The Thrilla in Bridezilla
August 5th, 2010 § 1 Comment
No one should ever watch Bridezilla, because it makes “crazy” too mainstream. Almost to where, if you watch a Bridezilla marathon, you start thinking, “maybe yelling at the manacurist because she didn’t arch the white tips the way I like them is perfectly reasonable.” Weddings make some women crazy pants, but at no point, is yelling at your mother in law, crying in a mound of tulle, or cursing out the limo driver, acceptable behavior. Seeing a bride act like a crazy woman in a pretty dress is like watching someone swim in a business suit. It looks ridiculous and out-of-place. A contorted bitch face is unfitting for a poofy dress, and so is grinding your husband on the dance floor. New rule: if you’re wearing a wedding dress, dry humping to, “Who let the dogs out”, is off limits!
Paul once loved watching Bridezilla, but that was before we got engaged. Now he avoids it all together because the show has become too close to home. It was fine when the idea of conflict and wedding melt-downs were completely fictional, but now, with our wedding getting near, watching the show makes him scared that all women, myself included, are all capable of such behavior. But I continue to watch the episodes on television and find myself yelling at the TV, “you are getting married at the Elk’s Lodge that doesn’t make it okay to wear camouflage!” “Stop whining about being fat, and why are you at McDonalds while crying about being fat?!?” These women cannot be real, I’m suspicious as to how Bridezillas find a man to willingly marry them, when I have a handful of single friends that cannot find a man. Single friends who are smart, and funny, and witty and pretty and would never think to whine about how badly they want a corn dog and then proceed to eat it over the do-it-yourself wedding project of hot glueing harvest colored fake flowers to a styrofoam ball. Clearly we live in a flawed world when these women have a man and good women go unpicked and unable to marry on a reality show.
I’ve always wondered if these people are for real. It’s really hard behavior to swallow and I always secretly hope that they are just going overboard for the cameras, but then ruining their wedding day all in one. I just can’t believe people actually marry these women…it scares me