A bride has found herself in hot water with people online after she suggested that her fiancé should change a major part of his appearance in preparation for their wedding photos.
The woman took to Reddit to ask if she was being unreasonable when she approached her fiancé about the possibility of him wearing contact lenses when they get married because he has a genetic condition called heterochromia, which means he has different coloured eyes.
In her post, the bride-to-be said it "would be nice" if her partner - who has one blue eye and one brown eye - could have "matching" eye colours in their wedding snaps, especially if it meant they could match eye colours between them.
However, the suggestion made her fiancé "livid".
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She said: "My fiancé and I are planning to get married this summer. My fiance has heterochromia, which I obviously don't have any problems with, but I was thinking that for our wedding photos it would be nice if he wore contact lenses, so his eye colours can match.
"I didn't think he would mind my suggestion, but when I brought him up to him, he was livid.
"He told me that he thought I didn't mind his eyes' colours and I said that I obviously didn't, but I would greatly appreciate it if he wore contact lenses to match his eyes' colours for the wedding photos. I said he could even match with eye colours with mine, as I have blue eyes, while he has 1 blue eye and 1 brown eye."
The woman said she thought her husband-to-be was "overreacting" by being upset about her suggestion, and the pair are now having a "bigger argument" than she had anticipated.
She added: "However, he wasn't receptive to my suggestion at all. I told him that he's greatly overreacting, as I don't want him to wear them permanently, just for our wedding photos. But that just lead to a bigger argument and we ended up sleeping in different rooms last night."
Commenters on the Reddit post were baffled by the bride's actions, as many of them couldn't understand why she would want to change something about her partner that makes him unique.
One person said: "You say you don't mind his eyes and yet you are so ashamed that you don't want them in your wedding pictures? If you can't be happy standing next to him for who he is, you don't deserve to stand next to him at all."
While another added: "You’re asking him to change a part of who he is so you can have 'perfect' wedding pictures."
And a third said: "If he does this, all he's going to think when he sees those wedding pictures is how his wife was so worried about how they would look that she didn't care about how I felt.
"How self-centred to you have to be to completely invalidate his feelings and call him sensitive?"
Heterochromia is fairly uncommon and occurs in less than one per cent of the population. The condition is often just a quirk caused by genes passed down from your parents.
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