Bridezilla struck....

There is something about a wedding that causes every bride-to-be to go just a little crazy....

I have always prided myself on being level-headed, calm, and rational. However the last 6 months or so leading up to the wedding, saw me become just ever-so-slightly irrational, irritable, extra-sensitive and frustrated.

Irrational - Usually when it comes to buying an outfit, a woman will justify the spend on a "per-wear" basis. Eg. If I spend $150 on a shirt, but it is a shirt I will wear to work, and given that we work around 50 weeks a year (assume I take 2 weeks holiday), and I might wear the shirt every 2nd week, that would be $150/25 = $6. $6 per wear is pretty good. In comparison, for my wedding dress, I am spending somewhere around 10 times more than I usually would on a dress. This is THE dress, that I will walk down the aisle in. But this is also a dress that I will only ever wear ONCE.

Irritable - "The shop doesn't have the paper I want and there are too many people and we're not getting served. Let's just go!"
"No, there are too many fonts on the invitation, I want it to be as simple as possible, the main feature is the paper!"
"The shirt's material is so thin, it's crap." (This was while we were looking for the groom and groomsmen's outfits.)

You get the picture.

Extra Sensitive - "I can't believe she's using the same idea (as I am) for the bombonnieres!"
"No one's allowed to pick the same bouquet as I have." (This one could fall in the "irrational" category!) "Why can't they come to my wedding? Don't they love me enough? Aren't I a good enough friend?" (A bride forgets that the world does not revolve around her, and that sometimes people have a pretty genuine reason for not being able to make it to her wedding.)

Frustrated - "I can't believe they cancelled with such short notice, we have just paid for the reception!"

Anyway, I started this entry in August last year, and have just finished it today. The descriptions above as things happened were just too good to delete, so I had to publish it, even after the fact.

I have sinced realised that really, on the day, nothing matters except you and the person you are marrying. I found myself wondering why in the world did I care so much about the little details on the day? And things that had to be done on the day just get done. Our bridesmaids & groomsmen and family members were just fantastic, and so was our MC and his wife, going way past their call of duty.

So, a little tip for all brides and grooms-to-be - surround yourself with people you can rely on and people you trust. Make sure they are up for the tasks you assign them leading up to, and on the day of the wedding. They will either make your life seriously difficult, or seriously easy.