Bride fumes after mother-in-law makes her wedding day all about the Queen’s death

A fed-up bride claims she felt dismayed when her in-laws chose to make her wedding day all about the death of Queen Elizabeth II, choosing to watch footage of people queuing to see her coffin rather than see their first dance

A woman who yesterday got married to her partner of six years says she wasn’t happy at all when her in-laws made her special day all about the death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. According to the 29-year-old bride, although she does have sympathy for the Queen’s family on a human level, neither she nor her now husband, Matt, are monarchists and they didn’t want the sad news to overshadow their wedding ceremony.

Matt’s family on the other hand has been mourning the Queen’s death very deeply, with this taking precedence above all else. His mother Jane even went as far as to advise they cancel the wedding completely, out of respect for Her Majesty, a suggestion which the couple quickly shut down. Things took a turn on the morning of their wedding when, without warning, Jane arrived wearing a black suit.

When asked about her outfit choice, Jane explained “‘we’ were in mourning and she wanted to be respectful”. The bride politely reminded her mother-in-law that she was attending a wedding, not a funeral, but was left stricken once again when Matt’s sister Emily arrived, also wearing a black dress.

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Taking to Reddit, the frustrated bride, who goes by the username u/taqueenwedding, recalled: “Around 70% of Matt’s guests were wearing black. I was pissed off, but ultimately I could ignore it. I found out when I was greeting guests later that Jane had told Matt’s side to wear black at our request to honour Elizabeth.

“At the reception, a bunch of our guests started to go missing quite early on, so my maid of honour went to look for them and came back to get me. They were in a different room with a TV that was playing the queue footage and holding a ‘prayer circle’ where they were sharing their ‘memories’. Lots of them were crying.”

She continued: “I politely asked if everyone would come back for our first dance but Jane said they were busy celebrating a great (emphasis) woman, which I felt implied that I am the opposite.”

It was at this point that the bride snapped, telling “her that she was being f****** selfish and ruining her son’s wedding day” for someone she’d never even met. She even asked the hotel to cut the TVs, but knew by this point the guests wouldn’t be returning to the reception.

The newlyweds now feel sad about how their wedding day ended, and she now feels guilty for lashing out in such an extreme and uncharacteristic way. She now wonders whether she might have taken things too far, and has reached out to her fellow Reddit users for advice.

One person wrote: “Your mother-in-law literally lied to the rest of the guests to make them all show up your wedding in mourning garb, to satisfy her desire to be seen mourning the Queen. This is pure virtue signaling on her part, and she deserves to be shamed for it.

“Perhaps you were a bit harsh, but I’d say it was merited given what you’ve described here. And I say this as an American, who is kind of a monarchist; I had a lot of respect for the Queen and I find the royals fascinating. But your wedding was your day, not hers.”

Another said: “She used this as an opportunity to ruin the wedding and play the victim. Plus the funeral is tomorrow, do you wear black leading up to a loved one’s funeral? No. I could understand a few minutes if you got married the day of the funeral if you are a hardcore royalist, but not this.

“Tell her that Queen Elizabeth II was all about family and loved ones. She ruined her son’s wedding in the name of the Queen, who would have been ashamed of her actions.”

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