Bridesmaid learns bride’s sister scammed the whole bachelorette party out of $3K to pay her own debt, and now the girls are plotting their revenge: 'She justified it by saying she's broke'

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Isabella Penn
Jun 13, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

Being a bridesmaid is basically a part-time job that you pay for yourself, especially once you hit your late 20s and early 30s and all your friends decide this is the year they're getting married. Suddenly, you're in seven different group chats for seven different wedding parties, Venmoing for matching robes, planning bachelorette weekends in overpriced Airbnbs, and forking over cash for everything from sparkly heels you'll wear once to the inevitable group gift for the bride.

It's exhausting... and expensive. And the least you can hope for is that everyone's splitting costs fairly. But in this story, that's not the case. One bridesmaid learned the hard way that the maid of honor (aka the bride's little sister) had her own agenda. Not only did she cover the entire bachelorette weekend with her mom's credit card, but she charged each girl an inflated "final total," pocketed the difference, and used it to pay off personal debt from Coachella. Yeah. You read that right. 

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    "MOH over charged us for the bachelorette and pocketed all the money"

    I'm a bridesmaid and just found all of this out. The bride (A) has her younger sister (B) as her MOH. Myself and the other 4 bridesmaids are all hometown friends of A so we've known B since she was little.
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    B is a POS. She's the typical spoiled, babied younger sibling who was never held accountable of her actions and people always excused her behavior because "that's how B is"
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    We knew she'd be the MOH cuz A adors her little sister. And A is also a sweet heart that forgives easy. Come to the bachelorette. It was an easy, local weekend. The Airbnb B
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    picked out was great and the activities we did were all fun and seemed very reasonable. We were all honestly surprised at how well she did! Until we got the Venmo request at the end of the weekend....which was
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    suspiciously a lot for what we estimated everything would of cost. It was a red flag that she didn't ask us for money for the Airbnb ahead of time. Stating shed just give us all a final bill at the end of the weekend.
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    None of us wanted to be the girl that asks for an itemized list of everything so we just paid up and went on our merry way. Wellllll that was a month ago. The wedding is in a
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    week and their cousin who was at the bachelorette who I happen to know from college texted me and SPILLED EVERYTHING. Turns out A&Bs mom paid for everything. B
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    used her mom's credit card for the Airbnb, the decorations, the food, and even the drinks she got at the bar! And when we Venmod her the money she not only pocketed all of it, SHE
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    ADDED AN EXTRA $50 TO ALL OUR TABS. She told all of this to the cousin in confidence apparently justifying it by saying she's broke and owes a friend money for going to Coachella earlier this year and this was her plan all along.
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    I told the rest of the bridesmaids this and they're livid. One girl wants to tell the bride. One girl wants to drive to Bs house and demand her money back. One girl
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    took the time to estimate how much B made off us and came up with almost 3K. I'm just at a loss. I've known B since she was 8. I know she's a POS. But this is a whole new level.
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    taj605 Tell the mom
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    Jenuptoolate Tell B's Mom. She paid for everything and should be made aware that her daughter scammed you all.
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    notyposhere The mom might be wondering why none of you thanked her.
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    completedett Tell the bride and the mom. Get your money back.
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    B is like this because her family enable her including the bride. Let them pay for her. Update please after.
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    pixie-ann Tell everyone. Don't keep people's dirty little secrets for them. Tell the world and get your money back.
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    spencermiddleton "Sorry I didn't thank you for your generosity with the bachelorette party MOB, but I didn't realize you'd paid for the
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    accommodations because B had us all pay $ for it and didn't tell us you had contributed".
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    ravencrowe Tell the bride, tell the mom, take her to court if she doesn't give your money back
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    Queen-Pierogi-V Don't use subterfuge, don't make up a story. Go to the mom as a group, if possible, and tell her you were each charged $xxxx for the
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    bachelorette by her daughter, but cousin said that you paid first the whole weekend. We'd like to know the truth because either your daughter stole from us or your niece is lying about it.
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