63. Weekend Away
A friend from college. We spent three months planning her bridal shower. She was not at all involved. When she finally looked at the plans 1 week before the party, she said it “wasn’t what she’d had in mind.”
She then delays the wedding, which every one of her 400 guests had already made travel accommodations for so that she can have her dream bridal shower.
She plans a $25,000 weekend in Vegas. Booked a presidential suite for herself and economy rooms for us, which she expected us to double up in. Wanted us to pay for the trip between us all evenly (25,000/7=3570 per person). And this isn’t even including her!! She said “You’re my bridesmaids, you’re kind of supposed to pay for my bridal shower.”
I didn’t have that kind of money at the time and told her so. Same with five other bridesmaids (the other two were her sisters.) So she and her sisters have the bridal party on their own.
Day of the wedding, she informed me I needed to dye my hair (and pay for it myself) because my hair color was too similar to hers and it would be distracting. “There aren’t enough redheads so I was thinking you could be a redhead.”
To top it all off, she informed us after the ceremony that to save money, we wouldn’t be served a meal along with the rest of the guests. “You already had the privilege of being in my wedding, so, what more can you ask for?”
I didn’t contact her again after the wedding. She reached out to me to ask how to return my gift for store credit. I never replied.