So there's this new show called Bridezillas, and like many reality TV shows, it's basically documenting a bunch of train wrecks.
It pisses me off, though, because even though these women were probably high maintenance before, our society tells girls that their wedding day should be a fairy tale, the most perfect and beautiful day of their lives. Like with most things in this country, there's a whole industry making sure we never forget it, and making lots and lots of money in the bargain. Like with pregnancy and childbirth, which, I hear, is only just now becoming so idealized that people like me, who ended up having to have Cesareans, feel like failures after trying to do everything right. If you have been told forever that you must have this beautiful wedding day of your dreams, and you get stressed out during the course of planning it because, of course, nothing is perfect, then of course, there is something wrong with YOU, and not with the culture that has basically made you crazed telling you that you needed to achieve perfection in the first place. I have a problem with that.
Of course, these women on the show are particularly out of control, but I had a "friend" call me a bridezilla before my wedding, and honestly, in hindsight, the only thing that stuck out for me in my treatment of her was that I didn't cater to her as I had throughout our friendship. So for once, it wasn't all about her and her constant and ongoing drama, which continues to this day, and is another long, boring story.
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