What NOT to say to a bride....

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  • ohmynicoley
    ohmynicoley Posts: 54 Member
    I got married last year at age 20 and I got "Is it because you're pregnant?"

    "No b*tch, I am not pregnant. I am just fat and in love."
  • postrockandcats
    postrockandcats Posts: 1,145 Member
    When I told a friend I had at the time that I didn't want her in the wedding (she INSISTED she be the maid of honor) because she was very unreliable and filled with drama, she threw a literal hissy fit and then showed up to the wedding wearing a formal gown in the color my bridesmaids were wearing "just in case you changed your mind and wanted me in the wedding."

    O_o

    So, what not to say to a bride when you're not part of the wedding planning or the wedding party? "I don't care what you want, I'm doing it anyway."
  • Only1Mickee
    Only1Mickee Posts: 415 Member
    Please don't. Unless you're inviting me somewhere we everyone will be naked.
    [/quote]

    Did someone say NAKED!!!
  • TinaBean007
    TinaBean007 Posts: 273 Member
    I am a troll because I don't care to hear about weddings? My first wedding I was a bridezilla. Not cute. My second I had the mind set that a wedding doesn't make a marriage and my now husband had to practically force me into the small ceremony on the grass at the marina that we had. I just think weddings in general are annoying. But they are fun to attend. I just don't want to hear about the planning. LOL If that makes me a troll, spank me and call me Nancy. I shall take the role seriously.

    ETA: They are fun when there is alcohol there.

    Totally true! If more people would understand that weddings (and high- maintenance brides) don't make lasting marriages, there would probably be a lot less divorce. Don't think you are a troll at all :)

    Weddings are only fun if the bride isn't bridezilla. Hint: If you don't care about your guests, you're bridzilla. I had a huge wedding and spent a lot of time planning. I couldn't imagine thinking some of those things.
  • Cr01502
    Cr01502 Posts: 3,614 Member
    I prefer to say nothing to brides.

    Everything seems to piss them off.
  • bookworm_847
    bookworm_847 Posts: 1,903 Member
    "Don't forget you need to invite _______________." That always irked me, we wanted just our close family and friends there, but to avoid any drama (isn't planning a wedding enough?:wink: ) I invited whoever I was "supposed" to invite.
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    The only faux paux I had at my wedding was that it was a no-alcohol wedding. This was to ensure my father not showing up plastered and getting even further plastered.

    He showed up sober but kept slipping out to his car to guzzle down the 24 pack of beer he stowed away. :noway:
  • Velum_cado
    Velum_cado Posts: 1,608 Member
    My wedding was just my husband and I at the courthouse. I loved it! The only thing you should "NOT" have said to me was probably, "Oh hey, you forgot about this [immigration paperwork, travel cost, clothing necessity...]. It costs [anything other than "nothing" and I had a melt down]."
  • oregonzoo
    oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
    Brides are annoying. Nobody cares about your fu$king wedding.
    \sheesh. Bitter much?
  • pixied12
    pixied12 Posts: 27 Member
    The worst thing that someone said to me at my wedding reception was "You were so rude." To which I replied, "Go home.":happy:
  • pixied12
    pixied12 Posts: 27 Member
    "Don't forget you need to invite _______________." That always irked me, we wanted just our close family and friends there, but to avoid any drama (isn't planning a wedding enough?:wink: ) I invited whoever I was "supposed" to invite.
  • lizlkbg
    lizlkbg Posts: 566
    "GOD, your SISTER looks GORGEOUS...ohyoulooknicetoo."

    Yep, happened to me. :grumble:
  • iysys
    iysys Posts: 524
    i'd say don't call the bride the day before and day of asking her for directions to random places.

    your hotel has a concierge. ask them how to get to chinatown.
    no i don't know where your hotel is, you booked it. oh it's in X suburb? i have no idea where that is. i don't live in the suburbs.
    directions to the rehearsal dinner from X suburb? i have no idea. well how am i going to get there? i'm going to get into a taxi and say "take me to Y please."
    what's the address of the venue? i have no idea. again i will just get in a taxi and say "take me to y please" read the invitation.

    truly with the exception of my biological father being a total *kitten* and my dress not arriving until the day before this is the only bridal complaint i had during the whole process. though i do wish my vendors would have stopped trying to get me to freak out. them - "what do you think about this color of plate?" me - "i don't care." them - "but it's your wedding!"
  • Factory_Reset
    Factory_Reset Posts: 1,651 Member
    I prefer to say nothing to brides.

    Everything seems to piss them off.

    False.

    I was awesome. Didn't give a *kitten* about any thing. Now I think I should've been bridezilla just to have some fun f*cking with everybody. *sigh* too late now.

    Had the best day. Things went horribly wrong but we laughed and just went with it. Even had people tell us it was a sign we wouldn't make it....been almost 11yrs so I think we're ok.
  • pixied12
    pixied12 Posts: 27 Member
    My Mom put me through that too! "But so and so is getting you a gift!"
  • CollegiateGrief
    CollegiateGrief Posts: 552 Member
    Brides are annoying. Nobody cares about your fu$king wedding.

    This. If I really like you I will show up. B*tch to someone else.
  • drchimpanzee
    drchimpanzee Posts: 892 Member
    Number one thing not to say to a bride, "I do."

    Run man. Just run.
  • sizzle74
    sizzle74 Posts: 858 Member
    Brides are annoying. Nobody cares about your fu$king wedding.

    This. If I really like you I will show up. B*tch to someone else.

    You're so bitter.
  • iysys
    iysys Posts: 524
    My Mom put me through that too! "But so and so is getting you a gift!"

    my mom did that.
    none of those people rsvp'ed.
    not a single one of them sent a gift.
  • pixied12
    pixied12 Posts: 27 Member
    Actually, no alcohol was a good thing! Your Dad made his choice.
  • crystalflame
    crystalflame Posts: 1,049 Member
    Except whether or not there is an open bar. That's all I care about.

    Hahahahaha right there with you. And there never is at the weddings I get invited to. :angry:
  • jess7386
    jess7386 Posts: 477 Member
    Brides are annoying. Nobody cares about your fu$king wedding.

    you're an angry troll, aren't you?

    I'm getting married next April. I do realize that my wedding isn't the biggest thing everyone around me has on tap. I'm realistic. I know that it's just one day to everyone else, because I feel the same way about other people's weddings. As a bride, I'm going to enjoy an expensive day surrounded by the people I love. Ultimately, all people care about having a great time & that the *couple* (not the bride) walks away from the wedding happy.

    I think the expectation the world revolve around you because you're getting married is absurd.


    **Note: I also hate all the "I'm the bride, it's my day!" BS. It's not your day. It's your and your husband's day.

    Also, maybe people are asking you what they should wear because they are afraid of your reaction if they pick the wrong thing??!
  • pixied12
    pixied12 Posts: 27 Member
    I told her, "It's my wedding reception, shut up!"
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    Wow. My sister is getting engaged Wednesday (she obviously doesn't know yet), so I'm just checking to see what I have to look forward to. She'll definitely be a bridezilla because she already is. I've been married and didn't bother with a wedding. If I get married again I still probably won't have one.
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    **Note: I also hate all the "I'm the bride, it's my day!" BS. It's not your day. It's your and your husband's day.

    :drinker:
  • bebreli
    bebreli Posts: 227 Member
    Brides are annoying. Nobody cares about your fu$king wedding.

    you're an angry troll, aren't you?

    I'm getting married next April. I do realize that my wedding isn't the biggest thing everyone around me has on tap. I'm realistic. I know that it's just one day to everyone else, because I feel the same way about other people's weddings. As a bride, I'm going to enjoy an expensive day surrounded by the people I love. Ultimately, all people care about having a great time & that the *couple* (not the bride) walks away from the wedding happy.

    I think the expectation the world revolve around you because you're getting married is absurd.


    **Note: I also hate all the "I'm the bride, it's my day!" BS. It's not your day. It's your and your husband's day.

    Also, maybe people are asking you what they should wear because they are afraid of your reaction if they pick the wrong thing??!

    :drinker: Thank you!! It is a celebration.. have fun and Congratulations! Nice outlook (I had the same ..and I would have totally helped a friend or family member pick clothes or discuss their hair!)
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    Actually, no alcohol was a good thing! Your Dad made his choice.

    Thank you. He did. He was, outside of being stumbling drunk, surprisingly polite. He didn't take the bait when my mother decided to ***** at him about their marriage (which had been done with for nearly over 20 years at that point.) All in all it was a good day.
  • ianlikesholidays
    ianlikesholidays Posts: 75 Member
    Hi
    These days there is absolutely nothing to benefit men in marriage, and when it all goes wrong they lose out "big time".
    Ian.
  • jess7386
    jess7386 Posts: 477 Member
    Thank you dear.

    At the end of the day you are a hosting people at an event, and thus you should act like a host.

    Plus it would bother me to sweat the small stuff. :drinker:

    ETA: Meant for Bribri
  • auroranflash
    auroranflash Posts: 3,569 Member
    Save the money, just go on honeymoon.

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