A 28-year-old woman has a 71-year-old grandma who got married last weekend. Her grandma was dating her now-husband for several years, and this is wedding number 5 for grandma.
For her grandma’s 4th wedding, which is the one prior to the last wedding, she was back in high school.
She picked out a strapless, cranberry-colored dress to wear to her grandma’s wedding, and her grandma was the one who bought this dress for her.
The dress was perfect, and it matched her grandma’s request for cocktail attire.
“I didn’t try to do this, but in hindsight, I wore makeup that was too much for a wedding,” she explained.
“I just wore what I would normally do–toned down smokey eye, eyeliner, and a nude lip. One of the granddaughters of the husband she was marrying then pulled me aside and told me I did too much, and that I should wipe the makeup off before photos.”
She was so humiliated, and this was the first wedding she had attended since she was 6-years-old.
She was ashamed as she took off all of her makeup and did it over again to be more natural.
Anyway, fast forward to this recent wedding her grandma had, and grandma wanted her not to forget to wear specific makeup.
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“For this wedding, my grandma reminded me that I should do a very toned-down look and not upstage her at this wedding,” she explained.
“These days, I don’t wear nearly as much makeup as I used to, so I went with my daily makeup routine–BB cream and a light concealer, a nude cream blush, some light mascara (that was dark brown instead of black), and a sheer/glossy pinky-nude lipstick.”
“I paired this with a navy blue dress that I tried my best to match my grandma’s request that the dress code is “in-between casual and cocktail).”
At her grandma’s wedding, her grandma said nothing about how she was dressed or how she did her makeup, so she figured she was in the clear when it came to keeping grandma the center of attention.
Well, grandma just got her wedding photos back today, and she was shocked when her grandma pointed out that she was the center of attention in all of them.
Her grandma also said she was “tacky” for taking away from her on her special day. Meanwhile, she hadn’t tried to outshine her grandma at all, and she even went to great lengths to make sure her makeup and clothing were “toned-down” yet tasteful.
Her grandma was upset and made it clear that she wishes she had shown up in a “conservative pantsuit” with zero makeup.
Her grandma told her all of this over the phone, while her other grandma was standing right there next to her.
Her other grandma laced into bride grandma and stood up for her. Her other grandma is on her side and thinks that her bride grandma is being ridiculous.
Following her other grandma taking up the fight for her, her bride grandma said she no longer wants to speak to her until she decides to “reflect on her selfish actions.”
“I feel really bad, I didn’t mean to wreck a special day for her, and in hindsight, maybe I should have approved my dress and makeup with her before the wedding,” she concluded.
Do you think she should have gotten pre-approval from grandma before the big day?
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