Weddings require a lot of planning. Everyone knows this. There’s nailing down the perfect venue. Finding a date that works for everyone. Hunting for the perfect dress and waiting a ridiculously long time for the alterations to be done. (How does it take six months for a dress to arrive?) The bride also has to choose bridesmaid dresses that won’t make her closest female friends and family members quietly hate her for the next year.
And, obviously, there is the wait to make sure that all the members of the groom's family have the exact pair of boobs that they want!
Yeah, didn't see that last sentence coming, huh? Us either. There’s regular wedding drama and then there is the wedding drama that comes straight out of the Dear Prudence advice column. Let’s dive in!
The newly engaged woman has found herself in an unusual situation.
OK, so a woman (we'll call her Bride) wrote in to Prudie in a column that's bubbled up again that she recently got engaged to her "wonderful fiancé" and was welcomed to the family by her future sister-in-law, who wanted to have a "serious chat."
As Bride explained, future SIL "says she is currently saving up for breast implants and doesn’t want us to marry until she gets them done. She told me she wants to have one family wedding album where she looks perfect and will be heartbroken if I got married against her wishes."
A sister who wants new boobs and a groom who hates conflict is a bad combo.
Bride probably never anticipated that her wedding date would hinge on someone else’s boobs! But as she revealed in her letter, "The trouble is, my fiancé says we should hold off the wedding for this reason, too. He knows his sister will cause so much trouble and doesn’t want to deal with the family drama.
"He thinks since we live together there is no hurry for marriage, anyway," she continued. "I know how much he detests conflict and it’s true we are pretty much living as a married couple, but I feel like this is so wrong to postpone the wedding."
There's a reason for that feeling, Bride!
'Am I crazy for marrying into this family?' she asked.
We might have thought Groom being willing to postpone the wedding was the worst idea he had, but he had an even more eyebrow-raising solution to propose: "He says the other option is to pay for his sister’s breast implant ourselves!"
WOW. Just, wow.
This was one of those advice column letters where we can hardly wait to read the ensuing smackdown of this familial drama.
First, Dear Prudence’s advice columnist Emily Yoffe was basically amazed that someone would make this request, but she really hit it on the head when she noted that "it’s really something that your sister-in-law thinks the point of your marrying her brother is that she can show off her perfect breasts."
Is this a red flag or just too much family history at play?
Yoffe correctly pointed out that, in families, there can sometimes be a dynamic that the family drama queen just gets what they want because "one family member is so impossible that everyone just gives in to make life easier."
But the fact that Groom would spend thousands of dollars on his sister’s boobs just to avoid a conflict is a problem in our books! There is disliking conflict and then there is "Hey sis. Let me write a check for those double D’s!" And Groom is on the wrong side of that line, we think.
Yoffe advised Bride that this wedding delay might be good so they can "explore just how you two will handle this and other inevitable conflicts, which is crucial information you need before you tie the knot."
The comment section on this one was fairly lit, with people noting that delaying the wedding for this request could set a bad precedent.
As one commenter explained, "so in the future when it comes to kids then you have to bow down to her if she wants to have kids first? Your fiance either needs to grow a pair or you need to put your foot down, this is so unreasonable and crazy.
"Inform your sister, that even though you understand her request, that you refuse to be held hostage to her wishes when it is her wedding," the commenter continued. "With this, make sure that your fiance doesn't front her the money in order to get it done before the wedding. If this isn't solved, then the rest of your marriage will be a constant conflict with his family at the center of the issues."
Some commenters advised going in a petty direction by fighting fire with fire: "Stick to your original chosen date, and pick dresses for the bridesmaids that de-emphasise the bust area to make it look even smaller than it already is," one person wrote. "Enjoy your wedding day, savoring the knowledge that she will look flatter than an ironing board in all your photographs."
We might not go that far, but we can’t help but agree that this should FOR SURE be a moment to reconsider marrying a guy who would put his sister’s drama before his bride-to-be’s preferences for a wedding date.
