Weddings

14 people in the wedding industry share their worst stories of badly-behaved brides.

Weddings are high-stress and come with an insane amount of society-fueled pressure, particularly for women. So it makes sense that a lot of brides don&#39;t necessarily act their best in the weeks or months leading up to their weddings. So while I generally find the term &quot;bridezilla&quot; a little bit unfair, some brides do exhibit a degree of entitled and diva-like behavior that absolutely qualify them for this descriptor. And no one is more familiar with this type of person than those who work in the wedding industry.Someone asked bakers, florists, and anyone else working in a wedding-related industry: &quot;what is your best bridezilla story?&quot;Here are 14 stories of &quot;bridezillas&quot; who definitely deserve the title:The bridezilla who didn&#39;t want the party to end.1.) From civets: Worked at a big function suite in northern Scotland when I was at university. We hosted a lot of wedding receptions (and yeah, the scots like a drink!). At one wedding, the bride and groom were carried around above people&#39;s heads on chairs for a bit, which was not a standard tradition but whatever, it looked fun.  They&#39;re getting drunker, and rowdier, and then finally my shift is coming to a close (we were only booked til one) and I couldn&#39;t wait to get out of there. Nope. Bride throws a MASSIVE fit, crying, screaming, this is her special day and it&#39;s not finishing now, dammit. FOB hands us over CASH for the next two hours (not 100% sure how much, but hundreds) and we all get on with things. Party gets rowdier.  Finally, like an hour later, a massive fight breaks out and everyone leaves anyway, bride wailing and being pulled out by her equally drunk new husband. FOB demands a refund but it was past two by a little bit and cleanup would take us past three anyway, so he didn&#39;t get one. The whole night was a train wreck but that wailing drunk bride covered in mascara and tears really took the biscuit. The bridezilla whose husband-to-be &quot;died.&quot;2.) From hippiebanana: I worked as a bridal fitting assistant in a wedding dress shop and honestly, 99% of the customers we had were absolutely lovely. People were so happy, especially if they&#39;d just got engaged and were looking at dresses for the first time, that we rarely had bridezillas. Probably the worst I ever saw was a woman who claimed her fianc&eacute; had died so she wanted a refund... then she came back in demanding the same dress back because they&#39;d made up. Turns out he wasn&#39;t dead afterall. Bridezilla who has a low-tolerance for cake in her face.3.) From Kriselbee: Worked at a reception venue. One event really sticks out. Everything went well until the cake. Bride &amp; groom go to feed each other, she does it very nice, he smashes it into her face. Bride screams, starts bawling her eyes out &amp; runs out of the hall.  15 or so minutes later the father of the bride comes and asks the dj for the mic. He proceeds to thank everyone for coming and says that if they would like to take their gifts on the way out the couple has decided to break up. I&#39;m sure there were issues leading up to the event, but the bride had told everyone (including the groom) that if he smashed the cake in her face, it was over. She wasn&#39;t lying. Bridezilla who is not a fun drunk.4.) From SiriusHertz: I worked as a wedding photographer for many years. My favorite story is of a bride who was having a huge wedding where her parents lived. By huge, I mean 22 people in the wedding party. They had to rent two limos to hold them all. The bride and her girls started drinking heavily at 8am, with champagne while getting their hair and make done. They followed 4 bottles of bubbly with a bottle of whisky to help them get dressed...  By 11 am the bride is lit, and pissed. She came down to the reception area where the florist - the best local florist and a lady I worked with regularly - was creating the centerpieces. They were large glass cylinders with lights and glass balls at the bottom, filled with flowers and then water. Bridezilla decided that the lights weren&#39;t buried deep enough in the glass balls, and made the florist pour out and re-create about 10 of these things. She was a real bitch about it too, yelling at the florist and carrying on about 1/4&quot; of glass beads less or more.  After she stumbled down the aisle to her less-drunk groom, I tried to do formal photos. Bridezilla wasn&#39;t having any of my posing. She had her own ideas of what would look good. I shot them anyway - it&#39;s what the customer wanted, right? She was so drunk and belligerent honestly I just wanted the session to end, but with 22 people in the party, it wasn&#39;t going to be short no matter what I did. Some of the shots were outside, at a local golf course. It started to sprinkle after a few frames; Bridezilla made a beeline for the limo so her hair wouldn&#39;t get ruined.  By the midpoint of the reception, her brand new husband was apologizing for her. If you are apologizing for the behavior of the woman you married 3 hours ago, you&#39;re doing it wrong. When I delivered the photos, you could hear her screaming 2000 miles away. The posing sucked, the lighting sucked, she wanted more stuff at the golf course... Basically, everything she had told me she wanted, she complained about. Threatened not to pay, etc. 5.) From York1536: I worked at a bridal clothing store for about a year in high school. The only story that really stands out is more about the mother of the bride. One day a bride and her mother come in the store looking for a bridal gown. I approached them and things immediately started going downhill. The mother and daughter were on completely different wavelengths and I could hardly get a word in over their loud bickering. I finally was able to get a word in and discover that her wedding is in a few months and HAS to find a dress, like yesterday. This just adds to the tension because it takes several months to get a dress in and altered.  So basically we need to find a dress off the rack, thank gosh she fit into the sample sizes. Anyways, every dress she tries on her mother comments in a negative way, &quot;that dress makes you look hippy, that dress looks too cheap, lace isn&#39;t your thing, that dress makes you look like a slut,&quot; just reaming her daughter.  Eventually the bride breaks down and starts crying and I have to go console her as best I could, remember I&#39;m still only 17 trying to comfort a grown woman at least 10 years my senior. Finally she finds a dress that she and her mother can agree upon. We go to pay for it and the mother insists her daughter wears a new dress. I explain it&#39;s going to be a close call on shipping and everything but she INSISTS her daughter won&#39;t wear a &quot;dirty&quot; dress. I order the dress and the mother calls everyday for months asking about the dress, in varying degrees of discourteousness.  Thankfully the dress made it in time. The bride had her final fitting at her venue all because her mother made her dress experience so awful she waited until the last possible minute to buy a dress. Thank goodness the daughter was very polite and sent us a card thanking us for what we had done for her and for putting up with her mother. The bridezilla who really, really, really loves the song &quot;Save A Horse Ride A Cowboy&quot;6.) From itsalltruesteve: I worked as a caterer and a wedding dj for about fifteen years. Here goes! I was djing a wedding in a shabby little reception hall out in the middle of the sticks for a redneck bride and groom. The bride was wasted by the time I started playing my set (around 8pm) She came up to me right away and told me that I need to play the song Save A Horse Ride A Cowboy like every four songs, and I try to tell her that its a bad idea but she insisted, so I agreed.  About an hour into the night I play the song for the 10th time and people in the crowd start to boo. Please note that everytime I played the song I passed it off onto the Bride by saying something like &quot; Its time for a special request from the bride&quot; as not to destroy my reputation. So people boo and start walking off the dance floor. Bride sees this and loses her sh*t. She runs up to the stage and demands the mic.  &quot;You dumb mother f**kers get back on this dance floor, or this f**king thing is done!&quot; she wailed into the mic. Her guests ignore her. She yells again and no one pays her any attention. She then marches over to the cake and gift table and flips it over, yelling &quot;EVERYONE GET THE F**K OUT OF MY WEDDING&quot;. Her guests who did not seem all that surprised end up leaving. I still get paid so in the end it did not matter to much from my end but wow..just wow. The bridezilla so bad she made a caterer change career paths.7.) From [deleted]: Worked for a catering company owned by my friend&#39;s mother for a summer. Bride wants a buffet style service and she chooses about a dozen different dishes plus sides and two different salads. Price isn&#39;t an option, so she picks some pretty nice stuff. We did a few types of fish, bacon-wrapped filets, grilled and fried chicken and various other fun stuff like mussels and clams. She had over 200 people at her wedding, so we cooked up a feast and it was presented beautifully. The food was great. We tried everything, obviously, before putting it out. Everything went perfectly.  We were a pretty small company, so this was a big deal for us. Anyways, about an hour into the reception, a few bridesmaids are wasted. The bride/groom are decently drunk, but nowhere near the maids. One of them loses it and starts puking in the bushes. There are enough people there and enough going on at the time that it didn&#39;t cause a scene. No one was really paying attention, and the bridesmaid who puked did it pretty nonchalantly.  The bride flipped the F**K out. She automatically assumed it was the food, not the alcohol, that caused her friend to vomit. She stands up and screams, &quot;Nobody eat the food! You&#39;ll get sick!&quot; I calmly approached the bride (as best as I could) with a coworker and explained that the food was fine and that people would not get sick.  She wasn&#39;t having it. She took an empty pitcher that we used to serve water in, dunked it in the swimming pool, and proceeded to drown the food trays with chlorinated water, thus ruining everything. She then made a bigger scene by personally clearing everyone&#39;s plate, despite people telling her to sit down and relax. She was crying hysterically. Her deadbeat new husband did nothing. Just sat there and watched.  We ended up leaving with only the deposit. She refused to pay us the rest. We took her to court and she won. She tried to countersue the company but lost. I left after that summer and vowed to never work in the service industry again. The mother-of-the-groom-zilla who has no boundaries.8.) From EggLampBasket: I&#39;m 20 years old and for some reason I take a job off craigslist to work as a wedding DJ. I do a few weddings and it is going about as well as you can imagine a 20 year old hosting weddings. I&#39;m on my third wedding or so and I notice the atmosphere is definitely thicker than my other events. The groom is pissed because his mother is drunk. He keeps coming up and telling me not to give her the microphone. Each time he leaves, his mother comes up to me and starts hitting on me/trying to steal the microphone.  After a few revolutions of this shitshow carousel, the mother of the groom comes up to me and shows me she snuck in a fifth of Jack Daniels. There was an open bar. I have no idea why she did this. Maybe she was planning on being cut off. She then slurs to me, &quot;Some people call me a cougarrrrrr..... I like to call myself a minxxsssssSSSSsss.&quot; and goes back to work inventing twerking on the dancefloor.  The groom sees this, gets pissed, takes his bride and just leaves. Like gone. As in not coming back. Apparently this puts me in charge of the reception now. I proceeded to alternate &quot;Baby Got Back&quot; and &quot;Girls Just Want to Have Fun&quot; while she booty pops as the guests slowly mingle out. The bridezilla who loves penguins.....a lot.9.) From ARusso64: Tuxedo salesman here. Bride and groom came into the store to get tuxedos. She said &quot;I need a penguin suit for my fiance.&quot; Now I give this too much thought, as that&#39;s not a particularly uncommon phrase. But then she pulled out a picture of a penguin and I had to match that. She made him get a tails jacket and black vest, spent over an hour figuring out what shoes looked like the most like flippers, and then made me special order a shade of orange bow tie that most closely matched the penguin&#39;s little scruff thing. The 7 shades of orange we had were not acceptable. She mentioned to me in our conversation that she made her boyfriend make a 300 dollar donation to the local zoo so that he could propose to her in the penguin tank. Lady was crazy. The bridezillas who do not like men.10.) From Chibey: I had a lesbian couple inquire about shooting their wedding day. My husband and I own a photography business. Her first email to me was asking if I was a company from the USA to which I replied I was not (we&#39;re in Canada and my website and google information clearly states that). Her second email was asking why I stole another company&#39;s name (oh hell nah)! I write back saying that many companies have similar names but we have owned our company name and website for at least 7 years, and in no way were we stealing another company name.  The third email asks if we can take pictures on their wedding day in the style of this other company, and I replied that we would not. She then sends an email saying that they do not like men and only want me there to take pictures - they do not want my husband at the event.  By that point I had enough of this woman&#39;s tom-foolery and sent her an email back stating that I did not wish to have them as clients. I politely told her that there are many female photographers out there if that is what they wanted, but my husband and I are a team and would not be able to accommodate their request. I then blocked her email address. Dodge a bullet there. Bridezilla who&#39;s stingy with the Bud Light.11.) From katietron: Last summer I was working as a bartender through a catering company at a small wedding. Everything is going great with me alone at the open bar, there was a keg of bud light (classy bride) and two choices of wine, as well as some champagne. Towards the beginning of the evening I had poured myself a taste of each of the wines so I could, you know, do my job well. Later, when the champagne was popped the MOB insisted that I had a glass (she was a nice, tipsy lady and really liked me.) BIG MISTAKE though!  While I&#39;m cleaning up after most of the guests had left the FOB marches up to me and says rudely that he&#39;s been watching me get wasted all night on the liquor they paid for! I calmly explain why I had a few sips of the wine and remind him it was HIS WIFE who insisted I had a glass of champagne. My coworkers and a few nearby party-goers back me up and he storms off. Bride comes up to me later and accuses me of the same thing and insists on pumping the keg and pouring her own Bud Light because &quot;I&#39;m cheating them.&quot; Sure.  Well... the next day the owner of the catering company calls me and asks me to slowly tell him exactly what happened. I did, and he agreed that I did the right thing. He then informs me that the family is refusing to pay for anything (the food, alcohol, service, any of it) because I was &quot;stealing and drunk.&quot; He ended up going to court over it, fortunately I didn&#39;t have to testify though. He only got half of the payment in the end. But I swear, I&#39;ve never met trashier people. Bridezilla who tried to freeze her bridesmaids.12.) From breannabalaam: I&#39;m a violinist who plays in quartets at weddings. One October, my group was to play at an outdoor wedding. It was 45F outside. The bride REFUSED to move the ceremony inside (even though there was a very nice facility to do so; this was at a fancy ass hunt club), even though we and her guests were freezing. Her poor bridesmaids wore strapless dresses with now shawls or anything to keep them warm! It was awful, and my group actually had to put in our contract that we will not play an outdoor wedding if it is below 55F, as it can ruin our instruments.  On top of that, the bride never thanked us, and apparently everyone got so drunk at the reception the venue kicked everyone out early. This is a venue that probably cost close to $10k to rent out for the day/night. The bride and groom divorced like a year later. The bridezilla and groomzilla who stranded their guests.13.) From erinlynn72: worked at a golf club that held weddings. bride is crazy. prior to the wedding had requested we tear out our landscaping to match her event and replace the carpet because she didn&#39;t like the fact that it was deep green. the newlyweds got into their first fight as a married couple over salad (over the fact that he didn&#39;t look at her during their big entrance). proceeded to just not really interact for the rest of the event.  at the end of the evening, the bride&#39;s family gets in the rental transportation, leaves, and the bus doesn&#39;t return. the groom&#39;s family (from out of town) was stuck without a ride or a clue of where to go. we call all the cabs in the area and end up driving a few people back to the hotel ourselves- we felt really bad for them. the bride went home with her parents, the groom left with his. last we heard they were divorced within the year. good wedding cake though. Bridezilla who was inflexible about her color scheme.14.) From standrightwalkleft: Before I got into catering I worked at an art museum which also hosted a lot of really schmancy weddings. Big, beautiful old building that was very expensive to rent, so it hosted a lot of six-figure weddings, some of which were more tasteful than others. One of my first brides was a girl who loved the building but HATED the wall color (at the time, the interior was painted a beautiful but very bright color). She was obsessed. For months she tried to get me to have the walls repainted white. Nnnnnope.  The day of the wedding rolls around and in an effort to downplay the wall color, she has made everything black. Tablecloths, chairs, bridesmaid dresses, everything. She also had these purple flashing LED flower vases that were pretty horrible. Her DJ was a prick and played a bunch of songs that are hilariously inappropriate for weddings - Shots, Big Pimpin,&#39; that sort of thing.  Everyone got sh*tfaced. We had to kick the maid of honor out of the museum after we caught her trying to steal a bottle of liquor from the bar. 

Weddings are high-stress and come with an insane amount of society-fueled pressure, particularly for women. So it makes sense that a lot of brides don&#39;t necessarily act their best in the weeks or months leading up to their weddings. So...

14 people in the wedding industry share their worst stories of badly-behaved brides.

Someone asked bakers, florists, and anyone else working in a wedding-related industry: "what is your best bridezilla story?"

The bridezilla who didn't want the party to end.