Have you heard the one about the rude bride?
Seems the $100 cash gift she received was insufficient to pay off the reception! Yes, she complained about it to the person who gave her the gift!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/wedding-gift_n_3535780.html?ir=Detroit
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'I feel sorry for your new husband' would be my response."
– Joanna Franke Kleine
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"What would be my response to the bride? 'I feel sorry for your new husband' would be my response."
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One bride kept returning the expensive gifts, and expected us to show them as not purchased on her registry.
One day, a woman came in to buy a gift for yet another shower the bride was having. This woman was a very close friend of the bride's mother. She pulled up a fresh copy of the registry, and complained that her (expensive) gift that she purchased two weeks earlier wasn't marked off the list. She was unhappy that we weren't doing our job in the store.
So...I had to explain to her that the bride had returned the gift for a gift certificate. Well, she stormed out and apparently called the bride's mom to tell her of her daughter's dirty deed.
The next day, the bride came in and threw a fit that we'd embarrassed her to her mom's best friend. I said, "What was I supposed to do, allow your mom's friend to think that we hadn't entered her purchase?" The bride said yes, that's your job. I told her, "No, that's not my job. My job is to make sure the registry accurately reflects what's been purchased and what hasn't. When you return something, it comes back off the registry."
Well, the bride proceeded to make a scene in the store. I was about to toss her out on her fanny when I noticed the mom's friend coming in with the bride's mother. I said nothing, and allowed the bride to continue throwing a fit. The mom noticed immediately, and slowly approached. I'm pretty sure the bride soiled herself when she realized her mom had just witnessed her fit.
The mother told the bride to go home immediately, that they needed to have a serious discussion. She then apologized to me on behalf of her daughter's rude behavior, and asked a few questions to clarify what had been going on.
A few days later, we received a note from the bride apologizing for her actions, chalking it up to the stress of the wedding. A week or so later, the wedding was called off. It seems the bride's mother's best friend was also the mother of the groom!
What a great story!
I'm almost tempted to ask if the bride was older than 10. Her behavior makes her sound like a spoiled five year old...
High-maintenance people annoy me.
I'm really low-maintenance myself. When Mr Pipi and I got married in 1996, we went to VT with our two best friends and saw a JP. The Town Hall was in the elementary school (for the license). We had lunch at some cool little restaurant (where the waitress gave me back the mashed potato and green peas face I had made on my plate and I still have it wrapped in my freezer after all these years).
Three months later we had a small renewal ceremony at our house, where my dippy sister insisted on holding one of our pet mice (a baby) and allowed it to jump out of her hands, whereupon it scampered across the table, racing through the deli platters, causing my mom to freak out and scream bloody murder before it was apprehended. Luckily, most of the guests had left by then and the platters were almost empty of food.
Those are some of the best wedding memories ever...for us. 
