I think I'd rather have my fingernails ripped off torture-style than spend an hour in that basement.

-1 for tired old Detroit bashing.

bought my dress on ebay. had my mom alter it. suck it, prisses.

I'm betting most of those dresses end up on Ebay.

I got married in a blue dress I borrowed from my sister in front of a Justice of the Peace. Still married 20 years later. I wonder how many of those idiots will still be married in 20 years?

Wouldn't it be smart to buy a bunch of those and then resell them on eBay if they are really discounted that much? It would be worth fighting the crowds for an hour if you could get your hands on 2 or 3 to sell for a thousand dollar profit.

Babbs
I got married in a blue dress I borrowed from my sister in front of a Justice of the Peace. Still married 20 years later. I wonder how many of those idiots will still be married in 20 years?

Why did you have to borrow the blue dress if front of a J.P.?

TWO words into the article is all I needed: Bridezillas swarmed. Jebus ladies, settle the fark down.

/civil wedding before the judge is all we needed

Hopefully they were running them off a cliff.

Babbs: I got married in a blue dress I borrowed from my sister in front of a Justice of the Peace. Still married 20 years later. I wonder how many of those idiots will still be married in 20 years?

But you weren't a princess! Where was your tiara? Your wedding cake in the shape of a sand castle? Pictures of the wedding party in front of an old brick wall, looking at the sky???? WHERE WERE ALL THOSE THINGS?????

Darth Shatner: Babbs
I got married in a blue dress I borrowed from my sister in front of a Justice of the Peace. Still married 20 years later. I wonder how many of those idiots will still be married in 20 years?

Why did you have to borrow the blue dress if front of a J.P.?

Because I was nekid, and he wouldn't marry us otherwise. We still had a problem, because as soon as I borrowed her blue dress, she was nekid.

/ I thought that sentence sounded funny when I wrote it

Anne.Uumellmahaye: Babbs: I got married in a blue dress I borrowed from my sister in front of a Justice of the Peace. Still married 20 years later. I wonder how many of those idiots will still be married in 20 years?

But you weren't a princess! Where was your tiara? Your wedding cake in the shape of a sand castle? Pictures of the wedding party in front of an old brick wall, looking at the sky???? WHERE WERE ALL THOSE THINGS?????

The smugness... the smugness...

because I was nekid, and he wouldn't marry us otherwise. We still had a problem, because as soon as I borrowed her blue dress, she was nekid.

/ I thought that sentence sounded funny when I wrote it

well played.

Anne.Uumellmahaye:bought my dress on ebay. had my mom alter it. suck it, prisses.

Me too! I got a beautiful gauzy renaissance dress off ebay for $75 and had my sister in law alter it for me... Then again, I never saw the point of being psycho about my wedding so we didn't spend more than $5000 on it in the first place.

/Video game music during the ceremony
//No one noticed :)

I love this comment FTFA:

yeah, their fiance gives them 5 grand, they go buy a cheap dress, pocket the rest, divorce him in a few years, take the kids the house, get a restraining order. turn the kids against the daddy. yup, thats the life

Guy must be a farker.

pics of Hollywoods hemlines more interesting...FAPaTHON is about to begin....

Dear God. I can't imagine a more hellish scene. And I LIKE shopping, but there's no way I'd go into that maelstrom of Bridezillas. I bought my dress on eBay for $200 and had it altered.

I don't even give them credit for wanting to save money here, because they're still stuck on the idea that their "perfect" wedding means they have to have a dress that cost thousands of dollars in retail, even if it means trampling someone else in the process.

Rome Cavalieri's million $ wedding (new window)

Anything less and he doesn't love you.

Githerax: Rome Cavalieri's million $ wedding (new window)

Anything less and he doesn't love you.

Sorry, not new window- dunno what happened. Tastes like chicken.

It's too bad I'm still an invalid right now. Can't believe I missed it. I have a live grenade I've been wanting to try out.

KwameKilstrawberry: -1 for tired old Detroit bashing.

Detoilet sucks. Get over it.

piaddic120: KwameKilstrawberry: -1 for tired old Detroit bashing.

Detoilet sucks. Get over it.

I beg to differ - there's nothing left to suck. You should stay away and never verify my statement because it's absolutely 100% true.

/sarcasm
//I've been in Manchester NH before as well - glass houses, stones, etc.

Babbs: Darth Shatner: Babbs
I got married in a blue dress I borrowed from my sister in front of a Justice of the Peace. Still married 20 years later. I wonder how many of those idiots will still be married in 20 years?

Why did you have to borrow the blue dress if front of a J.P.?

Because I was nekid, and he wouldn't marry us otherwise. We still had a problem, because as soon as I borrowed her blue dress, she was nekid.

/ I thought that sentence sounded funny when I wrote it

LOL!!!

Eleven years later, I still have my husband dear and -most- of the calf-length denim dress I wore to the court house then. The cats ate part of it. The dress, that is.

Kwisatzhaderach: Another Bridezilla thread?

I counter with a "this never gets old". I'm especially amused with the bride's maids who go in with a FULL BODY MIRROR so the bride can see what she looks like. Every year I expect to hear about someone getting impaled horribly and dying at the scene after one gets shattered.

/Yes, if you did this, you're a moron
//Guys, generally, don't care. Get married in a burlap sack, it's all the same to us.

Huh. I didn't think Filene's Basement still was.

Killer PsychoBrides. *shudder* Worse than zombies.

Killer Psycho Zombie Brides - Oh Noes!!eleventy!!

FTFA comment section:

GaryGeiger Feb 27, 2009 1:39:06 PM
Cupid Stunts

Today I have to go buy a dress for a wedding I'll be in this summer (I'm a groomsbabe, but the bride doesn't like "the whole chicks in suits thing" and it's her wedding so *shrug*). I am really hoping I can get in and out of there before all the biatchy brides-to-be and their moms show up and start shrieking.

There is only one true Filene's Basement, and it is not in New York.

/just had a flashback to the smell of the Government Center T stop

stoicnimwit: Video game music during the ceremony

MORTAL COMBAT!

A word of advice to the guys out there.

If your fiancé goes to one of these things, run. Run and don't look back. You will be in for a world of hurt if you marry one of these bridezillas and soon you will lose half of your stuff.

/The more you know...

fred_chan:
I'm a groomsbabe, but the bride doesn't like "the whole chicks in suits thing"

Too bad.. it's pretty hot. and not in a "Germaine Greer" sort of way either.

Githerax: Rome Cavalieri's million $ wedding (new window)

Anything less and he doesn't love you.

And if the guy doesn't love you, he's obviously struggling with his inner self which actually loves you more than anyone in history loved anyone else, which means you must go to massive extremes to bring out that vulnerable, inner man-child, be it a2m, getting it on with your girlfriend in front of him and his drinking buddies, or stealing from your parents and friends and hiring yourself out to an escort agency to pick him up that Harley he wanted.
Seriously.

No Such Agency: fred_chan:
I'm a groomsbabe, but the bride doesn't like "the whole chicks in suits thing"

Too bad.. it's pretty hot. and not in a "Germaine Greer" sort of way either.

hot in a "Paula Poundstone" way7

hng: No Such Agency: fred_chan:
I'm a groomsbabe, but the bride doesn't like "the whole chicks in suits thing"

Too bad.. it's pretty hot. and not in a "Germaine Greer" sort of way either.

hot in a "Paula Poundstone" way7

Eww.

Whatthefark: A word of advice to the guys out there.

If your fiancé goes to one of these things, run. Run and don't look back. You will be in for a world of hurt if you marry one of these bridezillas and soon you will lose half of your stuff.

/The more you know...

this

/have seen it happen to several
//gonna go to Vegas if I ever get married

babbs
I got married in a blue dress I borrowed from my sister in front of a Justice of the Peace. Still married 20 years later. I wonder how many of those idiots will still be married in 20 years?

I would bet that less than the 50% natl average. That sale selects for the most obsessive, self-absorbed brides with little dignity, pride, or manners (based on what I saw in the news video). If I'd had a fiance(e?) who participated
in that I would have called off the wedding asap.

"Queens dancer Alana Niehoff, 26, fell in love with two dresses - a pink strapless gown for the ceremony and a shorter, gold number for the reception."

Stripperwedding! NY farkers, it is your moral imperative to find this wedding and crash it. Stripperwedding = stripperbridesmaids.

I waded through/past this line on my way to work - didn't know what it was, but the cops looked more alarmed than normal and there were satellite news vans from stations I'd never heard of... a few may have purchased brand-new news vans just for this event.