Wedding Shop Workers Disclose Their Bridezilla Stories

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mattstaff
Sep 11, 2019 11:00 PM EDT

Someone on AskReddit asked for wedding shop workers to share their worst bridezilla stories. The resulting snapshots of bridezillas having general emotional implosions really do an effective job at showing off the worst parts about weddings--the unanticipated bridezilla or groomzilla. And sometimes, it isn't even the bride who's going full-fledged public freakout, entitled lunatic. Sometimes, it's actually the mother of the bride, or another family member. 

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    askreddit - Text - Haceldama 1y Florist- We had a bride and her mother show up at 9am. They wanted to order a bridal bouquet, a mother of the bride cattelya orchid corsage, a boutonniere for the groom, and six smaller ones for the groomsmen. The wedding was scheduled for noon. Yep, three hours from then, and they wanted them ready by the time they were done with thier makeup appointment at the beauty parlor a few doors down. The bride was flipping through the FTD sample book and pointing out the
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    askreddit - Text - The bride vacillated between tears and petulant whining that we were going to ruin her big day. My boss, who had a bone deep loathing for brides in general, told her she had ruined her own day by not ordering her flowers before her actual wedding day. The mom tried chewing out my boss for her lack of customer service skills. My boss told her that she was welcome to go down the street to Vons and ask their flower department to make thier order with whatever they had in stock. T
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    askreddit - Text - Jadenlost ly I work at David's Bridal. Most of the times...it's not the bride. It's a mother of the bride or maid of honor. I work in alterations. Most of the time, it takes more than one appointment to get things perfect. Bride comes in for her 2nd appointment for us to do any adjustments. She needed a couple of things adjusted Her mother told me I ruined her daughter's marriage. Not wedding...but marriage. All I could think was if needing to adjust something on your dress an
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    askreddit - Text - atomic_tango ly My mom and I saw a great bridezilla freak out while shopping for my wedding dress a few years back. We were in a small, local shop when another mother-daughter duo came in. The attendant who had been helping us went up to greet them. The mother said they were here to pick up her daughter's dress, so the attendant looks her name up in the computer, frowns, and says, "Ma'am, you never bought the dress." "What are you talking about?" The attendant shows the lady t
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    askreddit - Text - And like a Mt. St. Helens of entitlement, the eruption began. "This is unacceptable!" The mother shrieked. "We have her alterations scheduled in two hours! The wedding is a week away! I can't believe you sold her dress!" The bride, meanwhile, is slumped against the desk and sobbing like someone killed her dog. My mom and I are just open-mouthed staring at this point. The attendant was trying to be diplomatic, but is clearly as baffled as we are. "Ma'am, we had no way to know y
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    askreddit - Text - Adnarim-Rekanoh ly I worked at David's Bridal and I have to say that never really had a terrible bride. It was always the moms, grandmas, sisters and friends that were terrible. Either they hated what the bride would pick out for them to wear or they would hate what she was picking out for herself to wear. At DB we have kinda strict appointment guidelines when it comes to time and a lot of brides that would bring entourages wouldn't find a dress because everyone would bombard
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    askreddit - Text - Doves_inthe_wind ly I worked at a mom/pop shop. We had a bride who was polish, who my boss called 'polish princess', she wasn't my bride but they picked a very bad consultant for her. Made worse by the fact that this girl wanted stuff added to her dress that wasnt done by the manufacture so we had to do it all in house. To give you an example, she wanted lights, those tube lights? I think that's what they are called, all around the bottom half of a dress that we had already sp
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    askreddit - Text - jackerick84 1y I worked at a high end bridal shop in my early 20s. One day, I had a bride-to-be shopping for a gown and she had brought her Mom, Aunt, and sister (who had just become a new mom) with her to her appointment. The sister was obviously a little jealous that attention was no longer being lavished on her and her new baby, and instead the bride was the now the center of attention. As I was fitting the bride in a $2500 Lazaro Bridal Gown, the sister decided to change h
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    askreddit - Text - MissyMack 1y I worked management at a resort in a popular tourist town. When weddings are booked at our venue with the event coordinator we can hold certain number of rooms for guests attending. A manager was always required to check in the bridal couple and I had been given a heads up by the coordinator on Bridezilla. They wanted a room on the highest floor and closer to the beach, they were booked into the Honeymoon Suite. 3rd floor, ocean views. Nope she wanted higher and c
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    askreddit - Text - A colleague of mine ran for the event coordinator when she started screaming at me and her husband to be. He was very apologetic and trying to calm her down. She was placated and sent off with keys, less than 30 minutes later she was back and demanding we empty the rooms next to and below her. Honey those rooms cost $640 a night and we are fully booked! I was lucky enough to not be working the night of the wedding but I heard all about her abusing the wait staff, kicking the b
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    askreddit - Text - All up the wedding was about $40,000 and she made everyone miserable. The groom left out front desk staff and box of wine to apologise for her behaviour. Not the only Bridezilla, but definitely the craziest I had
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    askreddit - Text - marjaz_ 1y I used to be a "Bridal Consultant" at a retail store which basically means I helped couples scan things onto their registry, although the training for it just meant I knew how to use the scanner and the computer and my actual job had nothing to do with bridal shopping. This one couple came in to start a new registry, which quickly turned into only things the bride wanted. Anything the groom wanted to put down on the registry was deemed as "childish, stupid, ugly, un
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    askreddit - Text - sig863 1y I work at a hotel that does a huge amount of wedding business, and we had an engagement shower with the plan being that the couple would be having the wedding with us as well. This involved the bride-to-be and to an extent, her mother. Anyways, we knew there were going to be issues because neither the bride or groom ever smiled. She was always complaining about how he was "wishy-washy" with picking a date and he was always silent. The MOB was your stereotypical Brook
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    askreddit - Text - Well, the engagement party starts, and everyone, except for the couple, seem to be having a great time. Then, halfway through the party, we suddenly heard the girl scream at her fiancee "WE WILL NEVER HAVE A CHRISTMAS TREE IN MY HOUSE, SO YOU CAN GET OVER IT!!!!" And from there it devolved into a shouting match between the couple, who moved from the banquet room to the lobby so their "guests" couldn't hear the argument. (Didn't work. They heard everything.)
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    askreddit - Text - Apparently she was Jewish and he was Protestant and not once in their relationship had they discussed religion. They went at it on and off for two hours. She was screaming at the top of her lungs about how their (non-existent) children would be raised Jewish, and how his traditions didn't matter. Her mother standing at her side and nodding in agreement and interjecting occasionally with a "that's right" or "you tell him" He was pleading (in a good attempt to be quiet, but was
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    askreddit - Text - The guests just kept partying, pretending nothing was happening, but you could see on all of their faces that they wanted to leave, but couldn't since they would have to pass by the couple to get to the only exit. Only after two hours and the argument eventually devolving in to her INSISTING her children would never see a Christmas tree in their whole lives so they wouldn't be confused (good luck with that one in this country, lady) the groom finally, dejectedly said "Well the
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    askreddit - Text - I've NEVER seen a banquet room clear of people so fast. Within fifteen minutes, everyone was gone, and it was a ghost town, and from the looks of it, everyone took their "Gifts" with them. Worse still, it was the former-bride's family who had hosted and were staying at the hotel, so we spend the next two days "commiserating" with them about how awful the groom was as they moved their daughter out of his apartment. Dude dodged a bullet.
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    askreddit - Text - disgruntledrep. ly Restaurant manager story. The wedding dinner was on a Sunday so instead of the usual 1 manager on, we had the banquet coordinator come on for a few hours to make sure everyone was happy. They were a rich couple and we wanted more of their bussiness. Their menu was $119 a person and they had $80 bottles of red on the table. So guests start to arrive and order obviously start ordering drinks. At this point bride and mother see this and approach the head server
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    askreddit - Text - We tell the people that have already arrived, half of them laugh thinking it's a joke, once we told them the truth, they laughed and left. My job became to stay at the front and tell all the people arriving for the dinner that they are going to be responsible for their whole bill, and what the costs were. Final guest count was 20 people. Most left once l told them what the costs were. We ended up threatening legal action against them since they signed the banquet sheet stating
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    askreddit - Text - rubywolf27 ly l used to work at a jewelry store This young guy (college age) came in one day to look at engagement rings. Very polite. Asking good questions. You could tell he'd been considering this for some time. As I'm helping him and showing him some rings in his budget, She walks in. She's wearing a t-shirt from the high school senior class from the previous year, and she comes over by him. "Oh my god were you seriously considering that ring??? Ugh. It's so ugly. Besides,
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    askreddit - Text - [deleted] ly Worked for a wedding photographer here. Wonderful couple, seemed made in heaven. Their wedding album WITH OUT pics cost 2k. Thing was made from mirrored glass, weighed a ton. It was my job to order the 60 - 8x10's the bride wanted used. This album had no protective sleeves, so every single pic had to be sprayed with a chemical coating and left to dry, in dust free area. If it did not dry with a smooth, dust free finish, I had to remove the chemical coating and try
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    askreddit - Text - orbital_cheese. ly Wedding band member here. Had a bride flip her shit at me and my band mates because our instruments weren't white or salmon coloured to fit in with the decorations and she was saying we would ruin the photographs. Even though I was playing during the reception and all the photos were already taken A sunburst jazz bass, blue Stratocaster and a red drum set aren't going to ruin your pictures darling
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    askreddit - Text - Foxlust ly I once worked in a bakery and we had this bride freakout that her cake wasn't right and proceeded to smash it to bits with her fist. She smashed the wrong cake. Like wtf. Anyways the cops allowed her to wash her hands before placing her in handcuffs. I felt bad for the future husband and the couple that ordered said cake. people are cray cray
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    askreddit - Text - Spydrchick 1y Retired Master Seamstress checking in. Not Bridezilla but Momzilla. I was making her daughter a custom bias cut gown and had limited fitting time because the bride lived one state over. Now bias cut gowns are the debil to begin with. We (mom and I) would work on details between fittings. I would say our working relationship got very frosty. Each time the bride came for a fitting she lost weight. Tape measures don't lie. And she was not a big girl to begin with Mo
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    askreddit - Text - kimmycat88 ly Bridal consultant here! My most memorable appointment was a party that showed up completely shits-to-the-wind HAMMERED. It wasn't unusual for bridal parties to have a little "tailgate" style party in our parking lot before coming into our store. Often they'd have mimosa's or a shot or two to loosen up before the scary gown search. This party must have finished a full bottle of whiskey between the five of them. They didn't appear too sloppy when we first got start
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    askreddit - Text - OperableKingbolt ly went to a cousin's wedding when I was really little. She had spent a fortune on decorations and dresses and had this extravagant wedding dress tailored for her. And we all arrived and waited for the wedding to start. An hour passed, then another, and all the adults started grumbling. Finally a group of guys drove over to find out what was keeping up the groom (this was before mobile phones were ubiquitous). Aaaand it turned out that the bride hadn't informe
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    askreddit - Text - samacerothstein ly Opposite of what you were asking, but I was working at a major hotel on the Las Vegas strip when a wedding party came to one of the main bars after a very nice wedding. This was after the reception so they'd changed into non-wedding clothes, and the bride proceeded to get drunk and get flirty with new husband. Security was called and she was asked to leave because prostitutes are not allowed to solicit on the property The aftermath was no bueno. But, she did
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    askreddit - Text - distractivated ly Photographer here. The couple opted for an outdoor wedding with no weather backup option and, low and behold, it started pouring literally 5 minutes before the ceremony. The guests and groom ran for cover under the reception tent. After it didn't let up, the groom made a mad dash to the door of the RV the bride was getting ready in, because she nor any of the bridesmaids were answering their phones. She made the poor guy stand outside in the pouring rain whil
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    askreddit - Text - Hamdurrgur ly Do groomzillas count? I used to work as a bridal registry consultant for a big department store. I had several nightmare couples and family members but I always think of this guy. The bride was pleasant enough and very polite. She expressed great excitement when discussing the plans for the wedding and the groom just seemed bored. She was very excited to pick out Fine China and the groom snapped. He yelled at her and called her an idiot and told her that there's
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    askreddit - Text - makeasmore 1ly I own a gift shop and l also sell flowers. It's in a small hospital so we don't do too many flowers (except next week will probably be a doozy for Valentine's day). Usually just small arrangements because our customers usually don't want to spend over 20 bucks. One of the women who works at the hospital asked us if we would make a bridal bouquet for her future daughter in law. We decided we would do it just for her. Made this beautiful bouquet exactly how she wa
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