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Calling All Bridezillas! ABC News Wants Your Wedding Stress Story!
Good afternoon Bridal Beauties! We have some big news here at BZ HQ! At last, Bridezillas are being offered the chance to air their wedding woes-on a little news outlet we like to call ABC News! This is a big chance for Bridezillas to dispel their negative reputations on a national level by speaking out about all the stress that goes into wedding planning. The feature on wedding stress is part of ABC's new health and wellness section, and the editor has personally promised Miss B that Bridezillas will not be unfairly portrayed or the victims of any WE-style expose. So, if you are one of the many Bridezillas who contact us every day trying to get on the show, now is your chance for the fame and attention you crave! Just send an email with your name and contact info to zilla@bridezilla.com, and we will send to ABC just for you! This offer expires tomorrow, so act now or forever stew solo. It's the least we can do for the network that brings us news, ringtones,and, more importantly, Desperate Housewives.
Free Bridal T-Shirt Friday: Customized and Complimentary!
What could be better than a totally free no-strings-attached bridal tee? A free bridal tee that's actually adorable! Scribbly stick figures may not be the height of sophistication, but we'll take sharpie chic over the dreaded Swarovski crystal logo tees any day! Customizable by date and name, buy a bunch for a perfect co-ed bachelor/ette party at the bowling alley or baseball game. Just enter the code "THGB" at check-out to receive this great deal.
Since this is Bridezilla.com, the free coupon is only good for this particular wedding graphic, but your bridesmaids can still use it to get $9.99 off other styles, courtesy of Bridal Party Tees. Happy Friday!
Domestic Policy: Are Dreams the New Dowry?
Lately Bridezilla has been wondering if the modern marriage has really evolved, and the string of political scandals lately only brings this burning question to the forefront. Sure, we no longer have to bribe our grooms with chickens and cows to get them to marry us, but what are we giving up instead? Dreams, dignity, and in the case of many prominent politicians' wives, the right to bear facial expressions.
The terms have become more abstract, but the marital trade-off seems to be the same. With this ring, women are selling personal lifestyle preferences, career goals, and identities to become nothing more than figureheads and trophy wives. We sacrifice our single woman hopes until we can't even recognize them, all under that most dangerous term of "compromise." But can there even be compromise when it's completely one-sided? Or is what we call balance really just bondage?
Not so long ago Silda Spitzer, a Harvard Law grad herself, was standing in a church, exchanging vows of love and fidelity with one of the most promising politicians of our time. When does the fresh-faced glee of the altar turn to stone-faced horror at the podium? And how many compromises will marriage demand before wives become a mere caricature of womanhood?
Call us macabre, but from politics and beyond, it seems like even a modern marriage contract can mean signing the death certificate of your personal dreams. From the humiliation of our poker-faced first ladies to the debacle of everyday desperate housewives, are women ever factored into the marriage equation?
Take Rhonda*, a leggy brunette who dreamily dreamed of Ph.D's and medical school from the innocence of her freshman dorm. By the time Rhonda is a senior, a handsome, dimpled Poli Sci major named Greg catches her eye, and she starts thinking how a Master's degree would leave more time for marriage and motherhood. "Women are more adaptable," she thinks. " I can always go back to school when he's through." Ten years later, Rhonda, a dental hygienist with three kids and every episode of "ER" on DVD, wearily treks her brood to the pediatrician. She watches the young women physicians glide by like swans in their sleek white coats and right-hand rings, self-consciously smoothing her Marshall's blazer and purple Costco jeans ("The budget," her husband's stern voice, a constant echo refrains in her head) Before her, the pediatrician reels off a sphinx's riddle of prescriptions, the language which, under paper lanterns and bunk beds, she believed as a nineteen-year-old she would master. Now, Rhonda can't even find her bachelor's degree. She thinks it might be in the basement somewhere.
Monday Bridezilla Bites
An Oklahoma Bridezilla wins a Cabo honeymoon via an arm wrestling championship. Read the full story here for inspiration at your next bridal bootcamp!
English Country Garden is the hottest wedding theme this year. Learn other this-minute wedding trends here!
What really happens when you swallow your wedding ring? A Groomzilla's first person account here.
If you haven't watched the evocative and beautiful Trembled Blossoms, the animated short intro for Prada's new Spring/Summer 2008 line, do so here.
Spoon Sisters offer diamond-shaped ice cubes for your bridal beverages. Talk about luxe for less.Tray chic!
Bridezilla Bejeweled: Win a $100 Jewelry Gift Basket from Dasha Boutique
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