A woman has been dubbed a ‘bridezilla’ after she admitted to kicking her maid of honour out of her wedding during the reception.
A woman has revealed she kicked her own maid of honour out of her wedding for brazenly wearing a white dress. However, the story took an unexpected turn that left onlookers scratching their heads.
The bride opened up about her recent wedding and her decision to have her “ride or die” best mate, ‘Anna’ – whose real name has been changed to protect her identity – as her maid of honour.
Initially aiming to be a considerate bride, she said: “I wanted everyone in the wedding party to feel confident and beautiful, so I let each of my bridesmaids pick their own dress within a certain colour palette-earthy neutrals.”
However, the situation soon became uncomfortable. The bride told how Anna had presented her with “a few options” for dresses, seeking her input on each.
One option was an off-white, cream-coloured satin dress. Initially, the bride-to-be “hesitated,” but since it was “technically within the palette” and she “didn’t want to be a bridezilla”, so she agreed to her friend’s choice of shade, reports the Mirror.
“I even said, ‘It’s a little close to white, but if you love it, go for it’,” she admitted. Yet, on the big day, her feelings about the dress quickly shifted.
She said: “Fast forward to the wedding day. The dress photographs WAY whiter than it looked in the pictures. My family and some guests start making comments like ‘I can’t believe she’s wearing white’ or ‘She’s trying to outshine the bride’. I was already stressed, and hearing all this just made it worse.
“Mid-reception, I pulled Anna aside and asked her to change or at least put on a shawl or something. She was p****d and said I was being insecure and ridiculous.
“I ended up asking her to leave. She stormed out and hasn’t spoken to me since.
“Now, mutual friends are saying I overreacted, especially since I approved the dress. I feel terrible but also humiliated.”
Commenters chimed in with their own views on the situation, with some sympathising with the bride’s fallout yet criticising her actions.
One person wrote: “Your friend sends you a pic of the dress and you approve it. When other people comment on the dress that you approved, you tell her to change (what would she have changed into?) or put on a shawl during the reception.
“You ask her to leave. You let the other guests feel that she did this on purpose instead of saying, ‘Hey, I told her it was ok to wear the dress’. Would I wear a dress that was close to white to a wedding? No. However, you gave your friend approval.”
Another person raged: “She approved the dress as it was, and then flaked when people started asking questions. She then threw her friend under the bus and now wonders why she won’t speak to her. Definitely the a**hole”.
Meanwhile, another person suggested: “The original poster should have said no, there are millions of dresses out there.
“This one’s on the bride. You can’t say go for it and then lose your mind when people start talking. If it was okay before, it should’ve been okay at the reception too.”