A new bride found herself dealing with a huge amount of family drama in the lead up to her wedding after her mother showed her a photo of the "floor-length ivory, lacy dress" she'd wanted to buy for the big day.
According to this exasperated newlywed, her mum had repeatedly tried to make her wedding all about herself. She ended up losing count of the number of times she would declare, "well, I am the mother of the bride!", or complain about the mother-of-the bride not having a role in the ceremony.
The fed-up daughter eventually had to draw the line after her mum showed her a pic of the outfit she intended to wear on the big day - a dress that looked more or less exactly like a wedding gown.
Taking to Reddit, the bride wrote: "Leading up to the wedding she told me she was going shopping for a mother of the bride dress and she sent me a picture of a floor-length ivory, lacy dress that she wanted to buy for the wedding.
"I text her back saying it looked like a wedding dress and that she couldn't wear it (my wedding dress was ivory). She got very defensive saying that she 'is the mother of the bride' she needed to stand out too.
"I told her, yes the mother of the bride is important but she can't wear white. I explained what I thought was a well-known rule that no one except the bride (and the flower girls) could wear white to a wedding."
After consulting with her dad, he and one of her mum's friends agreed to take her back out shopping and were said to be stunned when they saw the dress in person.
The bride continued: "When she showed them the dress she liked they both said 'you can’t wear that! It's basically a wedding dress'.
"She told them she had never heard of the unwritten rule about not wearing white to someone's wedding, and that she wanted to stand out too."
Although her mum did end up begrudgingly buying another, more suitable dress, she made it clear she wasn't happy at all about her going to her dad about the matter, and has since dubbed her a "bridezilla" who just wants "all the attention".
Given that her sister also takes this view, the newlywed woman has now begun to doubt herself, despite the rest of her family having had a perfectly "smashing time" at her wedding.
One fellow Reddit user commented: "My 12-year-old SON knows that only a bride should wear white so your mum is a liar liar pants on fire."
Another remarked: "If I ever became lost at sea, and dehydrated and delirious enough that I forgot my own name, I would still be able to tell the seagull trying to peck out my eye that you don't wear white to a wedding."
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