Dear Prudence column today - this bride rocks

My daughter is no longer speaking to me (we were never that close), but this is her big wedding and I want it to be perfect. All of the other bridesmaids will look gorgeous walking down the aisle with my daughter. Is it wrong to have her friend sit out?

A: I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around this letter. I encourage you to reread it and to ask yourself that time-honored question, “Do I sound like a villain in a Reese Witherspoon movie?” You are, presumably, sympathetic to your own situation and are invested in making sure that you come across as reasonable and as caring as possible, and yet you have written a letter indicting yourself at every turn. This girl is “like a daughter” to you, and yet you want to shove her to the side of your other daughter’s wedding just because she walks with a limp. Your daughter’s wedding will be perfect with Katie as a full and honored member of the bridal party. A limp is not a fly in the ointment; it’s a part of Katie’s life. It is not only wrong to have asked your daughter to consider excluding her best friend over this—it is ableist, and cruel, and it speaks to a massive failure of empathy, compassion, and grace on your part. You must and should apologize to your daughter immediately, and I encourage you to profoundly reconsider the orientation of your heart.

Oh wow! I have no other words.

"I encourage you to profoundly reconsider the orientation of you heart." Holy shit, absolutely. So glad that this bride turned out to be a lovely seeming person, in spite of her mother.

That's disgusting. I wouldn't talk to her either after that.

That mom is horrifying.

Holy shit! What a snatch!

Wow can't believe she would say that.

This mother is ridiculous.

And that is the perfect example of an overreaching, Momzilla.....

I am speechless. This is so hurtful.

It's rare that something renders me utterly speechless (besides saying I'm speechless). This is one of those things.

Yea, lemme just pick my jaw up off the floor!

I just read this awhile ago. I'm glad that this daughter has a huge heart despite her mother's clear lack of one.

I love this column in general, but this is one of the best responses I have ever read.

Not only is the mother absolutely horrible, I can't even believe that she thought it would be acceptable to let an advice column, or anyone for that matter, know she was even having these thoughts. Wtf

WTH is wrong with people???

Props to the bride for not taking moms suggestion and not casting her friend out of the wedding!

What the actual fuck?!

The reply is brilliant! Applause, Applause.