A little back story here…I had two friends that I met on the same day back in 6th grade. I stayed friends with them for the past 13+ years. Well “Kim” would get very jealous when I would hang out with “Barb” more. And Kim is just very emotional and needy in general. Well, as years go on and I had again become closer with Barb. Barb and her boyfriend become engaged in June of 07’ after 3 ½ years of dating and I was immediately asked to be a bridesmaid. The wedding was set to take place in the end of October of 08’.
Now Barb and Kim had a falling out, and hadn’t been friends for over a year. But Kim found out about the wedding from mutual friends, so she was WELL AWARE of the date. Fast forward to December of 07’ Kim picks out and buys her own engagement ring and then gives it to her boyfriend of about 9 months and tells him to talk to her sister to plan a proper proposal! Kim calls and asks me to be a bridesmaid and tells me that the wedding is two weeks after Barb’s. I knew deep down this is going to be a disaster and I politely declined the invitation citing that I just couldn’t afford to be in two weddings within weeks of each other especially that close to winter when things are extremely tight moneywise. She then goes off on me for 20 minutes about how that was bullcrap and blah blah blah I was just choosing Barb over her. She finally stops and says I still want you to come to everything though. We start to really drift apart from that day forward…
So I get the invitation to the bridal shower which is printed on Halloween inspired copy paper, telling me that this is a Jack and Jill costume party/BBQ at the best man’s house. The time was at 5:00P.M. BYOB and Chair. Oh and all the places they were registered. (The Bride planned all of it.) I get the phone call from bride and a mutual friend “Jen” (also a bridesmaid in both of the above weddings) saying that costumes are mandatory. So I get in the spirit and come up with a great idea. I dressed up as an infamous high school teacher we all had and made a costume for Jen as her favorite rap artist complete with all of the tattoos. I drive to Jen’s house and get her ready for the party and we waited on another friend so we could car pool because this party was in the middle of nowhere.
Now we are at fault because we did show up late to the party but they kept emphasizing that it was laid back and could go whenever, and the bride knew that Jen and the other friend had to work and would not be on time in the first place. I lived 2 hours away and that is why I carpooled.
So we get to this shower/hillbilly bonanza, and the Bride sees us and then looks away and starts to talk to her FSIL. So we start unloading the gifts and food from the car. (Extras the bride told Jen they just HAD to have.) Finally get everything over there and had to force the bride to talk to us, she had no idea what our costumes were and then was <eh> about them when we told her. I put a lot of effort into them. And for all the complaining about how costumes are mandatory she only had on cat ears and a cat tail!!! And the FSIL wore Mouse ears and a Mouse tail. So she tells us that the food just came off the grill and was over there. Someone had backed a pickup truck over close to the house and put the tail gate down and that is where most of the food was at. The hot dogs and hamburgers were cold and COVERED IN FLIES!! Since Jen was told to bring more burgers, I asked were the grill was. I said I could make us and a few other guest who showed up after us, some fresh burgers b/c I know how to grill and I wasn’t going to eat the ones that were sitting there. But the bride said oh no, I will just have FSIL make them for you oh don’t worry about it.
So the new ones were made and we ate and still felt shunned for most of the party. The sun is going down and the groom’s drunk friends decide it is bonfire time so they start one and just as the kids were there getting ready to make smores someone throws a freaking TIRE into the fire. So now the kids have to leave and I think someone got the tire off before it completely melted. Well, it is now pitch black out and the bride decides to open presents. IN THE COMPLETE DARK! One of the groom’s cousins stood behind them with a flash light so we could see what was going on. After that we continued to drink and hang out. No one had an actual radio so people would take turns driving their cars up on the grass where people were at and roll down their windows and blast the car stereo. I am not making this up. We finally decide this is lame and leave the party around 11:00 and all is fine.
Well, I call the bride two days later to say hi and she doesn’t return my call. EVER. It’s been six months now and counting. The bride calls Jen and leaves her a nasty message about how horribly inconsiderate we all were at the shower, showing up late and DEMANDING that the FSIL make us fresh food. I’m sorry I didn’t want cold food covered with FLIES! I didn’t demand anyone make us anything, I offered to cook them myself for our group and the others that showed up after us. Besides, Jen paid for the food that was cooked for us anyhow. In the voicemail, she just goes on and on about how she is sure that we were on time to Barb’s shower and how we did everything we were supposed to do for Barb and that her shower and her(Kim) wedding was getting the shaft. Well, don’t plan your wedding and all subsequent events two weeks after someone else’s wedding when you know almost all parties involved will be in both doings!
We were extremely pissed off about this whole ordeal. Then we find out through the grapevine that Kim no longer wants me at the bachelorette party. I can still come to the wedding but that is it. So she told the MOH not to invite me anymore and barely wanted Jen (a bridesmaid) there. So I am good enough to bring you presents at a shower and then a wedding but not good enough to go out drinking at local bars. Umm Thanks but No Thanks….I almost called her to tell her off but didn’t want to get the informant in trouble. Then I thought about writing her a four or five page letter like she used to do to any of us that had pissed her off. However, I decided to take the high road and haven’t spoken to her since. Thankfully Jen had enough sense at this point to just say no and dropped out of the wedding.
On a side note, Jen wasn’t expected to bring a gift b/c she helped pay for the shower and being in the wedding was completely draining her financially. But she felt she should bring something small… She bought them a 24 pack of toilet paper because the engaged couple had been out for THREE DAYS!!!! Kim complained that using the cheap paper towels and take out napkins was starting to irritate her down there. When Jen asked why she didn’t just go and buy some, Kim said they kept forgetting and when they would realize when they got home, they wouldn’t want to go back out and get some so they just dealt with it.
If she finds out I sent her to EHELL she is going to be pissed, but honestly she belongs here! 1011-09
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talking about bridezilla…. she had the guts to do that????