Her Mom Gave Her Wedding Dress To Her Cousin And Allowed Her To Cut It Up, Even Though She Wanted To Be Able To Walk Down The Aisle In The Dress One Day

When this woman was 16, her mom asked her if she wanted to wear her wedding dress when she got married someday, and she agreed because she thought the dress was gorgeous.
“My mom had a beautiful custom wedding dress made for her when she got married in the 90s. Her sister, my aunt, asked to borrow it to wear for her own wedding years later, and my mom agreed. The dress was later returned to my mom,” she explained.
Several years later, her cousin Jia got engaged.
“Jia asked my mom to cut pieces of the dress to add to her own. Since my mom had already promised it to me, she asked me first if I was okay with it. I said I wasn’t since I still wanted to wear it for my own wedding. My mom said okay, and I thought that was that,” she said.
But today, she learned that there were further developments with the wedding dress situation.
A male cousin of hers recently got engaged, and she and her mom were discussing her cousin’s fiancée going dress shopping.
During the conversation, she said that she was going to miss out on wedding dress shopping since she was going to wear her mom’s wedding dress.
This was when her mom let it slip that she’d actually given Jia pieces of her wedding dress.
“My mom had forgotten to let me know. I was upset. First, she tried to tell me she thought I’d okayed it until I reminded her of the actual conversation. She then said that she thought I wouldn’t care that much and that I’d understand Jia wanted to have a part of her mom’s dress (remember, my aunt wore it, too),” she shared.

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After that, her mom reminded her that she was not engaged yet (she has been in a relationship for seven years), and then added that she assumed her taste in dresses would have changed from when she was 16-years-old.
Her mom also said that she could use the leftover pieces of the dress that Jia had decided not to use.
Apparently, Jia knew that she’d wanted to wear the wedding dress someday because they’d had a discussion about it in the past.
And even though Jia hadn’t asked her directly if she could cut up the dress, she didn’t know if Jia had been aware that she’d told her mom she didn’t want the dress cut up.
Despite that, she still felt deeply hurt because the dress was special and meaningful, and she wanted to wear the dress just as her mom had worn it.
She understands that since Jia’s mom had borrowed the dress for her own wedding, Jia would also want to wear it, and she would have been perfectly fine if Jia had borrowed the dress but kept it intact.
Also, even though she knows that her mom can do what she wants with her own wedding dress, she’s sad that her mom is going back on the promise she made to her years ago and didn’t tell her that she’d let Jia cut up the dress until after the fact.
How would you feel if you were in her shoes?
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