By ALANA SCHETZER
When I met Anita a few years ago, I instantly knew I liked her. She has a dry wit, a genuine smile and there is no, for want of a better word, bullshit with her.
Anita calls it truthfully but never with malice. She’s the sort of person you want to go shopping with because you know she’ll tell you, yes, your butt does look big in that, but you also know she’d rather go for a walk then browse the racks.
So when she announced she and her then-boyfriend were engaged, I had an image of what their wedding would be like – low-key, chilled but still organised within an inch of itself.
She (and her now-husband) didn’t disappoint, and she’s not the only bride who is rejecting outlandish notions of weddings with a budget the size of Fiji’s GDP or turn into terrifying monster-ladies who demands makes Mariah Carey’s rider look like very, very reasonable.
Anita is a bridechilla, the type of bride who wants her and her fiancé’s day to be special but not at the expense of going crazy, broke or sending friends and family running for cover.
She’s not someone who demands bridesmaids lose weight or change hair colour to ‘match’ in the wedding photos nor does she try to stretch her ‘special day’ into her ‘special week’ (or god forbid, longer).
A bridechilla is the anti-bridezila. She is not the bride who treats her wedding as the Oscars, Noble Peace Prize and Met Ball in one.
The ‘bridezilla’ phenomenon has been described as ‘temporary bridal insanity’ and there’s no doubt there are some women who genuinely mistake ‘bride’s day’ with ‘bride’s way’.
`Some examples include this lovely lady, these excited brides-to-be, and these glowing petals of love.
The bridechilla is simply a woman who is in love and is getting married. She still cares about the wedding and wants it to be nice, but she also recognises that it’s unreasonable to expect guests to shell out thousands of dollars to attend ‘destination weddings’ or be forced to attend half a dozen pre-wedding events, such as engagement parties, hen’s night and kitchen tea’s (where the bride will only answer to being call ‘Princess Bride’. Yep, that’s happened.)
Top Comments
I more than likely fall into this category. The only thing I wanted was a nice dress and to get married in the church I grew up in. Now less than three months to go I think my mother would like me to be a bit more concerned with ribbons and flowers so I'm making a bit more of an effort, the truth is I'm only doing a lot of thing because I know its important to a lot of the family and despite what others say I think a wedding is about a family not just the bride as seems to be the popular belief. At the end of the day as long as I'm married and we all have a good time that's what matters.
ehhh......most people remarked at how relaxed my hitching was, how much fun they had and how un-zillarish I was.there is a nice wedding!I have see a dress very nice.(the picture from www.dressfirst.com)