Her Mom Has Refused To Be In Any Photos For The Last 30 Years And Freaked Out After Getting Captured In Pictures At Her Wedding
Ever since this woman can remember, her mom has been extremely against getting captured in any photos. In fact, the last picture that her mom was actually willing to take is from the nineties, when she was just a baby.
And to her, the weirdest part about this whole thing is the fact that her mom is actually a very beautiful woman.
“But my mom gets so self-conscious about being in photos,” she said.
“There have been huge arguments about this from various family members, but my mom’s never swayed.”
That’s why there are basically no family photos of holidays like Christmas or celebrations like birthdays– simply because her mom refuses to be in the same room as a camera in case someone happens to snap a picture of her.
However, when she got engaged and began planning her wedding, she obviously wanted to have photographers there. So, her mom promised to “be cool” on her big day.
Still, her mom decided to buy an absolutely massive hat that covered half of her face normally and the entirety of her face when her mom looked down. To her, it was clear that this hat was her mom’s own kind of “safety net.”
Regardless, on her wedding day, her photographers caught on and were able to capture just a few photos of her mom’s full face.
“These are probably the only photos I have of my mom in the last 30 years, and she looks stunning in all of them,” she explained.
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Following her big day, her photographers also sent her a link to a digital wedding photo album. At that point, she warned her mom about the fact that she was in some of the pictures. Even so, her mom did not want to look at the album and actually didn’t want her to share the link with anyone else.
“And I tried to show my mom a few shots where she’s in them, but you can’t really see her face to show her how nice she looked, but it made things worse,” she recalled.
So, her husband wound up sending the photo link to his family members anyway– without her mom knowing. She, too, sent the link to her bridesmaids and provided her family with just some “highlight” pictures to satisfy her mom’s wishes.
Unfortunately, that workaround still wasn’t enough for her mom because, apparently, her mom has been sobbing nonstop ever since.
According to her brothers, her mom is devastated even just knowing that pictures of her exist. And now, her mom actually wants her to get the pictures deleted.
“My mom’s been sitting crying all day and has been miserable about this since I told her I’d gotten the photos,” she revealed.
While she doesn’t want her mom’s feelings to be hurt, though, she really doesn’t think her mom’s reaction is warranted.
“I don’t want my mom to be sad, but it feels like she’s being totally unreasonable and honestly dramatic,” she vented.
That’s why she really doesn’t want to delete the pictures of her mom on her big day. However, she’s not sure if refusing to do that would actually just make her a jerk or not.
Have you ever felt super insecure about your photo getting taken? Should she respect her mom’s wishes, or does she have a right to want pictures of her mom from her wedding day? What would you do in this difficult situation?
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