Have you been watching any of the wedding related shows on TV lately? You know ones like Bridezilla? LOL I’ve only glanced at the shows as I’ve been searching for better forms of entertainment of perhaps even a show I could learn something from but the segments I have seen are kind of funny.
I can’t remember the exact details and probably wouldn’t get it right anyway since I didn’t see the whole show, but one particular segment I saw revolved around a bridal speech and the very odd things that the father of the bride and the Masters of Ceremonies, or maybe it was the best man, wanted to say during the reception dinner speeches about the new bride and groom. It had something to do with some very embarrassing things the couple did when they first got together. Naturally when the bride heard about this she went ballistic!
I don’t believe I was a bridezilla. I was a very tired bride. When Chris and I finally decided to get married we went and talked to our priest and he only had two decent dates left that year! My parents were older, and are now passed on, so I didn’t want to wait until the next year to get married just in case something happened to one of them. So we booked our wedding date for October 22nd in July of that same year. Like around this time in July.
That doesn’t leave much time to plan a wedding and reception for approximately 200 people! I pretty much did all the planning on my own and at the same time was working in a new nursing job that I’d started that June. Chris helped where he could of course, but it’s the women that generally plan all the little details that pull things together.
My closest bridezilla moment probably happened shortly after the wedding. We’d gone to have our photos taken in a lovely park and by the time we got to the reception hall all of our guests were already inside and snacking on the hor d oeuvres. They were supposed to have been in an upstairs hall waiting for our arrival and then we’d do the reception line and so on.
I was absolutely starving so I was looking forward to a few moments of privacy and the ability to eat a few of the delicious snacks without all eyes on me. So needless to say I was extremely disappointed to see everyone already in the hall when we arrived.
It turned out that the people who were supposed to taking care of the upstairs hall couldn’t make it because of an illness or death in the family. So that’s why my guests were in the wrong place.
Oh well, something always goes wrong at a wedding doesn’t it. What happened at yours?
Funny that you mention Bridezilla. I have a feeling some of the antics on the show are a little bit staged. As a wedding videographer, I’ve been to maybe 200 weddings. I don’t think I’ve ever really encountered a crazy bride. However, I must say that I did once witness a groomzilla. They can be even worse!
Bridezilla? That’s a great word!
Reading this post made me rather nervous. I’m not married yet, but never thought about the fact that guests have to be told what to do. Its true. They’re kinda like sheep, hey? Lost without the shepherd. LOL.
Please give some tips on things to remember and focus on for weddings. I’ll make sure to keep note of these things when I get married (which will hopefully be soon:D)
My one and only “Bridezilla” moment was when I broke down at the jeweler when she told me the estimate she gave us was $1000 off (NOT in our favor)!
We had our rings custom made and the jeweler explained it was because she didn’t realize how much platinum it took to sink our diamonds into the bands…hmmm, isn’t that why I chose a jeweler with 60 years experience?! Well, after digging our heals in, and standing up for ourselves, we came to a fair resolution.
Advice: If you plan on having rings custom made, have the jeweler write an estimate and guarantee it within a reasonable amount,like a couple hundred, NOT $1000!
Anyways, it all worked out and we have gorgeous platinum wedding bands with four diamonds each(that were my Grandmothers) sunk into the bands . Ahhhh, sweet!
I wasn’t a bridezilla but my 18-year-old daughter was – talk about a control freak! We were planning our wedding for about 6 months and she had a file with everything categorised, and insisted on weekly progress meetings. Everything went perfectly in the end – but her freak-out ratio went through the roof the week before the wedding when my dress hadn’t yet arrived from Australia (we’re in UK)!
Bridezillas have nothing on Groomzillas. At my own wedding reception the person who was supposed to put out the place cards didn’t do it. When I waled into the room with my new bride I saw the place cards piled in a heap on one table. We had to keep the guests out while we hurridly tried to remember where each one should sit!
I can imagine people calling me Groomzilla. In my wedding, I was so nervous, I trip down the stairs, I did not go very far, just three steps down, It was very embarrassing but it’s life, I am a Groomzilla after all.
For my wedding reception we had hired the venues resident DJ. Unfortunately he decided he couldn’t be bothered to show up and didn’t bother to tell us. The venue though we very apologetic and rung round to find us a new DJ for the evening, luckily the guests never noticed and entertained themselves for the beginning of the evening.
My wedding was supposed to be a small informal affair which we spring on our family and friends at the last minute. We had thought of eloping, but my husband is an only child and we couldn’t deprive his mother of her one mother of the groom event.
We decided to hold it at a tiny rectory and although we had sent out cursory invites, we hadn’t expected many people at all. In the end, it rained, we had almost fifty people standing outside the church as there was no room inside.
As it turned out my bride speech joke punchline were words from the Beatles song ‘Rain’ which my husband and I love and on entering the reception hall, we were handed towels and champagne, it landed up looking like a toga party, but eveyone says it was the best wedding they have ever been to.
Groomzilla lol. That’s a funny name. Well we can all have embarrassing things happen at a wedding. I struggled with my
Wedding Groom Speech , but thankfully I got through.
Bridezilla is the nightmare of every man, but who’s to know if she is one until it’s too late? Obviously a woman doesn’t intentionally become bridezilla either, it just kind of, happens. You can’t really blame her though, all she really wants is for everything to be perfect for the most important day or her life. Nobody likes to be a pain the butt, but when it comes down to your wedding day it’s almost your right to be one, it’s YOUR wedding, not theirs….
Bridezilla?? Haha great name! Thinking back i think i was probably a Bridezilla, although no-one dared tell me at the time 🙂
That’s a really funny post. I will share a secret with you all. shh you cant tell my wife but I think she was a bridezilla haha. My son is getting married soon and he is like a groomzilla his fiance is a lovely girl and I hope he treats her right.
Its no surprise the bride went mad on that show you watched, Embarrassing the groom or bride in a wedding speech is really not the thing to do. Although tempting if you write a speech for someones wedding. Do not embarrass them.