A woman has caused drama with her fiancé and future in-laws after she caught her mother-in-law trying on her wedding dress, and has now asked her and her future husband to pay up in three days to buy her a new dress
A bride-to-be has slammed her mother-in-law after catching her playing dress up in her £3,000 wedding dress. Wanting to know how others would respond in this situation, she has taken to social media to ask users whether she was ‘too harsh’ on her after spotting her in the gown.
Taking to Reddit, she explained: “I’m getting married to my fiancé soon. I bought my wedding dress weeks ago. His mum kept pestering me about trying it on but I firmly refused. I finally shut it down after she offered me £100 to let her try it on. Her reasoning for persisting so much? She says it’s because of her ‘love’ for wedding dresses and her obsession with them.”
The bride made it clear that she stated she was unhappy about her future in-law trying on the dress. Yet this is where it goes downhill as she continued on the Reddit post: “Fast forward to yesterday, I came home from work early and I found my fiance at home. He freaked out after seeing me and tried to prevent me from going into my room while trying to text somebody on his phone. I opened the door and was shocked to see his mum standing there wearing my dress. I instantly pulled out my phone and took a photo of her in it.
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“She and my fiancé freaked out after I told her that she needed to pay me for a new dress in 3 days or else I’ll show the whole family the photo. She started crying and then left and my fiancé blew up at me saying I can’t be serious and that I overreacted because his mum just wanted to try the dress on, no harm done. But I refused to listen to him because in my opinion, the dress should only be worn by the bride and the bride only.”
She added: “Quite frankly, I felt disgusted looking at the dress again, I don’t want it anymore. And so I think it’s fair that she pays me after she ruined it for me. He yelled at me. and told me to wake up and stop treating his mum like that as if she was an enemy. We had a fight after he failed to get me to back down and he’s been staying with his mum since then.
“I felt awful, but I spent £3k on this dress and worked hard to get it, I can’t stand looking at it but people in my family think I’m escalating things and risking my relationship with not only my future mother-in-law but my fiancé as well. Am I the a**hole?”
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The post has very quickly been voted as ‘not the a***hole’ as others jumped in to suggest she is in the right. One person commented: “Not the a**hole. But are you sure you want to marry this guy? He stood guard outside your bedroom so that his mother could try on your wedding dress. Do you think he will ever stand up for you against her?”
Another shared: “He knowingly went behind your back to help his mum try on your dress. He knew it was wrong, he knew you would be upset and yet he did it anyway. Then he doubled down and defended his mother when you caught them. You don’t have a mother-in-law problem, you have a husband problem. Do not marry this man without addressing and resolving this issue. It will literally only get worse from here.”
“Why would you marry someone who went against your wishes like this and then treated you like the villain for being upset your boundaries were crossed?” questioned a third. Whilst a fourth put it simply: “Why are you still going through with the wedding? Return the dress and the fiancé.”
Following the initial responses, the bride-to-be provided a further update as the drama continued. She writes: “Oh My God! This blew up, and so I thought I’d add some updates. My fiance called and offered to pay for the dress himself so we can “end the conflict” but he wants me to hand him my phone so he can delete the photo himself, swear that I don’t have any copies to “use” against his mum later, apologize to his mum and lastly, he asked that I quit his family group chat and log out of Facebook for at least a month.”
She adds that she hasn’t yet responded but continued: “I’m not sure if I’ll agree because I don’t want him to pay for it, I want his mum, the one who wore it to pay for it. Not being vicious but trying to hold her accountable.”
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