03 June 2023 , 12:41
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When it comes to planning a wedding, many of us will have an idea of how we'd like the day to go, and for most people, it doesn't involve having family members turn up in fancy dress costumes.
But that's exactly what happened at one bride's wedding after her brother made his grand entrance on her big day wearing a "pirate costume" that she said looked as though it had been pulled straight from the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise.
The woman explained she had her wedding on a yacht and was told about her brother's outfit plans by his wife ahead of the wedding. And even though she put her foot down and told him not to wear the costume, he did it anyway.
The woman 'looked like a bridezilla' in front of her guests (stock photo) (Getty Images/iStockphoto)In a post on Reddit, the bride wrote: "My brother's wife called me up to tell me they were getting me personalised M&M's as a wedding present (cool!) and oh, by the way, 'since you're having a yacht wedding, Greg will be wearing a pirate costume.' I said, 'Please no'.
"But he showed up in a pirate costume exactly like the [one] Johnny Depp [wore in] Pirates of the Caribbean anyway. Complete with fake dreadlocks.
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"If he had done this to any of my older sisters at their weddings, they would have cried and freaked out. Or if I had embarrassed him at his wedding he would have flipped out. But I'm seen as the 'wacky artistic little sister' that everyone can do whatever to. And he's so 'sensitive' that everyone in my family indulges him and never calls him out."
The bride said she ended up looking like a "bridezilla" for not being happy about the outfit her brother was wearing, and even had members of her family call her "uptight" for not finding it "funny".
She added: "Then I got to look like a bridezilla in front of my other guests for being very visibly not thrilled after he interrupted my first dance with my new husband to twirl me around the dance floor against my will while he swung a sword around.
"One of my new relatives acted like I was being uptight and told me she found the pirate costume funny. I didn't bother to explain to her 'Yeah well it's not your big expensive event with your family being disrespectful as usual'.
"I am worried that I am too sensitive and uptight when it comes to my family and the way I sometimes feel disrespected by them. I wish I could lighten up."
She later explained that as the youngest sibling, she is often expected to "be okay" with all of her life events being "treated as a joke" by her family.
But commenters were firmly on her side, with many saying they would be "so hurt" if their family did something similar to them, so she isn't wrong for feeling upset.
One person said: "I would be so hurt if a close member of my family thought so little of me as to do this. I'm so upset that nobody pushed him into the sea."
While another added: "Your wedding, your rules. He is a huge a**hole. I would banish him from any future event. A wedding is a big thing and he has no right to ignore your request."
And a third posted: "I would feel completely disappointed and hurt. I think you really need to lay down the law this time with this family dynamic or not respecting your events. Say what you need to say to him and then don’t contact him for a while. I'm fuming for you, you poor thing."
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