Wedding Day blues on the Brown Line
Here's a great Tattler Tale from Lynn:
This morning, I saw a woman in a strapless white wedding gown get on the Brown Line at Sedgwick. She was yelling into her cell phone and holding her train with her free hand. Another woman (with a slightly bemused and/or embarassed expression) followed her with a basket of flowers.
The first words I heard her say were "She's only 2!" (Maybe this was about a flower girl?)
After boarding the train, the bride proceeded to yell at her friend on the phone - "How silly of me, to expect people to take time off work for my WEDDING!" Evidently the unseen friend had let the bride down in several ways, including not following through on various promises to help.
She also wailed that the bottom of her dress was black and that "Alice" had messed up, so now she was on the train to go pick something up herself. The friend was grilled on plans to get dressed, be on time, etc.
I think my favorite part was when she shrieked: "These are my wedding pictures. People are going to be saying 'What a pretty girl. Why are there spots on her dress?' I don't want them looking at her! I want them to look at ME!"
Other passengers did watch this drama at the beginning, but then returned to their reading. I couldn't help but giggle a few times to myself at the melodrama of it all (I was in the Hobo Corner and the bride couldn't see me). I kept thinking that it was so over-the-top that it couldn't be real.
The time was about 8:45, and the angry bride said pictures were at 10 and the wedding at 11:30. She was in a heap of trouble! She exited at Chicago, still upset.
Was the Bridezillas camera crew in tow?
Posted by: Patrick | July 03, 2007 at 08:44 AM
I thought Antonella was on Season 2? Is she back?
Posted by: Joe Blow | July 03, 2007 at 09:26 AM
Who rides the L in a wedding dress? Take a cab those 8 blocks and save yourself. Your dress is black because you dragged it through putrid "L stairway shit" getting on the train, duh.
That said, I'm sure she's one of those people who scheduled a wedding that none of her friends could attend because she scheduled it selfishly (cases: the vacation wedding, the weekday wedding, the sunday wedding) and now she's upset because her side of the aisle won't be packed. Again, duh. If you want people to go, schedule it on a Saturday like everyone else.
Posted by: Josh | July 03, 2007 at 10:08 AM
Uh, we rode it in full wedding attire. And we scheduled our wedding for a Sunday.
Man, we're dicks!
Posted by: Joe Blow | July 03, 2007 at 10:34 AM
One should never assume that someone is going to be able to come to a wedding. However, how is a Sunday Wedding as bad as a weekday wedding or a vacation wedding? If most of your friends have jobs requiring them to work on Sunday wouldn't Saturday be out too? People might miss church by being in another church?
Posted by: Jacob Tomaw | July 03, 2007 at 10:49 AM
I always thought the POINT of scheduling a wedding on off hours was to keep the guestlist small.
Posted by: Flynn | July 03, 2007 at 12:42 PM
What a miserable human being. With a soon-to-be miserable husband. I love how it is everyone else's fault that she's riding the CTA in her gown.
Posted by: Nik | July 03, 2007 at 01:16 PM
I recently went to a good friend's Tuesday afternoon wedding and there were plenty of people attending. Apparently it is lucky and traditional for a Jewish wedding to be on Tuesday.
Posted by: MC | July 03, 2007 at 03:11 PM
I recently went to a good friend's Tuesday afternoon wedding and there were plenty of people attending. Apparently it is lucky and traditional for a Jewish wedding to be on Tuesday.
Posted by: MC | July 03, 2007 at 03:11 PM
A Sunday wedding is not as bad as the other variants I mentioned, however, I probably should have clarified. I have experienced the Sunday EVENING wedding. Hello, not all of us are going on our honeymoon on Monday.
Posted by: Josh | July 04, 2007 at 04:25 PM
My friend was disappointed that we weren't all taking Monday off for her Sunday wedding - she's upset that people will probably leave the reception somewhat early. Ummmmmm, I gotta work to pay for your wedding present, girlie!
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