A woman offered to pay for her younger sister’s wedding dress but changed her mind after the bride-to-be made an unacceptable joke.
Ditched At The Altar
The woman explains that she was engaged in 2017 but that her fiancé left her at the altar.
“I had an incident on my wedding day back in 2017 where my former fiance abandoned me and ran away with his pregnant mistress. That image, those details are forever engraved on my mind, and I’ll never forget how I felt that day.”
Financially Struggling
Her younger sister’s wedding is in a few months, but she’s struggling with money, so the woman offers to help.
“I decided to help her and her fiance and pay for the wedding dress. This allowed her to be able to buy her dream wedding gown, which cost $7,000. It’s a lot for a dress, but she literally cried because she wanted it.”
She Hadn’t Bought The Dress Yet
While having a family dinner, it all unraveled. “We were eating dinner at my parent’s home, and my cousin and aunt were there. My aunt was asking my sister about the wedding, and my sister said that everything was going according to plan and then casually laughed and said, ‘Let’s just hope he won’t run away with a pregnant mistress or something on our wedding day.’”
She Was Shocked By The Remark
“I was blown away completely. She laughed, and my aunt laughed, too, as if this was a joke. She was basically mocking what happened to me at my wedding. It happened so fast I got up and started screaming at her, calling her an idiot, but my parents asked me to take it easy, and she said it was a joke and she didn’t ‘think’ I’d react so intensely.”
A Scene Unfolded
The woman was not amused by her younger sister’s comment. “My aunt remained seated, and my cousin asked me to calm down and drink some water, but I grabbed my stuff, and as I was getting ready, I told my sister she was getting 0 dollars for her dream wedding dress, and then I walked out. I heard the louder commotion as I walked, and my dad and cousin followed me outside, trying to talk, but I asked to be left alone.”
Everyone Is Upset
Her family feels she overreacted to the joke. “My dad spoke to me saying I was too harsh on my sister over a joke and said that I know this is how she is with her dark sense of humor. They said she’d been crying after I decided to back out of helping her and said this’d ruin her wedding. They want me to reconsider my decision since it might damage my relationship with my sister, but I refused.”
The Aunt’s Behavior
“It’s my aunt that would usually bring up what happened from time to time and say stuff like, ‘If what happened didn’t happen, you would’ve had at least two kids now’ or ‘Do you know what day it is? Your wedding anniversary!’. Maybe my sister is being influenced by her, but still. It hurt the same and more coming from my sister.”
She Won’t Back Down
While the woman is reluctant to back down, she took to an online forum to ask if she was wrong for refusing to pay for the dress.
The forum spoke.
Disrespectful Sister
Users had the woman’s back and agreed her sister was wrong here. One user said:
“Serious lack of self-awareness and simple respect from this sister. Charged remarks come with charged consequences.”
The Dress Of Choice
Many commenters found it interesting that the sister struggled for money yet still chose a $7,000 dress on someone else’s dime.
“OP, take that $7,000 and buy yourself a nice little vacation, laugh all the way from the airport to your hotel room. Also, if your sister is struggling for money, it’s ridiculous to spend $7,000 on a dress she will wear for a few hours. That kind of decision-making is likely WHY she is a struggling financial dumpster fire.”
Entitled Little Sister
Users didn’t let the dress business go. “Honestly, getting something ridiculously expensive just because someone else is paying just reeks of entitlement. I know it was the dream dress before OP offered to pay, but unless the person was obscenely wealthy, I could never accept such a grand gesture. And why would she have been looking at dresses so far out of her budget to begin with?”
Questionable Family
Other commenters pointed out that the dad and the aunt were disrespectful. One user said, “The aunt can cough up the $7,000. I also love how the dad tries to guilt trip OP that she might be ruining the relationship with her sister while ignoring that sweet little sis fired the first shot. Shouldn’t Dad be telling the little sister she was cruel and potentially ruining her relationship with OP? Why so one-sided??”
Don’t Bite The Hand That Feeds
Users agreed that the OP was right to do what she did, and if it affects the relationship between the two sisters, then so be it.
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