My family were slammed for upstaging the bride on her wedding day but it’s not our fault she wore a cheap H&M gown
A WOMAN explained that her family were slammed by their cousin’s bride for “upstaging” her at the wedding, even though the dress code was black tie and she wore a cheap knee-length dress.
It seems that there had been tension in the build up to the big day with the bride banning children and plus ones much to the annoyance of the groom’s family.
Plus, while the invites said black tie, the bride was furious that the groom’s family had made such an effort and felt that they were trying to steal attention, although she was just in an H&M knee-length dress.
Taking to Reddit, she said: “My family and I are from Albania but we live in the US.
“My cousin David got married to his wife Lizzie this weekend.
“In Albania we always go all out for weddings and David wanted to keep many cultural traditions. Lizzie didn’t like the idea.”
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She then explained that Lizzie set some rules for the day, including no children or plus ones unless specifically approved and a black tie dresscode.
She said: “I am engaged and I thought my fiancé would be included but David said Lizzie is against plus one.
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“I said that even if Lizzie is against it, my fiancé has been in the family for years, way longer than Lizzie has been around plus he’s a friend of David as well so he would come as a friend.
“David was frustrated and said Lizzie has set down most of these rules and whenever he goes against her she gets mad so we should cut him some slack and just bear it for his sake.”
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On the day itself she was surprised to see that the bride’s side of the family hadn’t adhered to the black tie dresscode.
She said: “Despite the black tie dress code, most of the bride’s family turned up in jeans and flannel shirts and the women just wore casual maxi dresses.
“Our side of the family dressed more formal. The bride just wore a white knee length lace dress from H&M.”
It seems the difference in attire was a big issue for the bride on her big day.
The woman explained: “The bride also made a big deal out of the fact that we were dressed formal and how we overdid it and we upstaged her.
“She kept complaining about it all night long and was throwing tantrums to David about how we as his family are very disrespectful.
“Lizzie also implied that David’s sister looks like a high end escort with her outfit but David’s sister tried to keep it together for David’s sake.
“After constant insults thrown around all night long I told her to chill out. She said she won’t chill out because we disrespected her.
“I told her first of all if she was scared she was going to be upstaged she shouldn’t request black tie dress code and secondly to be honest it was not that hard to upstage her because I’ve seen grandma dresses fancier than the one she’s wearing so she is the underdressed one for her own wedding which was supposed to be a black tie event.”
It seems that, while the groom’s family supported the comments, he himself was annoyed that his cousin had insulted his bride at the wedding.
Fellow Redditors were quick to jump in with their opinions.
One person said: “Don’t request black tie if you actually mean smart-casual.”
Another said: “For being such a control freak I’m surprised the bride didn’t know what black tie meant, you’d think she would have at least looked it up.”
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A third said: “Being a bride doesn’t give you a carte blanche to absolutely suck as a human, so I think you were justified in calling her out after a day of slights and insults to your family.
“Hopefully, your cousin has a wake-up call and sets her straight about how she treats his family if she wants to continue being married.”