I get paid to be a bridesmaid – guests are told I’m a long-lost friend, but the truth is I don’t know the bride at all

A WOMAN has revealed that she gets paid to travel to weddings, and unreal to beryllium a agelong mislaid person to the bride.

Tiffany Wright is an "undercover bridesmaid" and is hired by brides to regenerate bridesmaids who person had to driblet retired past infinitesimal and to marque definite that everything goes smoothly connected the large day.

None of the different bridesmaids oregon guests are alert that Tiffany does not cognize the bride, and she makes up a backmost communicative specified arsenic that she met the bride years agone whilst they were connected a spread year.

Tiffany's erstwhile occupation was arsenic a marriage connection planner, but aft seeing however stressed brides often became astatine weddings she attended, she had a brainwave and decided to go a nonrecreational bridesmaid.

Tiffany offers 3 antithetic bridesmaid packages: For £250, she offers a 'Online Bridesmaid' service, which includes 1:1 sessions wherever she advises connected wedding readying choices, specified arsenic seating plans and colour themes.

She besides offers a 'Ultimate Professional Bridesmaid' package, which includes wedding and bridesmaid formal shopping, moving errands, and attending the wedding ceremony.

One bride-to-be Kirsten, hired Tiffany to beryllium her bridesmaid arsenic she was disquieted astir her household members not getting connected on the large day, and needed idiosyncratic to support the peace.

"I don't consciousness comfy asking my friends to marque definite Uncle Tom isn't talking to X", she told OMG Weddings.

"I conscionable privation everyone to person a bully time."

Mum-of-two Kirsten said that she would consciousness truthful overmuch much relaxed connected her peculiar time if she could spot Tiffany to marque definite that everything is successful order.

Tiffany has worked with hundreds of brides and said that she has travel crossed each azygous script imaginable.

"I'm an adept astatine weddings I've travel crossed each concern that could spell wrong, truthful I cognize however to woody with it," she said.

However, she revealed that her occupation tin beryllium highly stressful, arsenic she is liable for whether the time goes good oregon not.

"It could ruin a brides time if I don't measurement up", she said.

One of the problems she often encounters is play betwixt the different bridesmaids.

Controlling the different bridesmaids tin beryllium a play successful itself," she told Harper's Bazaar.

"There's often 1 alpha bridesmaid who is suspicious of maine and trying to negociate that and marque definite everyone is blessed tin beryllium difficult."

She added that immoderate of the brides she works for are "bridezillas" who person called her astatine midnight and person demanded she dye her hair to acceptable successful with the wedding aesthetic.

However, contempt the struggles, Tiffany said that her unsocial occupation is precise rewarding.

She said: "The past wedding I went to, the begetter of the bride knew that I'd been hired and helium was truthful tense astir doing his speech," she said.

"About 5 minutes earlier helium was owed to speak, helium asked maine to work a beauteous poem helium had written astir his girl due to the fact that helium was excessively emotional.

"My occupation mightiness beryllium unique, but it's experiences similar these that marque it truthful rewarding."