In a perfect world, wedding days would go off without a hitch. But since this isn’t ideal, some form of drama is expected at a wedding. That was precisely the case of a new bride called Jessica, who posted her dilemma on an online question-or-answer platform.
A Perfect Wedding, Except For One Thing
Jessica’s wedding day was perfect except for her 16-year-old niece’s dress, which looked like a wedding gown. It was a white, lacy, knee-length dress with elbow-length lace gloves. She didn’t say anything to her niece, parents, brother, and sister-in-law, instead choosing to ignore the faux pas. But when Jessica received the proofs from the wedding photographer, she was mortified seeing her niece wearing that white dress in a group photo beside her.
A Digital Solution
When Jessica’s husband saw how upset she was, he suggested paying the photographer an extra fee to photoshop her niece’s dress from wedding white to light blue. They thought it through and went ahead with the photo editing. When they received the final photos, they loved the niece’s dress color alterations. They could hardly tell she was initially wearing white.
Family Outrage
After posting some of the digitally altered pictures on social media, Jessica received angry messages from her sister-in-law. She was upset that Jessica and her husband changed her daughter’s dress color without checking with her first. She then falsely accused Jessica of thinking her niece was ugly and body-shaming her.
An Appropriate Response?
Jessica has been stressed out by this situation and asked an internet audience if she was wrong to photoshop her niece’s dress because it looked too much like a wedding dress. Online users didn’t disappoint in giving their honest answers to her question.
Sister-In-Law Has a Lot of Nerve
Several commenters feel the sister-in-law has a lot of nerve for not only being angry but for allowing her daughter to show up at a wedding wearing a bridal-like gown, with one person saying, “If she didn’t want the dress to be photoshopped, she shouldn’t have let her daughter attend a wedding in a lacy white dress!”
A Deliberate Affront
One forum member suspects the “white dress was a deliberate affront, and when Jessica finessed around it they got more combative and made up a grievance.” That would certainly explain the over-the-top outrage expressed by the teenager’s mom.
Problem Solved Peacefully
Others praise Jessica and her husband for their calm, levelheaded reaction instead of reacting at the moment at the wedding and embarrassing the teen. They used logic, common sense, and computer software to fix the problem in the photos after the fact without getting into a potentially unpleasant conflict on the day of the wedding.
An Ulterior Motive?
An individual on the forum questions if the sister-in-law had an ulterior motive for allowing her daughter to attend her aunt’s wedding ceremony wearing a dress resembling bridal attire. She asks if the sister-in-law dislikes Jessica because “it is the only reason I could think of why she wouldn’t have told her daughter to change dress color.”
Did the Niece a Favor
A new viewpoint was offered by a user in the thread, who opines that Jessica did her niece a considerable favor by photoshopping her dress from white to light blue, writing, “Despite her family disrespecting her at her own wedding, she made sure their faux pas wouldn’t be immortalized in the photos. Now no one will ever have to know how rude they were!” They have a point.
Wedding 101, Part 1
The rule about guests not wearing white to a wedding is Wedding 101, declares a respondent, believing there’s no way that all three of them didn’t think it would be rude for Jessica’s niece to wear a lacy white dress with matching gloves. It was a pretty calculated decision.
Wedding 101, Part 2
Besides the rule of guests not wearing white to a wedding, there are other basic wedding dos and don’ts that people are aware of, such as not matching the colors worn by the bridal party, not wearing revealing, sexy, flashy clothes, or jeans and sneakers. Jessica’s brother and his family may not have been aware of these rules, an individual in the discussion offers.
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