Pink Wedding Dress Drama: When Tradition Meets the Fuchsia Feud
Oh, wedding season, that infamous time of family disputes, endless stress, and oh-so-delicious cake tastings. Let’s dive into yet another saga evolving on the hallowed grounds of Reddit: the battlefield where real brides and desperate mothers clash! Today’s special feature? A quintessential tug-of-war between a bride who dreams in pink and a mother who bhates anything remotely colorful. Fasten your seat belts and pop the champagne because it’s about to get juicy.
The Backstory
Our protagonist, a 25-year-old woman I’ll affectionately nickname Pink Fantasia, has been on a loving journey with her fiancé—a tale starting from their childhood. Let’s just pause here and swoon nostalgically. Ah, the sweet innocence of getting
Original story
I (25 F) have been with my fiance (25 M) for coming up sixteen years. We got fake married at nine, and I wore my favourite pink flowery dress, and since then, we’ve kinda considered ourselves to be engaged.
Every year on the anniversary of when we got ‘married’, I’ve worn a pink, flowery dress. We’re getting married for real in a year, on the anniversary, and I want a pink flowery dress to honour the dresses that I’ve worn the years.
My only problem is my mother. My mother and I don’t have the best relationship, but I wanted her to be involved in my wedding since I’m her only daughter.
She hates pink, she hates the tradition of me wearing pink and above all, she hates the fact that I want a pink wedding dress.
I showed her the dress I wanted online, and she got very angry at me, telling me that I was going to embarrass my fiance and that I was being very childish.
I’m super upset because I truly love the dress, but at the same time, I don’t want to embarrass my fiance by not wearing white.
I haven’t told my fiance about this because it makes me want to cry, but my maid of honour told me to post this on here because I need to hear more peoples opinions.
Edit: my MOH and two of my three bridesmaids have told me to add that my oldest brother got married eight years ago and my SIL (a beautiful goth woman) wore a burgundy red dress and my mother has refused to speak to her since.
Mini update: I told my fiance about my issue with my mother and the wedding dress, and he told me that he had always imagined me in a pink dress and that if I wanted my mother to not come to the wedding, he’d make sure that my youngest brother could still attend, since he wouldn’t have been able to without our mother.