Kids at weddings: Bride furious after child dresses up as Disney princess for her wedding
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Loading... - Sarah Williams
- 31 May 2022
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Back in my day, Disney dress-ups rocked. Just like Cinderella, you could transform yourself into a princess whenever, wherever, with a wave of a Fairy Godmother's wand - also known as the bank of mum and dad.
However, while sweet kids clad in costumes are typically more 'aww'-inducing than 'argh'-inducing, not everyone wants a Disney princess at their wedding - a sentiment made clear in a recent anecdote shared to the popular Reddit forum, Am I the Asshole.
For the uninitiated, Am I the Asshole is a space for people to anonymously share their most pressing predicaments and moral conundrums with the strangers of the internet, who in turn, give their brutally honest opinions and determine who is said asshole in the given situation.
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In a post to the forum over the weekend, a 29-year-old man said that his sister is currently "furious" at him after his girlfriend's young daughter wore a Beauty and the Beast-themed costume to her recent nuptials.
The man explained that his girlfriend's six-year-old daughter, whom he assigned the alias 'Zoe', can be incredibly difficult, particularly when it comes to getting dressed in the mornings.
"Sometimes, my girlfriend has had to agree to just send her to school in her pyjamas or fancy dress because she was unwilling to dress properly," the man wrote.
"Unfortunately, she had one of those moments on the day of my sister's wedding. It was a two-hour drive from my girlfriend's house to the venue, so we decided to just let her wear what she wanted for the journey and make her change when we got there."
In an update to his original post, the man clarified that the child had been dressed as Belle, the princess from Disney's 1991 animated film, Beauty and the Beast.
"However, she refused to change at all. At one point, she bit my girlfriend, and I was involved in the wedding so I couldn't be late. We decided that she's a kid, so hopefully nobody would mind, and just went in with her still in fancy dress."
However, upon arrival, the man realised they were woefully mistaken.
"My sister did mind. She did not say anything at the time, but she and her friends gave us dirty looks. My sister and her husband tried to keep my girlfriend and Zoe out of the family pictures, which was the first indication to me that there was a problem," he continued.
"Some people, (aunts, cousins, etc) did remark to me about her clothes, some clearly unaware that Zoe was my girlfriend's daughter as they were less than kind about the parents who brought her. It seemed nobody approved of the outfit and my cousin went as far as to demand we put the violet dress my sister liked over the one Zoe was wearing."
After the wedding, the man said he received a long and strongly worded email from his sister complaining about Zoe's costume, calling it "inappropriate" and "attention-seeking".
"She said this… made her look bad after she had tried to plan the wedding to be perfect. I tried to explain that she's just a difficult child sometimes, but my sister refused to listen. The wedding was Sunday and she and my mother are still furious with me.
"AITA [am I the asshole]? Should we have not let my girlfriend's daughter wear a dress-up dress to the wedding?" Read More...
