There’s no happily-ever-after for anyone, except possibly the groom and the maid of honor, in a soap opera unfolding on Twitter that gives ordinary bridezillas a good name. The ticked off bride, someone apparently named Susan, cancelled her wedding because stingy invited guests refused to contribute $1,500 to help pay for the dream nuptials her psychic told her she deserved — a $60,000 destination wedding in Aruba.
Susan was plenty put off. And now that people are being mean and nasty to her, she’s “cutting all you snakes off” and heading to South America to backpack for a couple of months and rid herself of the “toxic energy” brought on by her friends and family. That’s all according to Twitter user @0lspicykeychain, who took screenshots of “a very real status shared in a wedding shaming group I’m a part of.”
There are wedding shaming groups? Well, if there weren’t, there should be for stories just like this one. It’s a humdinger — if it’s true.
Snopes.com, one of the arbiters of internet truthfulness, says it isn’t able to authenticate the greedy bride story. But it certainly could be true at a time there is an actual reality TV show titled “Bridezillas,” where this type of behavior is the storyline.
From what we gather, the union of the high school sweethearts was to have been a perfect culmination of a storybook romance. He put a ring on Susan’s finger when she was 18, they went to the same community college and, once they got their degrees, focused on their careers and financial stability. They scraped and sacrificed and saved was $15,000.
Well, if that story doesn’t just illustrate the value of working hard for what you want! Get ready for a hard right turn. Susan wanted more.
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“Since our love was like a fairy tale, we wanted an extravagant blow out wedding, one where our son could be included,” she wrote on the wedding shaming group page. “We started touring venues and were torn between two. A local psychic told us to go with the more expensive option, and we thought why the hell not?”
For the answer to that, ask all but eight of the invited guests who refused to pony up $1,500. Those sending their regrets included the maid of honor, a childhood friend, who the bride called a vulgar name — more about that in a bit. The cash seems to have been the ultimate deal breaker for the sweethearts.
“I SPECIFICALLY, I mean SPECIFICALLY asked for cash gifts,” Susan wrote. “How could we have OUR wedding that WE dreamed of without proper funding? … Like, we made it CLEAR. If you couldn’t contribute, you weren’t invited to our exclusive wedding. It’s a once [in] a lifetime party.”
The groom’s parents and the maid of honor both pledged several thousand dollars each, but they pulled back their offers. Susan was certain guests would want to make sure she got her dream wedding.
“I mean seriously, people, what is $1,000? What is $1,500?” Clearly, not a lot,” Susan pleaded, perhaps channeling some of the down-low she’d gotten from the psychic who advised she go big in her wedding planning or go home, given her apparent understanding of their finances. “It would be quite manageable [and] within budget.”
Besides, she wrote, “I’ve heard of people asking for worse.”
A crowdfunding campaign was practically useless and Susan was so stressed about the whole thing that she yelled at her boyfriend and admits she “became unraveled.” He offered a “cheap, raggedy, filthy, whore-like Vegas wedding” and later complained to the maid of honor that Susan was snooty and stuck-up.
“Am I supposed to like the idea of getting married in the heart of shady gamblers, alcoholics, and the get rich fast fallacy?” she wrote of her question to her ex-fiance. “Suddenly, my body began to shake as I entered a panic attack.”
Susan’s fiance left the room without apologizing so Susan poured the whole sad story out to her maid of honor, who offered no sympathy. None.
“I mean, no words can describe. How could someone who offered me THOUSANDS OF (expeletive) DOLLARS then deny me MY promised money and then tell me to shift down my budget????” is what Susan wants to know. “She KNOWS my (expletive) DREAM was a blowout wedding. I just wanted to be a Kardashian for a day and then live my life like normal,” Susan explained, said the maid of honor was a poor excuse for a friend and hung up.
Susan and the maid of honor broke up on social media, and Susan claims she started getting anonymous threats. Her beloved — they were estranged, but not yet kaput as a couple — “stayed out later and later and I have a feeling he even cheated.”
The bridesmaids completed the freezeout and “dissed” Susan. Her boyfriend told the maid of honor Susan was a “stuck up bitch.” Susan even speculates that the maid of honor and groom hooked up.
“They essentially told me I was crazy,” Susan said of her former friends in the bridal party. “They asked for their deposit back … so I said (expletive) you. I refuse to give it back until they can pay me back for their emotional distress.”
Everything spiraled out of control and four days before she was to have been married, Susan cancelled her wedding.
Susan said she and her ex will remain civil and respectful for the sake of their son.
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