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Rachel Kay
Super November 2014

So I think I fired a bridesmaid this morning...*Update in Comments*

Rachel Kay, on October 7, 2014 at 8:58 AM

Posted in Etiquette and Advice 59

My step sister was (is?) one of my bridesmaids. I posted on here before that she will be nearly 8 months pregnant with twins at the time of my wedding. Which she intended on driving down to FL from MN. I've repeatedly asked her to make sure her insurance will be accepted, she establishes a...

My step sister was (is?) one of my bridesmaids. I posted on here before that she will be nearly 8 months pregnant with twins at the time of my wedding. Which she intended on driving down to FL from MN. I've repeatedly asked her to make sure her insurance will be accepted, she establishes a relationship with a hospital down here, that her doctor is okay with it etc. she has never really answered any of these questions. Also, she wore her bridesmaid dress to someone else's bachelorette party a month ago.

Last night she informs me that she is now going to bring a friend with her (who I have never heard of) and her friend is going to bring her 6 month old. She also asked if the 6 month old would count as a person, and she wondered if he would need a chair. I told her of course he would count as a person, and if he wasn't in a chair would he sit on the floor?

She told me I was being rude. I admit, I was a tad snarky, but come on...really?

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59 Comments

  • Rachel Kay
    Super November 2014
    Rachel Kay ·
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    @jk you are correct!

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  • GoneAndMarried
    Master August 2015
    GoneAndMarried ·
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    Omg! That's completey crazy!!! Um she deserved the boot, who the heck gets their step-sister jailed over a TV!!!

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  • Rachel Kay
    Super November 2014
    Rachel Kay ·
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    Well actually my step sister got my real sister jailed

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  • Rachel Kay
    Super November 2014
    Rachel Kay ·
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    UPDATE:

    So I guess telling her it was inappropriate to invite some one I don't know, and not healthy to travel over a day by car to get to my wedding while being 8 months pregnant, while in a pretty nasty battle with my mother, and her father, and sending my sister to jail. She interpreted that as "I should invite someone she DOES know, and still come"

    Turns out she ranted at her mother, and her mom has decided that she will drive her down now.

    I guess I need to lay down the law today!

    Seriously, I've had enough of this

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  • JaKLyn
    Master November 2015
    JaKLyn ·
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    I can't believe your mom isn't telling her it's a bad idea for her to come, especially if the Dr. has already said not to.

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  • Jess
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    Jess ·
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    WHAT??? Oh hell no. Just no.

    She sounds like a special kind of crazy.

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  • Ashley P.
    Super October 2014
    Ashley P. ·
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    Oh, man! D: I agree with Jess. There ain't no explanation for that crazy.

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  • Mrs. A & J
    Master December 2014
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    I think this thread needs a sticky so we can keep up! Lol. Keep us posted! What a crazy bunch

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  • Shelby H.
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    @Rachel Kay: Yeah. Don't leave any room for misinterpretation. Tell her she's not coming.

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  • R
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    Jeez and I thought I had bridal party worries. Just the fact that she is inclined to start trouble or drama is enough for me not to want her there. So so sorry you have to deal with this!! Stand your ground and move on. The people who are happy for you will be happy. The others who have their opinions will get over it and hopefully come to the conclusion in the end you did the right thing.

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  • SnappyLove2015
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    Wow...just wow! Looks like you will need to paint her an extremely CLEAR picture. LOL. How did she not get it the first time.

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  • Rachel Kay
    Super November 2014
    Rachel Kay ·
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    Awww yessss crazy folks!

    Thanks everyone. I'm going to call her today! Will keep you updated!

    (ps. I know there are a few people involved in this story, so let me clarify:

    pregnant (unstable) bridesmaid = step sister

    new "driver" = step sister's mother (not my mom, my step fathers ex wife)

    person going to jail because of step sister = my full blooded sister

    Hope that clears it up folks!)

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  • kristenann
    Master October 2014
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    Holy moly. That is terrible. DO NOT FEEL BAD! Seriously. I would have done the exact same thing. She shouldn't be putting you into that situation. As far as her inviting someone else... oy oy oy. I just don't think she gets it or really doesn't care to get it. Good luck!

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  • KR
    Super September 2014
    KR ·
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    This woman. Jeez. Good luck!!!!! Smiley smile

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  • T.
    Master November 2013
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    Holy cow Rachel! Good luck! Do you know exactly how you're going to handle it from this point?

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  • Rachel Kay
    Super November 2014
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    Welp. If she manages to smuggle herself and random people to Florida, my thought is this. She said she never got an invitation (so she would have to address or map), and I know she doesn't know the wedding website address (since I had to send the link for the bridesmaid dresses...like 12 times, in three different ways, and she still managed to lose them). So even if she does force her way to my wedding, she won't know where it is.

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  • StitchingBride
    Master October 2014
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    Your wedding is the day after mine so maybe we'll be posting pictures on the same day-

    but if I had to make a bet, I wouldn't be surprised if she does manage to track it all down and shows up in a bridesmaid dress.

    edit:

    btw- who knows that she is no longer invited to the wedding? do you have any backup to try and keep her home? pregnancy can make you do some weird things and from what I've seen, multiple pregnancies and really turn you inside out! this is a woman that obviously isn't thinking too logically at the moment.

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  • Rachel Kay
    Super November 2014
    Rachel Kay ·
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    Well as of 10 minutes ago she told me "it is my day, and she will do as I ask and stay home, and she is looking forward to pictures"

    I'm not going to push the issue any more. She didn't apologize for her behavior, and probably doesn't think she did anything wrong since she said she was going to "keep or opinions to herself"

    We shall see!

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  • H
    Beginner November 2014
    Heather ·
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    I feel for you in this. I had so many family problems (my mother was involved in a shooting two weeks before my wedding, and my grandmother chose the same date as me to get married..) and I ended up sayin f*ck it to the whole thing and doing a destination wedding to avoid them all. Before all that though, I had a bridesmaid who, although not my sister, was a friend from like...1st grade. So practically a sister at this point. She called me a week before we were supposed to go pick out bridesmaid dresses and asked if I could change the date of my wedding because she had concert tickets that weekend and she wanted to go to the concert instead....really? I haven't spoken to her since, because she never apologized or even recognized that she was being a terrible friend, and said I was being overdramatic and she didn't want to deal with me. In the end, you do whats best for you, and don't let anyone take that from you. My wedding didn't turn out the way I dreamed it would, but in the end, I think I saved myself a lot of mess and heartache.

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