Entitled cousin demands to use bride's venue on the same day as her wedding day in an attempt to save money, leaving bride speechless: ‘We’ll be out before your wedding starts’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jun 20, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

Every bride wants her wedding to be as unique and as special as possible. A one-of-a-kind day that will match her personality to a point, that no one else will be able to copy.

When I got married, the one thing I knew I wanted to be completely mine was my wedding dress. I didn't want a dress that other brides could buy, and even if I wanted to, I couldn't find my dream dress anywhere I looked. It was something that existed only in my head, and somehow I had to turn it into a reality. 

That is why I had a designer personally design my dream dress for me. It was not cheap, but in my eyes, it was totally worth it. The dress turned out exactly as I dreamed it would, and it was all mine, one of a kind. 

If I somehow learned that a family member decided to copy my dress and wear the exact same thing to their wedding, I would probably lose it. And even so, what the cousin in the story below tried to pull was somehow a lot worse than this nightmare scenario.

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  • For some reason, this cousin thought it was totally reasonable to ask a bride to use her venue on the day of her wedding. “We'll get married in the morning, and will be out of there before you know it!”. What was she thinking?

    Keep scrolling to read the full story and find out.

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    "It's not like we'll stay for the reception"
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    My cousin asked if she could use my wedding venue… on my wedding day.

    We're a few weeks out from the wedding, everything's booked, invites are sent and my cousins text me: "hey, any chance I could use your venue earlier that day
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    for my ceremony? We'll be out before your stuff starts." I thought it was a joke. It wasn't.
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    Her logic?"it already decorated, and it's not like we'll stay for the reception."
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    IncidentSoft4 Don't even ask if she wants to share costs of venue+decoration. She will make the whole day about
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    her and most probably she will promise to pay and then won't. Then you are the cheap/bad guy for asking for money. Just my 2 cents here...
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    Swimming-Nate OP Honestly wouldn't be shocked if she tried to Venmo me like 20$ and called it even.
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    Dapper Ad_819 She can share in the cost. Half the cost or nothing. But seriously, this is absurd. I would also warn your venue ahead of time and give them photos of those people as well
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    Swimming-Nate OP Whole thing still blows my mind. Like... who even thinks to ask that??
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    Melodic-Dark6545 Share a wedding venue on the same day as a wedding? Are your aunt and your cousin absolutely insane???
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    What about the absolute selfishness of your cousin for saying that??? Is she that cheap??? I know maybe you don't have a way to finance your
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    wedding, but then you go to the court house and get married. You don't hijack another person's event And if this insanity is "dividing the family", let it be divided. people sure have some nerve...
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    the_owl_syndicate I think the venue would have something to say about that.
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    GraceOfTheNorth The audacity
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    DameofDames Password protect the venue, etc. She's crazy to ask, she may be crazy enough to go further.
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    Primary Wonderful It starts with just the ceremony, because it's already decorated. Then, since it's family, most of the same people will be going to both weddings, so we should share the reception too. It just makes good sense, and it will already be decorated. •
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    Icona Pop2 people also forget that the venues are generally still setting up during the day. i work for a wedding venue and we generally are not fully set up until maybe 2 hours before the wedding
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    violet-quartz Tell them the venue said it wasn't allowed, because it probably isn't anyway. She seems to be ignoring that you
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    have to book venues, as in pay them money to use their space. Your cousin doesn't seem to realize that the venue isn't yours to give.
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