Something borrowed, something bank-breaking?
One bride just demanded that her bridesmaids cough up $500 each for her “dream” wedding dress — and it’s “non-negotiable,” one Reddit user fumed on r/bridezillas after the bride dropped the bomb with just three weeks’ notice.
“Some of us have budgets, and this feels completely unreasonable,” one bridesmaid, who turned to Reddit for advice, wrote. “Has anyone dealt with a Bridezilla demanding large sums from friends last minute? How did you handle it without causing drama?”
“Bow out of the wedding,” one user urged. Another piled on: “This. People, I’m begging you: stop going along with ridiculous requests (or in this case, demands). If everyone stops, we’ll have a lot fewer ridiculous requests.”
Others advised taking a more tactical exit. “I’d be responding that you feel she’d be more comfortable with a different type of bridesmaid and will attend as a guest instead. This demand is probably just the tip of the iceberg for this woman.”
One exasperated commenter put it bluntly: “How entitled do you have to be to ask your bridesmaids, who are already going to be spending a shit-ton of money on wedding-related expenses, to contribute to YOUR dream wedding dress fund?! … This demand REEKS of narcissism.”
Traditionally, a bride never asks her bridesmaids to chip in for her dream wedding dress. They usually want their friends to catch the bouquet — not the bill.
Most brides pick their bridesmaids for love, not looks. But as The Post previously reported, one bride said yes to the dress — and no to any pals who might outshine her in it.
The bride-to-be sparked outrage earlier this spring after allegedly picking “awkward” and “not photogenic” bridesmaid dresses just so she could look prettier in her wedding photos.
The bombshell dropped on Reddit’s notorious AITA forum, where the bride-to-be’s sister spilled the tea.
She admitted she was ‘excited’ to be asked to stand by her 27-year-old sibling’s side — until she came face-to-face with the rest of the bridal party.
“Every single one of them is someone she’s either not that close to or has made fun of before for being ‘awkward’ or ‘not photogenic,’” the original poster wrote, noting that her sister’s actual besties weren’t even chosen at all.
When she called out the bride over the head-scratching lineup, the woman in white finally fessed up to the not-so-flattering reason behind her picks.
“She kind of laughed and said, ‘You’ll understand when it’s your wedding. You don’t want people who’ll outshine you in your own pictures,’” the sister explained.
One commenter wrote in the thread, “It is mean girl / catty behavior.”
“Yes, she deserves to feel beautiful on her special day, but she’s ugly on the inside for doing this, even if no one else knows.”
Ultimately, whether it’s fleecing friends for a “dream dress” or stacking the bridal party with decoys, these bridezillas are saying “I do” to drama.
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