‘My husband was disappointed with my wedding dress – and his mum is seething’

A newlywed has shared her upset after learning that her husband was disappointed with her dress when he saw her walking down the aisle – and her mother-in-law also wasn’t impressed

A woman has claimed she caused a stir on her wedding day by wearing a white dress. Yes, really. People were upset that the bride decided to wear a white dress on her big day.

The unnamed newlywed turned to the internet for some advice after her husband admitted he was “disappointed” by her dress when she was walking down the aisle – and her outfit left her mother-in-law “seething” during the ceremony.

She explained that to her it was the “perfect dress”, but her mother-in-law had a “freakout” when she saw it, due to having a family tradition where the brides always wear blush instead of white at their weddings.

Taking to Reddit’s Am I The A**hole forum, the woman explains how she attempted to get her dream dress in a blush colour to please her in-laws, but was told it would not be possible.

So she simply wore the dress in white, as she loved it. However, this did not go down well with her new family.

“I recently got married to the love of my life, J. We had a perfect wedding, except for one thing, my mother-in-law’s freakout when she saw my dress,” she wrote.

“When we had gone dress shopping, I invited her and I found my perfect dress.

“My husband’s family has a tradition of always wearing blush dresses on their wedding day. They told me about this before, and I respectfully said I would wear whatever color [sic] dress my perfect dress was. Once I finally found it, it was white. Mother-in-law asked me to ask if they could alter it to make it blush, or to find a new dress if they couldn’t. I said I would ask, but if they couldn’t then that was that.

“Long story short, they couldn’t and I showed up to my wedding in a white dress. All through the ceremony, Mother-in-law was seething. During the reception, she pulled me aside and asked why my dress was white. I told her that I didn’t want to find a new dress and they couldn’t alter it. She said it was a tradition, and she was disappointed that I had broke it.

“J also said that he was disappointed when I walked down the aisle in a white dress.”

The bride asked fellow Reddit users if she was in the wrong for not simply changing her dress on the big day and many were quick to rush to her support.

One said: “If I walk down the aisle and find out my fiancé is ‘disappointed’ I’m holding another big ceremony, walking down the aisle in the exact dress he wants, and then let him find out it’s an annulment ceremony instead.”

Another replied: “The Mother-in-law is controlling, but well they often are if the internet and old jokes are to be believed. But this? The spouse being on team mommy dearest when she’s trying to micromanage his partner and attempts a huge power move at the wedding? That is always the real, actual problem and this just made me sad.”

However, someone else saw things differently: “I don’t think [the bride] is the a**hole, but I don’t think the Husband is the a**hole either. The family has a tradition, they let her know it was important to them, and she didn’t participate in it. That’s fine, she should wear what she wants to wear at the wedding, but I think she should have warned them that she was not going to follow the tradition and not because she didn’t want to be a part of their traditions necessarily. Maybe they could have discovered a compromise, like a blush veil or shoes, maybe blush in the jewelry [sic].”

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