Woman divides internet after cancelling her brother's wedding
A woman has divided the internet after admitting to cancelling her brother's wedding without telling him, after consistently being treated poorly by her future sister-in-law.
The 27-year-old shared that the "extreme" moment came after countless mean comments, wedding planning gone wrong and a selection of financial problems.
Writing on Reddit's "Am I The A**hole?" thread, the woman wanted advice on if she was in the wrong.
The woman explained that her brother, 30, and his fiancée Ella, 28, had been together three years but the two women were never particularly close.
"Honestly, we never got along but I always tried to put up a peaceful front because my brother seemed blissfully happy with her," the poster explained on the online forum.
"Ella was mean to me a lot ... She would make comments about my weight, my makeup, and especially my dog. She hated animals and hated that I would bring my lab, Toast, to my parents or my brothers house."
After her brother popped the question, she was shocked when Ella asked her to be her Maid of Honour, given their turbulent relationship.
Despite this, she agreed to the role, thinking it was the "sisterly" thing to do.
"What I failed to realise when I accepted the role was that to her [Maid Of Honour] meant planning the entire wedding. Like I was booking venues, florists, jazz band, everything," the woman wrote.
"Even worse she expected me to put my MY credit card down for all of it... Every time I asked Ella about it, she would say that it would all be paid back by her parents before the wedding."
It wasn't until three weeks before the wedding that the relationship between the two women took a turn for the worst.
"I asked if she had received the updated receipt of everything owed when she exploded," she said.
"She called me a whole line of terrible names but the one that stuck out was her saying 'What do you need the money for anyway? Your sick dog is dead now'."
"My beautiful Toasty died about a month before this after he fought the bravest battle with cancer. He was my soul dog and I was devastated."
Ella's hurtful comments went a step too far, leading the woman to "immediately called the vendors and cancelled any deposit under my card. Every. Single. One."
"After almost 20 calls, all that was left of her wedding was the dress and the flower arch."
The woman told her brother what she had done, and said she would no longer be attending their wedding if it still went ahead after her revenge plan.
She then ignored calls from her future sister-in-law, forcing her to deal with all the wedding fallout.
Most people took to the comments in support of the woman's "revenge", saying she would have been saddled with footing the bill.
"MOH duties do NOT include planning the whole wedding and they certainly do NOT put down all the deposits and pay for the wedding," one person wrote.
"If you ask me, it sounds 100% like they were going to stiff you for the wedding. I don't believe for a minute her parents were paying for it."
Another wrote, "You didn't cancel the wedding. You extricated yourself from an abusive and exploitative situation. They're still free to marry, on their own thin dime."
While most people supported the woman's actions, there were a handful of comments that believed the woman had gone too far with her revenge, but also agreed her sister-in-law treated her very poorly.
After the original post went viral, the poster shared an update that she is now speaking to her brother again and that the couple didn't make it down the aisle.
They are currently on a "break" with Ella no longer in possession of an engagement ring.
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