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A few years after I started in my current job out of college, one of my friends sat next to a true bridezilla. She spent much of her day for 1.5 years on the phone planning her wedding. (This was before cell phones were ubiquitous so she was making/taking phone calls from her desk phone to friends, family, bridesmaids, caterers, photographers, etc...) She had 7 bridesmaids and during the course of her engagement she fired two of them, and was constantly "promoting" and "demoting" them up/down from where they stood based on how they appeased or disappointed her. She was also building a custom house with her fiancé at the same time and when she wasn't on the phone about the wedding, she was on the phone with her general contractor. My friend said she was constantly screaming at people: vendors, contractors, bridesmaids. Any way, she gets married, moves into her house, and her now husband files for divorce within the first six months and she's divorced before her first anniversary. He seemed to think the bridezilla phase was one that she would get over after the wedding. Instead she turned her attention to trying to berate him into her perfect husband.

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I have a friend that I met in college as he was a high school friend of one of my room mates. He'd been dating his girlfriend since freshmen year of high school. They went off to the same college (my college) together. I didn't really like either of them. The girlfriend was overbearing and the guy cheated on her regularly. The girlfriend hated me because he basically always lied and said he was with me when he was cheating on her. She assumed this meant I was in on helping him cheat, which I was not. (I only learned about him claiming to be with me until after college.)

Anyway, they get married a few years after college. 300+ people at the wedding. During the reception, she gets on the mike and orders everyone to remove the slip covers from their chairs because they are forest green and not the mint green she specifically requested. She sent the bridesmaids around to collect them.

I thought for sure they would be my first friends to get divorced. 15 years later and they're still married, though they don't talk to me anymore, which I'm fine with.