Some daughters are very close with their mothers. They talk on the phone at least once a day, share secrets, and when it’s time to get married, these daughters want their mothers to be involved, very involved, right down to attending their raunchy bachelorette weekend. Wait, what? Whaaaaat?
The Times reports that the today’s mothers-of-the-bride are hipper and cooler and closer with their daughters, so they want to hang, especially if the hanging means drinking with the girls and giggling over penis necklaces. But the trend isn’t that some mom is attending chill bachelorette festivities held at a local dive or a spa or in someone’s basement; that’s not super weird. We’re talking about about the moms who are flying to Miami and Vegas to throw down at hard-partying bachelorette parties — and daughters are increasingly cool with this. One mother went so far as to secure a V.I.P. table at a male strip club for her daughter’s bachelorette and even supplied the dollar bills, because mom always remembers the important details. <3 Why is this happening? Experts note that social media—everyone’s favorite scapegoat—frequently dissolves the line between Parent and Friend; if your mom follows both you and all of your friends on Instagram and is liking every ka-razy photo you guys post, she’s inserted herself into your virtual social circle enough that it supposedly won’t seem weird or beyond the lines of social acceptability if she tags along for one last sowing of your wild oats (disagree, but okay). Moreover, weddings—and the long, convoluted string of events leading up to the big day—have become so goddamned important that it’s not unexpected that moms would want a chance to co-star in any part of the celebration. Novelist Saralee Rosenberg, age 60, is one such mother. And what she tells the Times is kinda sad.
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