A couple of years ago, a friend suddenly went blonde. When I inquired delicately about the change, she rolled her eyes and said that her sister had asked her to dye her hair before being a bridesmaid in the sister’s wedding.

Up till now, that was my high-water mark for Bridezilla behavior — but it seems that my friend’s sister was a piker in the brass department. The NYTimes reports that bridesmaids are now asked to whiten teeth, spray tan, get Botox, and … I still can’t believe this … get breast enhancement surgery. WTF?

In the future, should any such thing ever be asked of my beautiful and perfect just the way she is daughter, I hope she will treat the request with all the contempt it deserves.

NB for brides-to-be: this is not the way to start a lifelong relationship with your husband’s mother:

It was trickier with her future mother-in-law. “To her,” Ms. Berlin said, “I said it as a joke: ‘You should do Botox for the wedding!’ She giggled, and then I said, ‘I’m serious. It’s exactly what you need to freshen up.’ At first she kind of laughed it off, but the more we talked about it and I told her my mom was going to do it, she said ‘O.K.’ ”