Ask a Modern Girl: Wedding Drama
Who hates a good wedding? Nobody in their right mind hates a good wedding! The food is usually great, everyone is festive, and the wine is free falling and that makes the dance floor great! Right! Aren't you going to RSVP yes to the invitation...Would you still want to go to your fiance's cousin's wedding, who you only met twice & who happened to royally snubbed you at her bridal shower that also included a four hour drive to attend? That's might make the whole affair, how shall I say it, a little less fun?
Now listen up the drama gets better.. Because that isn't the tip of the iceberg. Imagine this...Would you attend an ex-boyfriend's wedding? Now that's real drama!
Scot on the Rocks by Brenda Janowitz
Brenda Janowitz's first novel is a book on the very concept of attending an ex-boyfriend's wedding & attempting to snap a fiance for herself. I mean life is tough for women today. Check this out:
When her ex-boyfriend, Trip, gets engaged to Hollywood's latest It Girl, Manhattan attorney Brooke Miller plans to attend the wedding. Who says a modern girl can't stay friends with her ex? Besides, Brooke's got her sexy Scottish fiancé, Douglas, to take as her date. Okay, so maybe he's not exactly her fiancé, but they're living together in his apartment, so she'll be getting the ring any minute, right? Wrong.
After a fight leaves her without a boyfriend (much less a fiancé) just days before the wedding, Brooke faces the ultimate humiliation of attending her ex-boyfriend's nuptials alone. Desperate to find a replacement to fill Douglas's kilt, Brooke concocts an outrageous plan to survive the wedding and win the man of her dreams, all with her dignity ever-so-slightly intact.
At the moment, I couldn't be reading the more perfect book. Eva Longoria has inspired the great Cinderella dream right down to visiting Disneyland before the wedding & the marriage ceremony being performed inside a real French castle..Fairy tales, you've got to love them (& hate 'em).
Life is never that simple. In real life, Brenda Janowitz has bravely attended three of her ex-boyfriend's wedding! Can one girl do such a thing? Well, she did & I just hope it was all "research" to write her page-turning novel.
As for myself, wedding drama can just get wildly out of control. Here's the story:
I got into a fight with my fiance because as it happens I was struck down on Thursday with a sinus infection so severe that I couldn't walk my dog straight. I got light headed walking my doggie and had to sit down on a strip of lawn. In the process of sitting down, an adorable standard poodle named Mugzzy come crashing down on me. Mugzzy's owner was a nice woman that asked if I was okay. That I was! A Modern Girl is always strong. But I realized that attending a wedding on Saturday that included a four hour car ride and camping in a backyard overnight (???-no, I'm not lying), wasn't for me.
Trouble was I had to persuade my fiance I wasn't lying! He knew I was still tres unhappy about his cousin's bridal shower. Later in the day, I even got a doctor's note to prove that I was too sick to attend the wedding. He didn't buy it. We got into a huge fight because I put my foot down and said I wasn't attending. What good would I be sitting at a wedding with a sinus infection doped up on Sudafed, presciptive nasal sprays, and throat drops? Why would a sick person camp in a backyard when there has to got to be at least a Best Western or Hilton in the area?
Wedding drama galore! Now my fiance & his family are T.O. that I'm not attending. Hey, the bride & groom got a call in advance to cancel our dinner plates. So, why all the heat? I've only met the bride twice. At her bridal shower she didn't even come over to our table to say hello to any of us and she gave credit for the gift I brought to someone else despite the attached card with my name on it. To add to the mayhem, one of her bridesmaids was a complete B**** that was so impatient for fruit that she demanded the serving spoon in my hand (I didn't give in)! Talk about rude manners! Mistakes happen, I understand. However, on the day of their wedding, I'll be tucked in bed recovering from being sick & reading SCOT ON THE ROCKS. At least my book will remind me that the wedding drama could be so much more intense than serving spoons. Now, where is my nasal spray & the tissue box?
Would you attend your ex-boyfriend's wedding? Am I wrong to call in sick to a wedding? Got your own wedding dramas? Share it with Modern Girl! Email me at moderngirlstyle@gmail.com
STOP BEING A WIMP AND STAND BY THE SIDE OF YOUR FIANCE.
SOUNDS LIKE YOUR JUST A LITTLE TOO MUCH A PRINCESS!
Posted by: ANON | July 15, 2007 at 12:35 PM
What girl isn't a princess! Sue me!! LOL!!
Posted by: kamela cody | July 15, 2007 at 08:30 PM
What good would I be sitting at a wedding with a sinus infection doped up on However, on the day of their wedding, I'll be tucked in bed recovering from being sick.
Posted by: bridal shower dinner | October 25, 2007 at 01:01 AM