Jul 20, 2013 3 min read

NEW YORK – They’re often drunken and controlling, weepy and abusive, but you won’t have all those bridezillas to kick around come November.

The cranky grande dame of reality wedding TV, “Bridezillas” is ending its decade-long run, having morphed from a relatively sane look at stressed-out, spendy New York brides into a hit for WE TV featuring off-the-rails couples from all walks of life around the country.

As the cameras trail along a week or so before their big “I dos,” these brides curse, scream and threaten, break stuff, whine for bling and sometimes get physical, usually with their spouses-to-be or overworked and unpaid bridesmaids.

But fear not fans: A spinoff, “Marriage Boot Camp: Bridezillas,” offers some sustenance as it follows five ‘zilla couples from seasons past as their stretched-thin unions teeter on wacky therapeutic exercises like playing dead for one another in a coffin.

Before there were any marriages, though, there was that big day. In more than 180 episodes that included one “gayzilla,” everything goes wrong, nobody listens, vendors deserve to die and wedding vows are incomprehensible. The series finale – No. 184 plus specials – is scheduled to air Nov. 1.

Laura Halperin came on board as an executive producer deep into the third season, rising through the ranks as a story developer once the sleepy little show focused more sharply on the negative.

“There really weren’t very many wedding shows on. Now it’s kind of like a wedding-palooza out there,” she said. “I think that we said what we needed to say, which is sometimes the ladies take things just a little too seriously.”

Who wouldn’t, what with all the incompetence swirling around these brides, and all the people trying to steal their limelight, and all the – gasp – fat people in their wedding parties?

Tricia Cha, now mom to two daughters in Portland, Ore., was part of the tamer freshman class on Season 1.

She bankrolled most of the wedding herself. The worst it got for this strong-willed decision maker, on camera at least, was a bridesmaid’s dress delivered in the wrong size. Cha reveled in her gifts from Tiffany, met with her high-end photographer, toured her trendy West Village reception space she picked without her groom and eventually slipped into her $4,000 Richard Tyler gown with a smile on her face.

Would she sign on as a bridezilla now?

“I would not,” she laughed. “I don’t think the word bridezilla is one most people would like to have their name attached to.”

But she felt the show fairly portrayed her union to her hubby Jeff. “We weren’t the screaming lunatics that other people were, so I don’t think there was a lot of moments for us to be portrayed too differently,” she said.