‘She is just shifting all of the costs onto other people’: Entitled bride expects guests to pitch in for her “free” wedding, then a friend gives her a wakeup call

Everything could be technically «free» if someone else pays for it, but planning your wedding around the expectation that all of your guests—family, friends, and work buddies—will front the cost isn’t following the trendy «free wedding» style; you’re just freeloading.  Recently, a trend has been going around promoting «free» weddings, or events that are essentially …
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29-year-old bride demands her cousin let her host her wedding in her pottery studio, badmouths her to her family when she refuses: ‘My studio isn’t licensed for events like that and the cleanup would be a total nightmare’

It’s easy to sit around and contemplate your dream wedding venue. Wouldn’t it be swell to get married in the Metropolitan Museum of Art or at Notre-Dame de Paris? Of course, we know as mere civilians we can’t afford to have a wedding at these places, and the risk of being around such precious artifacts …
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Stepsister drops out of being a bridesmaid after bride insists that she wears an ugly dress while the 7 other bridesmaids wear pretty dresses: ‘She told me it wasn’t my wedding and I was meant to do what she wanted.’

Coordinating bridesmaid dresses for your bridal party is no small feat. I dread the day that I’m going to have to do it, because knowing me, I’ll want to do yellow or some other unflattering color as the theme, and will have to compromise so that all my friends don’t hate me. I have friends …
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Cheap bride charges her sister a $150 bridesmaid fee, despite already making her pay $300 for a bridesmaid dress: ‘I told her I couldn’t afford it and that it felt wrong to charge me to be a part of her wedding.’

It ain’t cheap to be a bridesmaid. This autumn I had my very first bachelorette experience, and while I didn’t go into debt for it, it certainly cost more than I initially expected. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with wanting to go on a nice trip with all of your besties and party for …
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34-year-old bride asks her younger sister to help plan her wedding after snubbing her from an invitation: ‘She said that her wedding was small and for a close circle.’

If there’s one person who has to be at my future wedding and vice versa, it’s my younger sister. We have discussed many times whether it is best practice to choose your sister as your Maid of Honor because it is more diplomatic than picking a favorite from your other friends. At this point (I …
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Bridesmaid refuses to spend $130 on her bouquet after she bought her own dress and offered to make bouquets for free, bride removes her as a bridesmaid and uninvites her from the wedding: ‘The bride said to me that I could attend the after party»

It’s easy to underestimate the financial burden of being a bridesmaid. If you’re not going on a proper bachelorette trip, which will undoubtedly set participants back a couple of hundred dollars, the only expense you’re expected to make is for the bridesmaid dress, which in theory shouldn’t cost that much. Some brides are generous enough …
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Mother-in-law forces bride to take wedding pictures against her will, groom sides with his mother: ‘He said let him down by making such a fuss over a normal part of weddings’

We’ve all heard of bridezillas, and some of us have encountered them in real life. It’s easy to think of a bridezilla as an unrepentant and unreasonable monster who wants it her way or the highway, no matter how unreasonable her way is. While those brides do exist, it’s much more likely for a bride …
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Bride invites 9 out of 10 of her coworkers to her wedding, the 1 coworker calls out his exclusion during department meeting: ‘I could see the bride’s face visibly change’

Being excluded is no fun. It’s so troubling when you’re a tween and find out that the group chat you’re in has a smaller secret group chat for the people that everyone actually wants to hang out with. As you grow up, exclusion gets less and less frequent because you can deprioritize those who exclude …
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25+ Makeup Memes for Winged Eyeliner Ninjas

How did people figure out how to do makeup before YouTube? Did you just have to rely on magazines, the network of word-of-mouth of girls in your life, and a little intuition? That must have had people looking like an absolute mess. Learning how to properly line your eyes is not as intuitive as it …
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Bride demands 11-week-old baby wear a 3-piece suit to her wedding, rejects onesie that looks like a suit: ‘She’s never been around babies, has she?’

There can be a lot of contempt thrown at mothers for bringing their babies to weddings. As far as I’m concerned, as long as the bride and groom want them there, they’re entitled to be there. Usually, the biggest challenge of babies at weddings is hoping that they don’t cry during the ceremony, but this …
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