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Woman Suspects Bride Is Trying To Push Her Out Of Her Brother’s Wedding, Has A Plan To Outsmart Her
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Woman Suspects Bride Is Trying To Push Her Out Of Her Brother’s Wedding, Has A Plan To Outsmart Her

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Sometimes, people your family members decide to get involved with don’t seem to like you that much. In some cases, you can not pay attention to it and live your life without them on your mind. But some other times, their dislike can manifest in very suspicious ways. For example, they try to push you out of their wedding by not giving you all the information and driving you mad. A similar thing happened in today’s story. And we could say that it ended on quite a cliffhanger.

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Some people like playing mind games that result in you being painted as the bad guy while they get off innocent

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Woman agrees to be a bridesmaid at her brother’s wedding but soon starts to get suspicious of the bride’s actions

Woman kept asking for the bridesmaid’s dress color, but everyone kept dodging her question

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After finally finding out the color through outside sources, woman decides to get revenge by confusing the bride

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Bride’s plan becomes clear on the wedding day, as the woman understands that bride never intended to let her be a bridesmaid

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The brother was starting to see his now-wife’s manipulations, as he came back from honeymoon early and alone

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The brother’s mother and sister intervened, and the couple got back together and soon got pregnant

The post’s author is a medical school student who lives across the country from her family, and she was invited to her brother’s wedding as a bridesmaid. 

As a bridesmaid, the OP needed to order a dress. But she wasn’t sure what color the dress should be, as it was said that the update for the color would be addressed later. But it never was, even after exhaustive asking. Turns out, the color was lavender, as the woman’s mother clarified. 

Usually, lavender dresses are put under the purple category. This color category is associated with royalty, luxury, power, and mystery. Back in the day, purple was used to convey one’s status in society. So, it could be said that a choice to dress bridesmaids in any purple shade can make them look like royalty. Maybe that’s the reason why this color is one of the most popular choices for modern bridesmaids. 

Coming back to the story, since the site offered several options for lavender, the OP took the journey to figure out which one was needed. She texted the maid of honor (the bride’s sister), and before getting an unclear answer, she was scolded for not having a dress ordered up until then. The maid of honor also didn’t remember the shade’s name, so she later sent a blurry picture of a wrinkled order confirmation, which said that the shade was “mulberry.”

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To find out the exact color, the bridesmaid called the bridal salon and asked about it. She answered that four dresses were in “flint” shade, and one was in “mulberry.” That made the OP realize that the maid of honor was letting her believe all dresses were in mulberry, which only strengthened her speculations about being pushed out. 

And that’s when the post’s author decided to get revenge. She bought two dresses in both purple colors. For the rehearsal, she showed up in a mulberry dress. As this was the wrong shade, she was asked to drop out of the wedding. The next day, she showed up in the dress of the right shade, pretending it was all a coincidence that they had this dress at the salon when she needed it.

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If all of it wasn’t enough, the post’s author’s speculations were confirmed when she found out that the makeup artist was told there wasn’t an additional bridesmaid, meaning they had planned for her not to be involved from the beginning.

And if you thought that was the end of the whole story, you’re mistaken!

During the reception, there were no place settings for the OP and her little brother at the wedding party. They also didn’t get food initially, as their plates were brought to other tables where they were supposed to be seated. Their brother, whose wedding it was, seemed annoyed that this was happening. Before he left, he told the OP that the maid of honor stated that the OP had asked to be dropped from the wedding party weeks ago and then demanded to be involved after coming. But that wasn’t the truth!

It was getting clearer that the bride was a terrible person, and it was confirmed when the older brother left with his now-wife for the honeymoon and returned home early and alone. For some time, it was the story’s ending for the Redditor. But then the OP posted another update, which she dubbed “Honeymoon edition.”

When the brother came home from his honeymoon, he stayed at a hotel. Even family members had a hard time getting in touch with him. The public story was that he got ill and came back to the hotel due to a plumbing renovation at home, while the wife stayed at the vacation spot to enjoy the trip.

Under the original post, people assured the woman that she was not a jerk in this situation. They were confused about the antics of the bride and her party — why couldn’t they just tell her the color of the dress? Granted, the updates in the original post clarified that there was a plan to drop her from the wedding all this time. Well, it was indeed a very jerk-ish move from the bride and her party.

After the second update, which was called “Honeymoon edition,” online folks dubbed half of the OP’s family as jerks. The way the bride, now the wife of the brother, acted towards his siblings during the celebration was outrageous.

Then, it seemed that she got into a massive fight with her husband, but it was all swept under the rug, as the post’s author’s mother and sister did some “damage control.” Everyone seemed to be on Team Bride, who was showing massive red flags right from the start. In netizens’ eyes, this whole situation will boil over, and it won’t be nice, as the brother’s wife seems like a very manipulative woman.

People online were perplexed by what a manipulative person the bride seemed to be and how icky the whole family was for technically taking the bride’s side

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glennschroeder avatar
Papa
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The last line in the original post, about her brother coming home from the honeymoon alone, caught me by surprise. I'd like to hear the rest of that story.

irwuzzle avatar
IRwuzzle
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I looked the story up on Reddit, the brother got back with wife and together they cut OP out of their lives coz the wife didn't like her. I hoped for a better outcome too..

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aj
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh boy, OP posted an update that there was a pregnancy announcement a while later when her brother never wanted kids as he had cancer as a child and was worried it might be genetical. OP asked his wife and apparently she conveniently "forgot" to take her birth control to get her way.

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Petra
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's the thing: if she would treat his family this way, she would treat him this way too.

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SBocker78
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The older brother will come crawling back to his family in a few years after the bride gets tired of him, cheats on him and dumps him for someone new. Shame there will be a kid involved and hopefully the kid is healthy or she'll use that to her benefit as well.

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Lily
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This bride sounds like she didn't want the sister or younger brother in, and just made it near impossible for them to participate. Poisonous passive aggressive. I'd steer clear and wide of both of them now, husband is just as much to blame for not finding out what was going on. Sometimes damn families are just relentlessly poisonous.

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The Starsong Princess
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While it got weird towards the end, I’m confused about why op didn’t just start a group chat with the wedding party and both mothers asking about the color. Bride and moh can’t pull tricks in public.

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Ginger Winters
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It mentions in the comments she went over character count and couldn't include that info but she had messaged a bunch of them individually and kept getting the bride is still figuring out a color response

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Sheena Leversedge Wood
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

also, what's this thing that you need the same number of bridesmaids and groomsmen? just have who you actually want in the role. you see so many weird (mostly American) stories about people having someone they didn't really want there to make up the numbers, and that's bizarre. it's a wedding, not a catwalk show.

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Coffeemama05
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What toxic people. I wouldn’t want to be in their wedding and I wouldn’t want to be in their lives. Sounds like you’ll be more successful

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D W
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2 months ago

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There's a lot of dodginess here, not only by the Bride, MoH, Best Man. They were clearly up to some trouble, but you're a med student, and over all those weeks you couldn't find a single person, including your own mother and sister, who could tell you what colour? You couldn't communicated with your whole family, including the groom to express your concerns well ahead of time? A med student who can't resolve something as simple as this in her personal life gives me no confidence at all.

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Ginger Winters
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There were comments after the post about how she tried and tried and kept getting told that the bride is still deciding on a color.

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Ace
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2 months ago

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Yeah, someone inventing a story without bothering to consider whether it could actually happen. All these other people berating her but still deliberately refusing to tell her what colour they've ordered.

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Sonja
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And why exactly couldn't this happen? Having a scapegoat is pretty typical in toxic family settings and all ganging up on the scapegoat is also pretty normal. You must either be one of the lucky, sheltered kids who think their nice family life is standard or one of those obnoxiously blind people who don't see what's happening around them.

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Papa
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The last line in the original post, about her brother coming home from the honeymoon alone, caught me by surprise. I'd like to hear the rest of that story.

irwuzzle avatar
IRwuzzle
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I looked the story up on Reddit, the brother got back with wife and together they cut OP out of their lives coz the wife didn't like her. I hoped for a better outcome too..

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m-kommel avatar
aj
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh boy, OP posted an update that there was a pregnancy announcement a while later when her brother never wanted kids as he had cancer as a child and was worried it might be genetical. OP asked his wife and apparently she conveniently "forgot" to take her birth control to get her way.

capt-requal avatar
Petra
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's the thing: if she would treat his family this way, she would treat him this way too.

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SBocker78
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The older brother will come crawling back to his family in a few years after the bride gets tired of him, cheats on him and dumps him for someone new. Shame there will be a kid involved and hopefully the kid is healthy or she'll use that to her benefit as well.

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Lily
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This bride sounds like she didn't want the sister or younger brother in, and just made it near impossible for them to participate. Poisonous passive aggressive. I'd steer clear and wide of both of them now, husband is just as much to blame for not finding out what was going on. Sometimes damn families are just relentlessly poisonous.

laurabamber avatar
The Starsong Princess
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While it got weird towards the end, I’m confused about why op didn’t just start a group chat with the wedding party and both mothers asking about the color. Bride and moh can’t pull tricks in public.

gingerwinters avatar
Ginger Winters
Community Member
1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It mentions in the comments she went over character count and couldn't include that info but she had messaged a bunch of them individually and kept getting the bride is still figuring out a color response

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Sheena Leversedge Wood
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

also, what's this thing that you need the same number of bridesmaids and groomsmen? just have who you actually want in the role. you see so many weird (mostly American) stories about people having someone they didn't really want there to make up the numbers, and that's bizarre. it's a wedding, not a catwalk show.

mommyjenny05 avatar
Coffeemama05
Community Member
1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What toxic people. I wouldn’t want to be in their wedding and I wouldn’t want to be in their lives. Sounds like you’ll be more successful

dw_7 avatar
D W
Community Member
2 months ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

There's a lot of dodginess here, not only by the Bride, MoH, Best Man. They were clearly up to some trouble, but you're a med student, and over all those weeks you couldn't find a single person, including your own mother and sister, who could tell you what colour? You couldn't communicated with your whole family, including the groom to express your concerns well ahead of time? A med student who can't resolve something as simple as this in her personal life gives me no confidence at all.

gingerwinters avatar
Ginger Winters
Community Member
1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There were comments after the post about how she tried and tried and kept getting told that the bride is still deciding on a color.

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acey-ace16 avatar
Ace
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2 months ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

Yeah, someone inventing a story without bothering to consider whether it could actually happen. All these other people berating her but still deliberately refusing to tell her what colour they've ordered.

sonja_6 avatar
Sonja
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And why exactly couldn't this happen? Having a scapegoat is pretty typical in toxic family settings and all ganging up on the scapegoat is also pretty normal. You must either be one of the lucky, sheltered kids who think their nice family life is standard or one of those obnoxiously blind people who don't see what's happening around them.

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