momzilla

you ever heard the term bridezilla? well it is a term used by those of us in the wedding business as a bride who is a complete brat. she's a brat about the flowers, the food, her dress, the cake--EVERYTHING. it's pretty ridiculus but kind of funny in a weird sort of way. wedding business? what? yes that's what i said, er, typed. i just recently got a job at a reception center in american fork and have worked a few events there over the past weeks and i have seen one bridezilla. they are usually pretty rare, especially in utah valley because of the wonderful atmoshpere that surrounds weddings here. but i experienced a new breed of zilla this weekend--a MOMZILLA. yeah momzilla. it is a syndrome experienced by some mothers of the bride and is tragic and fatal but mostly downright scary! so this momzilla was snappy and mean to all the staff throughout the entire event. the reception was 3 hours long and not until the point when nearly all the guests and food were gone, did she decide, oh i want some of those ham sandwiches and brownies. yeah, sure, your party was only supposed to be out of here like 30 minutes ago but yeah have some food. then she had this paper with green writing all over it and she kept misplacing it and blaming the servers for throwing it away. it was really funny when one of the servers actually DID throw it away. then there was this lone piece of wedding cake that had been sitting on this lone table for like 20 minutes. i must have walked past it nearly 13 times. all of the other plates and food had been bussed but this lone piece of cake that no one had touched. so finally i decided that whoever it was that was supposed to be eating that cake had clearly forgotten about it. so i bussed it. as soon as i picked the darn plate up off the table momzilla comes running, literally, over to me screaming "THAT's MY CAKE!!" i was so scared i just pushed it at her and ducked my head and ran, like napoleon dynamite, back to the kitchen. after that wretched experience i phoned my mother and made her make a solemn blood oath that she would never become a momzilla.