14-Year-Old Daughter Destroys Her Future Step-Mom's Wedding Dress After a Dress Code Squabble, Dad Says ‘The Wedding is Off’ When His Bride Uninvites Her As a Result

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Sep 6, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

Being an angsty teen is the best excuse for bad haircuts, questionable clothing choices, and text message breakups. For those things, you're given a 'free pass' of understanding, but there are still a few social boundaries that moody teens can no longer cross. For example, when your dear ol' dad is getting remarried to an insensitive stepmother, you aren't entitled to destroy her wedding dress in retaliation–are you?

Well after this 14-year-old was the designated 'Best Woman' at her dad's upcoming wedding, things quickly turned sour when her bridal party role was questioned. Granted, after shopping for a dress to wear during the ceremony and the reception, the stepmother was horrified by the teenager's selection (again, questionable clothing choices are admissible). When faced with the garish and revealing dress of her future stepdaughter, the bride freaked out and started insulting the outfit–a reasonable bridezilla moment considering the circumstances–but things went a step further when vengeance took over.

And what this surly teenager did next went WAY over the line of acceptable angsty-teen-ness when she took a pair of scissors to her stepmother's wedding dress in retaliation for her insensitive comments. Keep scrolling to read how these broken wedding-goers shattered the glue that held together their fragile family dynamic–with one swift snip of revenge scissors and a revoked wedding invitation. 

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    AITA for telling my fiancee that the wedding is off if my daughter isn't in it?
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    My fiancee and I are getting married soon. I have a 14 years old daughter who is supposed to be my bestwoman in our wedding.
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    We told my daughter that she can buy any dress that she loves, so I took her shopping and she chose a dress.
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    We return home and fiancee is furious because apparently the dress is ". We got into a fight about it and I told her she has no right to shame my daughter and doesn't get a say in what she should wear and she was sulking for a day because of that.
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    Then the next day, the dress was gone. She got rid of it so my daughter wouldn't wear it. My daughter didn't say anything but next day we found the wedding dress, torn in pieces and
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    completely unfixable. My daughter shrugged and said. it was so she got rid of it. My fiancee was crying for a day because she had spent a long time looking for that dress and loved it.
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    Now fiancee wants a "childfree" wedding which is another way of saying she wants to uninvite my daughter. I told her she can have a childfree wedding, with someone else, because the wedding is off if my daughter isn't in it. Now she thinks I'm an
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    Significant-Trash632 They don't need a wedding, they need family therapy FIRST.
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    Existing Proposal655 Don't get married. Your daughter is unstable and needs therapy and you are trying to get married for all the wrong reasons.
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    3bag Are you stupid? It's very obvious that your partner and your daughter dislike each other to the point of calling each other names and destroying each other's property out of spite. They want to hurt each other and you want to turn them into a dysfunctional family. Yes YTA
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    ElegantFile5415 OP It was pretty similar to this one... Our wedding theme is red and black
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    Negative-Passion-992 I was totally on your side until i read your comments and seen the dress. It is totally inappropriate for a 14 year old to wear a dress like that.
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    You clearly let your daughter control you. You say she "loves making people hate her" and you're on to your 4th fiancé. You are raising an entitled witch with a capital b.
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    If this is how you and your daughter behave then I can. see why your fiancé might have went nuclear. I was so ready to vote not the ahole. This is the importance of reading comments and asking questions. You will be alone and your brat will forever be toxic unless you get both of your together now.
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    Fiancé shouldn't have called it , but I can see her point and why she was pushed so far. She needs to leave and find someone worthy of her. ΥΤΑ
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    procrastinationprogr Since this is the fourth fiancée your kid has made you break up with you either have horrendous taste in women or your daughter doesn't want yo to find anyone else. Based on your daughters reaction I'm more inclined to believe it's the second.
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    makabakacos I was gonna say NTA until I saw the dress WHAT I wouldn't even wear that at 14 and I was trying to be a Edit to say: bad the only way I can see the fiancés actions now, even if extreme, were her looking out for the best interests of this child cuz what father lets juniorhigh aged child wear something like that.
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    SuccessfulSeaweed385 She is 14. He has managed to get to engagement 4 times in a decade or so. He has a problem, not her. Mach5Driver OP: "NEXT!"
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    samse15 ESH, but I think you're the biggest because ultimately, managing the relationship between your fiancé and your daughter falls on you - and you failed both of them.
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    Based on the pic you shared, that dress was not wedding appropriate for a 14 year old "best woman", and I can understand your fiancé becoming upset over it - although she did react badly by calling it and getting rid of it. But I'm curious how that conversation went down or if you just refused to listen to your fiancé until her anger boiled over and she did something stupid.
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    Meanwhile, you have been engaged FOUR times and your daughter has driven all four of those women away? Ummm... unless you are consistently picking the evil stepmother type of woman, then you're doing a poor job of encouraging a good relationship between your daughter and any woman in your life. Sounds like everyone could benefit from individual and group therapy in this story.
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