Stepmother tells 13-year-old stepdaughter that she can't have her wedding dress because she wants to save it for bio daughter, stepdaughter complains to bio mom: 'Everyone's mad'

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Sep 26, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Weddings are such a special and convivial time. It's supposed to be a ceremonious day of love, a celebration of two people uniting and tethering themselves to each other. To bring together family and friends under the arch of commitment and love, a joyful and beautiful event. But oftentimes, weddings serve as ground for past dramas and resentments. That insensitive comment that your aunt told your sister 12 years ago? Yeah, it's all coming out now. Or how about the uncle that always drinks too much and starts spilling all the family secrets. Yes, when family gets together, it's not the fairytale everyone expected it to be. 

In the story here, it centers around the potential wedding of the protagonist's stepdaughter. They're looking through an old photo album together. The young girl sees her stepmom in a wedding dress, and asks about it. She says she still has it, and the stepdaughter asks if she can wear it at her wedding, to which the stepmom says that she's saving it for her bio daughter. 

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    Aitah for telling my stepkids that my kids will get my stuff?

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    Last weekend I was getting ready to make a photo book for my baby who's coming soon, and them being kids they wanted to
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    help and look though their photo books. So we looked through a few and we found pictures from me and their dads wedding and
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    engagement. Ny stepdaughter asked if I still had my dress, and i told her I did and she asked if she could have it for her wedding and I didn't get a chance to answer as
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    she started going on about how she was going to look like me on her wedding day and just stuff like that. She went on to looking
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    through the book more and asked about my rings and I told her they were my great grandmas and we just made them more my
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    style and just fixed them a little bit, she asked if when she was older could she have them for her wedding. I had softly explained
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    that I would rather my bio daughter get first dibs of stuff and that their mom probably has family heirlooms.
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    That made them kinda sad, so when they went home I'm assuming they told their mom and that made her mad. She
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    called us and told me that why should some new kid get something over her kids, and I explained to her that because I would rather any bio kid have
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    dibs first and if my bio kids don't want it then its free game after that, and that she should have stuff to pass down to her kids.
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    She said she doesn't as she didn't have a wedding and her family didn't save stuff like that. I told
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    her that I could no longer help her with that my bio kids would still get dibs.
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    Everyone's mad expect my husband and we said we would talk to them but its still like I feel bad but I wouldn't want give
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    them something that my bio kids might want because its actually connected to them and apart of their DNA. So aitah?
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    I'm sorry i forgot to put the ages they are both girls 13 and 11
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    IzilDizzle ⚫ 8h ago How old is your stepdaughter? If she's a kid there was definitely a more tactful less blunt way of telling her, or just redirecting her.
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    300sunshineydays • 8h ago I don't think you appreciate just how lucky you were to be asked.
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    Wild-Association16... • 8h ago YTA. She said she wanted to look like you on her wedding day. That's just about the sweetest thing I've
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    ever heard, and you replied "I'd rather my biological daughter than you."
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