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A bride has defended her decision to refuse to change her wedding date to accommodate her maid of honour's pregnancy.
In a post shared on Reddit forum Am I the A**hole, one bride explained that she had originally set her wedding date for July, but pushed it back after her pregnant sister (the maid of honor) began experiencing severe morning sickness. She added that she wanted to wait until the worst of it was over as the pregnancy progressed.
Once her sister’s condition improved, the bride and her fiancé began talking about new dates. “Seeing this, my fiancé and I started talking about our wedding again,” the bride wrote. “I had always wanted a summer wedding on the beach, but I didn’t want to wait a whole year, and looking at winter wedding photos was slowly starting to grow on me.”
The couple eventually settled on a December wedding date, but as they began sending out invitations, the bride received an angry call from her sister. In the call, the sister ranted about “how inconsiderate I was to not wait until my nephew was born, that her [matron of honor] and eight months of pregnancy are going to be tough and she has already been through hell.”
The bride said she did not expect her sister to “go any further.”
“I even do hair and makeup for all my wedding guests, a kind of pampering session where we all get ready together and take pictures,” she continued. She added that she had offered to compensate her for the hairstyling and appointments, but her sister was not at all receptive.
“She wants no part of it and demands that we reschedule again until next summer,” she wrote, adding that she and her fiancé had already booked the venue. “I told her flat out no.”
The bride's parents asked her to reconsider, but she said her sister's pregnancy was no excuse for acting the way she did. Many Reddit users agreed with the bride in the comments section, saying she had already been accommodating enough.
“Your wedding is your decision,” one user wrote. “Your sister is in no position to demand important wedding decisions, especially the logistical nightmare of rescheduling.”
“Don’t change the new date,” another person commented. “Your wedding is about you and your husband, not your sister. The wedding shouldn’t be entirely about her either. You’ve already been thoughtful and deliberate on both occasions. You’ve done enough.”
“You are making extra efforts to make sure she is comfortable [and] “They supported her on her wedding, even resizing her dress and organising a pampering session,” another added.
