Guest Post: Attention seeking bridesmaids!

This is a guest post from YNC from YNC Lounge.

Attention seeking bridesmaids- you will know them by their behaviour

Your wedding day is suppose to be the best day in your life, but what happens when you have bridesmaids that just don’t care and want to be the centre of attention on your very own special day. Why? I don’t know. I guess we just have to find out after this post and I have given them a perfect name, they are called attention seeking bridesmaids. Are you one of them? Maybe yes or maybe no, you might be an attention seeking bridesmaid if you happen to fall into any one of the following categories:

a)Hairstyle: I have seen bridesmaid’s that want the same hairstyle and makeup as the bride, are you kidding me, no am not kidding. It happened at a wedding I went to two years ago, there was this bridesmaid that requested she has the same hair piece and makeup as the bride, everyone wasn’t too surprised when she came to the wedding with her own choice of hairstyle and it was even worse to find out she was the brides best friend. Now, that’s a bad friend right there.

b)Dress: Being the bride, you have to outshine your girls, yes it’s not bad to say so, it’s your very own special day and your girls should be polite enough to wear whatever you pick for them, can’t they just be happy with you for one day and stop questioning your instincts. For example: You want all the girls in a particular dress, all long and flowing, you have girl A obeying your order and the next girl B goes to her tailor to have the dress trimmed to her taste and style, in fact you wonder why she has her dress going from an evening dress to a cocktail dress. It happens, I have seen girls do it .

c)Shoes: You told all the girls that they had to wear silver shoes and one of your girls shows up with a black shoe. Why? You wonder, she just wants to be the centre of attention and make you mad, you have her removed from the bridal party at the last minute and she curses you out. Yeah we have bridesmaidzilla, where can we find such a word in the English dictionary. You tell me.

d)Not listening, ignoring her calls and showing up late: A lot of people think that most brides change to something else when it comes to planning their perfect wedding, they hate to see their friend shinning and getting all the attention on her special day, hence they want to make her mad by not listening to her tips, showing up late and just doing the unthinkable by ignoring her calls. Some girls even go as far as repaying a friend evil for evil based on something that occurred in the past. What a shame!

e)Not smiling: Attention seeking bridesmaid would go as far as not smiling to ruin your picture or spreading rumours during the photography section, they feel forced and jealous of you that they would strive to spoil your perfect picture moment by not smiling. Some even go as far as saying, “your white dress doesn’t look sexy or does your dress make you look fat?” Sucks right.

It’s best for every bride to beware of attention seeking bridesmaid knowing that you can never really tell if your sister or best friend might end up changing on your special D-day for worse. My best advice is for brides to choose their bridal party based on character and true friendship as opposed to numbers and looks. There’s more to it people and you want the very best on your special day.