I've posted some details before about Bridezilla sis. This is going to be a long recap of everything that happened since she started planning her wedding until today.
Background - she is the biggest AW I've ever met. She has this weird complex about me getting to do things before her because I'm older (she was seriously pissed that I learned how to drive before her) and she thinks everything in life is a competition between the two of us.
She started planning the day after she found out I was engaged. She started pressuring her H to propose at this time, using such classics as "you must not love me because you don't want to marry me"
She told me last summer that after attending so many of her friends' weddings, as well as me getting married in the next year, it made her realize how much she wanted to have a wedding. She also wanted to get married so her and H could live together - his mom doesn't approve of living together before marriage, so they didn't live together.
Every time I talked about my wedding her response was "this is what we're doing at MY wedding". She was not engaged at the time.
I flew across the country to go BM dress shopping with my mom, sis and BFF. Sis spent the whole time trying to convince the consultant to bring her wedding dresses to try on. Consultant refused. She was not engaged.
She picked out and bought engagement ring and gave it to H to propose to her with.
She booked a venue before H proposed and told him that they were getting married next September.
The day after she got engaged she told (not asked) people to be in WP. She demanded the BMs immediately go buy the dress she picked out as well as shoes, accessories and jewelry. She also talked about mandatory hair styles, make-up and nails. Nofucks were given for budget (about 3.5x more than I could afford to spend) or comfort of BMs. Also, she demanded I drop everything to drive 2 hours each way to the bridal salon to get the dress 10 months in advance because it was stressing her out that I didn't buy it immediately. She didn't care about me being too busy to do that at the time.
I was forced out of the WP and another BM was promoted to MOH. A new BM was asked because even sides.
Invitations sent out 4.5 months before wedding. I never received a paper invite, just a FB invite.
FB group created for people to attend the wedding to join. She used the group send out biweekly reminders to RSVP starting 3.5 months out.
Wedding seating - hay bales and blankets on the ground. MOB provided chairs for old people.
Dress code - casual semi-formal
Rain plan - no cover, but wedding would go ahead outside as planned unless there was severe inclement weather. In the case of severe inclement weather, ceremony would be moved to reception site and begin an hour later
No hotel information provided on website. About 50% of the guests were OOT and not familiar with the area.
3 hour unhosted gap so they could take 100's of Pinterest pics. There were no bars, restaurants, fast food places, etc within a 30 minute drive of the ceremony or reception so I have no idea what the guests did during this time.
Bar was by donation.
Memorial to her favourite uncle during the ceremony. Made a little awkward because uncle's widow was there and has remarried.
Head table with no SOs
Parking was in a field. Huge storms the night before so the field was muddy. No one was allowed to park in the driveway. This included an aunt with a disabled son in a wheelchair.
The ground at the ceremony site was wet and squishy. I have no idea what the people sitting on blankets thought of this.
Bouquet toss. Not a big deal, except she walked around waving her bouquet in the single ladies' faces and pulling them up to be a part of the bouquet toss.
She spent all last night on FB uploading pictures. There are about 25 pictures so far and not one of them has her H in them, they are all pictures of her in her wedding dress with her friends.
She is angry with my parents, who paid for the wedding and did all the set up and take down, because they won't take care of her dogs during the honeymoon. She said she wanted to get a second dog, parents said they would only watch one dog, she got a second dog anyways.
The wedding was all burlap and lace. Nothing seemed to really go together. It was a weird combination of vintage and modern, formal and super casual.
The best part. I've mentioned a couple times that the officiant can't legally marry them so they were going to get legally married at the RD and have a symbolic ceremony for the wedding ceremony. Because of the giant storm the RD didn't happen. I didn't want to stir the pot because my parents are so relieved they don't have to deal with her planning her wedding anymore, but there is a very good chance they aren't actually married.
Besides the karma stuff I mentioned on my other thread, I think that's everything.