The worst wedding/bridesmaid dresses

libby18bell · March 2013

It's Friday and it's snowing like crazy here, joy of NY State winter, we weren't supposed to get snow but we got nailed anyways...So since I was thinking of card boxes and it reminded me of my sister's wedding, she has the wishing well with the tule and all that stuff, granted it was 18 years ago. It made me think of the worst/silliest wedding moments from past weddings.

I'll start out with my wonderful sister's wedding, whom I love and she is my MOH, we looked like pink dolies I kid you not. It was lots of pink lace, she was going for the English garden theme/look.

SewInLoveWithDMB · March 2013

Aw - sounds interesting! But it was 18 years ago, so to give her the benefit of the doubt, styles have changed!

I was the MOH for a friend, and we are no longer friends due to her behavior during her wedding planning. Really sad in a way, but she really had some crazy expectations and said some choice phrases. When I see her (and I've seen her twice since her wedding (2+ years ago) at mutual friends' parties) we're civil, but we are no longer close.

Anyway - this girl chose the most awful dresses. They were gold satin, with a high gathered neck, the waistline was right below the bust, but on an angle. The dress was mermaid and fitted through the hips, and then had a train. My FI told me I looked like a gold hefty bag - which was totaly the truth! They were just awful. I have some emails where she made some comments that her "horse" friend would look bad, but myself and another girl would look fabulous. I really think she chose unattractive dresses on purpose to make her look better.

Some of the girls were a bit heavier and the weird bustline just looked bad. Just bad overall! haha

libby18bell · March 2013

Oh those dresses sounds horrible. Virtually nobody can properly pull off gold, and the rest of the dress's design just sounds wrong ha ha.

To give my sister credit her dress had a hoop under it. Her wedding was really pretty and everything looked gorgeous, but it still cracks me up that we looked like pink dolies.

rebeccalayne · March 2013

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_october-2013-weddings_the-worst-weddingbridesmaid-dresses?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20Club%20BoardsForum:1925524f-fa8b-432f-a7b5-be486ce756efDiscussion:41ff33ae-32b7-4e84-836c-4880e74bad7cPost:7a6c7566-1cd6-477f-961b-cf1be6112866">Re: The worst wedding/bridesmaid dresses</a>:
[QUOTE]Aw - sounds interesting! But it was 18 years ago, so to give her the benefit of the doubt, styles have changed! I was the MOH for a friend, and we are no longer friends due to her behavior during her wedding planning. Really sad in a way, but she really had some crazy expectations and said some choice phrases. When I see her (and I've seen her twice since her wedding (2+ years ago) at mutual friends' parties) we're civil, but we are no longer close. Anyway - this girl chose the most awful dresses. They were gold satin, with a high gathered neck, the waistline was right below the bust, but on an angle. The dress was mermaid and fitted through the hips, and then had a train. My FI told me I looked like a gold hefty bag - which was totaly the truth! They were just awful. I have some emails where she made some comments that her "horse" friend would look bad, but myself and another girl would look fabulous. I really think she chose unattractive dresses on purpose to make her look better. Some of the girls were a bit heavier and the weird bustline just looked bad. Just bad overall! haha
Posted by SewInLoveWithDMB[/QUOTE]<div>
</div><div>Wow!! Can you say bridezilla? Thats really sad that she acted that way to the point where it affected her friendships

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SewInLoveWithDMB · March 2013

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: The worst wedding/bridesmaid dresses : Wow!! Can you say bridezilla? Thats really sad that she acted that way to the point where it affected her friendships
Posted by rebeccalayne[/QUOTE]

<div>Ya know, it was really bad. Like, really bad. FI won't talk to her - it doesn't matter cause he doesn't ever see her except with me, but he's realllllly even more annoyed than I am/was.</div><div>
</div><div>The two things she said that were the worst: </div><div>
</div><div>1. I had to wear lower shoes than everyone else cause I'm tall (5'10") and I "ruined another friend's wedding pictures as a bridesmaid cause I stuck out like a sore thumb." (WTF?) She knew I was tall when she asked me to be MOH! - my height wasn't magically going to change, and at 5'10", so what if I wear a heel - I'm already a head taller than her! At 6'0" - who cares! She's an idiot. If the bridal party had a height limit, I would have been happy to attend as a guest.</div><div>
</div><div>With this, she had set aside shoes for us to buy (Yes - we had to have the same shoes!!!), and I told her my size. (10) She didn't set aside my size, and they didn't have any left (and the shoe was not available anywhere else - I looked online and called so many stores - it was a brand specific to this store - not a chain) The woman in the store was like "I can't let you buy the wrong size - they clearly don't fit." So, she sold me the same shoe with an extra 1" heel. OMG. It was like I had done the worst thing ever! Turns out, she had bought my size (a 10) and held it for her cousin (with the lower heel). At the rehearsal dinner, in front of me, she told the cousin that she had her shoes, a 10. And the cousin was like, "Why would you get me a 10? I'm a 7.5" So basically the shoe that I needed (10 - low heel) was in HER POSSESSION the entire time and she told me I was rotten for improvising and buying the same shoe with the higher heel - and she had been holding on to them!!! And her cousin couldn't even use them! Insane. (And yes - she picked a shoe that had both a higher heel and lower heel with the same top - and told each girl which to buy, based on height. It was as if she wanted us all to be the same height....)</div><div>
</div><div>2. She said I wasn't supportive enough - and this was after a bachelorette party issue: My family has a couple of shore houses in different locations, and basically the one SHE wanted as a first choice was being used by my sister & her family during the weekend her party would be. She had a fit! We ended up going to another shore location, which actually has an even better nightlife. (We actually both have houses on the shore/island of her "1st choice" - which is how we met) - and I told her that I could stay at my house (with my sister and her family) and could take 1 of the other girls who my family knows (and wouldn't mind being around my sister and her baby for the overnight - as in, she's a family friend). But, if the rest of her friends could stay at her house, that would be cool. Again, it was as if I had the WORST IDEA EVER. She said her parents would be at the house and she couldn't dare ask them to not be there (but she had no prob telling me to ask my sister and her kid and husband to leave!) and she didn't want to come home from her bachelorette to her parents' house. Ok - I can undestand that, so I suggested hotels, and she demanded that I HAD to stay at the hotel WITH them and wouldn't be able to stay at my house on the same street as the hotel. (At this point - I offered the other house as the location, and it all worked out.) But the final KICKER - Her MOM WAS INVITED!!!!!!! And came!!!!!!! So basically, she just didn't want to host her friends in her own home and wanted me to host people I didn't know, and wanted me to ask MY FAMILY to not stay at their own shore home for her friends. Who I don't know. Lovely. And because I wasn't "willing to help her out" (and give her this one "preferred" shore house for free) - she said: "It's not my fault that BF won't marry you. You don't have to take it out on me." </div><div>
</div><div>Which was totally not true - and I never even complained to her about my relationship (there was nothing to complain about!) so clearly, b/c we had been together for 5+ years and he hadn't proposed = him not liking me (insert eye roll). Insane.</div>

rebeccalayne · March 2013

Wow.....I can't even think of the words to respond. That is unbelievable! I can't even imagine acting that way. I am looking at bridesmaid dresses and I am thinking about all of my bridesmaids and trying to figure out which dress would look good on all of them and am trying to make them feel good too! Yes, its my wedding but I want to treat my girls good as well! Sorry you had to go through all of that!

SewInLoveWithDMB · March 2013

Haha - thanks - it's just funny now. At the time, I wasn't amused.

She also kept saying for me to "just wait" until I was the bride - but I haven't had any confrontations or issues with any of my bridesmaids. I have 7, she had 5 - one dropped out (big surprise), and then she added a "replacement" 3 months before the wedding.

And obviously, she is not one of my 7. In a way, I wish she were so I could prove to her that I wasn't the crazy one, but since we're not friends, that's totally not an option. Plus, she would still remember it as me being wrong - not her. Oh well!

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