At Her Best Friend’s Wedding, She Refused To Switch Necklaces With Her, And Now Her Best Friend Will Not Speak To Her
This thirty-one-year-old woman had known her friend, Mary, for over a decade. They met in high school and remained pretty close over the years.
So, when Mary got engaged, she was obviously asked to be in Mary’s bridal party– even though all of the other bridesmaids knew Mary from college.
“I had not met them until Mary’s bachelorette party several months ago. I also was not familiar with anyone at this wedding outside of Mary’s immediate family,” she revealed.
This was not a problem for her, though, and she just wanted to support Mary on her big day. Plus, she was supposed to attend the wedding with her fiancé, so it was not like she would have known absolutely no one at the event.
Well, come the week of the wedding, her fiancé, unfortunately, contacted COVID-19 five days before the ceremony and decided to stay home in order to protect the other guests.
At the time, though, she did not live with her fiancé– so she was not exposed. She also took a test to be safe, and it came back negative.
In turn, she decided to still attend Mary’s wedding anyway and just take a piece of her fiancé with her.
For context, her and her fiancé’s fifth first date anniversary was two months before Mary’s wedding date. And for that special occasion, she was gifted a gorgeous necklace apparently meant to be worn when Mary tied the knot.
“My fiancé got me a beautiful opal necklace on a gold chain specifically to wear to the wedding because it complimented my bridesmaid dress,” she recalled.
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Anyway, leading up to the wedding, she reached out to Mary in their bridal party group chat to ask if she was allowed to wear her own jewelry. Mary said it was no problem, so she was ecstatic and reserved the necklace for the event.
But, once she arrived at Mary’s wedding wearing it, everything went downhill– because as soon as the other bridesmaids and Mary greeted her outside the chapel, they were in love with the necklace.
In fact, Mary apparently loved the necklace so much that she was actually immediately asked to switch with Mary.
Then, some other bridesmaids started chiming in and pressuring her– saying that the necklace could be Mary’s “something borrowed” item.
Honestly, though, she was pretty uncomfortable with the whole thing and tried to politely tell Mary that her fiancé had gotten her that necklace specifically to wear during the wedding.
Plus, since her fiancé could not be there, she really wanted to keep it on.
However, the group apparently would not stop pushing. They even claimed that she was not being accommodating to Mary and that it was going to be Mary’s wedding photos that suffered.
She held her ground, though, and firmly told Mary no one more time. But then, Mary asked if she could just take the necklace off anyway because, apparently, her necklace looked nicer than the one Mary had on, and Mary did not want to be outshined.
“But again, I told her I would rather not. I wanted to share the wedding photos of myself in the necklace with my fiancé,” she said.
If you could not have guessed it, though, her refusal was not taken lightly. For the rest of the wedding, all of the bridesmaids and Mary actually gave her the cold shoulder and even shot her dirty looks.
Plus, after the first dance ended, Mary’s sister even went up to her, called her rude, and claimed that she had seriously upset Mary on her wedding day.
So now, she has not been able to stop thinking about what happened. She really did not think it was fair of Mary to expect her to give up the necklace immediately before the ceremony without any notice.
Still, though, Mary has not answered any of her text messages since the wedding, and the bridesmaids’ comments about how rude she acted have started to get to her.
In turn, she has been left wondering whether or not refusing to give up her necklace at Mary’s wedding makes her a total jerk.
If your friend asked you to switch jewelry on their wedding day, would you oblige? Do you believe that she had a right to turn Mary down or not? How would you fix this situation?
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