Woman refuses to lend stepsister her wedding dress after her's doesn't arrive in time, internet is suspicious of stepsister's ulterior motive: ‘I don't think she bought a dress’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Dec 22, 2024 2:00 PM EST

Wedding dresses are sentimental and expensive. You can walk into any bridal shop and and spend at least two thousand dollars simply by breathing the same air as the dresses (kidding). You get what I'm trying to say, though. The bridal industry makes millions off of desperate brides who are searching high and low to find that special garment. Can you blame them? Your wedding day is a once in a lifetime experience, and you should feel like the dress you picked is one of a kind. 

That's exactly why the woman in this next story refuses to lend her wedding dress to her stepsister, who she has never seen eye-to-eye with when they were growing up. Her stepsister calls her one day in a frenzy, expressing that the very secret dress she ordered for her wedding has not arrived yet and probably won't arrive before her big day, the day after Christmas. The woman declines her plea and her family is split as a result. Commenters believe her stepsister never ordered the dress to begin with—what do you think? Scroll to read.

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    AITA for not letting my step-sister borrow my wedding dress?
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    Throwaway in case people involved are in Reddit Me, (F23), got married to my husband about a year ago. It was wonderful and probably the happiest day of my life.
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    My family was involved with everything and I was delighted by it. Including my stepfather, who at first I had a somewhat rocky relationship with but I grew to appreciate him. His daughter (F26) is
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    an entire different story. We can't get along. I've tried and I'm sure she also has, but it's not about being different, it's because she has always had very similar taste as me. We used to fight about our clothes, our toys and so on.
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    She has a relationship with a man whom I've got to know maybe 3 or 4 times. She announced her relationship with him during my wedding (which annoyed me at first, but I let it go since it was only a 20 second PSA), and became
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    engaged just 4 months after that. Now, she has been planning her wedding and I've tried to help as much as I can since I already had most contacts fresh. She plans to marry a day after Christmas, so I thought
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    everything was set and ready to go. On Saturday, she calls me crying, saying that her wedding dress wouldn't arrive on time since she had some changes done. For some context, no one
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    knows how this dress looks because she wanted to 'keep it a surprise for everyone', per her own words. I tried to comfort her and I told her I knew some cute boutiques who had nice
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    wedding dresses ready for her date. She cries harder, telling me she didn't want any 'cheap' dress. I tried to calm her down once more before telling her I would call my stepdad to see what we
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    could do. Before I could finish that sentence, she says out of the blue, 'Can I wear your dress?' I didn't respond, because I didn't know how to. She goes on, explaining that it would make things less
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    troubling, how she's the same size as me and how much she loved it the second she saw it on me. I don't know what possessed me to simply say 'No.' and hang up the phone. I've received
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    multiple calls from her, her fiancee and my stepdad, who I did respond to. He pleaded to me to let her 'borrow' my wedding dress, 'just like when we were kids'. I tried to explain to him
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    that my wedding dress was very special to me, and I wouldn't feel comfortable letting anyone else in it, unless it was my decision. He got super angry with me and hung up. My messages
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    have been exploding with my stepsister, her soon- to-be husband and my stepdad telling me how horrible I am for being so selfish. I know how my stepsister is. I know how dramatic
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    and over the top she can be when she doesn't get her way. But there's a part of me that feels awful for not letting her wear it since it's just a dress and it would make her so happy. But there's
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    that other part of me that remembers how my husband, my mom and I struggled to save for it because it was my dream dress, and I don't want to share something so personal with her. Should I just let her have it just so things don't escalate?
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    OtherRepresen... • 11h ago • NTA, I'm calling shenanigans on your stepsister's part. She probably had her eye on your dress since day one, probably commissioned a similar dress (if she even did) hence the surprise, and planned to use your dress as a backup if hers didn't show up in time.
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    Psych... 10h ago. I don't think she bought a dress, she planned to wear OP's from the start.
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    . Single-... 9h ago We have a winner! Of course the super secret dress that no one has seen will not be delivered on time.
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    At this point you told her no and her people are spinning mad about it. If you do give in, I bet the dress will not be in good condition when you get it back (stain that didn't come out.
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    Ripped seam, any other spiteful thing she can do to ruin your special dress for your special day. Turn off their notifications and peruse messages
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