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* The entire film ''[[Bride Wars]]'' is based on this trope, as it feature two friends that accidentally get their weddings booked to the same day and place. <s> Unfortunately</s> Predictably, it did not do it well; Bridezilla vs Bridezilla is a ropey second-string [[Monster Mash]] and, as [[Alien vs. Predator|AVP's]] tagline put it, "Whoever wins, we lose."

* Due to the way Indian weddings work, Bitto and Shruti, the wedding planners in ''[[Band Baaja Baaraat]]'', doesn't find any bride of this type until they get to organize the lavish wedding of a super-rich heriressheiress, who was such a fan of their previous joint work that her condition for hiring them was for both of them working together or not work at all (at the time Bitto and Shruti had gone through a very bitter professional -and sentimental- breakup and only accepted the job because their separate ventures left them in debt), and who wanted the whole thing scrapped two days in (of a ceremony that lasts five) because the Bollywood star they hired to dance in the party got into a last minute accident and couldn't do his show.

* 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 [[Up to Eleven]] 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 ''[[Spear Counterpart|male]]'' Bridezilla, a Groomzilla. Note that Indian weddings in general and Hindu weddings in particular tend to have a lot of elements and ceremonies, meaning ample opportunities that someone somewhere goes into 'Zilla antics at any moment, even if the wedding isn't particularly lavish.

** Also averted 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. 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) 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, and maybe got a friend to dance or sing, and hoped for the best. Today, most Middle Easterners live in apartments—hardlyapartments —hardly the best venue for the more traditional sort of wedding—andwedding— and as a result, 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. You do hear ridiculous stories, but most of these are about the truly immodest sums parents spend on them (they paid ''how much'' to get Famous Singer X to play?) rather than anyone's insistence that things be ''just right''.