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image credit: Alex Eben Meyer (http:\/\/www.eben.com)<\/p>\nORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE CALGARY HERALD, JUNE 2005, IN LISA HANSLIP\u2019S COLUMN \u201cI DO, BUT DON\u2019T\u2026\u201d
\n image credit: Alex Eben Meyer (http:\/\/www.eben.com)<\/p>\n
Q. My best friend is getting married in a few months and I am so happy for her, but in the six months since she got engaged she\u2019s changed into a totally different person. She never wants to discuss anything but the wedding and she\u2019s obsessing about every single detail. Since I announced I\u2019m pregnant she no longer wants me to be her bridesmaid because I won\u2019t look good in the wedding photos. She\u2019s gone completely crazy, is there anything I can do to snap her out of it?<\/p>\n
A. Alas, I fear Bridezilla has reared her ugly head: <\/p>\n
bridezilla (brId-ZILL-uh) n. A bride-to-be who, while planning her wedding, becomes exceptionally selfish, greedy, and obnoxious.<\/p>\n
Bridezillas are a new breed of brides who abuse the idea that weddings are their day to get exactly what they want. They terrorize their bridal party and family members, make greedy demands and break all rules of etiquette. Their sole desire is to be the single most important person on the planet from the time of engagement right up until the last dance at their wedding.<\/p>\n
Here are some tell-tale signs that someone you love might be turning into a Bridezilla:<\/p>\n
-The bride is incapable of discussing any subject other than her wedding.<\/p>\n
-The bride barely eats so she can fit into her dress and then complains that she\u2019s hungry all the time.<\/p>\n
-The bride obsessively watches what her bridal party is eating and gasps every time anyone reaches for a cookie.<\/p>\n
-The mother-of-the-bride and the maid-of-honour are beginning to feel like medieval footservants.<\/p>\n
-The bride chooses couture bridesmaid dresses, even though most of her friends are on a budget. She does not, however, offer to pay.<\/p>\n
-When the bride is discussing all the details of her wedding (which she does to every person who crosses her path) you can\u2019t help but picture more \u201cBride of Frankenstein\u201d than \u201cPrincess Bride.\u201d<\/p>\n
-The bride is thrilled when her groom is sent away on business (\u201cFinally, he\u2019ll stop interfering in all of my plans\u2026\u201d).<\/p>\n
Your friend may have been the sweetest girl you knew before she got engaged, but once a bride falls to the dark side, there\u2019s very little you can do but grin and breathe deeply (slipping the bride a valium couldn\u2019t hurt either). So, take a deep breath and count the days until your friend returns to her normal self. In the meantime…be afraid, be very afraid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE CALGARY HERALD, JUNE 2005, IN LISA HANSLIP\u2019S COLUMN \u201cI DO, BUT DON\u2019T\u2026\u201d image credit: Alex Eben Meyer (http:\/\/www.eben.com) Q. My best friend is getting married in a few months and I am so happy for her, but in the six months since she got engaged she\u2019s changed into a totally different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,7],"tags":[113,45,27,15,47,108],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etiquette","category-media","category-qa","tag-bridezilla","tag-calgary-herald","tag-calgary-weddings","tag-lisa-hanslip","tag-wedding-etiquette","tag-wedding-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askaweddingplanner.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askaweddingplanner.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askaweddingplanner.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askaweddingplanner.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askaweddingplanner.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.askaweddingplanner.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/www.askaweddingplanner.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askaweddingplanner.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askaweddingplanner.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askaweddingplanner.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}