Bride blasts friend for ruining proposal surprise after sending picture of ring

The bride thought her friend was in the wrong for sending her photos from a jewellery store she had visited with the woman’s fiancé, but many defended the friend when they heard her side of the story

If a surprise you have been planning for a loved one gets spoiled, it can be incredibly frustrating. But how would you feel if your friend ruined a surprise for you, believing she was doing the right thing? Well, one woman has been left frustrated after her friend revealed the engagement ring her fiancé picked out for her, having purposefully sent her a photo of his selection.

But the friend in question could not believe her response, as the bride had asked her to do so. As such, people were quick to defend the friend, when she took to Reddit to reveal her side of the story.

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Hoping for advice, she shared her pal’s request, before explaining it had let to an argument between the pair. And it is fair to say many were left baffled by the tale, with its many twists and turns.

Posting to “Am I the A*****e”, the woman claimed: “I (31F) have known my friend (32F) since school. She has been dating a guy (33M) for three years and we pretty much knew he was going to propose, they had already discussed getting married a few times.

“She gave me a list of possible rings that she liked and told me that he’ll probably ask my opinion and this is what she wants. Her clear instructions to me were to show her what he was buying and not let him get anything without her approval.

“Now he told me he wanted me to go ring shopping with him and doesn’t want her to know. I told him I’d keep quiet but of course, as per her instructions, I told her the plan.

“He and i went to a few stores and we started looking at rings, it turned out the rings he was looking at were completely different from what she wanted. I tried steering him to what she wanted, but the jeweler told is those were over 3x the price and well over his budget.”

She continued: “Now i know my friend wouldn’t want something just because it’s expensive, she probably didn’t know the price difference. So I shot her a text with the situation and she agreed to look at other styles.

“Problem with the other styles is that I didn’t know how to narrow them down, so I needed a LOT more photos. If it had been the other one, I would have been able to narrow it down myself and send her only 2-3 to choose from. I ended up sending her about 30 photos until we found the ring she wanted.

“Problem: it’s easy to sneak in 2-3 photos. It’s not easy to sneak in 30. So I had to improvise and send the boyfriend out to get me coffee because “i was so tired and i needed to feel my best to pick her ring.” Unfortunately he came back sooner than expected and saw me taking photos. I covered up saying something about lighting but I guess he figured it out. No fuss was made, we picked the one she wanted and left.

“The next day my friend messaged me saying her boyfriend felt really bad that I had blabbed and he wanted it to be a surprise. She then told me i shouldn’t have said anything to her.

“I reminded her about her instructions, she said i should have known when he specifically told me not to tell her. I told her to sort it out with him and not to involve me in other wedding surprises.”

Well, people had a lot to say about the woman’s predicament, though many took her side.

One person wrote: “You’re their friend – not a psychic. They both have different levels of expectations on the matter, and you can’t please them both. Staying out of it in the future is probably advisable.”

Another agreed: “No matter what you do, you’re forsaking one vow or the other. I think your friend is in the wrong for asking you do that.”

Someone else commented agreeing that the post’s writer was not to blame, before adding: “And many thanks for the entertainment. Usually I’d have to read a Shakespeare play for a tangled situation such as this.”

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