"The Bride Was In A Makeup MLM And Forced Us To Buy Her Products," And 14 Other Bridesmaid Horror Stories

Recently, we asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us their worst bridesmaids horror stories and WOOOOOO-WEEEEEEE did they deliver!!!

Here are the absolute worst of the worst, so brace yourself accordingly:

Please note that some of these stories are from this Reddit thread since they were just too good not to include.

1."I was in college when a work colleague got engaged. We were casually acquainted and had never hung out one-on-one outside of work, but my BFF was close with her so we were cool. I congratulated her on her engagement and didn't think anything of it. Later, I got a text from an unknown number asking me to be a bridesmaid — it was the same girl who got engaged. Even though this was a huge red flag in itself, I agreed because my best friend was doing it, too, and I thought it'd be fun."

"Everything was chill until about six weeks out, then the demands started rolling in. We were asked to purchase tanning salon memberships and get fake nails for the wedding. We had to attend mandatory dance rehearsals, even over Christmas holidays, because we were going to perform a choreographed routine after the couple's first dance.

When we showed up to the mom's house the following morning to start preparations, it was sheer chaos. The maid of honor had quit the night before, and the hair and makeup artist had canceled that morning. The maid of honor's boyfriend was supposed to get the cake to the reception hall, so the wedding party and friends of the bride and groom mobilized. The maid of honor was also supposed to write the programs, print them, and dress grandma — I did all that. A mutual friend's boyfriend borrowed my car to get the cake from the bakery to the reception. After I got my car back, it turned out there was an accident with the first cake, but luckily, the bakery pulled through on a fix. Only, no one thought to clean the cake from my car. Whatever. Then, at the reception, the bride's mom informed us that we'd be serving food and drinks to all the guests THE ENTIRE NIGHT and were presented with aprons that said 'Bridesmaid' written on the front. NEVER, ONCE, WAS THIS MENTIONED TO US. NOT ONCE. And the groomsmen? Nothing to do but enjoy themselves."

—Anonymous

2."At my brother and sister-in-law's wedding, one of her closest friends from high school was a bridesmaid and had flown in from Israel. This friend was such a drama queen. She was using the same stylist as my sister-in-law for her hair for the wedding, but hated the way her hair was done, so she made the stylist redo it. Since the stylist had to completely redo this bridesmaid's hair, my sister-in-law had to wait to get her hair done, making her late for pictures and her own wedding. The bridesmaid then 'fainted' at the chuppah, but was miraculously fine later. The bridesmaid claimed it was heat and jet lag, but years later, we found out she wanted to have some limelight on herself for a cute guy to notice her."

—Anonymous

3."I knew the groom, not the bride. The groom asked me to be in the wedding, and I agreed, only to find out later that he wanted me as a bridesmaid. I'd only met the bride once before this. She got upset with me for saying I wasn't comfortable with that because I didn't know her — it turned out her maid of honor was her sister, but every other bridesmaid was a cousin of the groom's because the bride had no friends."

"The bride and her sister got upset with me for my bridesmaid dress because they said I was trying to outshine the bride (it was a very plain dress, no sparkles or anything), and they even got upset with my shoes for the same reason (black mules with a bow on the toe of the shoe). We had the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding, where I found out there'd been a bachelorette party and I wasn't invited. However, the bride and her sister were still upset I hadn't attended because they said I should've known all brides have a bachelorette party.

The day of the wedding, only one of the cousins of the groom and I were talking to the bride, besides her sister. Come to find out while getting ready that the bride and her sister were part of a makeup MLM scheme and wanted us to buy their makeup. They got upset with us for declining and said something about not being able to afford the honeymoon because nobody would buy their makeup. I had been feeling sick all day and got dizzy during their vows, so I left and went to the lobby where I fainted. She accused me of ruining her wedding because now she had an uneven number of bridesmaids and groomsmen. After the wedding, I found out she told people the wedding was 'almost perfect' but that 'someone' had tried to ruin it and failed. So, yeah, apparently I was a nightmare of a bridesmaid from her POV."

—Anonymous

4."I had a bridesmaid who made my (the bride) and my bridal party's lives a living hell. I had chosen her to be a bridesmaid because we were very close friends when I had gotten engaged. A few months afterwards, she started blowing all of her money on concerts and music festivals. I politely reached out to her and said, 'While I’m happy you’re living your best life, I just wanted to point out that with the wedding coming up, there will be expenses that you had agreed upon (bridesmaid dress, bridal shower, nails, etc.) when you accepted my bridesmaid proposal.' Obviously, that didn’t go over well. She claimed she would have enough money."

"Well, the first bridesmaid dress try-on we had, she was still on MDMA after not sleeping all night at a music festival. She was always making rude comments to the rest of the group and complaining about having to spend money on things for the shower and the bachelorette party. She started running around telling people that I was a bridezilla (when I really was not) and failed to understand that she was ruining everyone’s experience. By the time the wedding day came, I was just exhausted from her. We’ve drifted apart to the point that we don’t even speak anymore. I always say that my biggest regret in life was asking her to be my bridesmaid."

—Anonymous

5."I was the maid of honor at my best friend's wedding. However, the bride had two cousins who she was close to growing up, and they had made childhood promises to be each other's maids of honor when the time came. Fast-forward 15 years, and the bride chose me to be her maid of honor — and the two cousins were livid."

"Any time I tried to plan anything wedding-related (bridal shower, bachelorette party, wedding morning brunch, etc.), they would mock me and try to get the other bridesmaids to do something different than what I suggested. I had to enlist the help of one of the bridesmaids to 'suggest' my own ideas so they would agree to them and then we could plan accordingly. The bride caught wind of their behavior and told them why she chose me, but that only made them worse. On the wedding day when I was making my maid of honor speech, they were in the back of the hall, drunk, and yelling loudly about how they loved the bride more and that it should be them up there making the speech. It was so rude. I was so happy on the wedding day, not only for my friend who got married, but to be done with the whole ordeal."

—Anonymous

6."My friend and I were co-maids of honor for our old friend, and we had to deal with the worst bridesmaid EVER. The nightmare began on New Year's Eve when one of the other bridesmaids started texting us saying we had to start booking things that minute, and listed all the things the bride wanted for the bachelorette party — mind you, the bachelorette party wasn't going to be until August. The bridesmaid said the bride wanted a specific Airbnb (that didn't have enough beds for everybody) in an expensive destination that was not even close to what we'd been talking to the bride about. We talked to the bride, and she agreed on another Airbnb that accommodated everyone. The bridesmaid then got upset that we chose a different Airbnb then the one she sent."

"From then on, the bridesmaid started texting us incessantly about different things for the party for the next seven months. She said she was buying all these things for the bachelorette party. When the final payment for the trip was due (we set up multiple payments to make it easier), she said she shouldn't have to pay because she bought all this stuff (that no one asked her to get). We obviously said no. She then said she couldn't afford the trip now (she picked the destination!), and this was after she had suggested all these activities, like renting a party bus for $1,000. After we got to the destination, we found out the bridesmaid had spent $800 to get her eyebrows micro-bladed when she landed (but she couldn't afford to pay for the trip...). She didn't bring any of the stuff she said she bought for the party (I guess because we actually made her pay), including the one thing we actually needed her to bring that she said she bought — champagne flutes — so we had to go out and buy those. This entire group of girls kind of sucked — none of them bothered to show up for the bridal shower, didn't help plan or set up for it, and had to be hounded for money, but this first girl was by far the worst. And to make things even worse, after the wedding, we were talking to the bride, and she said she had never wanted to go to that particular destination, she just thought the Airbnb had looked cool."

—Anonymous

7."I was a bridesmaid for my friend who had a joint bachelor/bachelorette party in Vegas. Another bridesmaid I didn't know too well spent most of the weekend telling us about her boyfriend and how he might propose soon. Well, after a long afternoon of day drinking at the hotel pool, her boyfriend must have slipped her mind because she stripped topless and made out with one of the groomsmen...and a little bit more. Needless to say, meeting her boyfriend (then fiancé) at my friend's wedding a few months later was very awkward."

—Anonymous