The backlash was bound to happen. Tokyo doesn’t just sit and take it when Godzilla goes stamping all over the countryside. No! They harness technology and create Mothra and then there’s the mother of all beatdowns in badly-dubbed dialogue.
Which is pretty much what we have here: Bridesmaids have finally turned on their creator.
Just some highlights…one bride’s complaining that the bridesmaid made Bride’s Mom pay for Bridesmaid’s part in the shower. Which sucks. Until we are informed that the shower cost (and please, for the love of all that is holy, sit down!) $1750.
Apparently the average cost to be a bridesmaid now is $1,000. (To give you some idea of scale: I’ve been in weddings that cost, in their entirety, $1,000.) Oh, and the REAL insanity? Brides are genuinely confused when their bridesmaids turn on them, as if taffeta and parasols cause inexplicable bipolar behavior.
Well, guess what: spending $1K on an acre of mint green chiffon and being told I’m too fat for the pictures or being told that my engagement ring is too big and will distract from the bride’s so I must take it off would make me a little testy, too.
This is too much. The only reason the divorce rate isn’t over 50% is that no one can afford to sell and split a house these days, so I’m thinking that the actual wedding should be a small affair and then you can pay for a big party on your tenth anniversary, because (and here’s a clue): anyone can get married. Not everyone has the stones to STAY married.
But don’t be surprised, Bridezilla, if your continued self-absorption results in having no one who wants to celebrate with you.
© E.S. Evans 2010
Mom, Interrupted 
Admittedly, we had a fairly expensive wedding. But I never dared ask my bridesmaids to contribute to that expense. They bought their dresses ($100) and were given liberty with their shoes, jewelry, hair and make-up. Black shoes. I didn’t care about the jewelry. I offered hair & make-up at $50, but only “mandated” that the hair was put up. And yet, I still had one bridesmaid that wore her hair down. Guess what? It didn’t end my world. I combined my wedding shower with my bachelorette party. Bridesmaids were asked to contribute $50 to the shower and their own cover charge at the bar. And I ended up buying most of them drinks that night. The bartender actually felt sorry for me because it should have been the other way around. On the flip side, I paid over $1,000 to fly to the Bahamas for one friend’s wedding. After paying $300 for my dress. And $100 for my hair and make-up. And she was PISSED at me for not footing the bill to rent a hummer limo for her bachelorette party. I was the only bridesmaid and she refused to ask the other girls to contribute. Her loss. She ended up with no Bachelorette party. Because I turned on her…