There’s no telling what really happens when a bride turns into a bridezilla. Maybe it’s the pressure of the big day, maybe it’s one too many episodes of Say Yes to The Dress, but suffice to say when a person gets too caught up in having the “perfect” wedding day things go sour — fast.
Just take a recent post on Reddit for example. According to the original poster, her sister almost pulled her 6-year-old daughter from her wedding because the girl had visible chickenpox scars on her face. Big yikes!
As the OP recalled in her post on the r/weddingshaming forum, her 6-year-old daughter was so excited to be asked to be a flower girl.
The incident happened a while ago, back in the late '90s, but it's clearly left a mark. As the OP recalled, her sister asked both her daughter and her fiancé’s niece to be a part of her big day. "They were very excited!" she recalled.
“They had identical, beautiful, expensive dresses. I bought coordinating shoes, and a lovely hair piece,” the OP wrote in her post.
The dream came crashing down about a month before the wedding, when the OP's daughter caught chickenpox.
She explained that this happened before the “varicella vaccine was widely available,” causing her daughter to be “peppered” from “head-to-toe” with chickenpox. She also lost 7 lbs. — "which is a lot for a little girl who was slender to begin with."
“She recovered, but had visible scars on her face, and her dress now hung on her,” the OP recalled. “Fortunately, I had a friend who was a good seamstress, who altered her dress so it fit her again.”
Her sister was less than sympathetic about the news.
In fact, she wanted to kick her niece out of her wedding “because of the way she looked,” the OP wrote.
“I was furious!” she continued. "I told her that if my daughter couldn't be a flower girl, I (the matron of honor) would not attend either, and she would have to refund us the money we paid for our dresses. She gave in a few days before the wedding, and said my daughter could participate, after much pressure from my parents.”
According to the comments section, this was a bad look for the OP's sister.
"Damn, your sister is horrible!" wrote one commenter. "I hope any future children of hers don't get any scars, she'll be locking them away!"
"The point of a wedding is to celebrate your love in front of God and all of your loved ones," another commenter pointed out. "What's the point if every single person isnt loved and appreciated? S—- AF."
While a third commenter put it bluntly: "Divorce your sister."
Unfortunately, the incident seems to have done permanent damage to their relationship.
After a commenter asked if the OP's sister has changed at all since her wedding, she explained that her sister is as bad as she always was.
"She hasn't changed much," she wrote later in the thread. "She's a thieving, lying, greedy cheat, on top of being superficial and crass."
And things don't look like they'll get better any time soon.
"I only deal with her when I have to, over matters concerning our elderly mother," she explained. "After she passes and the estate is settled, there will be no further contact."
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