Wanted: Bridesmaid horror stories

WendyBirdGirl

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I'm at "the age" where all of my friends have just started getting married, and I am a bridesmaid in many of these weddings. As much as I love my friends, I am paying truckloads of money for ugly dresses, overpriced shoes, multiple plane tickets, etc. I am a recent college graduate living off of ramen noodles, yet I've got $70 gold stillettos in my closet because... yeah.

My mom says to stop griping because being a bridesmaid is some kind of twisted ritual into woman-hood. The more I talk to people my mom's age about it, the better I start feeling, because everybody has crazy horror stories, and they're really fun to hear. :)

So this is a support group for all of the past, present, and future bridesmaids out there... share your horror stories, funny tips on how to get through it, but most importantly... photos of the ugly dresses!!!! (Because let's face it, that's just fun)
 
Been in plenty of them and the worst was when I was a teen in the 80s.

We had to wear this royal blue band around our head that had a poof of netting in the back. Think sweat band style with pearls attached.
 
How about this one:
One of my best friends asked me to be the maid of honor in her wedding. While at the shower we threw for her, someone asked who the maid of honor was...and one of the other bridesmaids said she was...at the same time I did.

Turns out my friend couldn't decide which of us she wanted to have as the maid of honor, so she asked both of us...and then told me that day that she really wanted her first best friend to be her maid of honor.

It made me feel so special. :sad2:
 
Ive been a bridesmaid but don't have any horror stories. But I do have a bridesmaid from hell story ;)
 

August wedding, 8 months pregnant, shiny bright fuschia dress, w/ ugly jewelry, and very tall strappy black shoes.

I looked like Barney!!
 
I had a really great friend when I worked at this one particular job years ago. She had asked me to be in her wedding and of course I was honored. Then I happened to get a new job and left but still kept in touch with her. Well one day she sent me a LETTER in the mail asking me if it was ok that I wasn;t in her wedding for whatever reason she had (can't remember) but still wanted me to go to her wedding as a guest instead. I told her I understood. We talked less but still kept in touch. But needless to say......I never even got an invitation to her wedding even after a few phone calls of her talking about the plans of her wedding. I knew a month before her date and just waited for that invitation but never got one....I didn;t call her to ask her cuz I figured I would eventually get one but nope....I didn't.

I saw her picture in the newspaper a month after she got married.....she then a few weeks after that wrote me a letter and sent it through the mail telling me about her wedding never mentioning anything about not inviting me. I ripped up the letter and never talked to her again.
 
August wedding, 8 months pregnant, shiny bright fuschia dress, w/ ugly jewelry, and very tall strappy black shoes.

I looked like Barney!!

Okay the Barney comment definitely made me laugh out loud. Things are already looking up! :woohoo:
 
Once when my mom was a bridesmaid, the bride hired some lady to make the dresses.... they didn't turn out so well. At the reception when a friend was hugging my mom, and she whispered, "It looks like those dresses were made by a home ec class."
 
During the rehearsal, the groomsman that I was walking with squeezed my thigh (what the heck was he rehearsing for:confused3 ) while his girlfriend, another bridesmaid, was walking behind us. I was livid and pitched a fit during the rehearsal, refusing to walk with him.

Twenty years later, I regret it very much. I should have waited until my friend was on her honeymoon, then put the guy out of my misery:lmao:

I did apologize to my friend for ruining her rehearsal (albeit 18 years later).
 
I was a back-up bridesmaid once. It was for a girl that I met on a trip two years before, who lived several states away. I had met her parents, but I had never met any of her friends or the groom. She asked me to sing at her wedding when she first got engaged and I said yes. Then about two months before the wedding she called and told me she and one of the bridesmaids had a huge fight and she "fired" her, so would I mind terribly being a bridesmaid. The dress wasn't that expensive, so I didn't mind that. I asked lots of questions about the trip, because I had never been to that city, or that state even. I was too young to rent a car (18), so I asked about transportation and hotel. She said I could stay at her apartment for the weekend, along with another friend/bridesmaid. So I get there and everything seems to be fine. I ended up getting along with the other bridesmaid really well. We found out that the bride and groom were planning on spending their wedding night at the apartment (it had two bedrooms and BM and I were sharing one). So we decided to surprise them with a night at a nice hotel just a few blocks away. The wedding was at her church and frankly it was a little more "down home" type than I expected, but everything was really nice. Then the wedding was over and we went to the church's fellowship hall for the reception. The food was sort of like "pot luck" style that her mom and people from church had made. They apparently didn't count on people to serve it, and Mom was asking for volunteers as we were going in. So I ended up serving some sort of casserole, which was fine, but I felt weird for some of the women who were supposed to be guests. Then when it came time to leave, BM and I piled their gifts into her car to take back to the bride's apartment. In the course of talking, we discovered that three of the groom's friends had travelled from out of state and had no place to stay that night. Later as we were getting in the car, they said they would be staying at the bride and groom's apartment, too. We assume the bride and/or groom OK'd this. So we took all the presents and went back to the apartment. We arranged all the gifts in the living room and I started doing some general picking up around the place. A little later the bride's younger sister and her boyfriend showed up. They went into one the spare rooms and closed the door. A little later, sister comes out and says she has the bride on the phone. Sister says bride is asking us to please not sit on any of the furniture, including the beds, because it belonged to her grandmother and she doesn't want it to get broken. Sister and boyfriend go back into the bedroom and close the door. BM and I find us some blankets and we make a pallet on the living floor for ourselves and the three guys to sleep on. I go into the kitchen to wash the dishes. I hear sister come out of the bedroom and I hear her say "what's that?" to the guys. I came out and realized that the three guys had taken out some pot. Sister said "I don't think my sister would want drugs in her house." So three guys went outside. Sister and boyfriend went back in the bedroom. I went back to washing the dishes. Eventually, the guys came back and we crashed on the floor. At about 7 am, we get a knock on the door. It's the bride and groom. They need to get a few things for their honeymoon, oh, and they want us all to leave in the next five minutes. My flight didn't leave for like five hours, so BM and I went to a pancake house and then just hung around the mall before she took me to the airport.

Fast forward two weeks. I get an email from the bride. She is "disappointed" at my behavior at her wedding. She is "appalled" that I "allowed" drugs to be brought into her house. She felt like the other BM and I ganged up on her and she was "excluded." WTH??? I was really offended and sent back an email about how I had just met her BM that weekend and I was sorry that we were friendly to each other. I said I was also sorry that she didn't know that her new husband had potheads for friends. That was the last I heard, until about a year later. She sent me another email saying she had "forgiven" me. I didn't even respond...
 
Wow, I just realized that is extremely long! Sorry...

Oh, and just to make it longer, I found out she never got the gift I sent her from her online registry because she put the delivery address in wrong. I tried to get my money back from the store, but they said it had been delivered to whatever address she put in so there was nothing they could do.
 
I can top all of ya'll!!

When one of my cousins got married I was asked to be the Matron of Honor, since we are a close family I was delighted..what was I thinking LOL. At the rehearsal, the bride turned to me to hand me her fake bouquet made of tissue flowers and...drum roll please...threw up on the front of my dress. The worst part was it was a low cut dress so it went inside the front (every had that kind of mess stuck in your bra LOL?!). Everyone just stared (it was a shocker LOL) and the bride had a major deer in the headlight look LOL. I just blinked and said, "Hmmp, that was a special moment. I guess I should be grateful it happened without the 200 plus guests yea?" My cousin had to take off his shirt so I wouldn't be naked after I stripped down outta my dress LOL. No way was I wearing the puke dress for another second! I would have taken a squeeze on the thigh any day LOL!
 
I absolutely HATE buying those dresses! The worst case was when I was in my cousin's wedding. I wear a size 10. I tried on a size 10 at the bridal shop. It fit me just fine. The woman helping me insisted that the dress I had on was not a 10, but a 16!:confused3 So, I left the shop $230 poorer with an order for a size 16 dress. The dresses arrive and we went as a group to pick them up. All of us were SWIMMING in our dresses, except for the smart ones who would not order lagrer sizes. After talking we figured out what was going on. Plus sized dresses cost more, as do alterations. So, after spending $30 extra for my size 16, I had to spend an additional $45 on alterations. After all that, the alterations SUCKED! I had to go to the ceremony with a safety pin to make the dress smaller.:mad: I threw the dress out after the wedding!:lmao:
 
I have a horror story about two of my bridesmaids, if that counts.

Their dresses were midnight blue, and off the shoulder. One of my bridesmaids showed up at the wedding with a major FARMER'S TAN!!!! Her upper arms and shoulders were day-glo white, and her lower arms were tan. Lovely. Couldn't tell at the rehearsal because she wore sleeves. I'd have at least put on some QT and TRIED to even it out.

Another one showed up with her hair teased and sprayed into into a hellacious Jiffy Pop ball. I swear to God, her hair was twice the size of her actual head. This was 1991, but think mid-80's mall hair.

I cringe looking at those pictures.
 
Well I think I can top it all. I was in a Southern wedding. And by southern I mean big big Scarlette O'Hara dresses- that were PEACH! and yes we had a Parisol!!! It was awful. Truly a case where the bride(one of my friends actually although you wouldn't think so if you saw us) wanted to really look fantastic next to us. We all looked horrible. Oh and there was a hoop skirt underneath it all.:scared1: I wish I had a photo because it was really really bad.

Then when my mom got remarried I was her Maid of Honor. I had to wear Navy - but any dress I wanted. Had to be long. Only problem- I was 8 months pregnant. So I ended up looking like a tent- but it was comfy! I also had to pay about $300 for a formal maternity gown. It was pretty bad but not nearly as bad as the Gone with the Wind one.

Finally my best friend. Maid of Honor. Went shopping to see the dress she LOVED for us. It was gorgeous. Beaded, fantastic 80's style dress. Only problem it was $700!!! For a bridesmaid dress!!!! And yep it is in my closet to this day 20 years later.
 
Close enough - share please

Bridesmaid #1- running drunk around the hotel with a guy. After the reception, still in her bridesmaid dress at the bar just on top of him.

Bridesmaid #2- Same scenario as #1 but it was with my ex-bf. Yes my ex-bf and I were still friends but c'mon he was still my ex and at my wedding!!!!

Bridesmaid #3- ran around telling lies about me and other members of the wedding party probably because she wasn't the center of attention. Told DH's side of the family that I said some nasty things about a family member when in FACT it was another bridesmaid that said it. Locked me out of the bridal suite with the dress and everything and had to get hotel security to open the door. Because of #3, MIL got drunk and started saying crap about me one of them being my best friend's dad and in turn he came up to me and said..."Oh...its not too late for an annulment". Rest of the family knew it was BS and came up to apologize to DH and I for the mess.

I do have a bridezilla wedding I attended. It was for a coworker and she was marrying her long time boyfriend who was in the Marines. She had 10 bridesmaids and there was only 1 groomsman who was the best man. Didn't really invite his side of the family. All her coworkers including myself decided to balance the room out and sit with his dad, mom, sister, bil and nephew. When we went to the room where the reception was going to be...it was as if I stepped back in time and was at my PROM!!! Balloons, streamers, and banners everywhere. The banners had "forever", "everlasting", "truly" and some other sayings like that written on them. Coworkers and I loved her to death but we couldn't stop laughing throughout the ceremony.
 
Oh wait- I have a bridezilla story too... I was at a wedding. Just a date of my now dh. His friends. I had met them once before. I am heading to the bathroom when the bride grabs my arm and yells in a whisper(she thought she was whispering) hey want to do some lines in the bathroom with me. :scared1: Um no and do think they can edit that out of the video?
 
My friend got married in 2003. A year before she picked out dresses and we went to order them. Pretty lavender/pink color, nicely made. However, my friend failed to remember that of her 7 bridesmaids, all are flat chested, except for 2. I happen to be one of those 2. My nickname in HS was Queen Busty:lmao: So, we proceed to buy these spaghetti strap dresses with crisscross backs. In the meantime, I get pregnant with DS. He is born April 10. Wedding is May 20. Uh-Oh. Not only do I have to wear a dress that I can't wear a bra with, now I have to deal with a postpartum figure! So on said wedding day, other busty girl and myself are duct taping our breasts so that they aren't sagging , and in doing so create the ultimate push up bra. It was like two strippers had crashed the wedding:laughing: Now picture ripping off duct tape after wedding. We had tape burns.
 










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