36 Brides Who Had To Deal With Blatantly Inappropriate And Cruel Behavior From Family Members Regarding Their Own Wedding

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1.This mother of the bride bragged about a "mother of the bride sympathy party" she got and said that weddings are really a chance for mothers to have the wedding of THEIR dreams.

The mother of the bride uses sarcasm to criticize her daughter's choices about her wedding and says "everybody knows you get to have the wedding of your dreams when your daughter gets married"

2.This father-in-law singlehandedly ruined the bride's hair that took hours.

A social media post from the bride says her immature stepfather rubbed her head, destroying her $300 hairstyle, three minutes before her wedding ceremony

3.This mother-in-law decided to do a ceremony to renew her vows on the same day as her son's wedding, at the same location.

The bride says her future mother-in-law scheduled a vow renewal ceremony two hours before their wedding at the same venue because "she wants the day to be special for her also"

4.This mother of the bride wanted her father — the bride's grandfather — to give the bride away since he hadn't had the opportunity to give her away (because she never married). Except...the bride's dad was alive and well, and the bride obviously wanted him to give her away.

A text exchange in which the bride asks her mother not to stress her out, and the mother responds by saying "you will regret it for the rest of your life if you don't let your Popo give you away"

5.This mother of the bride wanted to bar her ex's stepkids — the step-siblings of the bride — from coming.

The mother of the bride asks her daughter not to invite her stepmom's kids because "you know darn well they're not family"

6.This mother of the bride was angry she wasn't on the "in memoriam" table even though she...obviously wasn't dead?

The mother asks why her picture wasn't featured but the bride's father's was, the bride says because it was honoring dead loved ones, and the mother replies "you want me to be dead to respect me?"

7.This woman wore a full-on wedding dress to her brother-in-law's wedding.

A review for a wedding dress says the woman wore it to her brother-in-law's wedding and looked better than the bride, which got people talking

8.This person brought her DOG to her sister's wedding without asking, then had the audacity to complain about there being children there (children who, unlike her dog, were actually invited).

This person took their dog to their sister's wedding, complained that there were children there, and said "this wedding reinforced my child-free status"

9.This mother of the bride wore THIS to her daughter's wedding.

A sale listing for what is dubbed a "mother of the bride dress," which includes a photo of her posing next to her daughter the bride, and both dresses look like wedding dresses

10.And this monster-in-law tried to wear this.

A future mother-in-law texts a photo of the dress she's wearing to the wedding, and it's a white wedding dress; the mother-in-law says the color is called champagne, not white

11.This mother of the bride wanted to wear her old wedding dress to her daughter's wedding.

A woman asks for suggestions for how to convince her mother not to wear her old wedding dress to the daughter's wedding, which will be attended by the bride's father and his new partner

12.As did this mother-in-law.

The bride asks the mother-in-law what dress she's wearing, the MIL texts a picture of her old wedding dress, and when the bridge suggests they find her another dress, the MIL says "do not play these games with me skank"

13.This sister-in-law got mad that the bride didn't want her in the wedding party, despite actively disliking the bride and saying "she literally sucks as a human being."

The future sister-in-law criticizes the bridge multiple times, then complains about not being in the wedding party because she's the only sibling not being included

14.This sister-in-law sunk to a new low at the bride's bachelorette party.

The sister of the groom brought a skeleton dressed in a "sister of the bride" T-shirt to the bachelorette party; the bride's sister died when she was 16

15.This awful mother-in-law stole the bride's hairstylist.

The mother of the groom demanded that the bride's hairstylist help her first, and it took so long that the bride couldn't get her hair done in time for the wedding and had to wear a ponytail

16.This family member took it upon themselves to invite guests the bride obviously didn't want at the wedding because "they have been through all your exes."

A long text message in which the mother of the bride tells, doesn't ask, her daughter that she'll be bringing three guests to the wedding who weren't invited

17.This uncle insisted on bringing a girlfriend (who the couple had never met) to a tiny wedding even though he didn't get a plus one.

When the bride told her uncle there were no plus-ones, the uncle guilted her by saying they already spent a lot on tickets, even though the bride never said he could bring his partner

18.This mother of the bride decided to make everything about her after her daughter eloped — despite the fact that her daughter planned a nice dinner to celebrate the marriage that evening in order to make her mother feel included. She then suggested there was something wrong with her daughter due to her making this choice and told her to talk to her doctor.

The mother wanted to be present for the signing of the marriage certificate, and she equated not being invited to it to the bride having a sandwich and instead of giving it to starving people, throwing it in the trash

19.This mother of the bride uninvited herself because she was afraid of what the bride had told other guests about her.

The bride says her loved ones are aware of the things her mother has said to her, so the mother backs out of going to the wedding and says she doesn't want to be around people who will judge and criticize her

20.This father refused to attend his daughter's wedding because of a friend of the bride who was attending.

The father of the bride says multiple times that he hates the bride's friend and blames her for his divorce; when the bride says the friend will be attending, the father says his feelings must not matter to her

21.And this mother sent this LONG message on an RSVP about her kid's "trash" friends.

The mother's pages long RSVP message says "we do not wish to be around trash," and "it is meant to be our day to be recognized"

22.This abusive father of the bride posted this poem on the night of his daughter's wedding, trying to make himself look like the victim for not being invited to her wedding.

The father's poem ends with "in the end when I'm gone, you will see all the sacrifices I made and how you treated me, you will regret it, then maybe you'll cry"

23.This father refused to get the COVID vaccine so he could attend his daughter's wedding.

The bride informs her father vaccines will be required, he says they won't be getting them, the daughter says "it's your decision but it hurts," and the dad response "me too"

24.This mother of the bride bought her daughter a whole new wedding dress because she didn't approve of the strapless dress she'd gotten, then made a pointed comment about her daughter having had a child since then.

A sale listing for a wedding dress that the woman says she bought for her daughter but her daughter refused to wear, but the "marriage was a success as you can see from the crib"

25.This mother of the bride (with whom the bride had gone no-contact) emailed her this rant days before her wedding.

A hateful email from the mother of the bride, who calls her daughter fake and says her fiancé should come to his senses and deserves better

26.This awful father of the bride sent her $2 to "enjoy her reception" at a wedding he wasn't invited to because he doesn't approve of his daughter being gay, then said some truly heinous things.

The father says he sent $2 for the wedding invite he didn't get, the daughter explains he wasn't invited because he doesn't approve of her sexuality, and the father says "god bless you, you deviant cunt, you're a load that should have been swallowed"

27.This sister of the bride got angry it was a no-children wedding and refused to come, then pretended to be sad about it when it was her decision.

A very long rant in which a woman makes herself out to be the victim because she can't go to her sister's childless wedding, when she's the one who won't leave one of her children with a babysitter

28.According to the caption, this sister of the bride was "told prior to wedding that her dress choice was inappropriate [and] replied she would never speak to her brother again if he went through with the wedding. She was uninvited from wedding, then showed up to wedding in this off-white cocktail dress."

The woman is wearing a cocktail dress clearly meant to resemble a wedding dress

29.This brother of the bride canceled just days before the wedding with this text.

The text says the brother can't attend because he'll have his kids that weekend and they also are watching three dogs

30.This "future mother-in-law" was straight-up racist.

The mother of the groom says they hate weddings and feel that her son having a wedding with a Black woman is him choosing "them" over "us," with them and us in quotes

31.This mother of the bride wanted to prank her new son-in-law by dressing up a man in a wedding dress and having him wait at the altar.

A woman asks social media if anyone has a spare wedding dress she can borrow that will fit a size 12ish man to prank her soon-to-be son-in-law

32.This mother-in-law tried to overshadow the mother of the bride's cake.

The couple asked the bride's mother to make a cake for their wedding because she's a baker, and the groom's mother responded by buying a giant cake to overshadow the homemade one

33.This uninvited father of the bride photoshopped himself into the wedding photos.

The father makes a seemingly heartfelt Facebook post with obviously photoshopped photos, then says "I may not have been invited, but thanks to [name redacted] I made the cut anyway"

34.This father of the bride tried to force his abusive dad's (the bride's grandfather's) attendance.

The bride says her grandfather is not invited, her dad pushes, she insists, and the dad says "he's not the monster you've been told about"

35.This father refused to go to his daughter's wedding because it was at a pagan bookstore.

The father insists his whole family won't come because of the venue, the bride says her uncle and grandmother already said they're coming, and the father calls his daughter an embarrassment

36.And finally, this awful mother of the bride refused to come to her daughter's wedding because she was marrying a woman...then condescendingly proceeded to act like she loved and cared for her daughter.

The daughter asks if the mother intends on being at the ceremony, and the mother responds with a long rant about God's design for marriage between a man and woman

What's the worst thing your in-law or family member did at a wedding? Let us know in the comments below!