I was a very easy going bride, were you?

[Laura]

I got stressed out a few times, and went Bridezilla on my maid of honor one evening (and immediately apologized), but I was fine about 95% of the time, even when things went wrong. On the wedding day I was nervous about walking down a curved staircase and had stagefright--don't like all those people staring at me! But once the ceremony was over, I was all cool with it. DH even stepped on my train as we finished walking back down the aisle and left a big brown stain on it, and I was cool with that. Just had the gown bustled and I was good to go.

 

[mommaU4]

I was very calm too.
Looking back now I realize this had alot to do with the amazing behind the scenes efforts of my mom, my aunt, my maid of honor and a few others who worked very hard to make sure that I was never stressed out and that the whole day went smoothly.

 

[jennyL]

I was very calm through mine which then rubbed off on my maid of honor for her wedding the next year. She said she was so thankful seeing me go through mine that she realized she didn't need to get all stressed. However my BIL fiance is not a bridezilla but she has been getting more and more annoying. I can't wait for their wedding to be over with in March. LOL

 

[Kitty 34]

My wedding was fairly small so I was very calm but excited. It was such a fun day. :

 

[RadioNate]

I was ok for the most part. The only thing that I was bridezilla-ish about was my SIL. She was 11 at the time and made my life very difficult. MIL of course sided with her so I'm sure I came off looking horrid to them.

My bridesmaids were all curvy, busty, 'hot' 20-somethings. I let them choose their dresses and they choose a backless dress with big slit up the leg. They were $25 and I liked the color and style so they got them. I didn't think it was appropriate for an 11 year old so I asked SIL to get a dress in a coordinating color. She freaked and wanted the same dress, which of couse since they waited 8 MONTHS to tell me we couldn't get the dress anymore. So she wanted it in burgandy. Since the other dresses were silver and we'd decided on blue hydrandas for the centerpiece and have navy ribbon on the flowers we'd have to change the flowers, centerpieces, table linens all so the burgandy wouldn't clash with the rest of the weddings color scheme. Not to mention I really don't like burgandy.

So in Aug for our early Oct wedding my MIL approached me about changing everything we had decided on to accomidate my 11 year old SIL wanting to wear a burgandy dress.

That was the one and only time I LOST MY MIND!

I made a zillion other concessions for SIL including letting her walk down the aisle with DH because she wouldn't walk with any other male but she didn't wear the burgandy dress.

 

[golfgal]

I was a pretty go with the flow type bride. I guess I didn't care that much if the shoes matched (they did, but if they had all been black that would have been fine too). The only thing that really upset me was that they wanted to start renovations on the church the week before our wedding (they called me about it a month before the wedding-we booked the church over a year before that). I had a few discussions with the priest about waiting one more week. They ended up waiting for a few months so they could have the Easter season there.

 

[AnaheimGirl]

The real question is, though, does your wedding party agree that you weren't a bridezilla? I'm sure many bridezillas don't think they were, but their friends/family might disagree.

As for me, I had a great time planning and attending my wedding and reception. I was calm and relaxed. I can remember only a couple of things that I had to be assertive about:

1. The florist kept trying to get me to carry mostly white flowers in my bouquet and I wanted deep, rich colors that matched the wedding colors, because I like the contrast against the white dress. I had to tell her several times, "no, no white flowers", and she seemed very put off by it, but when the bouquets were done, they were gorgeous and even she admitted they turned out much nicer than she'd thought they would.

2. The DJ kept playing country line-dancing music at the reception, after dh and I had told him beforehand we wanted no country music (we hate it!). I don't know why he kept playing it, no one was dancing to it. Several people complained. (Yes, dh and I know our friends and family better than the DJ did!) I finally went over and told him to play the kind of music he'd previously agreed to play or I'd be stopping payment on the check. That DJ might call me a bridezilla for that, but I have a few not-so-flattering words I could use to describe him, too, so I guess we're even!