certainly wasn't your own, which chiefly involved 200 guests not daring to speak a word or move an inch in case it sent you into a psychotic meltdown.

A lot of weddings appear to have nothing to do with the day itself, but everything to do with how the photos and video look. They're events to be remembered, not experienced.

[Mutley]

31. The more weddings I deal with in this place,

the less I want to get married.

[Kutjara]

33. My wife and I got married on the London Eye.

We didn't want to have a big wedding, but we also didn't want to offend everyone in our families by having a "normal" wedding and not inviting them. So we intentionally chose a venue that could only accommodate 16 people. Since six of those people were either officials or wait-staff, that left room for only eight guests besides my wife and I. We had the ceremony flying high over London, and then loaded our party into a couple of chaffered Bentleys and whisked them off to the Lainsborough Hotel on Hyde Park Corner for afternoon tea. It was low key, low stress, and just perfect. So it is possible to have a nice, discrete, intimate wedding without all the "I'm a fairy princess" BS.

[Heddi]

28. I don't understand why it is "cool" to be an unreasonable bitch

There's that awful show "Bridezillas", and there was an MTV Real Life episode where they featured Bridezillas. There's the Super Sweet 16 show.....

Of course smarmy assholes have been around long before tee vee, but I hate the idea that being so....antisocial is somehow being glamourized, like THIS IS HOW EVERY WOMAN SHOULD ACT WHEN SHE IS GETTING MARRIED.

I've had friends who happily refer to themselves as "bridezillas" during the planning of their wedding. They gloat that their mother, or mother in law, or husband (god forbid) actually suggested something that SHE LIKED but, in true bridezilla form, she had to throw a fit and squash the idea because **SHE*** wasn't the one that came up with the idea.

It's like a mental illness.

---

8 years ago *I* got married. 30 people (including me and hubby). I made all the food. WE got married in a park and the entire cost was $400 ($600 if you include the rings). A friend made my dress, and another made the cake.

It was wonderful and perfect and SO stress free. The most stressful part is when it started raining the AM of the wedding, but I quickly remembered that we were getting married in a covered gazebo, so who cares?

It was a public park and there were kids and families and dogs....it was great. It was nature.

---

I don't understand Stress Junkies who LOOK to be stressed out over every little thing, like this woman obviously is.

To me, personally, I think too many people (unfortunately for my gender, it tends to be mostly women) are so fucking focused on the WEDDING and put no interest in the MARRIAGE....and they spend tens of thousands of dollars on a PARTY and get divorced within 5 years. Shit....put that money towards a house, or a vacation, or SOMETHING.....

[Mutley]

34. My parents told me a few years ago

that they'd either pay for a nice wedding or a nice honeymoon.

I chose honeymoon then, and I haven't changed my mind. :D

[Heddi]

37. we (hubby and I) paid for our own wedding

So that was one reason that it was so "Low key" (when comparing to what normal wedding are as far as size and cost).

Hubby's sister got married a few years before us and she spent $20,000 on the wedding...had the reception at the country club, 200+ guests, matching bentley's to take them to and from the reception site, etc etc etc.

$20,000 is the price of a car---not what you spend on a 10-ish hour long party!

And I have to say that her marriage is no more strong nor weak that mine is. She is no more no less happy with her husband than I am with mine.

It was an extreme waste of money, in my opinion.

My family is poor, and Mr heddi's family offered to pay for some of the wedding---my opinion was, and still is, that you have no right to get married if you can't afford to have a wedding on your own. You do not NEED an $800 dress, or 14 brides-maids, or 3 ring bearers and flower girls and best men, etc. You don't have to spend $4000 on flowers, and $400 a pop dresses for the wedding party.

The wedding industry is very profitable and people buy in to it. Nothing against wedding planners, etc, but I see spending $20,000 on a wedding the same way that I see spending $70,000 on a car--it's JUST A CAR. It drive you from point a to point b. Nothing more, nothing less. So it can go 0-200 in 4 seconds---WHERE CAN YOU DRIVE 200mph ANYWAYS?

[Darth_Kitten]

36. Exactly........

I'm not wasting 2000 on a dress. :eyes:

That's half a really fine vacation. :D

[Heddi]

38. when we got married I went to a florist

Told them that I wanted a couple of very simple bouquets of daisies and wisteria. They gave me the price of like $40 a bouquet.

Suddenly, though, when I mentioned the bouquets would be for my wedding, the price went up to $125 per bouquet. Same size, same flowers.

They could not explain to me why the price went up at the mention of a wedding. "That's just what we charge for wedding flowers".

So, for my wedding, I went to the local grocery store the night before the wedding, got 4 bouquets of various purple and pink daisies and they cost $20 total. Those were the flowers I carried, and they were just fine.

When we got to the reception, I forgot that I didn't have a topper for the cake, so I ripped about 5 daisies off the stems and ploped them on the top of the cake. Voila. Cake Topper.

[Mutley]

45. Oh yeah.

I'd rather have a two week vacation in some really cool location than one stress-filled day that I'll probably end up too drunk to remember.

[Skittles]

39. what kills me is that men actually marry these be-yatches

ugh

[Mutley]

48. It's gotta be the money.

Or the men are just as bad and no one else would have them.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

40. Ugh, lord...

I hate them. x( When I get married, I've given my mother license to smack me if I get that unreasonable and bitchy. I hate that women flip out and make it "their" day when there's someone else (husband, anyone?) involved, and it should be a day of love. :rant:

[Oeditpus Rex]

44. Where you gonna get married?

Quik Stop?









:hide:

[Mutley]

49. I can't see you acting that way.

:D

[Tektonik]

42. If I wanted a perfect wedding, which I can understand, it would not be outside

nor would it be in a public area.

If someone wants to be a bridezilla, then they should do it in a smart manner.

[Mutley]

50. I'm starting to feel like mine will be in a courthouse.

Done and over with in five mintues. :D

[RetroLounge]

54. "Done and over with in five mintues"

Let hope that doesn't describe the wedding night too...

:9

RL

[Mutley]

58. Nah, that'll be three minutes.

Oh yeah.


:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

66. More time for the honeymoon

And your folks are payin' for it, so... :bounce:

[Mutley]

69. Now I just need the husband.

:rofl:

[AlCzervik]

51. i had a pretty big wedding and i had no wedding planner and it all went fine

i got married in 1991 and back then only the wealthy had wedding planners. I was also engaged for almost 2 years before the big day because i wanted to leave enough time to get everything done without losing my mind.

[Mutley]

52. I'll bet you didn't flip out on everyone.

That's the way to go.

[AlCzervik]

56. no, i'm not prone to flipping out or yelling, i hate yelling so much, it makes me nervous.

the hotel was great, they took care of most of the things for me and my florist was a good friend so that was super easy and really sweet because he made everything. The biggest problem i had was the dress, when i went for my final fitting i had dropped some weight and my dressmaker was not pleased but she fixed it, sewed some fake boobs in the top and i was good to go.

[CatholicEdHead]

74. My ex-fiance was a bridezilla

Helped push me to call it off. She was Jekyll and Hyde when the engagement ring went on.

[tjwmason]

75. Why does the bride get so involved?

At both of my sisters' weddings they were involved in the planning - but on the day the bits of sorting were done by the best-man, the bridesmaids, my parents, me &c.&c.&c.

It seems to me that the bride and groom should get to sit around being fussed over while others anticipate and solve any problems (real or fictitious) which arise.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

76. A wedding plan in two words ...

"Vegas, Baby!"