Bride wants to sue flower girl with chickenpox, that's not why groom dumped her
NO flower girl, no friends, no groom, no money and no wedding.
A bridesmaid said a 'bridezilla' got everything she was owed when she ruined her own wedding.
The bridesmaid, u/lrhunrecounted the events leading up to the big day on a Bridezilla stories forum.
She explained that her friend Dana was supposed to marry her boyfriend Josh weeks ago, but ended up ruining her own wedding.
Even before the day broke, the bridesmaid was shocked by what she and her other friends had to put up with.
“She refused to invite my best friend, who she is supposedly good friends with, because she thinks we are lesbian lovers. We are not,” she said.
“She made us go to a dress fitting and then demanded that each of us pay $2,000 for our dresses,” she continued.
“Apparently she had a specific style she wanted. I can afford it, but I'm not going to buy a $2,000 dress for one occasion. Some of the girls in the bridal party don't have that flexibility with money.”
Moreover, she found out that the groom was not allowed to invite friends who were not related to him.
Many on the guest list were also bullied for not being able to cater to the bride's whims.
“One of the girls in the bridal party doesn't drink because of her religion. Dana accused her of being pregnant in front of her parents and almost got her kicked out of the house,” she said.
“She wasn't pregnant and she left the bridal party. However, she was a class act and she never spoke ill of Dana. She just said she couldn't make it.'
It seemed like almost every step of the wedding preparations was a mess, even the bachelor party.
“She tried to get us to cancel our vacations with our families so we could go to a bachelor party with her instead,” she said.
“I work full time, even on holidays, so I told her that wasn't happening. More bridesmaids said similar things and she dropped it.”
Things got off to a terrible start on the big day when the flower girl called in sick with chickenpox, which the bride didn't take well.
“She threatened to sue the mother unless she brought this sick three-year-old to the wedding,” she said.
The bride continued to have emotional outbursts, to which the bridesmaid responded well, while the bridesmaid resigned herself to tasks that gave her excuses to be away from the bride.
“I ended up getting my makeup and hair done and then the bride asked for some time alone to 'relax' from the stress. We didn't even fight it, you couldn't see a group of women running away faster,” she said .
We left like the devil was after us. I checked with the other bridesmaid and they all got away.
Thirty minutes before the ceremony, the bridesmaid sat in the chapel on her phone for a little quiet time.
Just before that she found out that it had been canceled completely.
“It must have been about five minutes before the wedding when MoH came by to tell me the wedding had been cancelled. I asked her what had happened,” she said.
“MoH: Dana had a 'quickie' with Josh's uncle in the room. Josh caught them.”
The bridesmaid was disgusted by the behavior of the 55-year-old uncle, who she later discovered had known the bride since she was a teenager.
The shock at the news was an understatement, as the bridesmaid's jaw was “about to hit the floor,” but she quickly recovered, gathered the two bridesmaids she was carpooling with and left.
“We left like the devil was after us. I checked with the other bridesmaid and they all got away,” she said.
Later that evening, a call to the Maid of Honor revealed that Josh had called off the wedding, ditched the bride and his uncle, and left with his friends for a big bachelor party.
“Apparently he also told Dana and her parents that she would pay the cancellation fee,” she said.
“According to MoH, Dana's father told her in front of everyone that she paid for it herself because she was so bad.”
The bridesmaid was relieved that the whole fiasco was over. Or so she thought.
“I received a call from Dana less than an hour ago demanding $5,000 to help pay her cancellation fees. According to Dana, it was our duty as the bridal party to pay her cancellation fees,” she said.
'I told her clearly no and that she might as well lose my number. I will never speak to this woman again.
“This is pretty much the response from all the Bridesmaids and the Department of Defense. By the way, the Department of Defense? Josh's older sister.'
People agreed that the groom came out on top in the end, despite the wedding disaster.
“Josh dodged a bullet,” said one commenter.
“Wow, that was fun to read, I love it when karma comes around,” said another.
“Dude got lucky and should send his uncle a gift basket for getting him out of that marriage.”