Whether they’re making outrageous financial demands or exploiting bridesmaids, bridezilla stories have us well and truly hooked… but why? 🙈 weddings bridezilla
Sure, most decent people can promise with confidence that they would never ask their friends to do a juice cleanse , hold a florist up against the wall by their throat or rip off a bridesmaid’s wound dressing to prove she was faking surgery in order to get out of the hen party .
Of course, the ‘haze of madness’ so many brides describe feeds right into another trope, and a much more toxic one – that of the ‘crazy’ woman. Weddings are just one of the many contradictions of womanhood, writ large. On the one hand, we’re supposed to be a flawless floating angel surrounded by floral-scented perfection, but on the other, we’re not allowed to show any visible signs of effort to achieve it. We’re expected to fork out life-changing sums of money, then shamed if we seem materialistic.
But what about us jeering bystanders? What is it about these stories that has us rubbing our hands with glee and sending the links around all our WhatsApp groups? We get a thrill observing the extremes of other people’s humanity, however unsettling, because they make us feel better about our own. It’s partly the same reason we hang onto Donald Trump’s every tweet – the element of emotional freak show. And deep down, perhaps there is a teeny tiny part of all of us that would love to behave like a screaming brat for a day, just to see what happened.
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