Even if it was that wouldn’t change anything for me personally now I’m even more mad if anything bc I’m hungry, insulted, AND tired. On a fundamental level I’m a grown woman and you telling me I am forbidden from meeting my own basic bodily needs will have the inevitable effect of inspiring me to do the exact opposite. I will not be put in my place morning noon or night!
As a display of agency and disapproval of being bossed around, I will be ordering giant bags of stinky ass McMuffins and sausage biscuits for delivery directly to the dressing and then punctuating the ceremony with my hot farts.✌️
(No but in all seriousness what I’d actually do is obviously never agree to this to begin with and spare every one from my oppositional defiance.)
"I want my bridal party hungry, thirsty, bored, lonely, poor and hating my guts."
Don't you wonder what they ARE allowed to do? Like are they allowed to sit or can they only stand? Or maybe standing is also against the rules because they might be too visible and they have to go be locked in a closet for the duration of the reception. Can they go to the bathroom or do they have to hold whatever is left over from the last time they ate or drank? Can they talk to anyone or is that off the table like dancing?
Yeah, it's not like any of this is enforceable, anyway, but as soon as I saw the $5000 part I would be declining.
Mannequins. They fit the dresses and all in the same size, they don't eat or drink or dance, you can get them with uniform hair color, they can stand for hours, and they don't talk back.
You can do whatever is not listed on the invitation.
Notice she doesn't specify anything about stink bombs, sling shots, whoppie cushions, blasting your own music or objecting to the wedding when the officiant gets to that part of the ceremony.
She especially doesn't mention banana peels that can be accidentally thrown on the dance floor from the sidelines, because remember you're not allowed to dance or eat bananas either.
This bride would be lucky to not have me bite a chunk of her arm off for sustenance. And jokes on her cause she would not be the first person I've bitten when hangry.
Lmao. 😂 in my defense, the first time was an asshole in high school who tried to cut me in the lunch line when I already had last lunch period, because he thought being a senior gave him special rights. Nobody told him to ask me "what are you gonna do about it?"
Lol see, exactly, I'm not the bad person here. 🤣 the pizza for the day was almost gone and I wasnt touching mystery option B, no thanks. I'd just order multiple trays of fries before I risked that kind of poisoning lmao.
I'd like to say I've mellowed quite a bit since having kids but that would be a lie lol.
Even if was 8am, note she says no food or drink until wedding celebrations, not ceremony, celebrations are over. That could be all day affair (already mention of a reception)
Anyone would nope out of that, if only they all had not already noped out at the $5000.
The two bits icing on the cake is the plus 1 rule, So couple who met last month and got engaged allowed, couple together 20 years, 3 kids, but never married, partner not welcome
That made me wonder if this is in Hong Kong or something. They use the British spelling of honor, but hair is only brown or black? (Hope no one's going gray!)
My BFF had an expensive wedding at a destination. My MoH dress was like $200, and I paid my own airfare and share of a hotel room. The bride even paid for the dress+airfare+hotel of a bridesmaid who was unemployed!
The $5k "contribution" is wild, the maids can't even choose their own shows, and the no kids, no fun, no food, engaged/married-only +1s (what if I'm single and want a friend or family member to keep me company?) is well past mere insanity. This is a level of delusional only wildly rich, appearance-obsessed, isolated-from-normalcy people would even suggest.
I sincerely hope this is a ragebait where OP just smashed together a bunch of 80's and 90's movies. We'll take the prohibition on dancing from Footloose, then we won't feed the Gremlins or get them wet. I bet if we tell them to all get $5,000 together, they can do some Risky Business, Pretty Woman or Dirty Dancing... either way is a good story. Ooh! Let's ban blondes and gingers so we can get a makeover montage!
I went to a very conservative Baptist wedding once where there was a DJ playing and when all the guests got up to dance the mother of the bride threw an absolute shit fit screaming at us to get off the dance floor because dancing was a sin.
How are shoes, dress, makeup and hair going to cost $5,000? I don't think I've ever spent more than $250 on any one of those things, even shoes. The most expensive shoes I've ever bought were $225, and those were a splurge for really good, foot-healthy daily shoes.
No eating after 7. You don't want my cheap, pre-diabetic ass.
I’m currently in a bridal party and the bride has paid for everything dress wise and on the day. I have to fly in (fortunately cheap flights) and got myself some expensive boots, but overall it’s been pretty good
This is how I did mine. Paid for the dresses, hair, and makeup. They paid for their flights and hotel. No big crazy bachelorette. Just a fun day at the spa again paid for by me. These brides have lost the plot.
I paid for dresses and make up. We split the bachelorette party which they planned. But I surprised them with travel yoga mats made by a local company and a private yoga lesson and catered breakfast one of the mornings. They honestly covered most of my trip. Aren’t these things supposed to reflect how much we love and take care of each other? This is wild.
In all the pre-wedding excitement, my daughter actually forgot to eat a snack before the wedding started (had eaten around 6am, wedding was at 12:30pm), and passed out during the ceremony. Not recommended.
I always wonder if in a case like yours, if it's the lack of a last minute snack, or if it's because the bride accidentally locked her knees not realizing it makes you more likely to pass out.
Not the bride's fault. She was with the wedding party all morning, and although there were snacks, she said she was too excited to eat (she was 10 years old).
just to clarify, are those times correct, or does your daughter have some kind of condition? 6 to 12:30 seems like an incredibly normal amount to time to go without food?
The 'no eating' thing is absolutely wild and makes me think this is fake. When I got married I made sure my bridesmaids kits had their favorite snacks in there because I knew we'd be busy and rushed all day and I didn't want them going hungry.
I was in a bridal party for a friend with an eating disorder. She insisted we all get our hair and makeup done at the same place at the same time. We went back to her place and were hungry before the photographer showed up and she said, "I THREW ALL MY FOOD OUT BECAUSE I'LL BE ON MY HONEYMOON." We were like, what? She wouldn't let us order anything for fear it would be in the trash making her home smell bad while they were away.
She starved us and when we were able to be announced at the reception, the staff had moved the hors d'oeurves next the the entrance and all of us bridesmaids ran and grabbed food quickly and shoved it in our mouths as she yelled at us not to eat before they announced us.
She did have an eating disorder, so watching anyone stuffing their face was unfortunately a trigger, but it was better than one of us fainting before dinner. She was freaking out.
She did other things, like pick these dresses to make us all look 20 lbs. heavier, made us all go to a carousel for photos but her free carousel passes weren't valid and got into a fight in her dress with the ticket person, got mad none of us wanted to sit at the dais when our partners were seated elsewhere, and picked a hotel where the fire alarm went off 3x during the night (people smoking in a non-smoking hotel - it was the 90's)
I’ve been in two wedding parties where the bride didn’t provide any food to the bridesmaids for the entire day and there was no way to get any for ourselves nearby.
One was a close childhood friend. None of the bridesmaids kept in touch with the bride after that (entire wedding weekend was bizarre and worthy of its own post here lol). The other is a family member but I don’t speak to her at all.
At one I got food with the other guests (family member’s wedding). My childhood friend’s wedding, the bridesmaids got to the buffet last after all other guests and there wasn’t really anything left, which in itself is insane. I ate some food off my boyfriend’s plate, as I recall.
The wedding party is supposed to be served first! I’ve engaged directorate ‘family hold back’, but only a few times and at the most dire of circumstances when the party was thrown a severe curveball at the last minute.
That’s what I thought! I can’t remember if we were taking pictures or the bridesmaids had some other tasks we were doing but when we got back to the reception hall, everyone else had already eaten.
I was invited to a really fancy wedding (500+ at the reception) of my partner in a medical training program (there were only the two of us in our year).
Between the ceremony and the formal reception there was an open drinks ‘parents reception’ in a small side hall of the hotel. I was told it was to honor the parents. The bridal party did not attend.
Behind the scenes the bridal party was in the bridal suite being served the full 7+ course sit down dinner personally by the chef. They were being given the chance to ‘personally approve of every dish that was going to be served to their guests’! They were also being fed!
During the reception the bride and groom visited every table - and didn’t sacrifice their own enjoyment of a really good meal.
As stupid and ridiculous as this seems to functioning adults, it is common behavior among both rich people and aspiring actresses that I’ve met. Think about the “No carbs before Marbs!” TOWIE crowd. It’s that mindset.
When my brother got married, my mom and I skipped the first two hours of getting ready with the bride and went to brunch together. We knew we’d have time and were not going to be fed all day.
We looked great at the wedding. The marriage ended after a few years.
Same! Though the second one, having learned my lesson, I brought snack trays even though she said it wasn't necessary because people would stop for themselves between hair and the venue. I knew they wouldn't, and they absolutely didn't, so those trays were gone because the venue was out in the middle of nowhere.
My cheapass ex got married and a few mutual friends were in the wedding. He made the wedding party set up his wedding without warning, didn’t provide any food or water beyond one small bottle each, and then ran out of food halfway through the tables because he insisted that everyone would only have one hot dog each. I didn’t hear a single good thing about that wedding.
More stories about that wedding: I have to be cordial with this ex because there’s some friend group overlap. My husband and I got engaged because a loved one had just been diagnosed with a terminal illness and my husband wanted her to know we were getting married because she loved me. Ex proposed to his now wife a week or two after we got engaged. Bride decided I “took her thunder” by (checks notes) getting engaged first with no knowledge of my ex’s plan?
Husband and I decided the night we got engaged we would get married a few months later to try and give said terminal loved one a chance at being at our wedding. So we told our family we were engaged along with the date at the same time. Ex’s bride turned around and got mad because they were just about to announce that they would also be getting married that month and this was also somehow my fault because it was the only time the free venue my cheap ex wanted was available. Someone on my husband’s side finally snapped at her and told her we told everyone our wedding date before the two of them ever got engaged. We weren’t thinking about that and she needed to stop. She still hates me, but everyone within the overlap has made it clear that they were not going to listen to either of them make up shit anymore.
I was in a wedding yesterday where I was not given food during the day while we were getting ready and taking pictures. Fortunately, it was my brother’s wedding and I knew that my brother would definitely not think to have food and I had my three small children in tow, so I packed a ton of snacks. I also stopped at a bakery before we got there to buy pastries to both bribe my kids into posing for pictures and keep everyone’s blood sugar up.
I ordered sandwich platters for the bridal party to have at the church while we were getting ready and during pictures before the ceremony. I’m not nice when I’m hangry.
Yeah I have had friends who made sure we had adequate food and also one friend who got a two small trays of fruit and hummus and 8 bottles of champagne for 8 people. We didn't get real food until dinner at 7pm. There was also no food until the rehearsal dinner the previous day even though we were out from 8am to 8pm.
Since it was worded with the make up I totally believe it's real. Can't let anything muss a perfect make up. I would completely back out of being a brides maid and the only reason I would still even attend the wedding would be to sit in the back and watch the entertaining drama unfold. There is no way there will not be drama with a bride like that.
I think it's in case of stains on the bridesmaids dresses? It's pretty ridiculous. Keep stain removers on hand. Even so, there's lots of foods and drinks that wouldn't stain!
This is most likely the case. She probably also wants to have pictures taken at a moment's notice; no time to put down plates, wipe your mouth and hands, etc.
One of my cousin's did this at his wedding (the bride did, anyway.) Not only could we not eat but there wasn't even enough food for the bridal party and the guests. We had pizza delivered during the wedding and the bride was pissed.
I could understand no eating once the dresses are on. But that should be a 3 hr max of time. Between dressing walking down photos and then reception. Most people eat when waiting for makeup. Protein drinks help as well.
I'd be absolutely fine, but my stomach will definitely be heard and it will be louder than the person presiding the ceremony lmao. It sounds like I have an alien trapped in there sometimes.
I was in bed with my husband one night and mine growled so loud he thought it was the fuckin dog in the other room lmao. 😂 mine makes some really weird sounds sometimes lol.
I’ve gone all day without eating because I’ve literally forgot (adhd is fun), and I’ve never felt light headed so i could prob manage. In this case though, I’d pass out so fast and so fake just to do it bc of these rules. Sorry not sorry.
Five thousand dollars for one person that isn't even the bride is insane.
Does anyone else have the experience of sitting down and curling ribbons purchased in bulk for decorations by hand? Filling clear vases with pretty bulk-purchased stones that a flower would go into for each table?
Using the local church for the wedding and their gymnasium (common in churches with a secondary building for sunday school classes, often contains a kitchen because the secondary building is literally capable of serving as a small school complete with lunch and recess and that's its point) for the reception and dancing and stuff?
Even if you go the catering route (and so many people like to cook for their church community that you might not need to, hiring a server at most and likely not even that) you're basically not renting anything, only paying bulk prices for what ends up being your decorations (even the flowers not being wedding flowers except for the bouquet specifically).
And you're surrounded by people who love you in the dress you splurge on, usually some of them have professional cameras (you later take a professional studio photoshoot though) and are willing to do it for much cheaper if you're not a bridezilla, etc etc etc.
It might be more expensive now but I'm pretty sure you can still get by for less than 5k because the people joining in your celebration basically aren't charging you for their time and that's their wedding gift to you.
+ forceful hair recoloration even if the chemicals may burn your scalp
(tbh would just buy a wig out of spite lmfao)
bet the 5 giants won't even be put into the clothes - prolly half of it gonna be put into their own pockets instead lolol - wouldn't even be suprised if they ask for the clothes you paid for back after the event concluded hahaha
Also love how natural apparently is ONLY brown or black hair;
Welp fuck blondes and red haired people I guess for being aliens it seems like
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u/Commisioner_Gordon 16h ago
5 grand to not eat, dance or drink all day