‘I was determined to have the last laugh': Bridesmaid rides mobility scooter down aisle at friend's wedding after bride takes away her walking stick

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Eleonora Bader
Jan 30, 2024 6:00 PM EST

So many friends turn out to be bridezillas when they get engaged. They want the perfect aesthetics, and you need to bend over backward to make that happen. Entire friendships crumble, as the person you thought you knew, becomes a person you don't want to have anything to do with.

This woman was a disabled veteran, and one of her friends asked her to be one of the bridesmaids at her wedding. At first, it was all very exciting, but soon enough, this friend began showing her true colors. OP offered to back out a few times, opting to help out in another way, as she didn't want to be a bridesmaid anymore. But the bride insisted on her 'role', and so OP relented. The main issue was that the bride hinted to OP that they couldn't walk down the aisle with a walking stick. But OP needed that walking stick… She couldn't really walk much without it. And so, when the wedding day arrived, chaos erupted. Scroll down for the full story, and then check out this young man who demanded his roommates pay $500 for his car maintenance.

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    "I was determined to have the last laugh."
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    Posted by u/Restless_Dragon 2 days ago Told to do what I have to do.... M OC
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    I am a disabled veteran, and at the time this actually happened I was solely depending on walking stick. I could not walk more than 10 feet maxium without assistance. I was asked by a friend to be a bridesmaid at her wedding. She quickly proved herself to be a bridezilla from hell, and everything had to meet her vision. Everything had to fall within her very rigid scope of what the aesthetics should be.
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    She made a couple of what she claimed were innocent comments about my walking stick. I offered multiple times not to be a bridemaid and would assist in any other way I could help. She refused every offer and insisted I had to be a bridesmaid. Then I heard from another close friend (and also a bridesmaid) that she was very upset
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    that I was insisting on using my walking stick. She made a comment saying that she was just going to hide it and then I would just have to go without it. Looking at the mutual friends face when she said that she tried to laugh at off as a joke. Well there was no doubt in my mind that she was going to try to have my walking stick go missing, so I made arrangements.
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    Sure enough they have the wedding rolls aroundand while getting hair and makeup my walking stick disappears. I was not happy, and told everyone I have to have it back. I cannot walk down the aisle without it. The bride insisted that they didn't know where it was and they looked everywhere and I was just going to have to make do.
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    I said so after you joked about taking my walking stick it goes missing, and you want me to make do??? Her exact words were you'll just have to do what you can do to get up the aisle. Cue malicious compliance, I texted my boyfriend he went out to the car and brought in mobility scooter that I had rented just in case I needed it. I had him put it out of sight
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    but where we could get to it easily and then he or the other bridesmaids physically supported me. We made our way to the back of the hall for the start of the ceremony. The bride who had been talking to her father and not paying attention did not see the scooter until she started to walk up the aisle and there are her three bridesmaids. Two
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    standing tall and me sitting on the most hideous looking multicolored with sparkles mobility scooter I could find. If looks could k " she would have planted me. Within seconds of the ceremony ending my walking stick had been found. She and her her new husband brought it over to me, and told me it had been found and I could get that god-awful scooter back out to the car.
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    I mustered up a tear and told her I was so sorry but I was in so much pain from having to try to walk without my walking stick that there was no way I would be able to go without the scooter. I am very proud to say that the scooter is in over 90% of her wedding photos.
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    Odd_Marionberry5856 2 days ago Maybe Bridezilla wanted to replace the stick up her a with your walking stick! 1.8k Reply Share Restless_Dragon OP- 2 days ago ROFLMAO, I like you 576 Reply Share
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    tsscaramel 2 days ago This is absolutely amazing, bridezilla messed up her own wedding 297 ↓ Reply Share cybercuzco 2 days ago I mean its only messed up if you care about that sort of thing. A bridesmaid in a mobility scooter who was a disabled veteran would in no way mess up my wedding. 308 + Reply Share
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    YardFudge 2 days ago Good story, succinct, good MC, nice follow- through, and bonus points for living on down through the ages Kudos 426 Reply Share
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    Winterwynd - 2 days ago This is incredibly beautiful, you are a glorious person. Bridezillas who get so wrapped up in their vision of the perfect wedding that they become monsters are all too frequent lately. I love how you prepared to combat her idiotic attempt to deny you use of your mobility aides, the tearful insistence on keeping the scooter was top tier. Making sure the eyesore was in as many photos as possible is an excellent cherry on top. 162 Reply Share
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    harrywwc 2 days ago that's some tasty revenge too :) Reply Share Co 282 Restless_Dragon OP- 2 days ago I have a streak of petty vindictiveness as wide as the Mississippi. I bent over backwards to be accommodating and all she could do was make snide comments if not to my face then to other friends about me.
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    RealUltimate Papo 2 days ago The fact that the scooter made 90% of the photos made me laugh so hard. That scooter backfired on Bridezilla in the best possible way You're a genius 113 ↓ Reply Share Restless_Dragon OP- 2 days ago I wish I could have gotten hold of the pics. I know there was one with me and the other two bridesmaids all on the scooter at the same time.
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    We were attempting a drunken version of the hokey pokey. I would pay serious cash for the photo's or a video of that. 96 Reply Share
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    Rabid Rathian 2 days ago edited 2 days ago I was asked to be a bridesmaid for a friend's wedding and I happily agreed but said I would not be able to wear high heeled shoes like the other bridesmaids because my knee is messed up (even if I wear regular flat shoes without proper support, I'm in a lot of discomfort after walking around for about 20 minutes or so, but I was willing to put up with that for the sake of my friend. If I wear high heels I will be in agony and basically be unable to walk
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    She tried to insist that I just put up with the "discomfort" of high heels for one day, but I said I couldn't do that as I needed to be able to work the following day. She immediately said it would be better if I "just came as a normal guest" because she wanted her bridesmaids outfits to match completely. I decided to just uninvite myself from the wedding entirely but I wish I had done something like this instead. Reply Share 88
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