'Or you're uninvited': Mother-of-the-bride gets caught planning to wear a wedding dress to her daughter's wedding, then the bride gives her an ultimatum

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Feb 28, 2025 8:00 AM EST

Like Eve in the Garden of Eden, when you're a guest at a wedding, you really only have one rule to abide by—Don't wear a white gown. But apparently, this mother-of-the-bride pretended to be ignorant of this rule, brazenly defying societal norms and challenging her daughter in the process. 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not one for traditional weddings. I like when marriages are celebrated in an individualistic way that represents the couple, no matter what that entails. If the bride wants to walk down the aisle with some goats as flower girls or if the groom wants to make a grand entrance in a faux space shuttle, do it! The bride and the groom can do no wrong as far as weird, quirky choices for their wedding day because ultimately, it's their big day! However, when guests feel entitled to take certain liberties with the rules, that's a different story. 

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  • This bride was shocked when she received a text from her mother with a $4,000 gown she was planning to wear to the wedding. Glimmering like a white, glowing cake topper, the mother-of-the-bride clearly intended to outshine her daughter on the big day by wearing what could only be imagined as a wedding dress. 

    Keep scrolling for the entire story and the fallout that ensued after the MOB decided it was HER big day.

  • The dress my mom is planning to wear to my wedding. She sent this to me yesterday and I still haven't replied Today 4:44 PM
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  • hurtfulbliss 30 Reply with this photo.
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  • Echo-A When you do reply, make a joke out of it. At first. , mom, you should have told me you wanted a double wedding... who the h_I are you marrying anyway? Shouldnt i meet him???".
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  • KellyAnn3106 Hi Mom. I already have my dress. I thought you were sending a picture of what you were going to wear.
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  • 0000udeis000 I would straight-up reply with, "You're planning on wearing a wedding dress to my wedding?" Call her out on it. Make her justify her reasoning.
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  • valentinakontrabida ALPACUH YOU'RE TACKY AND I HATE YOU me to your mom
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  • admweirdbeard "hey mom, the internet wants to know why you feel entitled to wear a wedding dress to my wedding"
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  • ThrowRA-Sweetest OP There are so many comments, I can't reply to all but I'll try to either give short updates or copy & paste my response to other comments. Long story short, I replied with an ultimatum "wear something I recommend or you're uninvited. " and she ignored it but replied with
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  • something unrelated. I called to demand an answer but she just yelled at me so I told her to not come to the wedding then hung up. Now I'm informing the rest of the family and asking them to not share info regarding my wedding to my mom
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  • mrspogo I don't understand how anyone could possibly think this is reasonable. Is mental illness so prevalent that these older women think this is ok? I see so many of these posts
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  • Championvilla I showed my Fiancée and he said it was a pretty wedding dress. Then I told him who was wearing it :D
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  • Amazing_Reality2980 Mom, if you show up in that dress, you won't be allowed in the door. I will have a couple of security guards waiting for you. Should be the text she sends mom, and actually have big a goons waiting to block her
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  • Ceramicusedbook "No, David. It's not a wedding dress... It's a white floor length.. gown..."
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  • Alternative_Cat1310 I would just ask her if this is some kind of a cruel joke because everyone who is sane with a good heart and good character knows that this is not appropriate for any wedding
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  • YakElectronic6713 Mommy doesn't need a wedding dress, but a straight jacket.
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  • gilly_girl "I've instructed my bridesmaids to douse you in red wine should you arrive wearing that."
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  • BadMuddaFadda Reply, "Mom! I never knew that you had such a great sense of humor! Me and my coworkers have all been laughing our off all day!" And add the appropriate lol emojis.
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  • Tejoner "Aww! That's pretty! Thanks for the suggestion but I already have my wedding dress, SILLY. What are you wearing??"
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  • Cataliyah-Morrigan I'd buy a red bottle of wine and label it with her name on it. Send her a photo of it. She would get one clear verbal warning: "If you wear this white dress to my wedding, I will pour this entire bottle of wine all over you. You can sit there, doused in wine, or You will go home and change and miss my wedding.
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  • This is your first and last warning. Please test me. See if you don't go home looking like Carrie." This year, let's not let ourselves be terrorized by people who know better. Let's bring back consequences. Let's stop bad behaviour. Let's stop with this audacity the now.
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