'Girl, I'm not giving you my wedding dress': Entitled 27-year-old demands that her cousin hand over her wedding dress so she doesn't have to buy her own, cousin refuses, family drama ensues

It's an age-old tradition for family members to absolutely lose their minds during the unnecessarily over-the-top process of planning a wedding. Sometimes, it's the bride and/or groom to blame for demanding far too much from the people in their wedding parties. Other times, it's the parents of the engaged couple, who refuse to stop inviting people from their circles. Sometimes, it's other peers and family members involved in the planning who become so fixated on fulfilling their dreams of a perfect gathering that they completely forget the vision of the actual married couple supposedly at the center of it all. Regardless of the specific circumstances, planning a wedding rarely brings out the best in people.

The best way to get through wedding planning is to think about the couple and to at the very least attempt to strike the balance between what is financially possible and what aligns best with the needs and wishes of the people getting married. Of course, there will always be a series of extraneous considerations, but if you continue to go back to these core principles, there should be fewer speed bumps. For this couple, a 27-year-old bride-to-be decided that she needed to invade her cousin's personal space and to demand to use the same exact wedding dress without expressed permission. Let's just say this bride was definitely prioritizing what she wanted, but she most certainly was not thinking enough about the feelings of others. 

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  • "My cousin demanded I give her my wedding dress because 'I’m already married'"

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  • This story just goes to show that while the average person getting married tends to stress out over pleasing everyone else, this author's cousin had the opposite issue. She wasn't taking other people's thoughts and feelings into consideration. That doesn't just make for a frustrating wedding, but it makes for a frustrating person to have in your life.

  • So my cousin (she's 27) is getting married next year and apparently thinks I am her personal wedding planner/fairy godmother. The other day she came over "to talk" and halfway through our coffee, she drops, "You're
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  • already married, so you don't need your dress anymore." I thought she was joking, but nope. She literally meant she wanted me to hand over my dress...the one my mom helped pay for and that has huge sentimental value.
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  • I laughed it off at first, like, "Girl, I'm not giving you my wedding dress," but she got this pouty, almost offended look and said, "It's selfish to let it just sit in a closet when I could wear it for my big day." Then she threw in, "You're financially stable, you could just buy another one if you really want to keep one." Like... what? It's my dress.
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  • When I refused again, she started guilt-tripping me in front of my aunt, making it sound like I was letting "family" suffer because of my "attachment to material things." My aunt actually sided with her, saying I was "blocking a beautiful moment" for my cousin over something I'd never wear again. I told them both that my dress is not a hand-me-down.
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  • Now the family group chat is blowing up with "Why can't you just be nice?" messages, but honestly... if you expect someone to give up something so personal because you don't want to spend money, you're not entitled to sympathy. Buy your own dress like the rest of us did. Am I being unreasonable for not giving her my dress, or is this a ridiculous ask?
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  • TallRecording6572 2h ago • I'd be leaving the family group chat
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  • Global_Loss6139 2h ago . Anyone who says "just be nice" can give her money to follow in their own advice. They are being suoer entitled and crazy. Its yours.
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  • ProfaneEcho • 2h ago Tell her to be creative. She can start sewing now. It will help her mature into the adult she ought to be when she marries.
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  • carmackie 2h ago There are plenty of bridal rental companies she can look into. She and her mom also sound insane and entitled.
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  • gemmygem86 • 2h ago Hide that dress
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  • Flimsy-Baker-961 • 2h ago Tell her not to get married if she can't afford to buy her own gown.
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  • Super_Instance_7858 • 2h ago why can't one of your other cousins give her their old wedding dress?
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  • Public_Road_6426 · 2h ago • They're all calling you selfish, yet no one's calling the cousin who's demanding you hand over a treasured, highly sentimental item over to her selfish? No, you're not being unreasonable, and your aunt and her entitled spawn are being very selfish and entitled.
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  • LeFaGoLo51 · 1h ago • An old tradition (art least in the U.S.) is for you to keep your dress to be eventually handed down to a daughter to use. Why doesn't the cousin's mom (your conniving aunt) donate HER dress to her own daughter OR help her pay for her own?
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  • Puzzled-Award-2236 40m ago Funny how people argue against the word NO like you have to relinquish your rights. To top it off, then they have a temper tantrum to get their own way!! LOL I have no desire to deal with childish, entitled behavior.
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