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The dark side of bridal showers

                 Bride having fun at bridal's shower       Photo: Courtesy

Winnie’s bridal shower — set a week leading to her wedding — was one heck of a party in which she invited her high school and campus friends. To keep the business discrete and within their circle, only nine close friends were invited. Single ladies could only conjure up the activities contained therein.

“The night started off subtly with light dancing, drinking and playing dress up games,” says Winnie. “As we got more drunk, I remember seeing men enter the house,” she recalls. She was to later find out that the bridal party organisers invited them. To ice the cake, at some point past midnight, when the drinks and party fever was at its peak, her ex-boyfriend walked in.

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