27 Dresses

Intro

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• wedding shower
• maid of honor
• lavish
• nanna

• bridesmaids
• ouch
• heartache
• dropping cash

• just putting it out there
• bachelorette party

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How exciting! Your friend is getting married! And you get to be a bridesmaid! Well, you wouldn’t think so if it was the 27th time one of your friends asked you to be a bridesmaid. You’d probably be pretty tired of planning bridal parties and buying expensive dresses and wondering when it will be your turn to get married.

Being a bridesmaid can be a lot of fun, but it can also be a strain on your patience, wallet and time. When Mason and Amanda talk about the movie 27 Dresses about a woman who is a bridesmaid 27 times, it brings up a little bit of frustration.

Dialog

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Mason

Amanda

Mason:  The whole concept of the movie, right, is “always a bridesmaid, never a bride”...

Amanda:  Yeah, ouch.

Mason:  It’s like someone took that old saying and made a movie out of it. Is that really true?

Amanda:  It’s true and you know what’s really hard about that is the financial implications associated with that. It’s not only the heartache of being right there by your best friend who is the bride over and over again, you’re dropping cash for the dress, the bachelorette party, the shower. People don’t even realize that. So imagine going through that 27 times.

Mason:  Huh. I don’t know that they covered that in the movie, but that would be interesting. I was even gonna ask, is it such a big deal to be a bridesmaid? What are the responsibilities? How does that even happen? You ask your best friend to do all this stuff for you because anyone else would kill you by the time they’re done?

Amanda:  You know what I don’t understand is what the criteria is for choosing your maid of honor. That’s what I don’t get. Because, to be honest, I’ve been a maid of honor for someone who I really was not close to. So, why?

Mason:  Maybe you were the responsible one.

Amanda:  Maybe I was the responsible one.

Mason:  Maybe they needed someone who can get stuff done.

Amanda:  Maybe I was the only one who could afford do this lavish shower and bachelorette party for her.

Mason:  Oh…

Amanda:  Maybe she wanted someone that looked like me next to her in photographs. I’m just saying. I’m just throwing that out there.

Mason:  You were like the rich nanna? Like, she totally just cozied up to you because her rich nanna was gonna give her the pony?

Amanda:  I just think it’s weird having been a maid of honor and then the wedding came and after the wedding I never hear from her again.

Mason:  There’s no bitterness there.

Amanda:  None at all. I’m just saying. Just putting it out there.

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