Bad Bridesmaid: Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums--Tales from the Front Lines

by Siri Agrell

A laugh-out-loud look at bad bridesmaids who've had enough taffeta to last a lifetime, this volume is a hilarious compendium of weddings gone wild, full of anecdotes and advice from women worldwide... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805082697
• ISBN13: 9780805082692
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Bad Bridesmaids UNITE!!!

I was a bad bridesmaid - almost twice. My near miss was when my best friend asked me to be a bridesmaid. Tho' I found it impossible to support her choice in groom, I agreed. Until she then informed me that even tho' I was her 'Best' friend I was the 5th person she asked and she wanted at least 3 bridesmaids! Evidently she was having a hard time finding enough random strangers to wear a "baby-teal" 80's-reject, prom dress (with sleeves bigger than a basketball) for her kegger/wedding. My ego let me back out within 10 minutes of being asked. (their marriage lasted slightly longer than that.) Oddly enough our friendship survived that awkward blip in our 16 year relationship. Even when I finally went "all the way" with it for another friend things were so difficult and AWFUL, that after the wedding we quickly broke it off and neither of us have ever looked back - Thank God! At first I really thought it was me, I felt guilty. Maybe I'm not cut out to be a bridesmaid, maybe I really am the anti-wedding witch. Or maybe my friends lost their minds (and souls) when they became engaged. Thank you, Siri Agrell! Your book has provided me with the thearpy and knowledge I needed to realize: It is not just me! There are others out there like myself who were put in exploitive & mercilessly compromised situations all because we knew someone (either well or randomly) who lost all common sense the second they got engaged. This book made me laugh...and wince, but mostly I identified.

Loved it, wish it was longer

I loved this book. Too bad more of the insanity was not in it. I too hate all things commercialized wedding. Having stood up a few times (always wonder why anyone would ask me with me being so vocal in opposing)I hated every single minute of it. My brides were very nice and paid for the dresses and we did not have to do all the crap some bridesmaids do. Do people really expect bridesmaid to throw a shower? Have you no family that likes you? Do brides really expect bridesmaids to do their errands? COME ON! Dear Brides, If you really want people to enjoy your wedding then don't ask them to stand up. Simple as that. No one likes to stand up. It sucks! This whole, "It's my day" crap is just that, crap. We barely want to attend the wedding let alone deal with you. Who hasn't shuddered at the sight of an obvious wedding invitation in the mailbox? Who hasn't called everyone in the family to warn them it is coming. I personally think you should ask your enemies to stand up for they deserve it more.

I Laughed SO Hard!!!!!

This book showed how goofy weddings can get. I'm SO very glad I'm old enough to never again be asked to be a bridesmaid!!!!! In my day, we threw a shower, showed up for rehearsal, did the wedding and promised not to get drunk at the reception!!!

Brides Gone Wild

This was a fun little book -- it's always entertaining to read about Brides Gone Wild. And make no mistake, despite the title, the villains of this book are the brides. I do wish that Agrell had chosen to include the article that she wrote (and which got her booted out of her friend's wedding). I wasn't able to find it online, unfortunately. Agrell's interpretation of events seems to be that the article was fun, light and humorous and that the bride overeacted. However, the bride seemed to feel it was a personal hatchet job which justified Angrell's firing. Who is right? Hard to say without reading the article -- maybe the bride had a legitimate beef.