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* ''Fanfic/SVWishes'' has [[spoiler:Shang Qinghua]] as one, ''entirely unintentionally'' and without even knowing it's ''his'' wedding, in his determination to ensure that [[spoiler:Mobei-jun's]] wedding is perfect as a display of devotion to him and to ensure that his king's as-yet-unknown-to-him bride has no reason to be displeased with hisvhumble self. [[spoiler:Discovering that he's they bride just make him adopt the selfishness part of the trope for himself.]]

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* ''Fanfic/SVWishes'' has [[spoiler:Shang Qinghua]] as one, ''entirely unintentionally'' and without even knowing it's ''his'' wedding, in his determination to ensure that [[spoiler:Mobei-jun's]] wedding is perfect as a display of devotion to him and to ensure that his king's as-yet-unknown-to-him bride has no reason to be displeased with hisvhumble his humble self. [[spoiler:Discovering that he's they the bride just make him adopt the selfishness part of the trope for himself.]]

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*''Fanfic/SVWishes'' has [[spoiler:Shang Qinghua]] as one, ''entirely unintentionally'' and without even knowing it's ''his'' wedding, in his determination to ensure that [[spoiler:Mobei-jun's]] wedding is perfect as a display of devotion to him and to ensure that his king's as-yet-unknown-to-him bride has no reason to be displeased with hisvhumble self. [[spoiler:Discovering that he's they bride just make him adopt the selfishness part of the trope for himself.]]



** Note that despite their profession, Bitoo and Shruti only seemed to get confronted with bridezilla antics at this point: in their "Rising star" and "fast decadence" montages their professional troubles were less related with demanding clients and more with their ability to getting and provide them.

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** Note that despite their profession, Bitoo and Shruti only seemed to get confronted with bridezilla antics at this point: in their "Rising star" Star" and "fast decadence" "Fast Decadence" montages their professional troubles were less related with demanding clients and more with their ability to getting and provide them.



* In ''Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara'', Natasha becomes increasingly this, hot the horror of her fiance Kabir. It starts innocently enough, with her informing him of every thing she is doing for the ceremony and party even while he is in Spain in a bachelor trip with his friends, then she starts openly talking about leaving her career and becoming a housewife after the wedding (when he met her through their jobs and was looking for them working together)… but the real turning point was that she traveled all from India and crashed his trip because she saw Laila, the group's very beautiful diving instructor, traveling with them and became convinced that Kabir was cheating (Laila was actually hitting on Kabir's friend Arjun and she has to be the one who assuages the irate bride that her groom was loyal and still very intending to marry her) [[spoiler:Thing is, Kabir doesn't really want to marry Natasha: he initially proposed to her accidentally, and then went with it because of a mix of social pressure and genuinely liking her, only for her bridezilla antics scaring him and making him realize they are not very compatible at all. He has to be literally thrown into the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona to ever admit this to his friends, who in return make him promise to talk to her. The talking isn't shown, but during the credits, which happens during Laila and Arjun's wedding, Kabir and Natasha are shown to be AmicableExes, with Natasha even having gotten a new boyfriend.]]

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* In ''Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara'', Natasha becomes increasingly this, hot to the horror of her fiance Kabir. It starts innocently enough, with her informing him of every thing she is doing for the ceremony and party even while he is in Spain in a bachelor trip with his friends, then she starts openly talking about leaving her career and becoming a housewife after the wedding (when he met her through their jobs and was looking for them working together)… but the real turning point was that she traveled all from India and crashed his trip because she saw Laila, the group's very beautiful diving instructor, traveling with them and became convinced that Kabir was cheating (Laila was actually hitting on Kabir's friend Arjun and she has to be the one who assuages the irate bride that her groom was loyal and still very intending to marry her) [[spoiler:Thing is, Kabir doesn't really want to marry Natasha: he initially proposed to her accidentally, and then went with it because of a mix of social pressure and genuinely liking her, only for her bridezilla antics scaring him and making him realize they are not very compatible at all. He has to be literally thrown into the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona to ever admit this to his friends, who in return make him promise to talk to her. The talking isn't shown, but during the credits, which happens during Laila and Arjun's wedding, Kabir and Natasha are shown to be AmicableExes, with Natasha even having gotten a new boyfriend.]]
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This is a relatively recent trope, dating not much further back than TheSeventies and only becoming well-known in TheNineties. Before then, only the wealthy had huge elaborate weddings, which were social occasions planned and paid for by the bride's parents. Everyone else got hitched at the local church or courthouse or even at home, with the main splurge (if any) being a honeymoon tour to visit relatives afterward.

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This is a relatively recent trope, dating not much further back than TheSeventies and only becoming well-known in TheNineties. Before then, World War II, only the wealthy had huge elaborate weddings, which were social occasions planned and paid for by the bride's parents. Everyone else got hitched at the local church or courthouse or even at home, with the main splurge (if any) being a honeymoon tour to visit relatives afterward.
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Upward mobility after World War II created the wedding industry as we know it today, with bridal magazines advertising fancy wedding wares to middle- and working-class couples who could now afford at least ''some'' of the trappings. But unlike upper-class families that are already used to planning large-scale social events or at least knowing when to hire planners, these couples were often surprised at how much work (and money) goes into a big wedding. The anxiety of the "perfect day" meeting the cold rock of reality can get the better of anyone, and so the legend of the fire-breathing, rampaging bride was born.

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Upward mobility after World War II created the wedding industry as we know it today, with bridal magazines advertising fancy wedding wares to middle- and working-class couples who could now afford at least ''some'' of the trappings. But unlike upper-class families that are were already used to planning large-scale social events or at least knowing knew when to hire planners, these couples were often surprised at how much work (and money) goes went into a big wedding. The anxiety of the "perfect day" meeting the cold rock of reality can get the better of anyone, and so the legend of the fire-breathing, rampaging bride was born.
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Upward mobility after World War II created the wedding industry as we know it today, with bridal magazines advertising fancy wedding wares to middle- and working-class couples who could now afford at least ''some'' of the trappings. But unlike upper-class families, for whom event planning at this scale was old hat (or who could afford staff to handle the details), these couples were often surprised at how much work (and money) goes into a big wedding. The anxiety and disappointment of the "perfect day" meeting the cold rock of reality can get the better of anyone, and so the legend of the fire-breathing, rampaging bride was born.

Uses of this trope tend to split between 'decent woman showing her worst side due to stress' and 'raging {{narcissist}} whose true nature is now plain for all to see.' The first type of Bridezilla may recover once the wedding is over and the marriage begins; the second will [[AwfulWeddedLife only get worse]]. Also, ''any'' wedding participant can merit the '-zilla' suffix if they hijack the day to gratify their own egos. The bride is simply assumed to be the most likely to get ScaledUp because she is the centerpiece of the ceremony, which she may have been anticipating long before she ever met the groom.

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Upward mobility after World War II created the wedding industry as we know it today, with bridal magazines advertising fancy wedding wares to middle- and working-class couples who could now afford at least ''some'' of the trappings. But unlike upper-class families, for whom event families that are already used to planning large-scale social events or at this scale was old hat (or who could afford staff least knowing when to handle the details), hire planners, these couples were often surprised at how much work (and money) goes into a big wedding. The anxiety and disappointment of the "perfect day" meeting the cold rock of reality can get the better of anyone, and so the legend of the fire-breathing, rampaging bride was born.

Uses of this trope tend to split between 'decent woman showing her worst ugly side due to stress' and 'raging {{narcissist}} whose true nature is now plain for all to see.' The first type of Bridezilla may recover once she finally looks her future spouse in the wedding is over face and the marriage begins; says her vows; the second will [[AwfulWeddedLife only get worse]]. Also, ''any'' wedding participant can merit the '-zilla' suffix if they hijack the day to gratify their own egos. The bride is simply assumed to be the most likely to get ScaledUp because she is the centerpiece of the ceremony, which she may have been anticipating long before she ever met the groom.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' has this implied for Pepa, who wanted everything to be perfect on her wedding day, only to be enraged when Bruno apparently predicted that it was going to rain[[note]]it's later revealed he was only making a casual observation, not an actual prophecy[[/note]]. This caused Pepa to stress out and whip up a hurricane and blame Bruno for it ever since. Her husband Felix, meanwhile, has no hard feelings about the day because it's still [[HappilyMarried the day he got to marry his beloved wife.]]


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* On ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow'', George takes over planning a wedding for a friend of the family who is a tyrant about her wedding because she wants it to be the perfect day. She demands specific shades of colors on her invitations, barges into George's house in the middle of the night, and even insults Ernie as his "chunky assistant". On her wedding day, Angie finally has it and tells her that she can't stress herself out wanting everything to be perfect because that's just not how life works. Suddenly, a freak thunderstorm hits, forcing everyone to run for cover, and the bride-to-be is left to howl in despair at her day being ruined.
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* ''Literature/SecretSanta2007'': In ''Be Mine'', AlphaBitch Claudia's sister Pam drops by the boutique where Jennifer works to shop for dresses. She dismisses the best gowns in the store because they don't cost as much Vera Wang gowns, openly admits she doesn't want her bridesmaids to look too good, is reluctant to listen to anything a shop assistant like Jennifer has to say, and leaves without thanking Jennifer for her time.
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* ''VideoGame/Persona5Tactica'': Exaggerated by the very first ArcVillain, Tyrant Marie. All she wants is to get married. To this end, she takes over a town in Metaverse, turns it into her Kingdom, brainwashes its inhabitants into mindlessly worshipping her, and forces them to work to make a ''perfect'' wedding. Which apparently includes riding around in a tank with spiked tracks and using rebels as ingredients for a cake.
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* ''Website/NotAlwaysRomantic'' has it all; Bridezillas, Groomzillas, and Mother-of-Groom-zillas.

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* ''Website/NotAlwaysRomantic'' has it all; Bridezillas, Groomzillas, and Mother-of-Groom-zillas. The most famous story involves a Bridezilla who was ''spectacularly'' insensitive to her little sister (You got pregnant? You can't be a bridesmaid, you're too fat. You miscarried? Oh, I guess you can be in the wedding since you're not fat anymore) gets slapped down by her mother, who refuses to pay for the wedding and gets it canceled.
* [=r/Bridezillas=] on Website/{{Reddit}} is dedicated to stories about bridezillas.
* [[http://www.etiquettehell.com/content/eh_wedding/bridezillas/ebridezilla.shtml Etiquette Hell]] has a lot of stories about bad behaviour at weddings from brides, grooms and guests alike.
* Website/YouTube personality [[WebVideo/PossumReviews Dr. Shaym]] comments about a particular case of a Bridezilla who expected her friends to pay for her $60,000 wedding as an extreme case of the "entitled princess syndrome".
* The subject of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpLnPEVl538 one episode]] of ''WebVideo/TargetWomen'', which makes fun of reality shows like the aforementioned ''Bridezillas''. This is also apparently what Sarah wants her own wedding to be like, complete with a Franchise/{{Godzilla}} impression.

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* ''Website/NotAlwaysRomantic'' has it all; Bridezillas, Groomzillas, and Mother-of-Groom-zillas. The most famous story involves a Bridezilla who was ''spectacularly'' insensitive to her little sister (You got pregnant? You can't be a bridesmaid, you're too fat. You miscarried? Oh, I guess you can be in the wedding since you're not fat anymore) gets slapped down by her mother, who refuses to pay for the wedding and gets it canceled.
* [=r/Bridezillas=] on Website/{{Reddit}} is dedicated to stories about bridezillas.
* [[http://www.etiquettehell.com/content/eh_wedding/bridezillas/ebridezilla.shtml Etiquette Hell]] has a lot of stories about bad behaviour at weddings from brides, grooms and guests alike.

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* ''Website/NotAlwaysRomantic'' has it all; Bridezillas, Groomzillas, and Mother-of-Groom-zillas. The most famous story involves a Bridezilla who was ''spectacularly'' insensitive to her little sister (You got pregnant? You can't be a bridesmaid, you're too fat. You miscarried? Oh, I guess you can be in the wedding since you're not fat anymore) gets slapped down by her mother, who refuses to pay for the wedding and gets it canceled.
* [=r/Bridezillas=] on Website/{{Reddit}} is dedicated to stories about bridezillas.
* [[http://www.etiquettehell.com/content/eh_wedding/bridezillas/ebridezilla.shtml Etiquette Hell]] has a lot of stories about bad behaviour at weddings from brides, grooms and guests alike.



* Website/YouTube personality [[WebVideo/PossumReviews Dr. Shaym]] comments about a particular case of a Bridezilla who expected her friends to pay for her $60,000 wedding as an extreme case of the "entitled princess syndrome".
* The subject of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpLnPEVl538 one episode]] of ''WebVideo/TargetWomen'', which makes fun of reality shows like the aforementioned ''Bridezillas''. This is also apparently what Sarah wants her own wedding to be like, complete with a Franchise/{{Godzilla}} impression.
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* [[http://www.etiquettehell.com/content/eh_wedding/bridezillas/ebridezilla.shtml Etiquette Hell]] has a lot of stories about bad behaviour at weddings from brides, grooms and guests alike.
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Upward mobility after World War II created the wedding industry as we know it today, with bridal magazines advertising their wares to middle- and working-class couples who could now afford at least ''some'' of the trappings of a big fancy wedding. But unlike upper-class families, for whom event planning was old hat (or who could hire staff to handle the details), these couples were often surprised at how much work (and money) goes into a big wedding. The anxiety of the dream of the "perfect day" meeting the cold rock of reality can get the better of anyone, and so the legend of the fire-breathing, rampaging bride was born.

Uses of this trope tend to split between 'decent woman showing her bad side due to stress' and 'raging {{narcissist}} whose nature is now plain for everyone to see.' The former type of Bridezilla can recover once the wedding is over and the marriage begins; the second will [[AwfulWeddedLife only get worse]]. Also, ''any'' wedding participant can merit the '-zilla' title if they hijack the day to gratify their own egos. The bride is simply assumed to be the most likely candidate to get ScaledUp because she is the centerpiece of the ceremony, which she may have been dreaming of long before she ever met the groom.

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Upward mobility after World War II created the wedding industry as we know it today, with bridal magazines advertising their fancy wedding wares to middle- and working-class couples who could now afford at least ''some'' of the trappings of a big fancy wedding. trappings. But unlike upper-class families, for whom event planning at this scale was old hat (or who could hire afford staff to handle the details), these couples were often surprised at how much work (and money) goes into a big wedding. The anxiety of the dream and disappointment of the "perfect day" meeting the cold rock of reality can get the better of anyone, and so the legend of the fire-breathing, rampaging bride was born.

Uses of this trope tend to split between 'decent woman showing her bad worst side due to stress' and 'raging {{narcissist}} whose true nature is now plain for everyone all to see.' The former first type of Bridezilla can may recover once the wedding is over and the marriage begins; the second will [[AwfulWeddedLife only get worse]]. Also, ''any'' wedding participant can merit the '-zilla' title suffix if they hijack the day to gratify their own egos. The bride is simply assumed to be the most likely candidate to get ScaledUp because she is the centerpiece of the ceremony, which she may have been dreaming of anticipating long before she ever met the groom.

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* TruthInTelevision: [[http://www.etiquettehell.com/content/eh_wedding/bridezillas/ebridezilla.shtml Bridezilla stories at Etiquette Hell.]] (There is a ''lot'' of material here. Don't [[ArchivePanic panic]]. Just start at the most recent and nibble your way in. You'll come to love visiting the site on dull afternoons.)
* Averted in certain eastern nations, where the girl's ''family'' is traditionally responsible for planning the wedding. Even though brides sometimes choose to get involved, it's often considered a status symbol when she needs to arrive only on the day of the wedding. Aversion goes further in Southern India, where if the bride has a brother, the entire responsibility falls squarely on his shoulders. On rare occasions, may result in a ''[[SpearCounterpart groomzilla]]''.
* Historically in North America, at least among upper-class families, the bride's mother planned the wedding, the groom's mother planned the rehearsal dinner, and the groom planned the honeymoon. The bride literally had nothing to do but show up. A bride whose mother had died was pitied because she'd have to find another relative to plan her wedding. (As an unmarried woman she'd never be allowed to do it herself.)
* In certain Middle Eastern countries, the wedding is supposed to be the business of the ''groom's'' family. Or more precisely, the wedding ''reception/party'', at least among Muslims: in Islam, marriage is a contract, and the actual wedding is, erm, a contract signing. (In some cases, there are even contract negotiations.) In more traditional times, the "wedding" was a general community bash held that started small and at home (in the garden or on the roof) with the contract signing and then spilled out into the street, so planning was pointless: at a certain level, herding cats would be an easier proposition. In some cases, one just set up the tent in the street, put out the food,[[note]]And other stuff; depending on the community, booze or hash would often be available to all[[/note]] and maybe got a friend to dance or sing, and hoped for the best. Today, most Middle Easterners live in apartments--hardly the best venue for the more traditional sort of wedding--and as a result, the wealthy and middle class hold weddings at hotels (generally for wealthier types) or specialized halls (more middle-income), while the poor tend to still go with the "tent-in-the-street" option. This all takes some planning--even the tent option requires getting the informal permission of the neighbors if you don't want to piss anyone off[[note]]At the very least, making sure that people who need to go somewhere that day can leave the neighborhood without needing to run people over or know in advance so they reschedule things so they don't have to worry about the road being blocked[[/note]]--and so the expectation is that the groom's family arrange things (as part of the dower), and if the bride's family helps, it's seen as them being nice. As a result, you tend not to see Bridezilla or Groomzilla or Mother-of-the-Bridezilla, but rather an EscalatingWar between the families of various grooms to top the last wedding. This is particularly true among the rich, where tales of the truly obscene amounts of money they pour into these events (often taking the form "They paid ''how much'' to get Famous Singer X to play the wedding?") are common grist for the gossip mill.
* There have been a few news stories reporting the phenomenon of [[http://abcnews.go.com/US/single-bridezillas-wedding-planning-groom/story?id=15405082#.T9rq3VJKWSo "Single Bridezillas"]], which are women who have done a lot of their wedding arrangements -- buying the dress, selecting the flowers, making up invitations, hiring caterers, etc. -- before their boyfriend even proposes to them. In extreme cases, all of this is done before the Single Bridezilla ''even has a boyfriend''. While it's not unusual for someone to fantasize about their dream wedding and maybe window-shop once in awhile, these ladies already have the entire play-by-play of their wedding day planned out. This is typically seen as a huge red flag that the single bride-to-be wouldn't value her boyfriend's opinion.
* Anybody getting married quickly learns there's two sides to this trope. Essentially you're organizing a formal dinner for a large group of people, not a simple task, while juggling family politics and traditions and the needs of various guests for lodging and directions. People hire wedding planners for a reason.
* Asian weddings are this trope in spades. The average cost of a wedding in the Pakistani community in Great Britain is around £40,000 ($60,000), often more, and involves around three or four days' celebration and feasting. Islamic religious ceremony goes hand-in-hand with tribal and clan and family feuds/relationship, and a really lavish wedding is seen as a status symbol. It is not unknown for the women doing the planning to have informal melt-downs... [[note]]The Indian/Hindu side of the cold war is scarcely any less restrained - if anything, Hindu/Indian weddings are even more opulent and have even more scope for Bridezilla meltdowns.[[/note]]
* One story features a Canadian woman who [[https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bride-canceled-her-wedding-guests-204000103.html tweeted the story]] of how she and her fiancé came up short of their dream wedding and the bride went as far as to ask all her guests to pay an attendance fee of $1,500 to help fund the wedding. When no one would spare any money, the bride went ballistic, especially after her fiancé suggested a cheap Vegas wedding and her maid of honor insisted going by the budget, [[{{Hypocrite}} going as far as to accuse them all of being selfish]]. Eventually her fiancé left her and she went backpacking while [[NeverMyFault blaming her friends and family for ruining her relationship and wedding]].
* [[https://www.bridesblush.com/events/revenge-ruins-ex-wedding-tw/ This other had a guy who got revenge on his ex]] by getting her to turn into one of these. The woman, upon getting dumped after cheating on him, trashed his car, so two years later he sent her a message with a cryptic warning that he was getting her wedding dress stained in red. In the end, [[ParanoiaGambit she couldn't enjoy her own wedding because she was too busy fretting over the imminent ambush (that never came)]], and she ended up exposed as the nasty person she really was in front of everyone.
* [[https://old.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/2t51lo/update_my_57f_daughter_30f_is_getting_married_for/ This]] Website/{{Reddit}} post about a 30-year-old woman who had been [[SerialSpouse married and divorced]] twice already, and was engaged once again ([[FourthDateMarriage after only dating for a short while]]) to a 37-year-old DJ she met while on the rebound. Her well-to-do parents had paid for the first two weddings, the honeymoons, and the divorces (to the tune of about $400K), and they weren't too keen on paying for ''another'' wedding, honeymoon, and likely divorce, especially as they were nearing retirement. Redditors advised them to go with their instincts, and not give their daughter a dime, but they caved, and they gave her a budget of $12K for a dress and another $3K for a cake, hinting that she could do the whole wedding for that much. The daughter wasn't having any of this, and she pitched a fit, stormed out of her parents' house, and eloped with her fiancé, returning only to get her things. To add insult to injury, she called up her parents several months later, complaining that her husband was a deadbeat and they were still living with his roommates, and she wanted to file for divorce, and telling her parents that, if they had paid for the wedding she wanted and helped them buy a house (which they'd never discussed), this marriage might have lasted.
* [[https://abc7chicago.com/family/vegan-bride-uninvites-meat-eating-guests-from-wedding/5144493/ A vegan bride in 2019]] uninvited people (including her own mother) because they were unwilling or unable to swear off [[MeatVersusVeggies animal products]] not only for the wedding reception but ''for the rest of their lives.''
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* An ad for [[https://youtu.be/At2gypkmlJs Diet Dr. Pepper]] had a bride barking at her line of bridesmaids like a DrillSergeantNasty, "This is MY wedding. And in MY wedding, there are rules. Dresses must be in pristine condition, fingernails done and neat... ''are you eyeballing me, Martinez?''" Then she flounces away and the back of her wedding dress skirt falls off.

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* An ad for [[https://youtu.be/At2gypkmlJs Diet Dr. Pepper]] had a bride barking at her line of bridesmaids like a DrillSergeantNasty, "This is MY wedding. And in MY wedding, there are rules. Dresses must be in pristine condition, fingernails done and neat... ''are you eyeballing me, Martinez?''" Then she flounces away and the back of her wedding dress skirt falls off.



* In ''Film/TwentySevenDresses,'' the main character's younger sister exhibits some Bridezilla tendencies, but switches to full on Bridezilla mode when an article published in the ''Post'' describes her as a Bridezilla who is taking advantage of her sweet-natured, pushover older sister. The end result is the older sister snapping into a Bridesmaidzilla, complete with destroying the dress rehearsal like it was 1950s Tokyo.
* In ''Film/BandBaajaBaaraat'', wedding planners Bitoo and Shruti get reunited after their professional (and somewhat sentimental) break-up because they are hired by a very rich and very spoiled heiress who loved their former joint work and want them to do the same for her; in fact her main condition for hiring them was that they have to do it together or not get the job at all. Both accept since their separate ventures have left them full of debt. Later, they have to convince the girl against calling off the whole event in the middle of the celebrations for the simple reason that the Bollywood star hired for a dancing number has a last-hour accident and couldn't do his show.

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* In ''Film/TwentySevenDresses,'' the main character's younger sister exhibits some Bridezilla tendencies, tendencies but switches to full on full-on Bridezilla mode when an article published in the ''Post'' describes her as a Bridezilla who is taking advantage of her sweet-natured, pushover older sister. The end result is the older sister snapping into a Bridesmaidzilla, complete with destroying the dress rehearsal like it was 1950s Tokyo.
* In ''Film/BandBaajaBaaraat'', wedding planners Bitoo and Shruti get reunited after their professional (and somewhat sentimental) break-up because they are hired by a very rich and very spoiled heiress who loved their former joint work and want them to do the same for her; in fact fact, her main condition for hiring them was that they have to do it together or not get the job at all. Both accept since their separate ventures have left them full of debt. Later, they have to convince the girl against calling off the whole event in the middle of the celebrations for the simple reason that the Bollywood star hired for a dancing number has a last-hour accident and couldn't do his show.



* ''Film/TheWeddingYear:'' Downplayed with Mara's coworker Ellie. Ellie and her wedding party get sick from bad food at the rehearsal dinner and Ellie gets very hostile when the groom suggests canceling the wedding reception, while snapping at him for ordering the food that got them sick. By the wedding itself Ellie has calmed down, and she is understanding during Mara's cringeworthy, unrehearsed maid of honor speech (the original maid of honor was too sick to attend the wedding).
* In ''Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara'', Natasha becomes increasingly this, hot the horror of her fiance Kabir. It starts innocently enough, with her informing him of every thing she is doing for the ceremony and party even while he is in Spain in a bachelor trip with his friends, then she starts openly talking about leaving her career and becoming a housewife after the wedding (when he met her through their jobs and was looking for them working together)… but the real turning point was that she traveled all from India and crashed his trip because she saw Laila, the group's very beautiful diving instructor, traveling with them and became convinced that Kabir was cheating (Laila was actually hitting on Kabir's friend Arjun and she has to be the one who assuages the irate bride that her groom was loyal and still very intending to marry her) [[spoiler:Thing is, Kabir doesn't really want to marry Natasha: he initially proposed to her accidentally, and then went with it because of a mix of social pressure and genuinely liking her, only for her bridezilla antics scaring him and making him realize they are not very compatible at all. He has to be literally thrown into the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona to ever admit this to his friends, who in return make him promise to talk to her. The talking isn't shown, but during the credits, who happens during Laila and Arjun's wedding, Kabir and Natasha are shown to be AmicableExes, with Natasha even having gotten a new boyfriend.]]

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* ''Film/TheWeddingYear:'' Downplayed with Mara's coworker Ellie. Ellie and her wedding party get sick from bad food at the rehearsal dinner and Ellie gets very hostile when the groom suggests canceling the wedding reception, reception while snapping at him for ordering the food that got them sick. By the wedding itself itself, Ellie has calmed down, and she is understanding during Mara's cringeworthy, unrehearsed maid of honor speech (the original maid of honor was too sick to attend the wedding).
* In ''Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara'', Natasha becomes increasingly this, hot the horror of her fiance Kabir. It starts innocently enough, with her informing him of every thing she is doing for the ceremony and party even while he is in Spain in a bachelor trip with his friends, then she starts openly talking about leaving her career and becoming a housewife after the wedding (when he met her through their jobs and was looking for them working together)… but the real turning point was that she traveled all from India and crashed his trip because she saw Laila, the group's very beautiful diving instructor, traveling with them and became convinced that Kabir was cheating (Laila was actually hitting on Kabir's friend Arjun and she has to be the one who assuages the irate bride that her groom was loyal and still very intending to marry her) [[spoiler:Thing is, Kabir doesn't really want to marry Natasha: he initially proposed to her accidentally, and then went with it because of a mix of social pressure and genuinely liking her, only for her bridezilla antics scaring him and making him realize they are not very compatible at all. He has to be literally thrown into the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona to ever admit this to his friends, who in return make him promise to talk to her. The talking isn't shown, but during the credits, who which happens during Laila and Arjun's wedding, Kabir and Natasha are shown to be AmicableExes, with Natasha even having gotten a new boyfriend.]]



* Creator/HarryTurtledove's short story "Father of the Groom" has the bride becoming more and more strident and arbitrary until one of her bridesmaids calls her a Bridezilla within hearing of the eponymous father. Since he is a mad scientist, someone soon becomes big, green and scaly.

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* Creator/HarryTurtledove's short story "Father of the Groom" has the bride becoming more and more strident and arbitrary until one of her bridesmaids calls her a Bridezilla within hearing of the eponymous father. Since he is a mad scientist, someone soon becomes big, green green, and scaly.



* Clarissa in the comedy novel ''Maneater'' (not to be confused with several other novels sharing the title). "A wedding is no problem for dear Clarissa -- she has been maintaining a wedding binder for years, complete with the best caterers, hotels and florists. She... has planned the date of the wedding, the bridesmaids, and the reception menu. She also has the groom all lined up, but the trouble is, she hasn't met him yet." [[spoiler: The groom is just as manipulative.]]

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* Clarissa in the comedy novel ''Maneater'' (not to be confused with several other novels sharing the title). "A wedding is no problem for dear Clarissa -- she has been maintaining a wedding binder for years, complete with the best caterers, hotels hotels, and florists. She... has planned the date of the wedding, the bridesmaids, and the reception menu. She also has the groom all lined up, but the trouble is, she hasn't met him yet." [[spoiler: The groom is just as manipulative.]]



* ''Series/AdamRuinsEverything'' features Murph acting like a ''groomzilla''. Though it's somewhat justified in that Adam really ''is'' trying to ruin his and Emily's wedding [[note]] Their TV wedding, not their RealLife wedding.[[/note]], by telling him about the shadier practices of the wedding industry, how the concept of a OneTrueLove, "butterflies in your stomach," and {{Rom Com}}s distort what love is really about, and how divorce isn't so bad and that it doesn't mean that you're a failure if your marriage fails. It takes Emily to set him straight when he starts sulking in the photo booth. For her part, Emily mentions that the trimmings and trappings of the wedding (or even the concept of marriage in general) aren't that important to her, she just did it to make Murph happy, because that's what ''he'' wanted.

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* ''Series/AdamRuinsEverything'' features Murph acting like a ''groomzilla''. ''groom''zilla. Though it's somewhat justified in that Adam really ''is'' trying to ruin his and Emily's wedding [[note]] Their [[note]]Their TV wedding, not their RealLife wedding.[[/note]], by telling him about [[HonestJohnsDealership the shadier practices of the wedding industry, industry]], how the concept of a OneTrueLove, "butterflies in your stomach," and {{Rom Com}}s distort what love is really about, and how divorce isn't so bad and that it doesn't mean that you're a failure if your marriage fails. It takes Emily to set him straight when he starts sulking in the photo booth. For her part, Emily mentions that the trimmings and trappings of the wedding (or even the concept of marriage in general) aren't that important to her, she just did it to make Murph happy, because that's what ''he'' wanted.



* ''Series/Charmed1998'': Phoebe turns into this before her wedding to Cole, becoming hyper-specific about the details of the ceremony. She lashes out at Paige it looks like Paige keeps screwing things up (picking up the wrong wedding dress, giving Phoebe a face mask that causes her to break out), unaware that all of the errors were actually Cole sabotaging them because he's secretly possesed by The Source of Evil.

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* ''Series/Charmed1998'': Phoebe turns into this before her wedding to Cole, becoming hyper-specific about the details of the ceremony. She lashes out at Paige it looks like Paige keeps screwing things up (picking up the wrong wedding dress, giving Phoebe a face mask that causes her to break out), unaware that all of the errors were actually Cole sabotaging them because he's secretly possesed possessed by The Source of Evil.



-->'''Ellie:''' I think I created a monster.

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** Monica had a few freak outs about her wedding ceremony, but actually mostly averted the trope. It started when she wanted to celebrate her engagement with her friends, but felt that Rachel was stealing her thunder (which, truthfully, with her characteristic [[{{ItsAllAboutMe}} I'm-not-getting-married-and-Monica-is whining]], Rachel was). Monica also wanted to spend enormous amount of money, and, though Chandler would be okay with it for her sake, she decided to keep it low-key. Considering how much of a perfectionist and obsessed with getting married Monica is, she actually held herself together quite well. Chandler, however, laughs at her when she points it out to him. Numerous episodes also make it clear that, despite her craziness, she values her future with Chandler more than the wedding. She gives up her perfect wedding dress so he can have his dream band, changes times around so Joey's parents can come, and is remarkably calm about the hijinks on the day.

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** Monica had a few freak outs freakouts about her wedding ceremony, but actually mostly averted the trope. It started when she wanted to celebrate her engagement with her friends, but felt that Rachel was stealing her thunder (which, truthfully, with her characteristic [[{{ItsAllAboutMe}} I'm-not-getting-married-and-Monica-is whining]], Rachel was). Monica also wanted to spend an enormous amount of money, and, though Chandler would be okay with it for her sake, she decided to keep it low-key. Considering how much of a perfectionist and obsessed with getting married Monica is, she actually held herself together quite well. Chandler, however, laughs at her when she points it out to him. Numerous episodes also make it clear that, despite her craziness, she values her future with Chandler more than the wedding. She gives up her perfect wedding dress so he can have his dream band, changes times around so Joey's parents can come, and is remarkably calm about the hijinks on the day.



** ''Phoebe'''s wedding, on the other hand, causes Monica to become Maid-of-Honor-Zilla. She wants everything to be perfect--even toilet pauses must be scheduled. Rachel saw this coming a mile away when she and Phoebe agreed to let Rachel be Monica's Maid of Honor.

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** ''Phoebe'''s wedding, on the other hand, causes Monica to become Maid-of-Honor-Zilla. She wants everything to be perfect--even perfect -- even toilet pauses must be scheduled. Rachel saw this coming a mile away when she and Phoebe agreed to let Rachel be Monica's Maid of Honor.



** Lily did a remarkably good job at subverting this trope when everything went wrong during her wedding day. However season four flashbacks reveal her to have been quite the bridezilla during the months leading up to the wedding. Also [[InvokedTrope invoked]] rather well by Barney, who discovers that using the line "It's for the bride" on the day of a wedding is the single greatest BavarianFireDrill in the world.

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** Lily did a remarkably good job at subverting this trope when everything went wrong during her wedding day. However However, season four flashbacks reveal her to have been quite the bridezilla during the months leading up to the wedding. Also [[InvokedTrope invoked]] rather well by Barney, who discovers that using the line "It's for the bride" on the day of a wedding is the single greatest BavarianFireDrill in the world.



** Elliot. After her first proposal didn't go as perfectly as she had always dreamed (the ring was too small, but otherwise no disaster), she forced him to take it back and repeat it in front of all her friends, according to her specific instructions. The rest of the engagement went similarly by annoying her fiancé and maid of honor with her obsessive controlling of the wedding arrangements and her outbursts at minor disasters (like the wrong font on the invitations).

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** Elliot. After her first proposal didn't go as perfectly as she had always dreamed (the ring was too small, but otherwise no disaster), she forced him to take it back and repeat it in front of all her friends, according to her specific instructions. The rest of the engagement went similarly by annoying her fiancé and maid of honor with her obsessive controlling control of the wedding arrangements and her outbursts at minor disasters (like the wrong font on the invitations).



* ''Series/SoAwkward'': In "Never the Bridesmaid, Never the Bride", Jas is asked to be a bridesmaid and is worried about being too clumsy to pull it off. Lily suggests staging a mock wedding so Jas can have a rehearsal - with herself and Rob as the bride and groom! Lily goes all Bridezilla. As she plans the big day she gets so carried away that she actually has no time for Rob and snubs him, just when he's ready to take their relationship to the next level and ask Lily on a romantic meal out.

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* ''Series/SoAwkward'': In "Never the Bridesmaid, Never the Bride", Jas is asked to be a bridesmaid and is worried about being too clumsy to pull it off. Lily suggests staging a mock wedding so Jas can have a rehearsal - with herself and Rob as the bride and groom! Lily goes all Bridezilla. As she plans the big day day, she gets so carried away that she actually has no time for Rob and snubs him, just when he's ready to take their relationship to the next level and ask Lily on for a romantic meal out.



* In ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'', you can find a woman in the Swedish consulate in a phone call with her friend Lisa, frustrated that her friend is oblivious to the fact she can't attend her wedding because she's stuck in a building under lockdown due to a riot happening outside. Her friend eventually loses her temper after Lisa shames her for having a one-night stand with her fiancé in college, before stating that she hates her bridesmaid dress.

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* In ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'', you can find a woman in the Swedish consulate in on a phone call with her friend Lisa, frustrated that her friend is oblivious to the fact she can't attend her wedding because she's stuck in a building under lockdown due to a riot happening outside. Her friend eventually loses her temper after Lisa shames her for having a one-night stand with her fiancé in college, before stating that she hates her bridesmaid dress.



* ''VideoGame/YesYourGrace'': Queen Aurelea acts like this during her daughter Lorsulia's wedding preparations. It's mostly seen when choosing Lorsulia's wedding dress. She'll insist on the most expensive option, which requires to take out a loan, is hated by Lorsulia and has every other character who gets to comment on it remind the player that the setting is a few centuries early for the PimpedOutDress to be in fashion. On top of this, the PointOfNoReturn in the dress-choosing sequence is enforced by Aurelea telling the PlayerCharacter (her husband who's in charge of the money) he's not leaving before he chooses the dress.

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* ''VideoGame/YesYourGrace'': Queen Aurelea acts like this during her daughter Lorsulia's wedding preparations. It's mostly seen when choosing Lorsulia's wedding dress. She'll insist on the most expensive option, which requires to take taking out a loan, is hated by Lorsulia Lorsulia, and has every other character who gets to comment on it remind the player that the setting is a few centuries early for the PimpedOutDress to be in fashion. On top of this, the PointOfNoReturn in the dress-choosing sequence is enforced by Aurelea telling the PlayerCharacter (her husband who's in charge of the money) he's not leaving before he chooses the dress.



* ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'': Has a few examples. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSUqT_rcQRA This one]] has the bride kicking out her brother out of the wedding and saying he was dead because he was too ugly to be there. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf4SfuP7WNA This one]] has the bride wanting a super lavish wedding and forcing her fiancé to go into debt.
* ''WebAnimation/MangaSoprano'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv0P_uYC2Zs Kiyomi]] made unreasonable demands for her wedding day, which drove the planner Ram to request Haru's help. Even then, Kiyomi wasn't satisfied and demanded Ram to replace all decorations despite being on a schedule.

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* ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'': Has a few examples. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSUqT_rcQRA This one]] has the bride kicking out her brother out of the wedding and saying he was dead because he was too ugly to be there. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf4SfuP7WNA This one]] has the bride wanting a super lavish wedding and forcing her fiancé to go into debt.
* ''WebAnimation/MangaSoprano'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv0P_uYC2Zs Kiyomi]] made unreasonable demands for her wedding day, which drove the planner Ram to request Haru's help. Even then, Kiyomi wasn't satisfied and demanded Ram to replace all decorations despite being on a schedule.



* After Carl and Leona get engaged in ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', Leona's roommates/bridesmaids Fiona, Greta and Miranda look to the wedding a year and a half away with dread, for they know that Leona, mercurial and temperamental under ''normal'' circumstances, will be that much worse as a bride-to-be, and will demand nothing less than perfection from her maid-of-honor (who ends up being Fiona). And just to show this wasn't just fearmongering among them: Leona interviewed ''thirty-four'' florists before settling on one. Meanwhile, on her [[AllThereInTheManual blog]], Lindesfarne wonders just how many bridges Leona ''already'' burned if Lindesfarne-who ''barely'' knows Leona and only as her stepbrother's friend-was asked to be a bridesmaid, while Kell fears the experience would sour Fiona on the idea of marriage so much that she's never marry Rudy (and Kell knows Rudy well enough that he'd never marry anyone else) that she forces her cousin (and Leona's stepmother) Sheila into helping. In the end, this story arc gets downplayed in favor of an arc centered around Sheila feeling inadequate to be Leona's stepmother (though not before Leona lets ''social media'' decide her wedding dress).

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* After Carl and Leona get engaged in ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', Leona's roommates/bridesmaids Fiona, Greta Greta, and Miranda look to the wedding a year and a half away with dread, for they know that Leona, mercurial and temperamental under ''normal'' circumstances, will be that much worse as a bride-to-be, and will demand nothing less than perfection from her maid-of-honor (who ends up being Fiona). And just to show this wasn't just fearmongering among them: Leona interviewed ''thirty-four'' florists before settling on one. Meanwhile, on her [[AllThereInTheManual blog]], Lindesfarne wonders just how many bridges Leona ''already'' burned if Lindesfarne-who ''barely'' knows Leona and only as her stepbrother's friend-was asked to be a bridesmaid, while Kell fears the experience would sour Fiona on the idea of marriage so much that she's never marry married Rudy (and Kell knows Rudy well enough that he'd never marry anyone else) that she forces her cousin (and Leona's stepmother) Sheila into helping. In the end, this story arc gets downplayed in favor of an arc centered around Sheila feeling inadequate to be Leona's stepmother (though not before Leona lets ''social media'' decide her wedding dress).



* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'': in addition to Sugou torturing and imprisoning hundreds of innocent people and planning to take over the world and MindControl Asuna, he's also a horribly obnoxious groomzilla, changing the date of the wedding on a whim, overly controlling every tiny detail, and reducing a chef to tears by demanding a complex and bizarre cake made of multiple layers of chocolate, vanilla and ''foie gras'' be made the morning of the wedding. In the ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c9IsKnVpb8 SAOA 17 Post-Mortem Stream]]'', the creators explain they wanted to make Sugou hateable without overusing on his creeper aspect.

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* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'': in addition to Sugou torturing and imprisoning hundreds of innocent people and planning to take over the world and MindControl Asuna, he's also a horribly obnoxious groomzilla, changing the date of the wedding on a whim, overly controlling every tiny detail, and reducing a chef to tears by demanding a complex and bizarre cake made of multiple layers of chocolate, vanilla and ''foie gras'' be made the morning of the wedding. In the ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c9IsKnVpb8 SAOA 17 Post-Mortem Stream]]'', the creators explain they wanted to make Sugou hateable without overusing on his creeper aspect.



* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Rarity suggests that it's the stress of the wedding planning that has made bride to be Princess Cadance so rude to everyone in "A Canterlot Wedding, Part 1". [[spoiler:Subverted when it transpires she's actually an [[BodySnatcher evil]] [[VoluntaryShapeshifting impostor]] seeking to control and cripple Canterlot's BarrierWarrior.]]

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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Rarity suggests that it's the stress of the wedding planning that has made bride to be bride-to-be Princess Cadance so rude to everyone in "A Canterlot Wedding, Part 1". [[spoiler:Subverted when it transpires she's actually an [[BodySnatcher evil]] [[VoluntaryShapeshifting impostor]] seeking to control and cripple Canterlot's BarrierWarrior.]]



** Marge during her third wedding to Homer, in the episode "Wedding for Disaster". Homer gets screamed at and her children fear her. Maggie even has an ImagineSpot depicting Marge as Franchise/{{Godzilla}} with Homer playing Film/KingKong (Marge made a retort to the "bridezilla" insult by calling him "King Wrong").
** Mr. Burns becomes a Groomzilla during his wedding to Jacqueline Bouvier (Marge's mother), throwing a fit when Bart accidentally drops the ring and threatening him with physical harm and yelling at Lovejoy to speed it up, causing Jacqueline to have second thoughts. Of course, [[IWarnedYou Marge did warn her]] about him after he proposed. It doesn't matter, though, because [[WeddingSmashers a jealous Grampa breaks up the ceremony]] and Jacqueline announces she doesn't really want to marry either man.

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** Marge during her third wedding to Homer, Homer in the episode "Wedding for Disaster". Homer gets screamed at and her children fear her. Maggie even has an ImagineSpot depicting Marge as Franchise/{{Godzilla}} with Homer playing Film/KingKong (Marge made a retort to the "bridezilla" insult by calling him "King Wrong").
** Mr. Burns becomes a Groomzilla during his wedding to Jacqueline Bouvier (Marge's mother), throwing a fit when Bart accidentally drops the ring and threatening him with physical harm harm, and yelling at Lovejoy to speed it up, causing Jacqueline to have second thoughts. Of course, [[IWarnedYou Marge did warn her]] about him after he proposed. It doesn't matter, though, because [[WeddingSmashers a jealous Grampa breaks up the ceremony]] and Jacqueline announces she doesn't really want to marry either man.



* Averted in certain eastern nations, where the girl's ''family'' is traditionally responsible for planning the wedding. Even though brides sometimes choose to get involved, it's often considered a status symbol when she needs to arrive only on the day of the wedding. Aversion goes further in Southern India, where if the bride has a brother, the entire responsibility falls squarely on his shoulders. On rare occasion, may result in a ''[[SpearCounterpart groomzilla]]''.

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* Averted in certain eastern nations, where the girl's ''family'' is traditionally responsible for planning the wedding. Even though brides sometimes choose to get involved, it's often considered a status symbol when she needs to arrive only on the day of the wedding. Aversion goes further in Southern India, where if the bride has a brother, the entire responsibility falls squarely on his shoulders. On rare occasion, occasions, may result in a ''[[SpearCounterpart groomzilla]]''.
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