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1. "My ex-bridesmaid was truthful excited to beryllium successful my wedding until I asked her to bargain the formal (it was $80). Had she said something, I would person softly covered the outgo of the dress, due to the fact that I thought we were adjacent friends. I besides would person softly conscionable covered each of her expenses (travel, etc.), due to the fact that loyalty and relationship mean much to maine than money. She fto maine cognize she valued my relationship and loyalty by ghosting maine and past tweeting astir maine arsenic her ceremonial resignation from the bridal party. We inactive haven’t talked since, and I’m happily married."
–Anonymous
2. "At my wedding, my bridesmaids decided it would beryllium comic to person a h2o balloon combat during our archetypal dance. As soon arsenic we started, they threw the balloons. Everyone got wholly soaked, and it decidedly ruined the moment."
–Anonymous
3. "I got disconnected enactment aboriginal the time earlier my wedding. I decided to caput location to get immoderate other rest, knowing I would request each my vigor for my wedding day. When I unlocked my doorway and went inside, I heard immoderate noise, truthful decided to cheque retired what it was. When I opened my chamber door, I got the daze of a lifetime. In MY bed, my champion friend/MOH was having enactment with my fiancé. Needless to say, determination was nary wedding, and I nary longer had a champion person oregon fiancé."
–Anonymous
4. "My fiancé's champion person started dating this pistillate astir 3 months earlier my fiancé and I. She was ever complaining astir my fiancé showing maine affection, and that saying helium wanted to wed maine made her consciousness bad, due to the fact that her antheral ne'er said immoderate of those things to her. So, we toned it down erstwhile we were astir them. Anyway, her antheral said that helium would suggest by the extremity of 2021. My antheral gave this feline 7 months to popular the question, past decided that helium didn't attraction anymore and projected to me. His BFF insisted that his woman was my champion person and should beryllium my maid of honor. I reluctantly said yes due to the fact that she was perpetually trying to dispersed lies to get america to interruption up. Then, I started getting sick whenever I would devour astatine her house. She was poisoning maine due to the fact that she was jealous."
"When I called her connected it, she blocked me. Good riddance.
I had co-maids of grant for a reason. I besides heard whispers that she planned to instrumentality a weapon to my formal astatine the church, each due to the fact that we got engaged earlier her."
—Anonymous
5. "Within a week of introducing herself to the remainder of my bridal party, my MOH utilized their interaction info to aggressively effort to merchantability them skincare for her crappy MLM. It was tacky and humiliating."
—Anonymous
6. "My MOH was my champion person from childhood. At the time, we were inactive precise close, but I was besides precise adjacent with different person who seemed jealous AF that I didn't take her for MOH, but arsenic a bridesmaid. She didn't marque a scene, though, truthful I didn't wage it overmuch attention. I gave myself a twelvemonth to plan, but evidently, I ne'er specifically told them until a week anterior to the wedding that rehearsal would beryllium the nighttime earlier the ceremony. I besides had 2 bridesmen who were adjacent to maine and my husband, truthful erstwhile it came to the bachelor/ette party, we decided to bash a large meal enactment with everyone, but past divided up for portion clubs."
"I had invited immoderate of my groomsmen's girlfriends too, due to the fact that I considered them friends. My bridesmaid asked to bring her boyfriend, whom I did not similar and my hubby had ne'er met, truthful I said nary to the bachelor party, but of people helium was invited astatine the wedding.
Her fellow didn't let her to spell to the bachelor enactment then, and erstwhile I did get a last clip for my rehearsal dinner, she said she had plans and knew however to walk. I was pissed due to the fact that I've spent a twelvemonth readying this wedding and I felt similar she was treating it arsenic if it were conscionable a location enactment and told her so. She told maine I was a unspeakable person and she would not beryllium successful the wedding. I haven't spoken to her since."
—Anonymous
7. "One of my sister’s bridesmaids didn’t similar the colour and benignant of the dress. This was backmost erstwhile it was the large happening for each the bridesmaids to look alike. She didn’t person her formal altered to acceptable her (even though she told my sister that she did) and she didn’t amusement up to her hairsbreadth assignment successful protestation of having to deterioration the dress. It was a achromatic strapless level magnitude A-line dress, ace plain and not a large deal. She showed up to pictures past infinitesimal with bedewed hairsbreadth held up by a banana clip, nary makeup, and a truly ill-fitting dress. She stayed done meal and past told my sister that she stayed successful the wedding conscionable to messiness up her pictures connected purpose. Then, she near the reception and ne'er talked to my sister again."
"I person to presume she had immoderate different issues with my sister different than being asked to deterioration a formal she didn’t similar for a day, but who knows. But she’s a genuinely shitty person, truthful I wasn’t excessively bittersweet to person her gone from my sister’s life. My sister, though, is inactive bummed to person her successful each her wedding photos."
8. "One of my bridesmaids got truthful precocious connected edibles that she missed each the amusive the nighttime earlier and the time of my wedding. She was contiguous for the ceremonial and supper, but that was it. I was truthful huffy due to the fact that I flew to Mexico for her wedding and worked my ass disconnected to marque that time perfectly cleanable for her. I’m inactive a spot sour astir it."
9. "I person a champion person who is simply a man, and my hubby has a champion person who is simply a woman. We each asked the other’s champion person to basal up connected our side. I had a clump of my champion girlfriends and my husband's champion person arsenic bridesmaids. His champion person decided to get ace drunk earlier the ceremony. My father-in-law asked to person a infinitesimal with maine earlier the ceremonial to spot maine successful my dress, arsenic we person ever been highly close, and she crashed it, sobbing and trying to person radical hugs with us. Then, she stumbled down the aisle and proceeded to walk retired acold conscionable aft the ceremony."
"My maid of grant had to spell find her and slap her to aftermath her up, conscionable truthful she could be the reception. Not to mention, her plus-one of the evening walked up to maine astatine our rehearsal meal and asked me, 'Who the fuck are you?' Needless to say, I americium precise thankful for my different bridesmaids who stepped successful and made the time spell different smoothly."
10. "My then-sister-in-law — who is simply a large narcissist — was successful my wedding on with my different SIL, who I had selected to beryllium my matron of grant and flew successful for the ceremony. Then-SIL wholly took implicit the MOH relation unasked, and past stood successful beforehand of maine successful each of our wedding pictures until I enactment my ft down. She did the aforesaid astatine my daughter's baptism — stood successful the halfway of the radical household photos, blocking maine and my Dad. She has monolithic Main Character Syndrome™️, truthful I conjecture she thought these occasions were astir her."
11. "I asked my 3 champion friends, Anna, Kelly, and Laura, to beryllium my bridesmaids 2 years earlier the wedding, and recovered them precise adjuvant erstwhile planning. For the greeting of my wedding, I rented a fancy penthouse flat for myself and the bridesmaids to get ready. We had champagne, and arsenic we were pouring it out, Laura said nary for her. Now, Laura is the biggest enactment carnal of america all, truthful naturally, we questioned wherefore she wasn’t drinking. Laura past told america she was pregnant. Of course, I was blessed for her, but evidently the absorption was past connected Laura and her gestation and not america getting acceptable for my wedding — thing I had been readying for 2 years."
"Anyway, we each got acceptable and headed to the venue. The lensman kept america extracurricular the venue for a abbreviated portion truthful helium could bash posed photos with maine and the bridesmaids. Anna, Kelly, and I were holding retired bouquets, but Laura placed hers connected the level and was lasting with her hands cradling her tummy arsenic if to stress her bump (which wasn’t noticeable arsenic she’s hardly 12 weeks). The lensman asked her to prime up her flowers, truthful we were uniform. Laura refused and said, 'Oh, it’s OK, I’d similar to basal similar this,' and carried connected cradling her stomach. So present those photos conscionable look weird.
The remainder of the time went smoothly until it came to the speeches. As Laura was my oldest friend, naturally, I asked her to talk astatine the wedding. She stood up and said immoderate bully words, past ended her code with, 'And I’m truthful excited to denote that arsenic the bride’s champion friend, I’d similar her to beryllium an honorary aunt to my baby, who is owed summertime 2020!' With her being an aged household friend, of course, my household was implicit the moon, and again, the attraction was connected her and her gestation and not connected maine and my husband. I felt truthful upset connected my wedding time and haven’t truly spoken to Laura overmuch since. She has since sent maine a substance saying I’m acting similar a spoiled brat and the satellite doesn’t revolve astir me."
12. "I asked my champion person to beryllium my maid of honor, and she insisted connected throwing america an engagement enactment adjacent though we didn't privation one. This was my husband's 2nd matrimony and my first. We were some successful our aboriginal 40s and didn't privation our household and friends to consciousness similar they had to springiness america wealth and gifts. As the wedding got closer, my maid of grant started coming astir little and less, ever saying that she couldn't marque it to immoderate we were doing due to the fact that she had to work. At slightest 1 of those times was decidedly a lie, due to the fact that she posted pictures connected societal media of herself and different person astatine the zoo. My hubby and I paid for each the groomsmen's suits, the bridesmaid dresses, hair, and makeup, due to the fact that we felt it conscionable wasn't close to expect everyone to laic retired a clump of wealth for our day."
"The maid of grant decided to interaction the formal store a fewer weeks earlier the wedding and curse them retired due to the fact that the dresses weren't successful yet. She near them a atrocious reappraisal and screamed astatine them connected the phone, truthful the formal store called maine to kick astir her. She couldn't marque it to our bachelor's/bachelorette's nighttime retired due to the fact that of work, but aboriginal said she wasn't invited. She didn't travel to the rehearsal oregon meal and said she had to permission the wedding aboriginal due to the fact that she had to work.
I asked different friend/bridesmaid to basal adjacent to maine astatine the wedding alternatively of the archetypal maid of honor, and I asked the DJ to conscionable denote radical arsenic the wedding enactment alternatively of maid of grant and champion antheral to debar calling retired the erstwhile maid of grant and hazard causing a scene. She caused a country anyhow and spent astir of my wedding sitting astatine the bar, crying her eyes out.
She past sent maine a breakup substance that I received erstwhile my level landed successful the Bahamas, arsenic we were starting our honeymoon. This substance went connected and connected astir however selfish I americium and however my hubby is simply a horrible idiosyncratic and however I wounded her by having our different person basal adjacent to me, however I've utilized her implicit the years...blah blah blah. She besides blasted maine each implicit societal media with each those aforesaid lies, and past sold everything from the bridesmaid acquisition container that I had fixed retired to each the bridesmaids. She adjacent enactment a halt outgo connected the cheque she gave america arsenic a wedding gift. I haven't spoken to her successful 4 years, and I americium truthful blessed to not person her ridiculous play successful my beingness anymore."
—Anonymous
13. "One of my bridesmaids FREAKED OUT erstwhile she recovered retired I tried connected wedding dresses without her. We’re talking full-on substance battle followed by an in-person screaming session, during which she told maine I was a shitty, selfish person for not including her. I went unsocial due to the fact that I didn't privation anyone else's sentiment connected my outfit. She doubled down with choler erstwhile she recovered retired that my fiancé and I had a tiny courthouse wedding without her. Only my member and his woman were there."
"I wanted to prevention the peculiar moments for the large ceremonial and party. It was hilarious listening to her say, 'Do immoderate you want, it’s your wedding!' and past turning astir and berating maine for my choices."
–Anonymous
14. "Indian bride here. My bridesmaids were my sister, my relative sisters, and 2 of my champion friends. Asking your cousins is ace expected. I didn’t privation to inquire them, but I caved to the unit and their insistence connected being successful the bridal party. I chose accepted Indian outfits for them to deterioration successful a non-traditional way. So, ideate those caller prom dresses wherever it’s a harvest apical and agelong skirt, paired with immoderate good jewelry. On the wedding day, the eldest relative sister had secretly made matching shawls to cloak each the bridesmaids' chests. She forcibly pinned them connected each bridesmaid AS THEY WALKED DOWN THE AISLE!"
"Get this: she made a achromatic 1 for the 1 bridesmaid she thought to beryllium 'pure,' if you drawback what I’m throwing to you. I walked down the aisle to spot each my bridesmaids' annoyed faces looking backmost astatine maine from the altar. Her opinion: Impure ladies shouldn’t tempt men with intersexual urges arsenic they are walking down the aisle."
–Anonymous
15. The bride who had this speech with her bridesmaid who was reallll salty she wasn't picked arsenic the maid of honor:
16. "I had a bridesmaid who virtually tried to speech maine retired of proposing to my husband, due to the fact that her fellow thought it was excessively soon. Our narration deteriorated erstwhile I got engaged, and I thought possibly she was conscionable a spot jealous, but she didn’t calm down afterwards. Actually, it got worse. I didn’t adjacent privation her arsenic a bridesmaid, but she asked maine to beryllium one, truthful I felt obligated. She proceeded to marque maine miserable by criticizing everything I was doing. I confronted her astir that and she 'compromised' by saying she would halt questioning each my decisions successful beforehand of others, but would inactive bash it privately. My fiancé and I ended up with a spot of a agelong engagement and had to cancel due to the fact that of COVID, but planned to reschedule."
"My bridesmaid told maine that everyone was annoyed that they were successful my wedding and didn’t privation to beryllium anymore, and besides that nary of them thought it would really happen, but that she was lasting up for me. As it turns out, nary 1 was saying immoderate of that. She conscionable didn’t privation maine to beryllium happy, I guess. Luckily, it each came to a caput earlier our existent wedding and she wasn’t successful my beingness anymore by that point, truthful she’s not successful immoderate photos oregon anything."
— Anonymous
17. "I'm not a large partier. For my bachelorette party, my bridesmaids acceptable america up to spell to a pub and drink, person appetizers, and bash a small barroom crawl. Around 11 astatine night, we were each beauteous wasted and I said I would alternatively conscionable spell backmost to my location and bent retired each together. My 1 bridesmaid — who had travel successful from retired of municipality — freaked retired and started hysterically crying and screaming that she had been looking guardant to gathering up with friends she hadn't seen and I ruined her night. Then, she yelled that she had to enactment up with it due to the fact that 'it was my day.' Her words, not mine."
"I was a precise laid backmost bride — I didn't marque them wage for anything. She had besides invited her fellow to articulation america instantly aft showing up astatine the pub and I didn't adjacent care. Later though, I recovered retired that she hadn't helped transportation successful for thing that nighttime from the different bridesmaids. It wholly ruined the nighttime and made things truthful awkward astatine the wedding the adjacent day. We stopped talking aft that and she ne'er apologized."
18. "For me, 1 of the astir breathtaking parts of my wedding was the bridesmaids and the dresses. I don’t see myself to beryllium a bridezilla, but connected my peculiar day, I wanted everything to beryllium arsenic cleanable and coordinated arsenic it could perchance be. So, I decided to invitation my bridesmaids implicit truthful we could sermon dresses and stuff, arsenic I was paying for each of theirs. Let’s telephone the bridesmaid I had the contented with 'Joy.'"
"Before they came over, I already had a bully formal successful mind. The formal was burgundy, form-fitting, chopped a small supra the knees, and had 1 enarthrosis strap. I thought it was gorgeous and precise feminine for women our age, but Joy and a mates of different girls weren’t precisely comfy (mostly due to the fact that it was form-fitting), truthful I fto it slide. I truly wanted a formal that each of the bridesmaids would emotion and consciousness comfy in, but they had to beryllium the same.
So the adjacent formal was inactive burgundy, but it touched the level (no slit) and it had spaghetti straps. Everybody loved the formal but for Joy, who claimed that she didn’t privation to deterioration the formal due to the fact that she’s insecure astir her shoulders. Fair enough. At this point, I knew that Joy was going to beryllium hard to enactment with, but I kept going because, again, I wanted to beryllium accommodating. I deliberation we went done 5 oregon six much dresses earlier the past one. The complaints she had were ever thing small, like, 'I don’t similar however the formal shows the shoes, past my toes would beryllium out,' oregon 'my hairsbreadth isn’t agelong capable to complement those sleeves.' Yes, I’m 100% serious.
The past formal I showed them was a floor-length burgundy dress, loose, with beauteous agelong sleeves. The lone happening that was keeping it from not being a burgundy maxi formal with agelong sleeves was the information that determination was a slit that came up to beneath the knee. It honestly was 1 of my slightest favourite dresses retired of the ones I chose, but I wanted to effort to beryllium accommodating. Again, everyone seemed to hold with the formal but for Joy, who claimed that the slit was a small excessively provocative for her taste.
After this, I was a small frustrated, truthful I conscionable said we’d effort looking astatine dresses again different time. While the girls were leaving, I pulled Joy speech and explained that I didn't deliberation she’d beryllium a bully acceptable for my bridal enactment due to the fact that this facet of the wedding meant a batch to maine and her demands were excessively 'nitpicky' to beryllium a portion of the group, but that I inactive wanted her to beryllium astatine the wedding. She got upset and said that I was excluding her due to the fact that of her insecurities. I said that I already tried to accommodate her by showing galore antithetic styles of dresses, but she didn’t privation to perceive it, and left."
19. "One of my bridesmaids did not effort connected the formal she'd had tailored earlier the wedding. It nary longer acceptable and was present 2 sizes excessively small. I don’t attraction what her assemblage looks similar oregon if she gained weight, conscionable get it fixed earlier the wedding! She past proceeded to shriek astatine my ma and MOH that they were zipping it wrong. Then, the clasp pinged off. She was embarrassed and tried to get everyone to prevarication astir it. We had to rotation the backmost of the formal and portion it to her back, it was awful."
—Anonymous
20. "I lone had 3 bridesmaids. One of them decided to get her nails done close earlier the wedding and wholly missed getting acceptable with america astatine the hotel, and each of the getting acceptable photos. Then, my MOH decided that she needed to driblet her car disconnected astatine her location (30 mins away) and Uber backmost during the reception, adjacent though it was 24 hr parking and she could've near it determination each night. She missed astir each of it."
21. "I had a bridesmaid who ne'er bought her formal for my wedding. The formal I wanted her to bargain was $99, genu length, and peach colored. She could prime immoderate benignant apical she wanted, truthful I wasn't being picky. I had asked my bridesmaids to bargain their dresses by July for my September wedding, truthful they'd person clip for alterations (plus the tract is known for taking a period successful shipping). This bridesmaid fundamentally ghosted maine from June until the week earlier my wedding."
"I had different bridesmaid telephone maine and say, 'I don't deliberation she bought her dress. She told radical her dad's canine ate it, but her dada doesn't person a dog.' So, I called her and asked. She made up a batch of excuses, yelled astatine maine for not trusting her, and past hung up. I followed up with a substance saying she was much than invited to travel to the wedding arsenic a guest, but unless she had her dress, she couldn't beryllium successful the wedding. She didn't travel (obviously), and it benignant of sucked to suffer a person implicit it. I aboriginal recovered retired she was going to effort and find thing akin astatine Macy's that morning, oregon re-wear the formal she bought for her sister's wedding (long, pinkish and fancier than my wedding dress!)"
–Anonymous
22. "One of my bridesmaids was wholly plastered by 1 p.m. — 4 and a fractional hours earlier the ceremony. The coordinator replaced her 'secret' vodka with water, and she didn’t adjacent notice. During pictures, she made it each astir her taking the cleanable selfie of the radical and got successful the mode of the photographer. At 1 point, she realized that she had mislaid the backmost of her earring, truthful she needed to telephone her hubby to bring her different one, holding up pictures for 30 minutes."
"Fast-forward to the ceremony, she could hardly basal — she had to clasp onto the bridesmaid successful beforehand of her and thin connected the 1 down her to enactment upright. She attempted to assistance with putting my bustle up and ended up tripping implicit different bridesmaid and falling onto everyone’s idiosyncratic belongings. We recovered retired aboriginal that she shattered my mom’s phone. We instructed the bartenders not to service her, and she threw a fit.
Her hubby didn’t privation to creation with her, truthful she threw a acceptable astir that too, stomping retired of the reception. After the wedding, she came up a batch successful conversations astir her actions with my household and different guests who attended. It was wholly embarrassing, but the icing connected the cake? She went astir post-wedding telling everyone that I owed her an apology for not being bully to her and cutting her off. Even though galore radical told her astir her behavior, she didn’t deliberation she had thing to apologize for. We’re not friends to this day."
–Anonymous
23. "I was not the bride, but my present sister-in-law was. One of her bully friends was a bridesmaid, but made the bride precocious to her ain wedding due to the fact that she hated however the hairsbreadth stylist did her hairsbreadth and insisted that the stylist redo it."
24. "I ne'er wanted to get joined oregon cared astir it until I met my husband. My precise adjacent person truly wanted to get joined and had been engaged 5 times by the clip I was readying my wedding, and was precise upset erstwhile I got engaged. I inactive loved her and asked her to beryllium 1 of 2 bridesmaids lasting up adjacent to me. She told maine implicit and over, starring up to the wedding, 'I can’t judge YOU’RE getting joined alternatively of me.' Anyway, she was meant to bring the barroom to my wedding shower. She showed up 2 hours late, perfectly shitfaced, and threw the barroom connected the crushed and started laughing and conscionable near it there."
"She past proceeded to speech astir my enactment beingness anterior to maine gathering my husband, successful depth, making amusive of my ex-boyfriends and radical I had slept with. She adjacent went arsenic acold arsenic lasting up and doing impressions of immoderate of them. This was successful beforehand of my mom, aboriginal mom-in-law, and my aboriginal husband, arsenic it was a ablution for america both.
I told her to get a formal that she liked and that I would wage for it. I gave her galore colors to take from, and she ended up picking thing not adjacent adjacent to what was discussed. She picked a colour that she 'thought was overmuch amended than immoderate of my ideas.' Finally, starring up to the wedding, she told maine determination was nary mode my matrimony would past arsenic I wasn’t a semipermanent narration person.'
At that point, I decided capable was capable and chose not to person a bridal enactment astatine my wedding astatine all, and told her not to fuss adjacent coming. This was implicit 11 years ago, and I person not spoken to her since. She acted similar an implicit monster and treated maine horribly for months, each due to the fact that she was huffy I was getting joined earlier her, arsenic though emotion was immoderate benignant of competition."
25. "I didn’t person sisters increasing up, truthful erstwhile I got married, I asked my 2 cousins and 2 adjacent friends to beryllium my bridesmaids. I paid for each their dresses, but astir 20 minutes into the reception, they changed retired of their dresses and into apparel from MY closet. Keep successful mind, they picked their ain bridesmaids' dresses. I lone told them what colour to pick. Again, I paid for the dresses. Then, 1 of them was caught peeing successful the descend of the restroom portion her fellow stood extracurricular holding her panties. There was a agelong enactment of aged women waiting for the restroom astatine the time. I witnessed this firsthand."
–Anonymous
26. "I got joined erstwhile NYC inactive had immoderate precise stringent COVID guidelines. You couldn't spell into immoderate benignant of catering hallway unless you were vaccinated. One of my bridesmaids — who lives successful Florida — knew each of this but inactive agreed to beryllium my bridesmaid anyway. I truly didn't springiness overmuch thought to it until her hubby texted maine and verbally assaulted maine because, 'How situation I inquire his woman to spell against his wishes and get vaccinated?' He said I was a unspeakable person and outgo them wealth for the formal (which was lone $75) and the formation and edifice (which they got cheaply due to the fact that she works for a edifice chain), which I should see paying back."
"His wife, who was my erstwhile champion friend, ne'er bothered to get successful interaction with maine to accidental she wasn't coming oregon that she wasn't going to beryllium getting vaccinated. It enactment a damper connected the full event, due to the fact that my supposed-best person had ever promised to beryllium astatine my wedding and she wasn't there."
–Anonymous
27. "I got joined successful 2018, and, for immoderate context, my hubby does not person a bully narration with his sister. During the people of our courtship, I tried my champion to span their differences, and 1 of my attempts was making her 1 of my bridesmaids. It each started erstwhile we did our bridal enactment proposal. We held a meal astatine my house. While there, she sent pictures of the connection box, appetizers, decor, etc., to a cousin, criticizing everything. She said that the gifts I gave were inexpensive and tacky, and she didn't privation thing to bash with maine oregon my wedding. She deserves an Oscar successful that case, due to the fact that she was tearing up and saying she was truthful blessed to beryllium a portion of our day."
"On that day, my maid and matron of grant created a WhatsApp radical with the remainder of the girls truthful they could coordinate connected details for events and assistance delegate with planning. My MOH was my champion person of 19 years and knows maine wrong out. My bridal ablution taxable was thing I've wanted since I was successful precocious school. When my champion person told them the theme, she instantly stated that it was a anserine thought and said that I was childish for wanting specified a theme.
There were a fewer different events that I don't privation to talk astir that happened implicit the people of 3 months, but the past lawsuit was her aunt calling maine saying that the sister was conscionable astatine her location talking crap astir everything I was planning. She was disrespecting my parent and my grandma and called maine a bitch and a golden digger. I had reached my limit. I went implicit to my husband's location the adjacent time and not lone told her that she was nary longer a portion of my wedding, but besides disinvited her."
–Anonymous
28. "My MOH showed up aft the procession started, smelling powerfully of marijuana and slack faced from the symptom killers she and her hubby were abusing. This was 3 days aft she had called maine successful the mediate of the nighttime and told maine I was making a mistake by marrying my hubby alternatively of my ex-boyfriend — who I decidedly did not privation to wed — and that my ex and I should determination to her family's compound truthful we could each beryllium 1 big, blessed family. She's divorced with 5 kids now. My spouse and I are going connected 15 years this summer."
–Anonymous
29. "One of my bridesmaids was divorced and beauteous bitter astir marriage. Like, erstwhile I told her I thought my hubby would suggest soon, she asked wherefore I wanted to get joined astatine all. After we got engaged, I asked if she would consciousness comfy being a bridesmaid and made it wide that if being ace progressive with the wedding time would beryllium excessively much, I wouldn’t beryllium wounded astatine all. She insisted it was nary occupation and she was ace excited. Cool. Still, she got weirder astir maine the person we got to the wedding."
"But she’s a spot kooky, and I was readying a wedding, truthful I was a small distracted. My time comes, and it’s evident from the commencement that she is NOT coping. She's ace stressed and WAY overcompensating by being astir manically cheerful.
We were each chilling portion we got ready, and she was not matching the vigor of the country astatine all. The clip comes to get maine successful my dress, which should beryllium a saccharine infinitesimal betwixt my ma and me. She insisted connected helping, elbowing my ma retired of the mode for parts and not listening erstwhile I told her we had it covered. Her bizarre behaviour is 1 of my much vivid memories from my wedding day."
30. "My MOH did maine dirty. I had a beauteous agelong engagement, truthful I had capable clip to instrumentality attraction of the bulk of my wedding projects alone. I figured it was my wedding, and I didn't truly privation to load anyone else, and if I needed help, it would beryllium thing ace minimal. Anyway, accelerated guardant to my existent wedding day. It was going fine, things were going arsenic planned, and it was a beauteous day. Cut to my MOH code — astatine archetypal it seemed similar a nice, emblematic code astir relationship and america arsenic a couple. Then, my MOH started going connected astir however we’ve had galore ups and downs, and sometimes she conscionable wants to *makes a choking gesture* successful beforehand of each my guests. I was like, WTF?"
"I didn’t perceive the remainder of the code due to the fact that I was truthful turned disconnected by it. The icing connected the barroom was that her then-boyfriend came up to maine during the portion wherever the bride dances with the guests and says, 'I’m truthful gladsome this wedding is over, [insert MOH's name] has been truthful stressed.' Mind you I haven’t asked her for overmuch if thing astatine all, and if she was stressed she had plentifulness of assistance considering I had a batch of bridesmaids. I don’t cognize what she was stressed over, I planned this wedding connected my own! Since past I can’t look astatine her the aforesaid way, due to the fact that I conscionable felt similar she held thing against me."
—Anonymous
31. "When my fiancé proposed, we acceptable wealth speech for things for the wedding, including the bridesmaids' dresses. I asked my SIL if she would privation to beryllium a bridesmaid, and she said no. But erstwhile my household saw the bridesmaids' dresses, they were successful implicit awe. I admit they were beautiful, but they besides outgo a batch of money. Later that day, my SIL asked maine if the connection to beryllium a bridesmaid was inactive connected the table. I told her, of course, but she was going to person to wage for her ain dress. She told maine that it was unfair that I paid for the different girl's dresses but not hers."
"I told her that the wealth for the dresses was saved up, and buying 1 much would chopped into the expenses for different things. I thought the speech was done from there, but I got a substance from my member telling maine that I americium acting similar a mediate schooler by leaving my SIL retired of the wedding, and that each she is doing is trying to enslaved with me, but I americium not giving her the chance.
I explained the concern to my brother, and helium was alert of everything that happened, yet helium kept pushing this mendacious communicative of maine trying to exclude her from the wedding."
32. "I was a bridesmaid for my friend, past a fewer years later, erstwhile it was my crook to get married, she agreed to beryllium mine. Then, she flaked 2 weeks earlier the wedding. Which, like, I recognize — radical person different things successful their lives and that's OK — but it was each done with precise small connection oregon explanation. Things lone got much and much distant from there,e and it got to the constituent wherever she ne'er replied to my messages, truthful I gave up trying. I miss my friend, and I person nary thought wherefore I was ghosted."
33. "I had a 'destination' wedding, arsenic I’m American and was moving to the state of my fiancé, truthful it made the astir consciousness to person the wedding there. I had 2 bridesmaids and 1 maid of honor. My MOH told maine that she had her flights and edifice booked, had her formal ready, and was bringing her caller boyfriend, each of which was fine. Two weeks earlier the ceremony, she pulled retired of the wedding, saying that her fellow didn't privation her to go, oregon possibly that helium didn’t privation to go."
"TBH, I was excessively stunned to sorb the crushed why, but fine. Instead, I made my remaining 2 bridesmaids co-maids of grant for helping me. After I got married, my archetypal MOH recovered retired that her fellow had been cheating connected her for six retired of 9 months of their narration and had her forcibly removed from the location they shared aft a fight, so."
34. "I had a bridesmaid who was occupation from the connection 'go.' She was nasty to my youngest sister and the store proprietor erstwhile we were formal shopping. She picked fights with my MOH constantly. And aft she wholly crap the furniture connected the decorations for my ablution (I'm not being a bridezilla — she virtually dropped disconnected scraps of children’s enactment decor aft swearing she had each this implicit the apical decor covered), she refused to amusement up due to the fact that of the combat she picked the time earlier with the MOH's girlfriend. The icing connected the cake, though: she was pouty my full wedding time — including successful each the photos — aft I pulled retired each the stops arsenic her MOH a fewer weeks prior."
—kmms
35. "For my wedding, I decided to person my champion friend, my cousin, and my SIL-to-be successful my bridal party. My bestie and SIL made it hell. My precise sick now-husband planned and paid for my hen party, and SIL fell retired with maine due to the fact that I didn't convey her specifically connected Facebook. A batch much to it, but yet that resulted successful my husband's parents not coming to our wedding successful enactment of my sister successful law."
36. "Two of my bridesmaids were aged friends from puerility that I wasn't arsenic adjacent to arsenic different members of my bridal party, but who I inactive wanted to see due to the fact that they were an important portion of my young life. Instead of spending clip with me, they spent the full play cliqued up together, not talking to anyone other successful the wedding party. For my bachelorette party, we rented a compartment successful the mountains. Even though we each near the metropolis astatine the aforesaid time, they arrived 2 hours late. That wouldn't person been that large of a deal, but the nutrient for grilling was each successful their car. Instead of joining successful connected the games and hanging retired with everyone else, they stayed successful the blistery tub each night, adjacent erstwhile I asked them to articulation america aggregate times."
"Then the large time came. I had to person a adust wedding due to the fact that determination are aggregate recovering addicts successful my family. I asked my full wedding enactment to delight not drink, and they knew why. Still, those 2 broke disconnected and did shots unneurotic alone. We're not friends anymore."
37. "My cousin/best person was my maid of honor. I should person known better, though, due to the fact that I moved backmost to my hometown, and we had started to turn isolated ever since. I wasn't good off, truthful whenever I would get a accidental to question with my job, I would marque it a precedence to spot her. She ne'er came my way, and the 1 clip she did, she saw maine for, like, an hour. She didn't privation to beryllium a portion of immoderate planning, and she didn't travel to my bachelorette party, which was fine. She was astatine UBC doing her arts degree, and I afloat supported her. I knew she was engaged and I didn't caput it arsenic agelong arsenic she would beryllium determination connected the wedding day."
"She passively said thing astir her set preforming astir the clip of my wedding and I got truly upset. I decided that if she didn't privation to beryllium an progressive maid of honor, I would marque it my champion person who lived successful the aforesaid municipality arsenic me. I inactive wanted my cousin/best person to travel to the wedding, though. A period earlier my wedding day, she called to archer maine that I made her consciousness similar a shitty person for not being ace progressive and that she didn't privation to beryllium my person anymore. We haven't spoken since. I'm happily joined and my different champion person is inactive my champion person to this day."
38. And finally, "I got engaged to my fiancé successful December 2019, astir the aforesaid clip arsenic my BFF Chelsea. We decided that we'd beryllium each other's MOHs. Chelsea and her ex divided up soon aft the engagement due to the fact that helium cheated. Meanwhile, my fiancé and I started readying a laid-back autumn wedding. I asked Chelsea if she was inactive up to being MOH and she excitedly said yes."
"A fewer days later, she sent maine a database of dates for a wedding ablution astatine the spot wherever hers was primitively scheduled. I told her we weren’t readying connected a ablution due to the fact that a batch of our friends/family were deed hard by the pandemic. She was upset but fto it go. Something akin happened with the formal shopping. She had a database of places acceptable to go. I told her I wanted my person (who's a seamstress) to marque the dress. She convinced maine to spell buying anyway, past ended up trying a batch of the dresses herself.
I was wary erstwhile she mentioned a bachelorette party, but she presented plans that seemed perfect: a hike, a bully dinner, past a drive-in movie with my dog. I agreed. She picked maine up that Saturday, but alternatively of driving to the parkland we were expected to hike in, she took maine to a water house. My bosom dropped due to the fact that I knew she’d planned a location party. Lo and behold, I walked successful and my bridesmaids were there, arsenic good arsenic the women whom I fishy Chelsea would’ve picked arsenic bridesmaids. There was besides a batch of liquor.
I don’t drink. My parent is an alcoholic, and I privation to debar the aforesaid fate. While I don’t caput being astir radical who are drinking, it’s uncomfortable and — depending connected the concern — triggering. When I walked in, fractional the radical determination were already drunk. To marque matters worse, Chelsea neglected to archer maine until 9 p.m. that she planned to enactment the night. My fiancé was retired of town, and I had nary 1 to ticker my dog. Chelsea said, 'He’ll astir apt beryllium okay, it’s lone 1 night!'
Long communicative short, my aboriginal BIL came and picked maine up and took maine home. I didn’t archer Chelsea myself (she was trashed astatine that point) and asked 1 of my bridesmaids to. The adjacent day, I woke up with 20+ texts and calls from Chelsea and a fewer others asking wherever I was and if I was OK. I texted Chelsea back, who told maine she was headed to my spot to talk.
As soon arsenic she walked done the door, she started berating me, telling maine she enactment truthful overmuch effort into that party, and I was truthful ungrateful. She told maine that she wished I were a 'normal bride.' Admittedly, I thought she was coming to apologize, truthful I mislaid my shit. I told her I’d been walking connected eggshells and compromising truthful I didn’t wounded her feelings, but I wouldn’t anymore, and that she needed to halt surviving vicariously done maine and readying what she’d privation for her ain wedding. She called maine a bitch and a atrocious person and left. We haven’t spoken since."
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