Canceled Vows and Quickie Scandals: A Bridezilla’s Shocking Wedding Saga
Starting the year strong, a Reddit thread captured the wild story of a bride, Dana (F29), who managed to ruin her own wedding with a series of outrageous demands and actions. The wedding, set for Sunday, January 14th, was canceled in spectacular fashion, leading to an explosion of drama that continues to echo through the lives of those involved.
The Reddit thread begins with the original poster (OP), lrhun, recounting the pre-wedding chaos. Dana, still in college, had asked a few friends from school, including OP, to be her bridal party. From the start, things were rocky. “She refused to invite my best friend, who she’s supposedly good friends with, because she thinks we’re lesbian lovers. We’re not,” OP wrote.
Dana demanded each bridesmaid pay $2,000 for their dresses. While OP could afford it, others in the bridal party couldn’t. “I can afford it, but I won’t buy a 2k dress for one event,” OP explained. The situation worsened when Dana prohibited Josh, her fiancé, from inviting any single females who weren’t his blood relatives, effectively excluding many of his friends.
Religious beliefs also clashed with Dana’s demands. One bridesmaid, who abstains from alcohol for religious reasons, was publicly accused by Dana of being pregnant. This nearly got her kicked out of her parents’ house. “She was not pregnant and she dropped out of the bridal party. She was a class act, though, and never bad-talked Dana,” OP shared.
Things came to a head on the wedding day. Dana had a meltdown when the flower girl had to cancel due to chickenpox, threatening to sue the child’s mother unless she brought her sick three-year-old to the wedding. Josh managed to calm her down, but the day’s stress led Dana to have several outbursts, making both wedding staff and bridesmaids cry.
OP described how the bridal party sought refuge from Dana’s wrath: “I for the most part took the easy route and decided to work outside the bridal suite, like checking flowers, making sure food was okay. Basically any excuse NOT to be around the bride.”
Eventually, Dana asked for some alone time to “decompress” from the stress. The bridesmaids eagerly left her alone, only for the MoH to return with shocking news: the wedding was canceled.
“MoH: ‘Dana was having a ‘quickie’ with Josh’s uncle in the room. Josh caught them,'” OP recounted. Josh called off the wedding, confronted his uncle, and demanded that Dana cover the cancellation fees. Dana’s father publicly told her she would be responsible for the costs.
And the drama continued, as OP goes on: “I thought that was the end of it. I made the choice to separate myself from this mess. Until I got a call from Dana, not even hour ago, demanding $5,000 to help pay her cancellation fees. According to Dana, it was our duty as the bridal party to pay her cancellation fees. I obviously told her no and that she might as well lose my number. I am never speaking to this woman again.”
This sentiment was echoed by the rest of the bridal party and the MoH, who is Josh’s older sister.
In a small update, OP shared that Josh was doing better, having moved out and cut ties with his uncle. Dana, on the other hand, faced multiple lawsuits, including one from Josh for the wedding expenses, one from his sister for the dresses, one from the bridesmaid she accused of being pregnant, and another from the uncle for using his credit card. Dana’s parents had also severed contact with her and were planning to move away.
The Reddit comments section was ablaze with reactions to the story. One user summed up the general sentiment: “Well, that was a ride… You do right in telling her to leave you alone. Actions have consequences.” Another commented, “Hoo boy, way to start the year with a bang! If you’ll pardon the pun… What an absolute shitshow, poor Josh.”
Redditors expressed sympathy for Josh and his sister, while condemning Dana’s actions. “So in Dana’s mind, lesbians are bad, sobriety is bad, but screwing a random man right before your wedding to a groom who presumably thinks your relationship is monogamous is fine and should result in no consequences whatsoever?? She needs to check her moral compass,” one user noted.
The uncle’s behavior also drew ire. “Can we also talk about the trash heap of an uncle? Who would do that to their own nephew on his wedding day? Did he just say ‘Hmm I’m gonna see if the bride is up for a quickie with me, a man probably twice her age.’ Or were they having a relationship beforehand?” a commenter asked.
Others were astounded by Dana’s audacity. “WTH? Was she high? Bridezilla bridezilla but a quickie in a wedding dress with makeup and hair done? That is on a whole other level of crazy,” one user remarked.
Another pointed out the implications for Dana’s father: “I feel terrible for Dana’s father. The embarrassment in front of all the guests when this should have been a special day for him to walk his daughter down the aisle.”
Some commenters saw the situation as a form of karma. “Wow, now that was a fun read, love it when karma comes around. Dude had a lucky escape, should send his uncle a gift basket for getting him out of that marriage,” one user quipped.
Another remarked on Dana’s behavior towards the bridesmaid who didn’t drink: “Dana is a T-Rex of bridezillas. Your 4th point of her accusing the bridesmaid of being pregnant IN FRONT OF HER PARENTS is totally vile and vicious.”
From a behavioral psychology standpoint, one commenter speculated that this wasn’t Dana’s first time cheating: “You don’t go from zero to cheating just minutes before your own wedding. That takes a kind of confidence that you have to build up over time via multiple episodes of cheating where you don’t get caught.”
The final nail in the coffin was the MoH’s quick thinking to get people out before the situation exploded. “She told me to run and that she was trying to get as many people out before things exploded,” OP wrote. This prompted one user to comment, “You know it’s bad when people run for their lives instead of staying to figure out what happened.”
The story of Dana’s wedding highlights the importance of respect, boundaries, and the consequences of one’s actions. While Josh moves on with the support of his friends and family, Dana faces the fallout of her decisions alone. The Reddit community’s collective sigh of relief that Josh escaped a toxic relationship shows a universal disdain for such behavior.
