The other ladies drank a little too much at the day-of lingerie/sex-talk party. Two bridesmaids fainted during the ceremony. The altar had stairs and I was the seventh bridesmaid on the bottom step. After the first bridesmaid fainted, the group looked almost like dominoes ready to fall. When the second bridesmaid fainted, the father of the bride caught her mid-fall before she hit the ground like something out of a movie. Thankfully the two other bridesmaids looking green decided to sit down for the rest of the ceremony.
The bridesmaid who was kicked out for telling the bride she was trying to conceive…
I was kicked out of a wedding because I started trying to get pregnant. The bride said the dresses she wanted wouldn’t look good on a pregnant woman. I was supposed to be the matron of honor.
This was my best friend from grad school. She had extremely expensive taste and was taking out almost six figures in loans and credit card debt to pay for the wedding. She expected $500 minimum per head from guests as gifts and only wanted cash. The invitations never went out, but I know this because at one point, she planned to include that on the invitations. She also told me my husband wasn’t invited because she wanted me to focus on her that day, but reminded me that I should give her $1,000 for a gift because we are a dual income household.
It was actually a really sad example of how a truly lovely person can get sucked into the need for a picture-perfect, reality-TV-worthy wedding. In the end I didn’t end up getting pregnant until five years later, and the wedding was called off.
The bridesmaid who served double duty at lunch time…
I was the maid of honor for my cousin at the first wedding I ever attended; she’s nine years older than me. To say she was a bridezilla was an understatement.
We went for manicures, pedicures, and waxes, and I was done first. My aunt, the mother of the bride, went to pick up wraps for us for lunch. I started to eat since we hadn’t eaten all day and I was getting hangry.
As I was eating, my cousin, a.k.a. the bride, asked me to feed her her wrap. I thought she was kidding, so I just kept eating. A few minutes later, she told me she wasn’t kidding and basically demanded I feed her the wrap since her nails were drying. I was pretty dumbfounded, but I fed her the wrap.
Luckily this is something we laugh about today. Eleven years and three kids later, we still joke about how crazy she was, and she still can’t even believe she made me feed her that wrap, let alone that I did it.
The bridesmaid who missed being fed completely…
As a bridesmaid, I personally think photos should be more about the bride and the groom. But for this wedding, the entire bridal party had to be there during the whole photography session. First, we had to hike up a mountain in 100 degree heat (in our dresses, heels, and hair and makeup, no less) only to find out we had gone to the wrong spot.
