We all know too well that a difficult family member can ruin a wedding, but when it’s your soon-to-be mother-in-law, that’s a whole different level of pain in the butt. It would be bad enough if someone was planning on wearing white to your wedding day, but when your MIL insists on wearing her old wedding dress to the big day — well, I just don’t know how one woman from Reddit can stand it.
A copy of the conversation from the Original Poster was shared on the r/weddingshaming forum — with good reason.
The poster of the screenshots on the Reddit forum claimed they found them in a wedding Facebook group and that the MIL was the “worst MIL I’ve ever seen,” the person wrote.
“Wicked Witch of the Wedding,” the person added.
Unfortunately, that person is sort of right.
As the bride-to-be explained in the photos, her fiancé recently told her that his mother got a dress for their wedding “and that she wanted to show me.”
The wedding was still a long ways away, and the bride hadn’t even started looking for her dress yet.
But now she has a MAJOR problem to deal with, which was revealed in a series of texts.
“Hi S— how are you?” the bride wrote to her fiancé’s mom. ‘M— told me that you already got a dress for our wedding?
“Someone’s excited for the wedding lol,” she continued. “We weren’t planning on ordering our until after Christmas.”
Her MIL then pointed out that this was her first son who was getting married. Why shouldn't she be excited?
“I told my baby that I HAD a dress and did not purchase one,” her MIL responded.
The bride asked her MIL to send her a photo. “I’m sure it’s stunning on you!” she wrote.
“You have already seen it,” her MIL wrote. “Did I not show you my wedding album last weekend?”
Reader, it was a full-on white ball gown — or in other words, her MIL’s wedding dress.
“I’m sorry,” the bride-to-be wrote back. “I don’t mean to be rude or anything but you’re planning on wearing your wedding dress to our wedding?”
This was a pretty normal question to ask given the circumstances, but of course her MIL completely flew off the handle.
“Do not play these games with me you skank,” she wrote back. “It is MY son’s wedding and I am paying for over half of it.
“I will wear whatever f—ing dress I please and if you have something to say about it… well, good luck to your family because Lord knows they are too poor to afford it seeing as I am already paying for more than half,” she added.
'Don't you dare even think about trying to ruin this moment for me,' her MIL continued.
“You know the rest of my children will not get married in my lifetime and this is the only wedding of my children that I will be a part of,” she added.
Hmmm I wonder why …
The whole exchange left the poor bride absolutely freaked.
“I have no idea what to do,” she wrote in her post. “I haven’t told my fiancé yet as he’s an absolutely mama’s boy and don’t want to stir up any more drama. What do I even say here please help me.”
People in the comments section were stunned.
“I think if my MIL called me a skank I’d be declining to contact her ever again,” wrote one person.
“This poor woman and her fiance need to decline her money, elope and never speak to her again. Oof,” another commenter added.
A third commenter had a pretty good suggestion.
“Time to secretly tell all the other women that wearing their past wedding dresses are encouraged as a fun ‘let’s share in the moment and reminisce’ type reception,” the person wrote. “Then wear a completely different bright red ballgown to stick out.”
But wait — it got WORSE.
In an update to the bride’s post, she shared the fallout after she told her fiancé. She sent him a screenshot of their conversation and then tried spelled it all out to him.
“Sooo I asked your mother to see the dress she wanted to wear and it turned out to be her own wedding dress… Not sure if you know but it’s incredibly rude to wear white let alone a wedding dress to a wedding,” she wrote. “I know you’re really close with your mom but this is how she treats me as soon as [you aren’t around].”
Then she added this: “I know you’ve talked to her in the past about it but she never changes.”
Luckily, her fiancé sided with her immediately.
She really picked a good one.
“That’s not my mother that is a demon in her skin,” he told her.
“Skank are you f—ing kidding me?” he added. “Ur beautiful I love you.”
He also told his fiancée that he was fine with not having the wedding if his mother was going to hold paying for it over their heads.
“I know your excited about planning this and everything but if it comes down to it I am fine just not having it,” he explained. “We can finally just honeymoon.”
He then sent his mother a copy of the text conversation she and his fiancée had — and thoroughly chewed her out.
“MOM WHAT IS ACTUALLY WRONG WITH YOU??” he wrote in a text. “How can you talk to [Bride] like that?? What you said to her was HORRIBLE I literally cannot believe you did that. Imagine how awful she must feel right now.
“She has been nothing but kind to you and our family,” he continued. “The amount of disrespect you showed her is appalling I’m literally speechless right now.”
His mom then reached out to her future daughter-in-law and accused her of having 'no respect.'
“We have been so gracious to accept you into our family and THIS is how you repay us?? By making our family look like horrible people to the Facebook? You should be ASHAMED of yourself [Bride] how could you make me look so BAD?” she wrote.
“You can finally have my blessing…to leave my son alone B—-,” she added.
The future-bride decided to take a stand and shot back that it really wasn’t okay to wear a wedding dress to someone else’s wedding.
“I’m sorry you feel this way but please just think about how your behavior will affect M— and OUR day,” she added.
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