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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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* 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.
** 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
*** 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.
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