Ivy, a 28 year-old wedding coordinator, and her fiance, Kevin a 30 year-old web and software QA analyst were planning their November 7, $16. 000 wedding in Fort Worth, TX after 5 years of dating. According to Ivy, it's totally worth the price tag...Kevin didn't look so sure.
Ivy, the screeching, whining bride was looking forward to the upcoming wedding and honeymoon to Italy, where she wanted to see the "16th chapel" and "The Leaning Tower of Pizza".
Yes, she really did say that!
After the first episode where we meet Ivy and her "apple doesn't fall far from the tree" mother, we were given a recap of the mother's dress that didn't fit and her plans for Filipino dancers and a clown at the wedding. At the mention of a clown, Ivy beings her typical shrieking.
So, at 4 days before the wedding, the lovely couple is going to their joint bachelor and bachelorette party---on Halloween Night, how fitting for the girl who cackles like the wicked witch of the west!
Ivy sets down the ground rules:
Kevin is not allowed to look or talk to other girls and if he does she says it will be "on".
However, according to Ivy, it's going to be the girl who has the problem because Ivy later says that if he talks to another girl, the girl will get her hair pulled.
Now I just have to wonder about this...why is it the girl that's going to get it?
In order to control him, Ivy decides to confiscate Kevin's phone, while he is driving the car. She reaches over the seat., trying to grab the phone from him, when he doesn't give it to her, she smacks him in the head. Real smart Ivy! Smack the driver in the head.
That night they head out to the club for their joint party. Ivy, dressed in black wings, claims to be a fairy. She calls her friends to make sure that their costumes meet with her approval. And as usual Ivy begins shrieking at her friends when she finds out that one of them is also dressed as a fairy. The screaming is unreal and you really think she couldn't get any worse (she does though later), but right now this screaming even causes her fiance to flinch. I think that dogs are going to start following them down the street! And then...the shrieks just keep on coming as they reach the club...and no one is there. And again...shrieking! This time it is when she spots a cute girl in a white angel costume. She immediately points her out to her fiance...and when he turns to look...he gets a slap upside the head and an admonition to not look at her...does she not realize that she pointed her out?!
The dress rehearsal is the next day and Ivy, who is running late, is angry that all her bridesmaids are running late. She actually has the nerve to complain, "everyone is late from my bridal party!"--really? you are seriously complaining?!
Her bridesmaids finally show up, with a story about a flat tire. Who knows? Could be true, probably is. If it were me I would be late in order to try to save my eardrums from the ear-splitting shrieks constantly arising out of nowhere.
At the dinner the mother threatens Ivy with the cake, once again eliciting...say it with me now everyone...a shriek! Hey, this would make a good drinking game. Every time Ivy shrieks--everyone take a drink.
It is finally the day of the wedding and all is going wel....oh no, wait a minute... uh oh...mom bought a white dress. Well, to be fair, it does have a thin, see-through black jacket and a black ribbon right under the bodice. Ivy completely freaks out at this dress, eliciting...okay, at this point, their is so much screaming and shrieking coming from Ivy that you can just down a 40-oz--forget the shots.
Ivy's freak-out, in turn freaks mom out, who begins yelling right back, threatens to throw her shoes at the screaming bride, announces she is not coming to the wedding, and ends by calling her daughter a bitch.
Her other daughter (aka: sister of the bride), goes after the mom, who proceeds to throw a fit, throwing her shoes across the garage and talking about how her dress is black and white, not just white and then talks about how no one helped her pick out a dress and she was trying.
Ivy finally comes out to talk to her mom. After actually having the nerve to say "stop yelling because it will irritate me and I'm trying to calm down!" --this from the scream queen herself.
Apologies commence and everyone goes to finish getting ready. As the beautiful bride heads out, oops..down she goes, flat on her face (hey, you think she was playing our Ivy scream drinking game...ok, probably not).
And the drama doesn't end as Ivy heads down the aisle. Not only does the violinist massacre the wedding march, but then Ivy didn't have her vows. She went ahead and came up with a nice heartfelt speech though. However, I wonder if she forgot his name, right as it was time to say his name in her vows, she paused after his first name, laughed, said her other vows were really good, then as she jumped back into the vows, she skipped saying the name.
Wow! That was wild. I've had my fill of whining and screaming...let's move on to Shandra...
Shandra, a 24 year old, commercial card analyst, from Orlando, FL is tying the knot to Arman, a 29-year-old, mixer operator.
Apparently, Arman was first drawn to Shandra when he saw her "backside" as she was leaving the mall...and well, the rest is history!
They are marrying in a garden in Naples, FL on January 9.
Shandra seems to have no problem telling people that she is a bridezilla. According to her it is not a negative thing and that you have to "enforce what you want".
Her fiance claims that she can be irate and that he doesn't mind when she is acting that way to others, because it is at least not directed at him.
Hmmm...let's see, is this not a tip-off to what you are getting into?
Let's start this out 6 days before the wedding.
She is on her way to her dress fitting, with her mother, her friend (Sharifa), her sister (Ceara)-who will be meeting them there and bridesmaid, Leslie--who can't be found.
Sharifa, was originally in the bridal party but was kicked out for not being involved enough. Explain to me why she was driving Shandra to her fitting!
Shandra finally gets in touch with Leslie. And finds out Leslie is sick. Compassionate Shandra thinks that Leslie is lying and starts threatening to kick her out of the wedding.
Ceara, the beautiful sister of the bride that Shandra is very obviously jealous of, calls with a flat tire and their mother is going to pick her up.
Once again the compassion shows when Shandra gets angry that Ceara is "stealing" away their mother...I mean how insensitive of Ceara to want her mother to pick her up when she is on the side of the road with a flat tire....I mean, how dare she?!?!
At this point, Shandra decides to point out to her sister, "Do you understand this is my day?"
I wish someone would tell her that it's not her day yet! This is only a dress fitting. Her wedding day can be called her "day" but you don't get to claim every day all the way up to the wedding as "your day"!
So, the sister arrives to an angry Shandra, who has finished her fitting. Ceara, tries on her dress, and has decided that she needs more diamonds and needs more cleavage for her dress. It is fairly obvious that she loves irritating Shandra as much as possible.
It is Bachelorette party time and Shandra is getting her make-up done professionally (yes, a make-up artist for a bachelorette party!) and running late. But because it is "her night" (yes, again she says this), she says they can wait on her.
She ends up at the stove, stirring the food and getting it ready to serve...this angers our bridezilla who feels that her matron of honor (aka her sister) should be doing the food instead of getting ready. And then when Ceara comes out looking better than Shandra, she decides to take action by smashing the wedding cake in her face. Which in turn causes Ceara to chase Shandra down and smash cake in her face as well.
After this loving family display, Shandra becomes upset because bridesmaid Leslie is not there and decides to impose a time limit for her to show up. What does she really think she could do to her? And once again Shandra announces that this is "her day" and "she should be there for her day!"
Leslie finally shows up and is "caked" as well for being tardy.
Then the next day after a bonding activity of bridal party football (what else can I say but...WTF?) Ceara decides to mention that the bridesmaid wasn't there and neither was the best man and how no one in the bridal party is trying to help out or be involved. Rather than listen to what her sister says Shandra decides to do the next best thing and pulls the car over and tries to kick Ceara out of the car.
Later on Shandra decides to become a stalker (as if she isn't waving the crazy flag enough already) and heads over to Leslie's house to check up on her. After calling, knocking on the front door, yelling that she knows she is there, crawling over the back porch railing and knocking on the back door, and then calling a total of 10 times she realizes that Leslie isn't going to answer...and may not be home, even though she should be, "if she is really sick". See I think she may have been there and was just refusing to answer...that is what I would do".
That evening, no one shows up to help Shandra with her favors, until quite a bit later when ex-bridesmaid Sharifa shows up to help. Unbelievably instead of being nice and appreciative to her friend she is rude and tells her she better not mess the favors up!
However, Sharifa's selfless call to duty causes Shandra to rethink her dismissal and decides to let her have Leslie's dress and take over the bridesmaid role again.
End of Round one with Shandra. We should see how she ends up next week.
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