Bored? Here's a great story I found on the internet (Very long)
I was asked to be a bridesmaid for a girlfriend who was one of my bridesmaids, years earlier. She was constantly asking me questions about budgets for her upcoming wedding which I was happy to share with her some of the things I did for mine. My wedding was not elaborate as we paid for everything ourselves and bought a house at the same time. But, we paid for everything, cash, so we would not have to face any bills later on.
The church where the wedding is to take place is 1-1/2 hours driving distance from the brides and groom's home. The bride chose it because it had a tall black marble cross - she had no affiliation with that church or that religion. We arrive at the church for the rehearsal and the bride is disappointed that the cross is not solid marble but squares of marble glued to a wall. The head minister-ess shows up and is in a bad mood and is barking at everyone. The bride shows up an hour late. The MOH never shows up. Only 3 other bridesmaids show up out of the 8 of us. The groom never shows up at all but his father is there, snoring in the back pew. We go through our paces and then it's time to leave. Later that night, I receive a call from the bride that she and the MOH got into a fight and that the MOH took off with her wedding gown. I've got my fingers crossed that the two of them can patch things up before the wedding.
The wedding day. I constantly receive frantic phone calls from the bride's mother and younger sister as the younger sister came in from out of state for the wedding and ordered the wrong sized bridesmaid dress on purpose. I contacted a seamstress friend, who properly fitted me in my dress, and she is wiling to re-do the sister's dress if we can get it to her on time. The sister is constantly making up excuses to not go to the seamstress, like, 'Her number isn't listed.' 'She refuses to take my dress.' 'She won't be done in time.' 'She won't let me take the dress to her house.' I knew these were all untrue as the seamstress was calling me to find out where the sister was and when she would be getting to her house. The dress is remade from a size 10 to a size 6 in under 90 minutes!
Time to go to the bride's house. I get there and there and no bride. However, I find out that the MOH brought back the wedding gown at 3 in the morning but it is not known if she will be there for the wedding. The photographer arrives but still no bride - she shows up 2 hours late as she decides at the last minute to have hair extensions added so that she can look like she has long flowing hair for her wedding day. No one recognizes her. The bride is changing in to her gown and realizes that her mother has all the flowers and jewlery but her mother is not there. I call the MOB and she refuses to come over but insists that she'll be at the church. The MOB also has the sister with the newly redone gown and she is needed over at the bride's house for pictures. The MOB will not get there in time so the photographer goes around the neighborhood, stripping all the neighbors yards from their flowers, for the bride and her pictures, but is jewelry-less. I am embarassed! The MOB finally shows up with sister and dress in tow. The sister brought along her girlfriend who is constantly in the way and distracting the sister from doing her bridesmaid duties. I threw the sister in a bedroom with her dress and yell at her to change.
Time to leave for the church. The bride's distant cousin owns and runs a limo service. She has hired him to take us to the church. We all clamor in to the limo for the 1-1/2 ride to the church with the tall black marble cross. We get stuck in traffic for an extra hour.
Get to the church. The groom is there but half the groomsmen are not. They all arrive late on purpose, they didn't want to be seen in a tuxedo as none of them fit. All sizes were incorrectly ordered and none of them had enough brains to take them back to the tux shop and get the correct ones. I haul each groomsmen out of their cars and order them in to the church for the wedding after informing them that the wedding had been postponed until their arrival. The ring bearer is 5 years old and is wearing size 13 mens shoes. He is also wearing pants that are 3 sizes too small and 6 inches too short. The little flowergirl is pitching a fit as the bride had hair extensions done to her too and the little girl doesn't like having long hair as it gets in her way. The mother of the flower girl is mortified that the bride would do such a thing without asking permission to do this to her child. The minister is upset and refuses to perform the ceremony as the check had bounced. Everyone in the church adds a little something to the collection plate going around just to see this wedding take place.
The wedding starts. Half the bridal party is trying to do their own thing. The altar area is not large enough for all of us to fit up there so 8 attendants, on each side of the altar, are crammed together. It is hot and stuffy in the church. The minister decides to add her own lecture about correct preparation and doing things the right way - this speech lasts for 45 minutes. The bride almost faints on several ocassions. All 8 bridal attendants huddle close to her to prop her up. The singer soloist gets up to do his thing. A member of the audience decides she can do a better job and gets up there with him to do a singing challenge. The minister admonishes the 2 of them in front of everyone. The ceremony is finally over with. We go outside so that we can get some air and then take off for the reception, back near the bride's house. The bride and groom hop in to the limo and take off.
Two hours into the reception, the MOH comes over and grabs my husband and I and asks us to help her count all the money the bride and groom received as gifts, etc. I'm thinking that is a bit odd but go along with it. We go out in to the hall and count it all up: $550 total (there were less than 50 guests). My husband goes back to the reception. The MOH tells me that, 'It's not enough.' Not enough for what? The bride and groom had not paid any of their vendors and they owe $12K and everyone wants their payments, 'Now!' The MOH told me that she told the bride that if she had the money dance, that enough people would dance with them and give them enough money to pay for all their expenses. The bride had anticipated that she would have 400 paying guests. Remember those budget talks I had with the bride? She decided that I didn't know what I was talking about and felt that everyone should pay for her wedding instead. I looked at the MOH, told her to go to hell, walked back to get my husband, tapped him on the shoulder, tell him to grab his jacket and to walk to the truck now and if anyone stopped us to ignore them and keep going. On our way out, I noticed another bridesmaid and her husband were also leaving. My husband has no idea what's going on but knows that I meant business and we get the heck out of there. Turns out the other couple we saw leaving, decided to get the heck out of there also as the MOH also asked them to pay for the wedding expenses while I was getting my husband. My husband doesn't know what's going on so I tell him on the way home. His response was, 'I expected this to happen.'
I did not receive a thank you note from the bride and groom for the gift I gave them, nor for any work I did on their behalf for their wedding, bridal shower, making of the wedding favors (of which were never handed out). I never received a copy of any of the pictures I was in, as I did this for her when she was in my wedding a few years earlier. The bride, however, still sends me a yearly Christmas card, telling me that I still owe her money for my share of her wedding expenses as I didn't help her with her budgeting needs. Whose wedding was this anyway?
The church where the wedding is to take place is 1-1/2 hours driving distance from the brides and groom's home. The bride chose it because it had a tall black marble cross - she had no affiliation with that church or that religion. We arrive at the church for the rehearsal and the bride is disappointed that the cross is not solid marble but squares of marble glued to a wall. The head minister-ess shows up and is in a bad mood and is barking at everyone. The bride shows up an hour late. The MOH never shows up. Only 3 other bridesmaids show up out of the 8 of us. The groom never shows up at all but his father is there, snoring in the back pew. We go through our paces and then it's time to leave. Later that night, I receive a call from the bride that she and the MOH got into a fight and that the MOH took off with her wedding gown. I've got my fingers crossed that the two of them can patch things up before the wedding.
The wedding day. I constantly receive frantic phone calls from the bride's mother and younger sister as the younger sister came in from out of state for the wedding and ordered the wrong sized bridesmaid dress on purpose. I contacted a seamstress friend, who properly fitted me in my dress, and she is wiling to re-do the sister's dress if we can get it to her on time. The sister is constantly making up excuses to not go to the seamstress, like, 'Her number isn't listed.' 'She refuses to take my dress.' 'She won't be done in time.' 'She won't let me take the dress to her house.' I knew these were all untrue as the seamstress was calling me to find out where the sister was and when she would be getting to her house. The dress is remade from a size 10 to a size 6 in under 90 minutes!
Time to go to the bride's house. I get there and there and no bride. However, I find out that the MOH brought back the wedding gown at 3 in the morning but it is not known if she will be there for the wedding. The photographer arrives but still no bride - she shows up 2 hours late as she decides at the last minute to have hair extensions added so that she can look like she has long flowing hair for her wedding day. No one recognizes her. The bride is changing in to her gown and realizes that her mother has all the flowers and jewlery but her mother is not there. I call the MOB and she refuses to come over but insists that she'll be at the church. The MOB also has the sister with the newly redone gown and she is needed over at the bride's house for pictures. The MOB will not get there in time so the photographer goes around the neighborhood, stripping all the neighbors yards from their flowers, for the bride and her pictures, but is jewelry-less. I am embarassed! The MOB finally shows up with sister and dress in tow. The sister brought along her girlfriend who is constantly in the way and distracting the sister from doing her bridesmaid duties. I threw the sister in a bedroom with her dress and yell at her to change.
Time to leave for the church. The bride's distant cousin owns and runs a limo service. She has hired him to take us to the church. We all clamor in to the limo for the 1-1/2 ride to the church with the tall black marble cross. We get stuck in traffic for an extra hour.
Get to the church. The groom is there but half the groomsmen are not. They all arrive late on purpose, they didn't want to be seen in a tuxedo as none of them fit. All sizes were incorrectly ordered and none of them had enough brains to take them back to the tux shop and get the correct ones. I haul each groomsmen out of their cars and order them in to the church for the wedding after informing them that the wedding had been postponed until their arrival. The ring bearer is 5 years old and is wearing size 13 mens shoes. He is also wearing pants that are 3 sizes too small and 6 inches too short. The little flowergirl is pitching a fit as the bride had hair extensions done to her too and the little girl doesn't like having long hair as it gets in her way. The mother of the flower girl is mortified that the bride would do such a thing without asking permission to do this to her child. The minister is upset and refuses to perform the ceremony as the check had bounced. Everyone in the church adds a little something to the collection plate going around just to see this wedding take place.
The wedding starts. Half the bridal party is trying to do their own thing. The altar area is not large enough for all of us to fit up there so 8 attendants, on each side of the altar, are crammed together. It is hot and stuffy in the church. The minister decides to add her own lecture about correct preparation and doing things the right way - this speech lasts for 45 minutes. The bride almost faints on several ocassions. All 8 bridal attendants huddle close to her to prop her up. The singer soloist gets up to do his thing. A member of the audience decides she can do a better job and gets up there with him to do a singing challenge. The minister admonishes the 2 of them in front of everyone. The ceremony is finally over with. We go outside so that we can get some air and then take off for the reception, back near the bride's house. The bride and groom hop in to the limo and take off.
Two hours into the reception, the MOH comes over and grabs my husband and I and asks us to help her count all the money the bride and groom received as gifts, etc. I'm thinking that is a bit odd but go along with it. We go out in to the hall and count it all up: $550 total (there were less than 50 guests). My husband goes back to the reception. The MOH tells me that, 'It's not enough.' Not enough for what? The bride and groom had not paid any of their vendors and they owe $12K and everyone wants their payments, 'Now!' The MOH told me that she told the bride that if she had the money dance, that enough people would dance with them and give them enough money to pay for all their expenses. The bride had anticipated that she would have 400 paying guests. Remember those budget talks I had with the bride? She decided that I didn't know what I was talking about and felt that everyone should pay for her wedding instead. I looked at the MOH, told her to go to hell, walked back to get my husband, tapped him on the shoulder, tell him to grab his jacket and to walk to the truck now and if anyone stopped us to ignore them and keep going. On our way out, I noticed another bridesmaid and her husband were also leaving. My husband has no idea what's going on but knows that I meant business and we get the heck out of there. Turns out the other couple we saw leaving, decided to get the heck out of there also as the MOH also asked them to pay for the wedding expenses while I was getting my husband. My husband doesn't know what's going on so I tell him on the way home. His response was, 'I expected this to happen.'
I did not receive a thank you note from the bride and groom for the gift I gave them, nor for any work I did on their behalf for their wedding, bridal shower, making of the wedding favors (of which were never handed out). I never received a copy of any of the pictures I was in, as I did this for her when she was in my wedding a few years earlier. The bride, however, still sends me a yearly Christmas card, telling me that I still owe her money for my share of her wedding expenses as I didn't help her with her budgeting needs. Whose wedding was this anyway?
