Quite a number of people have sent me the New York Times article last week about the new breed of demanding brides – brides that demand botox, teeth whitening, and identical spray tans from their bridesmaids. Thank you all. It’s an interesting read. But, my response to this article might not be quite what everyone is expecting.

Here is the deal: I actually do not think that women are this crazy. Yes, yes, of course, there are some demanding Upper East Side women who demand botox of their bridesmaids, but for goodness sake, these people probably make their doormen walk their dogs. And as much as I love the New York Times, they know how to write shocking copy and to spin weird New York occurrences into trends taking the nation by storm. Everyone has a story about a bride who made all her bridesmaids wear horrible poofy orange dresses that cost a thousand dollars, and then screamed at them for the whole wedding – those women are out there. But there is something else that is out there too, and that is the ever-growing Bridezilla myth that stalks the land.
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