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'''Bridezilla''' is that creature a bride morphs into under the stress of wedding arrangements and unrealistic expectations, resulting in escalating demands and screeching outbursts about insignificant problems. Some say the [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|reptile]] forms when a normal woman is subjected to the immense pressure of planning a wedding; others say that the wedding-related stress simply reveals the worst of her character. Most agree, however, that the classic Bridezilla is the woman who believes the wedding is Her Day, meaning all revolt must be squelched and all whims indulged.
This is a relatively recent trope, dating not much further back than [[The Seventies]] but only becoming well-known in [[The Nineties]]. Before that date only the rich had big white weddings, which were social occasions planned and paid for by the bride's parents. The mother of the bride planned the wedding with limited to no input from the bride herself.
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Bonus points when the bride starts forgetting it's also the Groom to Be's day.
Related to [[Drunk
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* An ad for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5FyApwObiY&feature=related Diet Dr. Pepper] had a bride barking at her line of bridesmaids, "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.
== [[
* One Katie Ka-Boom story in the ''[[
== [[Film]] - Animated ==
* ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'' plays this trope almost [[Attack of the 50
== [[Film]] - Live-Action ==
* In ''[[
* 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>
* Laura (Cameron Diaz) in ''[[
* 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 heiress, 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.
* In ''[[Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara]]'', Natasha becomes increasingly this, constantly updating her poor fiancé Kabir on every step she is taking for the ceremony even when he's on a bachelor trip in Spain, talks loud on her plans of retiring from her job and becoming a housewife after marriage, and when she believes that her boyfriend is cheating on her, she immediately travels to Spain to crash his trip, only returning to India after being assured that Kabir is faithful to her and the wedding is still ongoing. {{Spoiler|This only fuels the increasing amount of cold feet that Kabir (who actually proposed to her by accident and in truth liked her because of her independent personality) is feeling towards the whole thing. By the time the credits rolls, they had become [[Amicable Exes]].}}
== Literature ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* May Dionysus have mercy on your soul if you spoil [[True Blood|Maryann's]] special day.
* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' became a literal bridezilla in one episode, when, following the advice of Cinderella, she became extremely demanding, causing her lower body to change into that of a dragon and making her breathe fire.
* Phoebe's wedding in ''[[Friends]]'' causes ''Monica'' to become <s>Bride</s> Maid-of-Honourzilla.
* Elliot in season 6 of ''[[Scrubs]]'' annoys her fiance and maid of honor by her obsessive controlling of the wedding arrangements and her outbursts at minor disasters (like the wrong font on the invitations).
** Carla in the same series had it to a lesser degree, especially when the ceremony didn't go quite as planned.
*** Wholly justified, as {{spoiler|the Groom didn't even make it to the ceremony.}}
* Donna Noble in the ''[[
* ''[[Night Court]]''. Public defender Christine Sullivan becomes this for her wedding preparations. In the end they all say stuff it and have a simple ceremony on the courthouse roof.
* There is now a reality TV show with this trope (''Bridezillas'') as the title. Every episode features brides-to-be being completely and unapologetically bitchy to their friends, family, and hired help up to, during, and after the wedding. [[Unfortunate Implications|At no point does anyone ever give any indication that her actions should be frowned upon in the show.]]
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* The subject of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpLnPEVl538 one episode] of ''[[Target Women]]'', 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 [[Godzilla]] impression.
* On ''[[Gilmore Girls]],'' Lorelai's [[Meddling Parents|Meddling Mother]] Emily helps Sookie plan her wedding with some rather extravagant suggestions, but Sookie gets too caught up with it to realize how expensive and bizarre the plans are becoming. Her fiancé begins to feel alienated and Sookie eventually goes into Bridezilla mode over the details on her invitations (or something), and Lorelai helps her to calm down.
* ''[[
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'''Xander:''' "Without the laughs. We should have eloped."
'''Anya:''' "No. I've been through too much planning this wedding, and it is going to happen. It is going to be our perfect, perfect day if I have to kill every one of our guests and half this town to do it." }}
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Muriel, who marries Governor Derrick of Merry Cay, in ''[[Ghost
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Parodied, [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] and [[Averted Trope|averted]] in ''[[Ansem Retort]]''. The bride preparing for the wedding is remarkably calm, but a [[Kaiju]] [[Exactly What It Says
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* ''[[Evil Inc.]]'' had a [http://evil-inc.com/comic/title-54/ complain from Dr. Poison], who expected that giving [[Love Potion]] to the superheroine going after him will make her less dangerous... Oops.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Marge during her <s>second</s> third wedding to Homer, in ''[[The Simpsons (
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* Kite Man makes a much bigger deal of the wedding arrangements than his fiancé in ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)]]''.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Truth in Television]]: [http://www.etiquettehell.com/content/eh_wedding/bridezillas/ebridezilla.shtml Bridezilla stories at Etiquette Hell].
** (There is a ''lot'' of material here. Don't [[Archive Panic|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 [[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
*** Indeed, at the more high-end kind of this type of wedding, the insistence that things be ''just right'' will not come from the family but from the team employed to make the obligatory wedding video: things must be set up so that the camera can get at everything.
* A rising phenomenon is the "[https://abcnews.go.com/US/single-bridezillas-wedding-planning-groom/story?id=15405082 Single Bridezillas]", women who go out to plan and even book their dream wedding without the input of their boyfriends, or, in some extreme cases, ''without having any boyfriend at all''.
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