Bride-To-Be Discovers Spiteful MIL Took Her Wedding Dress & Wore It as Halloween Costume

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Some parts of wedding planning are more tedious than others, but if there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that for many brides, one of the exciting aspects is picking out a wedding gown. But one woman’s dream has turned into a nightmare after her mother-in-law "borrowed" her dress and used it for a “Carrie”-themed Halloween costume. Terrifying!

The two women have always had a “strained” relationship.

In short, “we just don't like each other,” the woman wrote in a since-deleted Reddit post reported by Kidspot.

Both the Original Poster and her MIL have done things to hurt each other in the past. Even after they moved out of her MIL’s house at her request and the OP had her baby, things have been prickly.

Now the OP and her fiancé are getting married — and his mother offered to pay for some of their wedding.

“I was super grateful and having my son made me grow up a lot,” the OP wrote. “I went into this with a positive mind frame and hoped maybe we could at least be civil at some point because this situation has broken my fiancé's heart."

Her MIL even bought her wedding dress.

She told the OP she was keeping the dress at her house for safekeeping. But then they got into yet another argument after some of the guests said some unkind things about her MIL at her baby shower and her MIL overheard them.

The OP has tried to reach out to her MIL about her wedding dress, but she’s been blocked.

Now she's learned that her MIL took the dress out for a spin.

“Last night I got a call from one of my friends, who saw MIL at a Halloween party, wearing my wedding gown covered in fake blood,” the OP wrote. “She had a tiara, so I guess she was Carrie or something."

The OP was horrified, and when her fiancé tried to call his mom, she wouldn’t pick up.

“I cried all last night because I was so upset about the dress, and it killed our Halloween plans," she wrote. "Today I decided she absolutely can't be at the wedding."

Her fiancé was “heartbroken” but he understood that it had to be this way.

"Some people are saying I was too harsh and should have made sure my fiancé was really OK with uninviting her, and that he might resent me," she continued. "I can tell he is really sad, but he says he gets it and supports me 100 percent and can't have someone who hates me that much at the wedding."

People in the comments section were rightly horrified.

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"MIL ruined a dress that SHE bought, that was never in OPs possession," one person wrote. "It's very clear she wasn't going to give it to OP after OP's friends trash-talked the MIL at the bridal shower."

"Too harsh?! Who TF says you're being too harsh?! She's ruined your wedding dress! Wtf?!" another person commented.

"She ruined your dress," a third commenter chimed in. "Anyone who doesn’t agree with your decision is an a–hole."

A few people thought the OP should’ve never let her MIL buy her wedding dress in the first place.

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"The MIL ruined her own dress that she bought with her own money,” someone pointed out. “Why would you think that you could 'say nasty things' to her and still expect her to give you expensive presents like a wedding dress? You both sound at fault for the state of your relationship."

"You should have known better than to accept your MIL's offer to buy your dress, or stored it in her home,” another commenter added. “Stop accepting help from your MIL financially because she’s clearly just going to continue punishing you for it."

Hopefully there's still time for the OP to get a new wedding dress — and time for her MIL to try to make amends.