A warning to wedding vendors — please don’t confuse Cassandra Pate with a blushing bride-to-be.

Sure, she’s pretty and petite, with a slight southern drawl and mega-watt smile. But the 40-year-old Fort Lauderdale woman has also made her bridesmaid cry, spent five hours at the salon dithering between dresses, and frustrated a local disc jockey so much he asked not to get the job.

“It’s the ‘all about me’ type of thing. I think that just comes naturally to me,” said Pate.

And she’s just the kind of bride Annette Reine is looking for to cast in the upcoming season of “Bridezillas.”

The show features women who turn into monsters as they plan their big day, often abusing family, friends and fiancés, and teetering on an emotional breakdown on national TV.

For season nine, Reine says the producers are looking for a different type of bride than in seasons past. This year, it’s all about the diva: Women who are funny, charismatic, classy, a little spoiled and very definitely outspoken. They want perfectionists who insist on being the center of attention and will demand every extravagant details they have their heart set on.

“They are not going to back down, they want the best price, the best products and they want everything to be perfect,” said Reine, head of Castannette Casting in Hollywood. “That’s not always possible and that’s where the drama comes in.”

To find her bridezillas, Reine has been attending bridal shows throughout South Florida, and inviting possible candidates to her casting agency for a screen test.

She needs six to eight couples for the upcoming season, which will air on WEtv this summer.

Pate and fiancée Bryan Bradley, 33, got invited back for a second interview, where the blushing bride-to-be talked about her vision of grandeur: a pristine church wedding followed by a fancy yacht club reception.

She’s already banned her bridesmaids from drinking, and told them that if there’s an “Electric Slide’’ or “Chicken Dance’’ being played, they’d better be hopping right beside her.

And speaking of the music, Pate’s required the disc jockey play to the Earth, Wind and Fire song “September” at least once each hour during the reception.

To find just the right disc jockey, Pate asked off-the-wall questions such as “Advil or Excedrin?’’ and “Alabama or Auburn?’’

“It was a little excessive for the information she really needed,” future husband Bradley acknowledged.

Bradley admits the woman he loves can be over-the-top, but says it is what makes her tick.

Zebulan Carson, has watched previous seasons of the show and told fiancée Shonta Rivers that she absolutely had to try out.

“I always tell her she’s worse than any of those women on the show,” said Carson, 38 and of Pompano Beach.

He’s been the focus of plenty of her Bridezilla meltdowns, catching flack for not tying the ribbons on the invitations to their April 21 nuptials just so, and not printing up the address labels for their invitations correctly. Rivers says she listens to his suggestions, but that’s where the planning partnership ends.

“I want things done the way I want it, not how someone else wants them done,” said Rivers, 40 and of Pompano Beach.