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waiting shop workers what are your worst producillar stories i worked as a wedding planner and coordinator and one bride stands out to me because she was so inconsistent with all the vendors she was a complete sweetheart to me during the planning phase and i never saw any of the crazy until the day of the wedding it was honestly like a jekyll hyde moment she wanted a big wedding around 300 people and spent a lot of money on the venue and food and wanted the best for everything no complaints about paying for it either never asked for discounts or anything like that and since she wanted the best and seemed to have a really large budget i referred her to a popular baker for the cake i let her handle the logistics for the cake since i've worked with this baker before and never had any problems i figured they would do the standard cake tasting pick a design with the baker and i would see a gorgeous masterpiece on the day of the wedding well that didn't really work out for some reason she didn't want to tell the baker that it was for a wedding i'm guessing she read that you can save money by ordering a regular cake because some vendors will automatically add an extra charge of its for a wedding by the way this is true to some extent but the extra charge truly is therefore a reason whenever something is for a wedding the vendor puts in much more care stress is about the timing execution etc way more than usual and often times will go all out and use premium materials or add upgrades not all of us are just adding extra charges for no reason anyways she decided she didn't want to pay for a wedding cake so she told the baker it was for a birthday party the baker asked how many people the cake would need to serve and she said around 50. she also didn't want to pay the delivery fee so she had her sister pick up the cake on the morning of the wedding and bring it to the event at this point it's important to mention that we live in texas and this is a summer wedding by the time the cake got to the venue about six hours after it was picked up from the bakery it didn't look all that great anymore some of the decorations had melted the cake got a little banged up in the car ride and there was icing on the inside of the box the entire cake was sagging on one side it was also way too small for a wedding of her size i saw it and it looked like a complete disaster but at this point we're about an hour away from the start of the wedding and there's no possible way to fix this the bride comes into the reception room with her makeup all done and sees the cake and completely flips out screaming crying throwing things collapsing on the floor complete meltdown threatens to cancel the whole wedding if we can't fix it we try to calm her down as much as we can and grab the makeup artist before she leaves and ask if she can help fix the bride's makeup which is a mess now a bride sees herself in the mirror and has another meltdown because she ruined her hair and makeup and now wants to have the whole thing redone after she gets everything done to perfection again we're about an hour behind schedule i let the guests come inside the reception room to wait because it seemed cruel to force everyone to sit outside in 100 degree heat but when she saw that everyone was inside she had another meltdown she spent the entire wedding sulking with a scale on her face and refused to take any pictures with people her new husband kept coming over to hug her and try to cheer her up and she would either yell at him or give him the silent treatment most of the guests left very early because the atmosphere felt so uncomfortable so pretty much a waste of the two hundred thousand dollar budget for a lavish wedding all because she wanted to save a couple hundred bucks on the cake my mom and i saw a great bratzilla freak out while shopping for my wedding dress a few years back we were in a small local shop when another mother-daughter duo came in the attendant who had been helping us went up to greet them the mother said they were here to pick up a daughter's dress so the attendant looks her name up in the computer frowns and says mom you never bought the dress what are you talking about the attendant shows the lady the notes on her computer screen you said you wanted to think about it and asked if we could hold the dress we held it for two weeks but when we didn't hear back from you we assumed you didn't want it well you want it now it's been over eight months the attendant explained we sold the dress a long time ago but i can order you another one and have it expedited here in a few weeks and like rmt street helens of entitlement the eruption began this is unacceptable the mother shrieked we have her alterations scheduled in two hours the wedding is a week away i can't believe you sold her dress the bride meanwhile is slumped against the desk and sobbing like someone killed her dog my mom and i are just open-mouthed staring at this point the attendant was trying to be diplomatic but is clearly as baffled as we are mom we had no way to know you wanted it you never called you never put down a deposit the dress isn't yours until you pay for it after some more screaming from the mother and wailing from the bride they left the shop attendant came back over to us and i asked her does that kind of thing happen a lot the poor lady just deflated all the time it baffles me to this day how do you schedule alterations on a dress that you never purchased why would you wait until a week before the wedding to pick up your dress how do you make it to adulthood without knowing how basic buying and selling transactions work tl dr turns out dress shops can't read your mind and you need to actually pay money for a wedding dress before it is yours go figure i once worked in a bakery and we had this bride freak out that her cake wasn't right and proceeded to smash it to bits with her fist she smashed the wrong cake like wtf anyways the cops allowed her to wash her hands before placing her in handcuffs i felt bad for the future husband and the couple that ordered said cake people are cray-cray florist we had a bride and her mother show up at 9am they wanted to order a bridal bouquet a mother of the bride catelyn orchard corsage about an ear for the groom and six smaller ones for the groomsmen the wedding was scheduled for noon yep three hours from then and they wanted them ready by the time they were done with fire makeup appointment at the beauty parlor a few doors down the bride was flipping through the ftd sample book and pointing out the style and flowers she wanted think garden roses with long sweeping trails of stefanites and variegated ivy all three of which would require at least two weeks advanced order with our suppliers she was absolutely gobsmacked that we didn't carry extremely expensive and highly perishable flowers at all times same with the catalya orchard for the mom's corsage my boss told them that since they didn't place an order beforehand they would be limited to what we had in stock and simple styles that could be assembled quickly the bride and her mom kept pointing at the book and arguing that we should have those specific flowers and stock my boss eventually took the book off the desk and tossed it behind the counter the bride vacillated between tears and petulant whining that we were going to ruin her big day my boss who had a bone deep loathing for brides in general told her she had ruined her own day by not ordering her flowers before her actual wedding day the mom tried chewing out my boss for her lack of customer service skills my boss told her that she was welcome to go down the street to vons and ask their flower department to make fire order with whatever they had in stock the mom said she'd do just that and reassured the bride that she'd have her flowers done by the time her appointment was over both women stormed out i figured that was that but my boss told me and the other girl to start on six simple dendrobium orchard bouts meanwhile she threw together a ribbon wrapped bridal bouquet with some white roses that were nearly past fire prime and some more dangerous sure enough 20 minutes later the mob slunk back in and meekly asked if we were still able to assemble what they needed we did we also charged her a very large tax for him hush fee i worked at david's bridal and i have to say that i never really had a terrible bride it was always the moms grandmas sisters and friends that were terrible either they hated what the bride would pick out for them to wear or they would hate what she was picking out for herself to wear at db we have kind of strict appointment guidelines when it comes to time and a lot of brides that will bring entourage's wouldn't find a dress because everyone would bombard her with their opinions and overwhelm them the worst thing i've ever witnessed was when a bride that always struggled with her weight came in she was overweight and had been working extremely hard on it over the last year it was a slower day and we all loved her story and wanted to make that day special so we all decided to help she finally found the dress that she loved and she started crying along with most of us then she looked at her mom and asked for her opinion and her mom looked at her and said you look fat in it we all stood there in silence and the bride lost her happiness she asked to be assisted in taking it off and they left it was one of the saddest days that i had experienced there i work at a hotel but once had a bradazilla throw a cell phone at me and hit me in the face hurt pretty bad one of those big galaxy phones wedding band member here had a bride flip hurried at me and my bandmates because our instruments weren't white or salmon-colored to fit in with the decorations and she was saying we would ruin the photographs even though i was playing during the reception and all the photos were already taken a sunburst jazz bass blue stratocaster and the red drum set aren't going to ruin your pictures darling i used to be a bridal consultant at a retail store which basically means i helped couples scan things onto their registry although the training for it just meant i knew how to use a scanner in the computer and my actual job had nothing to do with bridal shopping this one couple came in to start a new registry which quickly turned into only things the bride wanted anything the groom wanted to put down on the registry was deemed as childish stupid ugly unpractical never going to be used i was cringing during the entire appointment she kept asking for my input opinion on everything and i felt so bad for this guy his bride to be seemed so selfish and entitled couldn't believe the fact that he was soon to be married to this woman the poor man just wanted a waffle maker who doesn't want waffles oh i work as a wedding server awesome job i love it as soon as someone says bradazilla this one story where the manager of our hotel had to shut down the wedding halfway through comes to mind this was the bridal zilla of all the bridal zillas i've ever seen there were a lot of little things leading up that were casual bridezilla until the wedding took a sharp turn at one point she accused the wedding server staff of stealing her veil then the manager found it in her room and also showed her the card swipes to her room proving only she had been in the room that day about 20 minutes later she was screaming at some poor front desk employee accusing her of stealing her wedding boots manager intervened and after a long talk the photographer told them he had a photo of the boots on the staircase of the church and asked if she had worn them since when she said no she told our place it was our job to have picked them up and made sure she had them the church was not related to our place at all then shortly after she started opening the wedding gifts frantically inside the ballroom and screaming at anyone and everyone guests included saying someone stole her wedding certificate after that our manager gathered the wedding staff and told us to take off our uniform jackets empty them in front of him then to clock out and go home which we all did none of us stole anything and we heard next day the maid of honor had the certificate and after we left the wedding was shut down completely room left as is for the bride to come back to in the morning i was at the wedding of an ex-boyfriend several years ago and he had planned and practiced signing a frank sinatra song to his new wife he went up and took the mick and with the band backing him up began singing the song i can't remember what it was his new wife suddenly stomped across the dance floor and up on the stage grabbed the mick from him and said i hate that ducking song and i don't want to hear it they were divorced about a year later retired master seamstress checking in not bred azila but mom zilla i was making her daughter a custom buyer's cut gown and had limited fitting time because the bride lived one state over now buyers cut gowns are the bill to begin we mom and i would work on details between fittings i would say our working relationship got very frosty each time the bride came for a fitting she lost weight hate measures don't lie and she was not a big girl to begin with mum would scream that her daughter did not lose any weight after the third fitting third fight and the third rebuild of a very complicated gown i finished it and told them to take the gown and do what they wanted with it it was gorgeous but hung loose the girl lost over three inches over the course of 7-8 weeks i lost hours of my life and the dollar sign dollar sign for the work the deposit took care of the materials 140 per yard silk venice lace so there is that as a recent bride i was taken aback by the presumptuousness of several wedding vendors about my role in wedding planning and my thinking solely because i was the bride no dudes i wanted to elope and my husband wanted the wedding management here you have no idea the sense of entitlement that walks into my store i would consider us the walmart of weddings we cater to everyone from bums who smell like piss to rich nobodies who think they're somebody i've seen it all these dresses are cheap to these dresses are too expensive i'm a rational person and being part of management team means i'm trusted to make important decisions and enforce policy all sales are final depending of course but you have to have one great excuse to get a penny out of me the best by best i mean craziest excuse yet was a spouse who had her wedding coordinator going to refund the items because she was in a psyche ward after trying to kill her sister when she announced she was pregnant with the groom's baby at the bridal shower we refunded everyone but the sister who was ironically the maid of honor and of course i always make a special exception for sudden death and it does unfortunately happen a woman waited outside of our work for a co-manager because she wouldn't return her dress which turned into a fist fight which turned into the bride having a black eye and spending time in jail i've had women come and drunk and throw up in fitting rooms i've had to call the police on a few occasions about a bum lingering in our parking lot with a knife women have pissed themselves or bled into wedding gowns fitting rooms the bathrooms are a nightmare to clean because the floor is always sticky with piss did i mention our store only caters to women and devil children have come and gone children pouring cement into the toilets running around the store knocking t stands over mannequins displays etc sometimes on themselves we have clear doors and i can not tell you the amount of times young children have ran straight into them at full speed unmonitored kids locking the front doors or physically preventing other customers from coming in let's not even get started on the screaming or crying or even the fact that we have a fitting room with mirrors for walls that kids with sticky hands feel compelled to touch with every part of their body we are not like say yes to the dress people need to stop asking there is no champagne or liquor allowed in the establishment there is no food or drink allowed on the showroom floor people will still hide it and do it anyways there is this damn commercial that highlights an amazing 99 dress sale but forget to mention that each store has maybe six dresses in that price bracket oh but please make the entire commercial about the sale and showcase women in dresses upwards of six hundred dollars which really isn't that bad if you consider how expensive weddings are women come in and are spending thousands on their wedding and are shocked at the price of a gown that hasn't been mass produced for the popular since the 1800s please when i say we are the walmart of weddings i can point you to 10 other places with gowns upwards of 25 000 our most expensive dress caps are 2 800 which is still a lot by my standards but so are weddings in general and you don't really need either to celebrate a successful union don't get me mistaken i have my own wedding planned out to the last seconds and i appreciate the ideas and symbolisms behind a lot of the celebrations within but it's not the most important thing in life that's about it there's tons more i can say but it's one of my only days off and i don't want to spend it talking about work edit if you made a guess about what store i'm talking about you're probably 99 right second edit i know walmart might be a bad word and i don't use it in front of customers but considering we greet everyone at the door accept everyone as they are and have tons of missed wedding stuff i like to think we are in a positive way similar to a walmart third edit well my highest comment is one that turned from a story to a rant to a jumble of things that frustrate me sorry about my wording my grammar and everything else visually unpleasant about my post but thanks for reading and voting i love my job and weddings can be beautiful symbolic affairs that can take your breath away don't let the little things discourage you or bring you down every bride can have a beautiful day no matter her ideologies size race societal status or financial status a word of advice to any future brides don't sweat the little things worked for a wedding photographer here wonderful couple seemed made in heaven their wedding album without picks cost 2k thing was made from mirrored glass weighed a ton it was my job to order the 68 x 10s the bride wanted used this album had no protective sleeves so every single pick had to be sprayed with a chemical coating and left to dry in dust free area if it did not dry with a smooth dust-free finish i had to remove the chemical coating and try again i spent most of that week in a tiny closet-sized room in full respirator mask and protective gloves and eyewear spraying those damn pics but my god i have to say it was the best job ever when done this couple spent over five thousand dollars on that one album doubt it was gorgeous dart and they divorced before the year was up done i used to work at a jewelry store this young guy college age came in one day to look at engagement rings very polite asking good questions you could tell he'd been considering this for some time as i'm helping him and showing him some rings in his budget she walks in she's wearing a t-shirt from the high school senior class from the previous year and she comes over by him oh my god were you seriously considering that ring ugh it's so ugly besides it looks just like my last engagement ring how i wish i could have told him to dump her run for the hills and don't look back i worked at a high-end bridal shop in my early twenties one day i had a bride to be shopping for a gown and she had brought her mom aunt and sister who had just become a new mom with her to her appointment the sister was obviously a little jealous that attention was no longer being lavished on her and her new baby and instead the bride was the now the center of attention as i was fitting the bride in a 2 500 lazaro bridal gown the sister decided to change her newborns diaper in the dressing room and proceeded to hold the it filled diaper up to the gold hued gown and exclaimed look the colors almost match i excused myself from the room for fresh air and to regain composure in my experience the brides were rarely the problem the family was i worked at a mom pop shop we had a bride who was polish who my boss called polish princess she wasn't my bride but they picked a very bad consultant for her made worse by the fact that this girl wanted stuff added to her dress that wasn't done by the manufacturer so we had to do it all in house to give you an example she wanted lights those tube lights i think that's what they are called all around the bottom half of a dress that we had already spliced with two different dresses side note my boss loved anything that meant money in a hoe we spend months fixing and refitting this dress because she not only lost 45 pounds from her first time being measured which brought her four dress sizes less than her original she also got a massive boob job brush care well after finally fitting her into her gown on the last week she decided the lights that took our poor 70-year-old sempstress two months to sew in looked tacky she was crying and throwing herself at her mother in a tantrum screaming in polish all this crazy it she ripped the bottom of the dress and ultimately had to buy a dress from david's bridal because my boss finally got smart and kicked her out just a mess she made our seamstress cry the edge baker here i wasn't present for the freak out but it was my fault so a few months back i had a bride who wanted a navy to white zombie cake something like this made with white sponge now dark rich colors like that in white cake ducking suck they always taste terrible because they have so much gel coloring in them to get them right however you can do it if they're willing to have the dark layers be chocolate navy is especially easy thanks to blue velvet i tell her this when we're planning but i want white cake i tell her i'll do all but the last few in white sponge she agrees and i make the damn thing and drop it off i come back to pick up the staging stuff the next day only to find my whole ducking cake sitting there apparently when they cut into the thing and fed it to each other she freaked out over it being chocolate and refused to let any of the cake be served apparently she forgot that she had agreed to have the bottom tier have two layers of blue velvet so she threw a massive ducking temper tantrum over the cake being wrong and how i ruined her wedding then locked herself in the bridal suite she wouldn't have been a little psychopath and let the staff cut the cake like they should have she would have seen that ninety percent of the cake was white sponge like she wanted i am a florist and service to bradzilla and groom without a hitch on my end on their end they had to go out of state to get married because they had protective orders against each other why did i read this as welding shop workers i was really confused as to how many weddings needed something welded not 30 minutes ago i had someone accuse our death taylor of recording her on his phone as she tried on dresses and walked around in them he was facetiming his wife as he walked through the store he was signing too she was very embarrassed but not enough to apologize to any of us for screaming through the store as an aside i feel bad for anyone who has a bad wedding experience it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing hopefully granted i was only in charge of drinks food and the groomsman suits but it was beautiful and well planned but duck it cost so much money hello dear friends i worked as a banquet server at a ritzy riverfront hotel people come from all over to have expensive overpriced weddings seriously i'm jaded from attending so many so needless to say many of our brides were bradazillas to some extreme our summer season is very expensive usually our silicone brides get married there in the offseason to save some cash one local bride that i will forever remember went absolutely bat at crazy before the wedding even started one gromsman left because he couldn't stand her demands we were all in the ballroom setting up as we normally do at this particular wedding she had a aussie wedding planner who set the center prices which were pretty general country theme the bride storms in literally has a temper tantrum that they are not right the candle was supposed to be on the left not the right we fix it no problem even though it was not us but her drunk wedding planner who said them now you'd think that would be all but no one of her bridesmaid lost her bouquet right before the ceremony instead of troubleshooting she completely berates and humiliates her bridesmaid start stomping her feet saying a siddha die like a two-year-old this was over and over again every little detail was wrong in some way shape or form needless to say i was so glad i wasn't responsible for the bride and groom's table that day i read one on hell of a wedding of a bride who kept gaining weight and would scream each time the wedding dress fit wasn't the same as the previous fitting appointment claiming that the store was switching out different dresses each time ripping her off or something ugh not a wedding shop worker but at the wedding when it happened as she was walking up the aisle in her dress the bride tripped over her gown and instead of just getting up and moving on she let loose an absolute huge tirade of cursing and screaming at everyone when her dad tried to console her she just got up slugger her dad in the face and started just throwing at evert where screaming about this mother ducking wreck of a day i'll kill that notch for making the gown too long what ate you looking at earlier notch of a wife is a [ __ ] she just lost him and proceeded to rip up her own dress and run out of the church half naked into the rain i mean i know the stress is hybrid god damn she lost her ducking mind my experience with the bridezilla happened at my great-aunt's house she has a private lake and a lovely set up for a small country style outdoor wedding the mother of the groom was a close friend of hers so my aunt was happy to open up her home for the event i got the feeling leading up to the wedding that the groom's family didn't care much for the bride and after witnessing her throwing a temper tantrum over the placement of the food table because it started to rain i kinda started to see why listening to the way she talked to everyone around her appalled me she was a complete spoiled brat and really was lucky that everyone didn't just leave the wedding completely i wouldn't have blamed them a bit however the worst was the fact that she decided that she wanted her bridesmaids to walk barefoot in the muddy wet grass after she had them buy new boots to wear specifically with their dresses anyone who has ever bought cowboy boots knows that they are upwards of one hundred dollars and she picked out pink ones to match their pink dresses all five of the bridesmaids had to buy these boots on top of whatever they had to pay for the dress and she decides 10 minutes before the wedding starts that she doesn't want them to wear them of course everyone complies with her and pacifies her and the wedding goes well although it got pretty tense during the speak now forever hold your peace part not surprised to hear that the marriage didn't make it to six months she was the most selfish person i've ever met i'm convinced that she didn't want to get married at all just wanted all the attention on her bridal consultant here my most memorable appointment was a party that showed up completely it's to the wind hammered it wasn't unusual for bridal parties to have a little tailgate style party in our parking lot before coming into our store often they'd have mimosas or a shot or two to loosen up before the scary gown search this party must have finished a full bottle of whiskey between the five of them they didn't appear too sloppy when we first got started but about half an hour into the appointment it was pretty obvious that they were way too drunk to be in the setting they were in i had to prop the bride up with her nose in the corner of her fitting room to lace her corsets because she couldn't stand and each time we stepped out onto the stage the bridesmaids would scream beat romania style until they were red in the face eventually my manager came to me and said very sternly sell this girl and get them out of here the appointment ended when she fell for a gown 700 over budget her drunkest bridesmaid swiped her own credit card to cover it and then one of them not sure which sprayed a brown bodily fluid of some kind over our entire toilet opposite of what you were asking but i was working at a major hotel on the las vegas strip when a wedding party came to one of the main bars after a very nice wedding this was after the reception so they changed into non-wedding clothes and the bride proceeded to get drunk and get flirty with new husband security was called and she was asked to leave because prostitutes are not allowed to solicit on the property the aftermath was no bueno but she did get all of her expenses calmed i used to be a photographer's assistant back in high school i remember this one bride before the wedding kept yelling at my boss about me helping with photos she didn't want some stupid kid to ruin her wedding photos she also kept calling her soon to be heavy berating him i ended up getting sent to do the groom's photos while my boss handled bradezilla as soon as i walked into the room where the groom and his friends were getting ready i almost puked because it smelled like a distillery the guy was on the phone with bradzilla on speaker while smoking weed and shaking his head i could barely walk through the room with all the alcohol bottles on the floor and suitcases everywhere when i worked at a fabric store if i heard someone mention a wedding i would intentionally go to another department to work without fail every bride to walk in needed 25 yards of a discontinued fabric and she didn't have the sku just a little sample piece of it which would take hours to work out and if you couldn't magically summon it then she'd flip out because her wedding was in three days and now there were no table runners after a while you just stop even feeling sorry for them husband of a wedding planner here we had a bride flip batted crazy on us because people was not aligned correctly when she was arriving with a horse carriage before the ceremony i have worked in bridal for six years i really get along with most of the women that come in but there have been some crazies one off the top of my head was mad that she couldn't get a refund so she called up to the salon and threatened to come in and cut all the dresses up with scissors and blow the place up also drunk groups of bridesmaids cause a lot of the trouble had to call the cops on one of the girls before because she was freaking the hell out my former boss thinks she was on something else and not just drunk worked at a hotel where we were hosting a wedding party the bride called the front desk guy into his face he asked her to apologize she doubled down told him i don't apologize to no n so he went and got a manager to talk to them well this bride apparently hates a lot of people because she tripled down at this point saying why are they sending some sp to talk to me we cancelled their room block and the atrium they had reserved for their ceremony and reception with no refund which they tried complaining and yelling at us about but we didn't flip from the gossip i heard they ended up having the ceremony at a courthouse and the reception ended up being at a tilted kilt scottish version of hooters this yes it was the only place with space available edit when i say scottish hooters i mean it's an american-based scottish themed version of hooters where the servers wear crop top blouses and many kilts it's in the same vein as twin peaks and hooters in that it submits women to objectification with a side of cheap beer-ended food not a scottish based restaurant or anything like that a local wedding shop that had been in operation for years in my area had to close down this place was very well known and a lot of people i knew went there for wedding dresses from dresses act i didn't get my wedding stuff there but had been in growing up and was pretty popular in the 2014 there were a few us cases of ebola i think most of us know that one of the ladies who came down with it was a nursing quarter from a patient who had ebola she for some reason got the okay to travel came to the area i live and went to this particular bridal shop when it was confirmed she had ebola the shop closed down for three weeks to be professionally cleaned and detoxed only word i could think of after the stop opened back up from the three-week shutdown they were never able to recover months later they announced they couldn't afford to stay open and were struggling the stigma of the lady with ebola being in the shop drove people away oh and the lady with elbower tried suing the bridal shop when they wouldn't refund her and her bridal party's deposits when she cancelled her orders [Music] you

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