'Ferret Girl' Causes Animal Drama at Her Sister-in-Law's Wedding to Steal the Spotlight From the Bride, Then a Family Friend Becomes the Voice of Reason

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Oct 29, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Sometimes it's okay to be a bridezilla. And when your future sister-in-law is acting crazy, trying to bring 4 ferrets and an aggressive dog to your wedding ceremony, empower yourself to put your foot down and say, 'No'. 

However, if you're like the bride in our next story, who was accustomed to a family member being difficult for the sake of being difficult, sometimes it's harder than it looks to be unaccommodating–that's why you've got to have a family friend step in as the voice of reason, or you may just end up with a hoard of immunocompromised ferrets at the altar. 

When u/whyferrets_throwaway's friend got engaged, everyone was excited. However, when the spotlight turned towards the bride, the sister of her fiance went into crazy mode, decidedly stealing the spotlight by making everything about her and her exotic pets. Keep scrolling to read how a family friend stepped in to quell the cuckoo behavior that ensued when a drama queen sister-in-law took her ferret obsession way too far. 

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    I feel like the standard of "no aggressive and terminally ill ferrets that have been illegally trafficked over state lines" makes you a bridezilla
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    Future sister in law that kept trying to bring her ferrets and out of control dog to the wedding. Family Drama I'm not a member of the family, but a family friend.
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    I've borne witness to this woman causing issues before, but I was appalled by the amount of games that she played when her partner's brother was getting married.
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    The planning took place over the course of about a year, the grooms brother was to be one of the groomsmen. Groomsman brother and his fiancee live on the east coast. Bride and groom live in the Midwest, this is also where the wedding took place.
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    Early on, when the family was discussing travel logistics of getting everyone to the event, the would be SIL (let's just call her ferret girl for simplicity) made a comment that they needed to find a second vehicle to be able to transport all of the pets. Everyone laughed, because what a funny joke.
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    Turns out ferret girl was not joking. They are struggling financially, so the rest of the family was more than willing to chip in for airfare and hotel.
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    Here is the list that she gave as to why she needs to drive 16 hours instead of flying for 4 hours. • she has a physical disability that makes it difficult to sit for long periods of time, so if she flew she would need a first class ticket
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    so she could put her legs up. Driving would allow her to pull over and stretch from time to time. This kind of makes sense, but that would easily make this trip last two or three days, which throws a wrench into some other 'logic' that I will need to get into later.
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    (For the record going forward, I don't doubt that there is some level of physical disability involved. However, it seems like the exact diagnosis and limitations of said disability are always vague. What she is and isn't able to
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    ) do, also seems to change - this could just be do to going through rough patches with her symptoms, I'm not sure, because I'm not a medical professional and I don't know what her diagnosis is anyway.
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    • ferrets aren't allowed on airplanes and she must bring her ferrets. • Her dog is a large breed that are illegal in some states (pitbull mix) and probably wouldn't be allowed to fly either, and
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    even if they could get him on the plane, he would need to be in the cargo hold, not the cabin. Dog is aggressive and high energy, she's not comfortable with that. And she must have her dog with her or her partner at all times.
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    below is the list of reasons that she needs all of her pets with her at all times: • the dog has behavioral problems problems and is high energy. She does not have friends that she trusts to watch him. She
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    also doesn't trust a pet sitting or dog walking business for the same reason. By this logic her partner also can't go to the wedding because of her physical health means that she can't walk him by herself, and
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    partner needs to be home to do it. (Also for the record, this is her dog that she's had since before the start of the relationship) • One of the three ferrets is immunocompromised, needs specialized care and medication. She
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    does not trust a pet sitter to be able to handle this. • Another one of the ferrets, the newly adopted one, is food anxious and will literally starve to death if she herself does not hand feed it.
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    I have also brought up that they would likely be driving through areas where both ferrets and pit bulls are illegal, this was hand waved away. I'm not sure what the plan would have been during the wedding, would they have left
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    them in the hotel room? Did they assume that they could bring all four animals to the venue? This was never explained. Not that it matters, because it soon became clear that this
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    whole thing was just a weird control thing, and she never intended on going to the wedding, and was bent on keeping her partner from attending as well. Ferret girl finally over played her hand a few months before
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    the event. Remember how I mentioned that the family was willing to pay for lodging because the couple struggling financially? During one of these conversations discussing the hotel (bride and groom even jumped
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    through the hoops to find an animal friendly hotel) ferret girl chimes in to request that they rent the room two days before they arrive, so the environment can be sterile and clean enough for the immune compromised ferret.
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    Asking that a family member pay hundreds of dollars on a hotel room that you don't even intend on using for two days is already brazen as . But also... what?
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    If the animal is that unhealthy, why are you driving it multiple days through god knows what environments? Are you not planning to stop anywhere to sleep, on the road trip, both there and
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    back? Is the roadside motel in like Mississippi or something more of a sterile environment somehow? The whole situation is ridiculous, now I think that
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    everyone in the family actively dislikes her, while before they thought that she was just quirky and naive, and were giving her the benefit of the doubt in most cases.
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    What ended up happening in the end is that family paid to board the dog in an expensive specialized kennel for four days (this is now being referred to as ‘the ransom' by the bride). Ferret girl stayed
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    on the east coast with the ferrets, brother of the groom was allowed those four days to attend the wedding, but flew back promptly the next day. It's really sad honestly, the
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    family is tight knit and very close. They likely won't get to see their brother very often if that relationship continues and they do move forward with getting married themselves as planned.
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    As partial proof, here are some texts between bride and myself discussing this a few months back:
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    7:25 HAHAHAHAHA Bride 58 Outsource your bridezillaing I think I need to be a little more bridezilla I feel like the standard of "no aggressive and terminally ill ferrets that have been illegally trafficked over state lines" makes you a bridezilla But I get where you're coming from Sat, Jun 15 at 9:48 PM HA HA I bid on it
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    You know what would be petty af? But also kinda satisfying? IONN Ferret Taxidermy Specimen #189344 auctionninja.com Here's your new favorite piece of home decor wedding centerpiece That would be so funny and mean lol, I'll do it
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    Nightmare Gerbil I cannot imagine being trapped in a car for days with multiple ferrets. Never mind the unruly pit bull. What a nightmare! And the interior of that car would always smell like ferrets.
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