The year of the Tiger brought on a bundle of celebrity weddings, and with celebrity weddings comes extravagant, sometimes gaudy, wish-we-could-have-it, one-of-a-kind rings.  Some of the couples to stroll down the aisle this year included Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr, Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, Calista Flockhart and Harrison Ford, and Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem.

Of course, the biggest headline grabbers of the year had fabulous rings to match.  From unique bands to ginormous rocks, these celebs go to great lengths to make sure no one can match their grandiose symbols of devotion.

Russell Brand and Katy Perry

Russell Brand and Katy Perry tied the knot in a lavish ceremony set in a luxury resort in Northern India.  With Perry forgoing a simple yet spectacular solitaire, the couple opted for matching wedding bands.  Though they look demure from a distance with just the right amount of sparkle; the rings are estimated to be around $50,000 to $75,000 (Diamond Information Center).  How’s that for living in luxury!

Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green

The woman everyone loves to hate, Megan Fox, married her longtime boyfriend Brian Austin Green, of Beverly Hills, 90210-fame, in a quiet ceremony at the Four Seasons Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii.  Fox’s classic diamond ring comes in at an estimated $80,000 with the added wedding band upping the price another $20,000.  Who knew 90210 royalties looked like a line of dump trucks filled with cash?

Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin

The on and off-screen lovers, Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin, of True Blood have always been a low-key kind of couple.  Keeping in line with their reserved natures, the couple held their intimate wedding at a private beachside residence in Malibu, California.  Paquin’s vintage-inspired ring is a custom design by Moyer himself with the help of their jewelry designer friend, Cathy Waterman.

Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher

As we move into the world of gigantic rings, Carrie Underwood accepted this beauty from husband and hockey player Mike Fisher.  The Diamond Information Center estimates the value of this 5 carat ring at $150,000-plus.  Married in a very Southern wedding, the couple held their ceremony at the Ritz Carlton Resort at Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro, Georgia where both recited their favorite Bible verses.

Hilary Duff and Mike Comrie

Not to be outdone, Hilary Duff showed off her very own massive sparkler bestowed upon her by husband Mike Comrie, also a hockey player.  The 14-karat princess-cut paper weight is a mind-blowing $1,000,000.  Before you start asking, what the hell is happening in the hockey playing water, it should be noted that Comrie also happens to be an heir to Canadian home furnishings retail empire, The Brick.  In the money factory known as the Comrie-Duff household, she really could use her ring as a paper weight if she felt like it.  It’s good to be rich.

This wedding photo will be dancing into bridezilla’s nightmares all weekend long. Yes, it’s time for another funny caption Friday, so kick off your stilettos, leave the wedding stress behind, and have a laugh. At someone else’s expense of course.

Nothing Scarier than a Wedding Clown

It was all fun and games until someone tried to squeeze her nose
Brides gone Bozo
And you thought your wedding was a circus

Comment with your funny captions. Happy Friday to all!

I can’t. even. explain. what’s going on in this funny wedding photo. We have a bride who may have mistaken her wedding for a raging house party. And a groom apparently peeing behind a rock that’s bigger than bridezilla’s house.

Bridezilla’s Funny Wedding Photo

Captions

Is that Louie C.K?
And they lived happily drunkenly ever after.
She was a good wife. But a bad lookout.
This is why you make sure your wedding venue has a bathroom.

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We’re a little tired of watching bridezilla brawls and freak out videos. Can’t a girl have a tantrum or destroy a dress shop without it being blasted all over YouTube?

That’s why we found this video so refreshing. Check it out:

Notice how the bride and groom just keep walking?! Lend the guy a hand. His photography equipment (and all the wedding pictures) were just accidentally baptized. Hope he’s Christian!

When you think about it, bridezillas and Jersey Shore girls have a lot in common: big mouths, big attitude, big hair, big beach houses, impressive fighting skills. We have better nicknames (bzills vs. Snooki? c’mon, no contest!) and vocabularies (obvi) but when it comes to having a good time, the ladies on MTV’s Jersey Shore have got it down.
It’s time to put that sushi snoozefest idea to rest and head out on a really wild girls’ weekend. Get that ‘do blown out, and have a fabulously good time hanging out with your best girls at the boardwalk. Dance wildly. Flirt with bartenders. Go swimming at sunrise. There’s no better place to put the single you to rest than the Shore.
See New Jersey Bride for a list of cool clubs, bars, and wedding venues in the area.

Outrageous Outfit

Skin-tight neon pink jumpsuit? Jeans that look like they were attacked by racoons? Hoop earrings that could double as bangle bracelets? Bring it. This is your bachelorette party and gives you the perfect excuse to rock that Ed Hardy hat you bought on impulse.
Bridezilla hint: If bridezilla had one wish, it would be to see the end of penis veils and tacky bride sashes. Arrive in shore style wearing this sassy bridezilla tank top. It says “bachelorette” without the “cheap.”

2. Spray Tan A Go-Go

Don’t dare hit the shore or clubs baring those blinding white thighs; this isn’t the Twilight movie set. However, you don’t have to sizzle on the beach like a sausage link to get great color. This is the Jersey Shore, get your fake tan on.
Bridezilla hint: Your bachelorette party is a great time to try out a spray tan. If it turns out too orange, you’ll have just enough time to fix it before the wedding.

3. Jersey Shore NickName

A good nickname is the must-have accessory if you’re going to get down like the girls on the shore. But the rule is (and no, I don’t care how cool the nickname is), you never give it to yourself. Leave it to the Jersey Shore nickname generator. When your bachelorette party is a fading memory, tag those Facebook photos with your nicknames from the shore.
Jersey shore, here we come!

You spent precious hours at wedding dress boutiques hunting down a flawless gown.
You went to salon after salon, auditioning makeup artists and subsequently, relieving them of their duties when they smeared drag queen eye shadow on your quivering eyelids (thanks, but no thanks). And you emptied your bank account to purchase a “something new” necklace, the kind so extravagant, it shines in pitch blackness.
The wedding is all.about.you. You planned it. You obsessed over every detail. You may have, in unbridezilla fashion, even payed for it.
And now the day has arrived. This is your moment. All your power couple fantasies are about to come true. All eyes should be glued to you as you glide towards your better half.
But no.
There’s a bridezilla thunderstealer in your midst.
Like a garden weed, the thunderstealer zaps the attention and recognition a bridezilla has labored to gain.
Famous Thunderstealers: Lauren Conrad at Heidi and Spencer’s Wedding. Rachel at Ross and Emily’s wedding on Friends.

5 Wedding-Day Thunderstealers

1. Tycoon-type Fathers

Chelsea can’t hold a candle to Bill
Poor Chelsea Clinton. We’re guessing she’s going to live in the (exceptionally large) shadow of her father on her wedding day. Bridezillas with wealthy and still-sexy-over- 60 fathers have a hard time garnering any attention on their wedding days because every wedding guest stands in line to schmooze with the dad who made the “wedding on a yacht” happen.
What to do: You can’t uninvite your father, the affable man who paid for this shindig, but you can tell him to tone down the business dealings. Consider selecting a middle class and more mediocre uncle to walk you down the aisle.
Or hire an aisle-escort and tell daddy to disappear for a few hours, at least during the ceremony, so you can won’t hear any whispers of “That’s her Dad. They summer in the Hamptons. If I make an impression during this wedding, I’ll be sunbathing next to celebrities in no time.”

2. Pregnant Bridesmaid

Nothing steals a bride’s thunder faster than a so-preggo-she-looks-like-a-blowfish bridesmaid. Whispers of “when is she due?” “what names did they pick…” as well as your guests cooing to the unborn and caressing the bridesmaid’s belly when they should be doing the chicken dance is every zillas’ worst nightmare.
What to do: Fire your bridesmaid if she’s going to be more than 5 months pregnant on your wedding date. You’re doing her a favor. She won’t have to waddle down the aisle, sit stone-cold sober and cranky at your bachelorette party, or find a maternity bridesmaid gown. She can wear flats, be a guest, and not have to stuff her swollen grape stompers into stilettos.
She’ll thank you. And you’ll get to enjoy YOUR WEDDING without all your guests joking about a wedding day delivery (because your bridesmaid going into labor at your wedding would be freakin’ hilarious) and asking when you’re going to have a little ‘zilla (not in your lifetime).

3. Devil in a White Dress

Oh no she didn’t
There’s room for one, I repeat, one white dress per wedding.
Your mother-in-law parades into your wedding wearing an ivory gown. Wafts of her signature Chanel No. 5 fill the room. Everyone stops and stares at the weirdo in the white frock, holding her son’s arm like she’s gripping the last Kate Spade bag on Earth.
How to Deal: It is perfectly proper to ask your mother and monster-in-law if they picked out a mother-in-law dress or, better yet, invite them shopping. Fuchsia. Tangerine. Copper. Even gray. No white.

4. Dancing Groom

Photo Credit: Liberty D8
He shimmies. He shakes. He does the worm. He’s fluid, beautiful, Baryshnikov and you’re the clumsy bride who looks like she’s trying to escape a swarm of bees. Must guests form a circle around him? Years later, when people talk about your wedding, they won’t reminisce about your $10,000 wedding dress or peacock feather centerpieces; all they’ll ever talk about are his sweet moves.
How to Deal: Tell him he’s a bad dancer a few days before the wedding. When his favorite song blasts through the reception hall, he’ll settle for staying in his chair and tapping his toes while you pirouette into stardom.

5. The “Hot” Sister

Let the eye rolling begin. She was the baby without the baby fat. She’s never felt the pangs of an awkward phase, never had a pimple, a breakup, or a run in her nylons.
She’s the single-and-fabulous hot sister who lives in Manhattan and who, every groomsmen has asked about. Even the vomit-green dress you so deliberately picked out does not stop the hot sister. The sounds of jaws hitting the floor ring through the ceremony as she makes her grand entrance.
You trail behind like a mere bridesmaid. Wait – this is your wedding!
How to Deal: Pick out the ugliest dress possible. Hire her the worst hairstylist you can find. And make sure she falls asleep in the tanning bed a few days before the wedding.
Did anyone steal your much-deserved zilla thunder? Comment below and tell us how you got it back!

And you thought we weren’t going to do it this week. Have no fear, my snarky bridezillas. Funny Caption Friday is alive and thriving so ready, set, caption.
A true bridezilla works out until the moment before she walks down the aisle. Let’s hear it for the chin-up bride!

Chin-Up Bridezilla

Must. Lose. 5 More Pounds.
One last workout before the wedding night
The lengths a bridezilla will go to to get rid of that back flab
Photo submitted by: The SmartBride Boutique.
Snarkzillas–comment with a caption. Or send a funny wedding picture to zilla@bridezilla.com!

We’re on the brink of a new decade! During the last ten years, we’ve seen some of the most extravagant weddings ever. Before the clock strikes midnight and a new year begins, let’s take a look back at the best bridezilla weddings of the decade.

10. Star Jones

The ultimate bridezilla got her 2004 wedding to Al Reynolds sponsored by plugging products on The View. How tacky. Three years later, she divorced because she was “tired of footing the bill.” Um….

9. Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise

Katie Holmes isn’t the bridezilla, it’s Tom Cruise. Long ago, we gave him the title of biggest bridezilla of all time because of his Napoleon complex and control issues. Katie can’t even wear heels! His couch jumping proclamation of love started it all. TomKat got their storybook ending with a grand $2 million dollar wedding in Lake Bracciano, Italy. The couple spent $180,000 on wine and champagne. Groan.

8. Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey

Only a detail-oriented bridezilla could pull off this fairytale wedding. Simpson had to be one of those girls who carried a wedding binder around in high-school. To add to her bridezilla street cred, Simpson wrote a book about having a celebrity-style wedding on a budget, titled I Do: Achieving Your Dream Wedding. (There was nothing “cheap” at her wedding, except for Lachey) The couple divorced a few years later.

7. Elizabeth Hurley and Arun Nayar

Hurley was rumored to have worn 13 different dresses at her $2.5 million dollar wedding to Arun Nayar. More than two dresses makes you a bridezilla in our book.

6. Speidi

One Hollywood name, two weddings, countless reality shows. Need we say more? There’s no question in our minds that Speidi is one of the biggest bridezillas of the decade, after all, in 2008 we awarded Spencer bridezilla of the year. But who’s the bigger bridezilla, Spencer or Heidi?

5. Melania Knauss and Donald Trump

Donald Trump does everything big, so it’s no surprise that he went for the big bridezilla wedding. The couple spent a whopping $500,000 on flowers that likely wilted days later. Try and Trump that.

4. Madonna and Guy Ritchie

Madonna and Guy Ritchie had a $1.5 million dollar wedding in the year 2000 at Skibo Castle in Scotland. Always the trend setter, after Madonna’s Scottish soiree, castle weddings were en vogue. The couple divorced in 2008.

3. Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt

Remember how much everyone adored Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt? Their wedding was a lavish $1 million dollar Hollywood soiree with champagne and lobster. The star-studded guest list included Cameron Diaz and Courteney Cox. Sadly, America’s favorite couple divorced in 2006.

2. Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones

They spent $100,000 on mouth watering Godiva Chocolate wedding favors and he proposed with a 10-carat marquise diamond. On their wedding day, the Mumbles in Swansea, Catherine’s birthplace lined the streets with flags and banners. You know you’re a bridezilla if your hometown has a small parade for your wedding!

1. Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren

$1.5 million dollar wedding in 2004. A reception featuring entertainment by Hootie and the Blowfish. A massive fireworks display and a-list celebrity guests. What happened during the vows that lead to Woods cheating with nasty diner waitresses five years later? Money can’t buy true love!

‘Tis the season for proposals. The love of your life on bended knee under glittering snowfall and twinkling Christmas lights. You unwrap a special gift under mistletoe and say “yes” with a kiss, tears streaming down your face.
Please be aware: Proposals rarely live up to the romantic expectations fed to us by diamond advertisements. But few can be this bad. From the guy who fumbled the bauble on the Brooklyn Bridge to a proposal tattoo (say it in permanent ink!) to a staged police raid, these bad proposals will make your guy’s casual prenup proposal (will you marry me? sign below) look like a love sonnet.

Bridezilla Presents 8 Proposals to Say No To

1. Police Raid Proposal

Want to bag a wife? All you have to do is stage a police raid. Jon S. Cardin, a State Delegate from Baltimore decided to propose to his girlfriend on a boat. Instead of a classic yacht and sunset proposal, he staged a heart-racing police raid. He wrangled a few police officers and helicopter units to pretend to ransack his boat and pull out a ring. In crime-ridden Baltimore. With taxpayer’s money. This police-raid proposal ticked everyone off but her. She said yes!

2. Love is in the Air

Hajji, of Hackney, east London wanted to give his girlfriend the ultimate proposal. He tied an expensive ring in a helium balloon. You can probably guess what happened next. A gust of wind whisked away the balloon and the affection of his girlfriend, who demanded another ring.

3. Rejected in Front of Thousands

This is why you don’t do the sports proposal. First, there’s absolutely nothing romantic about screaming fans, beer bellies, sweat, and spit (unless you’re in the bedroom). This poor sap is rejected in front of an entire crowd. Court-side ticket holders could see tears forming in the corners of his eyes. Listen to the announcers as they give the proposal fail play-by-play. Ouch.

4. Proposal in Permanent Ink

Somewhere there’s a Caroline Summers with a “no” tattooed on her back.

5. Bride Slurps Up Ring

Here’s a tip for when you’re brainstorming proposal ideas. Don’t hide the ring in food (not even chocolate) and then challenge your lady to inhale said food in a binge-eating contest. It’s about as romantic as doing beer-bongs with your buddies. This milkshake proposal led to a swoon-worthy post-proposal trip to the emergency room (ooh, the fluorescent lights, the sniffling children, the gunshot victims). Congratulations you’re an idiot on your proposal.

6. Man Fumbles Bauble

This could have been the biggest proposal fail of all time. Don Walling planned to propose on the Brooklyn Bridge, at sunset. And then he fumbled the bauble, which bounced out of his hands, slipped through a crack and fell into traffic directly below. BUT….he shimmied down a 60-foot vertical wall in a super-hero-like maneuver and rescued the ring. Don Walling, would you marry bridezilla?

7. Felony Proposal

Many women have what’s known as “bad boy syndrome.” And it’s tempting for guys to want to act like a ‘bad boy’ to win our affection. But we’re attracted to leather-jacket-clad-motorcycle-riding bad boys, not that loser who got arrested. Maybe it’s just us, but practical jokes like this staged detainment should be reserved for April Fool’s Day, not proposals.

8. Bride Swept Away – Literally

This is the worst proposal of all time. Instead of being swept off her feet, she was swept out to sea. We’re guessing it’s a no.

Every October, we check out the best in Halloween-themed weddings: cute costumes, candy corn favors, adorable bride-and-groom skeleton cakes. But this year, we turned in the cute for bone chilling.
Take a walk with bridezilla through our wedding haunted house.
But you may not get out alive…..

1. Clown Wedding

It’s the wedding of my nightmares. You can get away with wearing the red dress with the white veil. You can even get away with that circa 1999 arm cuff. But a clown nose?! A bridezilla understands the need for self expression, but does the term beautiful bride mean anything these days?
Please, at least tell us you put a disclaimer in your wedding invite. If I attended this wedding, I’d want to know well beforehand that the bride and groom were dressed like circus clowns, so I could RSVP a big, fat, red “No Thank You.” And perhaps even freakier, the couple’s friends mud-wrestled to kick of the marriage, which also puts this wedding into the Top Signs You are Too Young to Get Married category.

2. Zombie ‘Zilla

We get it. You are so unique and unbarred by tradition that you decided to dress up like a zombie on your wedding day.
Bride-to-groom: Just think, we’ll be that couple everyone talks about. Maybe we’ll even make it on a reality show.
Groom: I don’t know, you think anyone will eat sirloin after watching us get hitched in full leprosy makeup?
Bride: Good point, but the idea of a corpse bride is genius. What a way to get back at my penny-pinching father for not paying for our zombie themed reception. We’ll show him.
Groom: Do you think we should do the Thriller Dance at the Reception?
Bride: Nah, it’s overplayed.

3. True Blood (er..Love?)

This is a Vegas-Gothic-Vampire-Shot-Gun-ShinDig gone truly terrifying (not to mention tacky). Looks like a late ’90s prom picture. Bridezilla doesn’t do drive thru, but if we had to, we’d pass on the Gothic Wedding Chapel and pull right up to the Elvis one, thank you very much.

4. Suicide Suspension Soiree

This couple took their wedding to new weird heights with a suicide suspension trellis. This horrifying body modification wedding theme, shirtless groom, and female priest in the background aren’t the scariest parts — the fact that this couple may procreate is spine-tingling.
Can you imagine what the bride’s grandma thought? Most grandmas get huffy if the bride wears ivory. “Grandma, not only are we living together, I’m hanging from a body modification thingy during the ceremony. If you don’t like it, keep your eyes closed.”

5. Bride in a Box

If the bride has a pixie hair cut, striped-tights, and a black bird-cage veil, Gothic themes can be cute. A bridezilla would never choose such a dark theme, but show us a Gothic wedding that incorporates Manolos and we’re in. This coffin makes the bride look like she took the “Death Do Us Part” line a little too literal. And surprise, surprise, the couple pulled up in a hearse.
Mawhaha….and you thought bridezilla was scary.