Bride's cruel remark results in cancelled wedding as sister-in-law fights back
Planning a wedding isn't cheap, and it can take years to save up, but it's all part of the wedding excitement for the happily engaged couple to plan and organise for their big day.
However, one woman has been left fuming after her sister-in-law expected her to plan her wedding for her, and pay for it all on her own credit card. In response, the woman decided to cancel the whole wedding she'd been asked to foot the bill for.
Fed up of being taken advantage of, and being treated terribly by her sister-in-law, she told her brother that if they wanted to keep all of the vendors and plans, they would have to pay themselves.
Constantly being mean to her, the woman couldn't take any more of it (Getty Images)Taking to Reddit to vent about her situation, the woman asked if she was in the wrong for cancelling it all, as she wrote: "My brother, 30, met his future wife Ella, 28, at a party three years ago. Honestly, we never got along but I always tried to put up a peaceful front because my brother seemed blissfully happy with her.
"Ella was mean to me a lot. She would make comments about my weight, my makeup, and especially my dog. She hated animals and hated that I would bring my lab, Toast, to my parents or my brothers house. It always just felt like something aimed to hurt me.
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"When the two got engaged she asked me to be her MOH since she has no sisters or many girlfriends and since my brother seemed thrilled, I obliged but what I failed to realise when I accepted the role was that to her MOH meant planning the entire wedding. Like I was booking venues, florists, jazz band, everything.
"Even worse she expected me to put my MY credit card down for all of it. (My brother and her are not exactly well off and since I have a well paying job I didn't mind holding the deposits but it was starting to add up to a lot.) Every time I asked Ella about it, she would say that it would all be paid back by her parents before the wedding."
Feeling like she had been taken for a ride, and seeing no signs of ever being paid back for the services she had kindly put her credit card down for, the woman decided to call the bride out on her behaviour.
She added: "Well flash forward to last week, about three weeks before the wedding and she's unbearable to be around. She can't last more than a few sentences before snapping at anyone. So when I of course brought up the money, sh** hit the fan. I asked if she had received the updated receipt of everything owed when she exploded.
"She called me a whole line of terrible names but the one that stuck out was her saying "What do you need the money for anyway? Your sick dog is dead now," my beautiful Toasty died about a month before this after he fought the bravest battle with cancer. He was my soul dog and I was devastated.
"I blinked at her and simply left the room, having no energy to even respond to something so cruel. I went back to my car and after the 20 silent minute drive home, I parked the car and immediately called the vendors and cancelled any deposit under my card. Every. Single. One. After almost 20 calls, all that was left of her wedding was the dress and the flower arch.
"I texted my brother a short explanation. I told him that every vendor would be contacting him if they wished to keep their services and they were now responsible for covering everything. And that I would no longer be attending. It was a matter of minutes before my phone started to explode and I just turned it off.
"It's been a few days and I haven't talked to anyone but my mom, who thankfully understands where I was coming from. My brother has tried to call but I just feel terrible. Both about what I did and about what she said. I know what I did was extreme but I also couldn’t sit by and practically enable her cruelty anymore. I still can't help but feel bad for ruining my brother's big day. So I don't know, am I the asshole for this?"
People have been quick to chime in with opinions, with many arguing that the couple shouldn't be getting married if they can't afford it, and others saying they would have never paid the money back, all in support of the fed up woman.
One Reddit user wrote: "They were never going to pay you back, it's a good thing she showed how wicked she was before you got stuck with the bill. Don't let anyone make you feel bad about what you did, they shouldn't be getting married if they don’t have the money."
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Meanwhile another added: "She was going to take you for all that money, and was just using you. Your brother was allowing it."
"First, a MOH duties do NOT include planning the whole wedding and they certainly do NOT put down all the deposits and pay for the wedding. If you ask me, it sounds 100% like they were going to stiff you for the wedding," a fellow Redditor commented.
While a fourth said: "You didn't cancel the wedding. You extricated yourself from an abusive and exploitative situation. They're still free to marry, on their own thin dime. Your only possible slightly bad move was agreeing to be this witch's MOH. You were generous and hard-working, only to be rewarded with cruelty."
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