share your bridezilla moments....?

I would've choked somebody! Know what, I hear you. Long story short, I was the MOH in my besties wedding. Ugly dress to begin with, but I measured for a size 6, we rodered an 8 because I'm really tall, knowing it might need small alterations. They went and ordered me a 12 so it would get there fatser! My friend said it was ok! Oh my Lord, they wanted $300 to fix it, which I made the groom pay, and they only fixed one side! It was enormous, and crooked. My left boob actually would've flopped out! Thank god my mom gutted the whole periwinkle nightmare and fixed it for me! To this day, me and another bridesmaid call it the pregnant toothfairy dress.

Another friend of mien is very laid back, so imagine my suprise when she, a brunette, flipped out because none of the bridesmaids were willing to bleach their hair so she could be the only one with black hair! I mean literally flipped the F out, crying at the restaurant we were at, screaming match ni the parking lot. Yikes!

The only time I went crazy, well I think it was the only time=), was when my future mother in law started planning and taking over everything with OTHER people and didn't include me. I was either the last to know or wasn't even aware of anything. I started becoming what I hoped I wouldn't. Even though it wasn't the end of the world, it still drove me crazy. But before it escalated, my future sister in law told her mom that she needs to back off, and my Fiancé even had a little talk with her about it too. Ever since then she's been very helpful.

I never had a bridezilla moment. I was prepared and had everything in hand months before the wedding. If I had experienced what you did about my wedding dress, I would have had an Irish temper moment. Needless to say they would have altered the dress for free and done the bead work that needed being done by hand and have it ready before my wedding date or I would own their shop.

I try sooo hard not to be a bridezilla, and luckily, I've only had one instance where I had to come close...

My bridal party and close friends (16 total, including me and my fiance) are planning a trip to Vegas for a weekend bachelor/bachelorette. We needed to get a final guest count, so I asked one of my bridesmaids if her boyfriend was going to be able to get the time off...

She told me not to worry - that if he found out he had to work, she was sure that she could get HER MOM to come!

Now, I've met her mom a couple of times, and she's a nice, fun lady, but seriously?!?! Not only would I be uncomfortable with a mom at my bachelorette party, how would the other ladies feel about having some random girl's mom there?!

I politely told her that I was very much hoping that her boyfriend could come because I was looking forward to a "no parents" bachelorette. (We're almost 30 for cripes sake!!!)

In the end, she decided that she could ask her sister to come instead...

This is lame because I only thought the response, well more or less screamed the reponse, in my own head . After listening to my aunt go on for half an hour about how the banquet hall of the beautiful arboretum that I want to be married in, is far too small." Everyone will be cramped, no room to dance they are lying about how many people can fit, I know what Im talking about, not enough room".... WELL THERE WILL BE MORE ROOM IF YOU DONT COME.

I had a moment - when the bridesmaids and I went to go order their dresses, they all got measured etc. One of my bridesmaids is a size 10 but they recommended she get a size 12. So she did. When the dress came in, they had ordered her a JUNIOR size 12. The thing wouldn't even go over her thigh. So she clearly told them this was wrong, and they said, nope, you ordered a Jr 12. I calmly tried to talk to them and tell them they did wrong, and they wouldn't hear it. So, I had to raise my voice. Anyways, after arguing and speaking to managers, they said to order another dress, we'd have to pay for shipping and restocking fee's. I said NO WAY...then they accused my bridesmaid who is 26 years old, that she GREW and got bigger in the past 3 months (since she was measured). I'm like are you people on drugs? So they told us they didn't want our business and we should leave. So, being that it is a chain store, we went to the next one in the next city away, and they were sweet as pie and had a new dress free of charge rush shipped out to us. Unbelievable.

Mine was fairly justified to be honest! About 2 months before our wedding we went to the registry office and sorted out all the paperwork and paid our fee and got our license all sorted out. 2 days before the wedding I have a call from the registry office saying "We've got a provisional booking in place for you this Saturday but we presume that's not going ahead, so we're going to cancel it for you". I was shocked and said "Excuse me, we have been in and paid our fees, we have our paperwork and license arranged, the wedding is most certainly going ahead." They could find no trace of our money being paid, or our paperwork being done, which at that notice meant we would not be able to legally marry. I have to say I lost the plot with them as we had family traveling from all over the UK to attend the wedding. I told them that they had better search every drawer, every filing cabinet and every storage box they had or I would come down there and find it for them, we had our receipt so I could prove we had paid our fees. 4 hours later I got a call back saying they had found everything and it had been filed incorrectly, the wedding happened as planned!

The only ***** I had was that I needed to get a pair of shoes right away and nobody would take me or even just run to get them for me when I left my Italian antique white that matched my dress even though I already had them, Stilettos at home that morning, so I had to wear my moms healed slip on sandles. They were nice but they were not dressy enough for the occasion for me and I didn't like the flip flop effect since they were slip on heels, ya know?

Gina

Well I am a naturally demanding person (not like give me this but rather if I pay for something I expect to get what I paid for done properly)

Luckily I actually haven't had too many bad moments yet, actually only one, my fiance keeps me in check. He goes "I see those girls on the TV, I don't want you to become one of them and you get mad when people screw up" (I would like to say I am only demanding when they screw up and are unapologetic in my mind that's a BIG difference)

I did have one incident he doesn't know about though. I worked with custom invite designers for boxed invite (like the first one in the gallery on this site http://www.beyondinvitingcouture.com/ ) As you noticed they are covered in silk. I agreed 6,000 for the invites, and all the paper for my wedding I sent them a check for 4,500. They then call me 2 weeks later to say that they need the additional 3,500 hundred. I only owed them 1,500 which I was holding until I got and approved the invite which the woman had agreed with. I then tried to ask why there was 2,000 more, the snotty girl then said "well your materials costs 1,900 for the swarvorski and silk."

I decided that this was unacceptable. I called and bitched and complained. I told them I was canceling the check which they hadn't yet cashed. And I was going to call and sue them (which really I had no legal reason but I knew the girl I was speaking to wasn't intelligent enough to know this) because of their stupid little girl behind the desk who wrote up a contract not detailing any additional payment for my materials. In the end I scared them so much I didn't have to pay the addition 2,000 And got them to knock off the 1,500 that I still owed them.

In the end in this case I did end up being better off being a little of a bridezilla.

I would like to state that as soon as I spoke to the woman in charge of this company it was settled. They are still top notch in my book and I highly recommend them. This receptionist has since been fired.

I have to admit, I haven't had a bridezilla moment - yet! LOL I'm sure I will, and I'm sure my FH will tell you differently, but I think I'm pretty good so far. :)

As for you're moment, I wouldn't call that bridezilla - That's just a customer demanding what they paid for - bride or not, I wouldn't accept shoddy quality/workmanship. Not when I paid good money for it!