A woman found herself catching a lot of flak after refusing to wear a wedding dress that her stepsister handmade for her, and now she's taken to Reddit to figure out if she's in the wrong. The woman explained that her 21-year-old stepsister Zoey is an aspiring wedding dress designer currently finishing up a fashion degree.
When the woman got engaged, Zoey offered to make her dress. Though the woman originally wanted the experience of finding and picking out her own dress for such a special day, she accepted her stepsister's offer because she thought it "could be a nice opportunity to bond."
"I'd seen some of her work (she'd made a couple ball gowns in college), and she seemed honestly good," the woman shared. "We met up a few times to discuss our ideas. During those, I realized our styles were drastically different, but we still managed to agree on a design. I gave Zoey my measurements and asked her to update me. She didn't."
The bride went on to explain that she never got any progress photos and didn't receive her dress until a month before the wedding. "It looked nothing like the design we'd agreed on. It was the wrong color, the wrong style, everything," she said. "When I tried it on, I found out it was also about 3 sizes too big. Though I knew I could probably have it altered, I truly did not want to wear that dress on my wedding day."
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Fast forward, she told her stepsister she wasn't wearing the dress and ended up finding a dress at a bridal shop that she absolutely loved and wore on her wedding day. At her wedding, her father, his girlfriend (the stepsister's mom), and stepsister were all short with her and left an hour into the reception. The next day, the dad and girlfriend called to tell her off and suggest that she should've sucked it up to wear the dress that her stepsister had spent so much time working on. Many people in the thread agreed that the woman wasn't in the wrong.
"NTA! You were as fair as could be in rejecting the dress," someone commented. "You were generous to go along with it as long as you did. If Zoey can't satisfy a client, she doesn't know what she's doing. I'm sorry your father didn't stick up for you."
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