A bridesmaid decided to skip her friend’s wedding altogether after the bride made one request she felt went too far.
While a wedding is certainly a day to celebrate the bride and groom, some couples can take it a touch too far with their requests.
The term 'bridezilla' didn't materialise for no reason!
While they have every right to want that day to be everything they've dreamed of, there's a fine line between meticulous planning and rude demands.
In fact, one bride found a way to anger one of her bridesmaids to the point that she decided to abandon the wedding altogether.
In a now-deleted Reddit post, cited by PEOPLE, a 28-year-old woman opened up about the moment she chose to quietly exit her friend’s wedding after a request that pushed her limits.
The woman, who shared that she is autistic and has “a terrible history with sensory sensitivities,” explained she was excited to be part of her 26-year-old friend’s big day as a bridesmaid.
The chosen dress was sleeveless, which suited her “floral and animal” tattoos that cover her arms and upper back.
But the morning of the wedding, the bride sent a message that would flip everything upside down: “No visible tattoos, please, my grandparents are super traditional.”
Caught off guard, the bridesmaid asked if this was negotiable, but the bride shut it down, insisting it “wasn’t a big deal” and that it was “just for a few hours.”
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Trying not to cause drama, the bridesmaid threw on a shrug to cover up, despite the 92°F outdoor ceremony.
“I didn’t want to cause drama, so I just brought a shrug to wear over the dress even though it was 92°F and the ceremony was outdoors,” she wrote. “I was sweating and overwhelmed and miserable the whole time.”
After the ceremony, desperate for relief, she took the shrug off - only to be cornered by the bride.
“I said, ‘It’s super hot, I’m sweating and really uncomfortable, and I’m just trying to enjoy the day,’” she wrote, but added that the bride snapped back, accusing her of trying to steal the spotlight: “She got SUPER snippy and said I was making it about me.”
Feeling “unwanted and embarrassed,” the bridesmaid made the choice to quietly leave before dinner, leaving a card and her congratulations before slipping out.
Now, the bride is blowing up her phone, saying she “ruined the energy of her day, that people noticed I was gone, and that I could’ve ‘just sucked it up’ for a few more hours.”
Mutual friends also weighed in, claiming she overreacted - but commenters on Reddit were firmly on her side.
“If you were hot and sweaty and needed to be comfortable, then that’s the bottom line. This isn’t something you spring on someone after money, time, and energy is spent,” one commenter wrote.
Another noted the bride should have planned accordingly: “If she wanted tattoo-free bridesmaids, she should’ve picked long sleeves from the start, not sprung it on you last minute like some weird purity test.”
Yikes.