Bad Bridesmaid: Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums–Tales from the Front Lines
July 19, 2010 by admin
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A laugh-out-loud look at the most underrated supporting role in today’s maxed-out wedding world, featuring bad bridesmaids” who’ve had enough taffeta to last a lifetime
I just can’t have any negative energy around my wedding.” This is what Siri Agrell’s best friend told her just before kicking her out of the wedding that Agrell had spent many monthsand dollarspreparing for. Her offense? It’s not that she slept with the groom, or even th… More >>
Bad Bridesmaid: Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums–Tales from the Front Lines
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This was a fun little book — it’s always entertaining to read about Brides Gone Wild. And make no mistake, despite the title, the villains of this book are the brides.
I do wish that Agrell had chosen to include the article that she wrote (and which got her booted out of her friend’s wedding). I wasn’t able to find it online, unfortunately. Agrell’s interpretation of events seems to be that the article was fun, light and humorous and that the bride overeacted. However, the bride seemed to feel it was a personal hatchet job which justified Angrell’s firing. Who is right? Hard to say without reading the article — maybe the bride had a legitimate beef.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book was okay for a good “girl” book. A quick read with a few hilarious stories where I was litterally laughing out loud. I was hoping for more stories, more details and less fluff in between the two. I have to agree with other comments here- I was looking for the article she wrote that got her kicked out of the bridal party, destroyed her friendship with “The Bride” and spawned this book. That would have been a nice inclusion. It seemed at the end of the book the author is trying to make up for all the “Bride” bashing of the entire book by saying “we really do love you” but it was too little too late. Being a five time bridesmaid and a bride I didn’t mind the bride bashing, weddings are what they are, dramatic and stressful. These stories were entertaining, a good fluff read.
Rating: 3 / 5
I had been wanting to read this book for a while… the creative title piqued my interest right away. It was a quick and interesting read, by no means an intellectual or sociological look at the wedding industry like Cinderella Dreams, but it was still fun to read for someone who is interested in the behavioral aspects behind weddings. If you watch the reality shows on TV about weddings you will probably like this book… it offers examples and stories upon horror stories of crazy brides and the poor bridesmaids put in terrible situations. The complacency of the bridesmaids was a bit unnerving and I have to admit that these stories convinced me that the author only used the most extreme examples she could find of these pre-weddings gone wild situations. But that was the purpose of her book I suppose and we are not supposed to take the book as a whole too seriously. Enjoy it, don’t let it scare you away from weddings forever, and try to remind yourself that it’s just a silly read and you’ll be happy.
Rating: 3 / 5
I loved this book. Too bad more of the insanity was not in it. I too hate all things commercialized wedding. Having stood up a few times (always wonder why anyone would ask me with me being so vocal in opposing)I hated every single minute of it. My brides were very nice and paid for the dresses and we did not have to do all the crap some bridesmaids do. Do people really expect bridesmaid to throw a shower? Have you no family that likes you? Do brides really expect bridesmaids to do their errands? COME ON!
Dear Brides,
If you really want people to enjoy your wedding then don’t ask them to stand up. Simple as that. No one likes to stand up. It sucks! This whole, “It’s my day” crap is just that, crap. We barely want to attend the wedding let alone deal with you. Who hasn’t shuddered at the sight of an obvious wedding invitation in the mailbox? Who hasn’t called everyone in the family to warn them it is coming. I personally think you should ask your enemies to stand up for they deserve it more.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book showed how goofy weddings can get. I’m SO very glad I’m old enough to never again be asked to be a bridesmaid!!!!! In my day, we threw a shower, showed up for rehearsal, did the wedding and promised not to get drunk at the reception!!!
Rating: 5 / 5