A couple of years ago, a friend suddenly went blonde. When I inquired delicately about the change, she rolled her eyes and said that her sister had asked her to dye her hair before being a bridesmaid in the sister’s wedding.
Up till now, that was my high-water mark for Bridezilla behavior — but it seems that my friend’s sister was a piker in the brass department. The NYTimes reports that bridesmaids are now asked to whiten teeth, spray tan, get Botox, and … I still can’t believe this … get breast enhancement surgery. WTF?
In the future, should any such thing ever be asked of my beautiful and perfect just the way she is daughter, I hope she will treat the request with all the contempt it deserves.
NB for brides-to-be: this is not the way to start a lifelong relationship with your husband’s mother:
It was trickier with her future mother-in-law. “To her,” Ms. Berlin said, “I said it as a joke: ‘You should do Botox for the wedding!’ She giggled, and then I said, ‘I’m serious. It’s exactly what you need to freshen up.’ At first she kind of laughed it off, but the more we talked about it and I told her my mom was going to do it, she said ‘O.K.’ ”
heck, by the time your daughter is there, it will be body transplants and cyber enhancement… just think of the shame of not being able to do the ultra acrobatic poplar dances of the time…due to an old, flesh and blood body.
L DeGroff
July 27th, 2008