After Her Niece Wore A White Sundress To Her Nephew’s Wedding, Her Nephew Bought All The Other Kids Christmas Presents Except The Little Girl To Punish Her
A couple of months ago, this woman’s nephew got married. The ceremony allowed guests to dress in a casual dress code, and the wedding was held in a park.
All the guests sat on folding chairs, and they were served cheeseburgers during the dinner. Wedding guests chose to wear various attire, from jeans paired with a nice shirt to more formal dresses and suits.
She is the guardian of her sister’s five children. Her sister’s daughters are 10, 5, and 3, and her sister’s sons are 8 and 6.
Before the wedding, she took her sister’s children shopping for appropriate outfits. She bought her two nephews jeans and dressy shirts, and her three nieces all chose dresses.
“My youngest niece got a unicorn dress and wore fairy wings, my 5-year-old niece got a dress with princesses and wanted to wear a big pink tiara, and my 10-year-old niece picked out a simple white dress with pink and yellow flowers,” she said.
Her assumption was that her nephew or his now-wife, who was pregnant before the wedding, wouldn’t be thrilled about one of her nieces wearing fairy wings or a tiara to their wedding.
However, they didn’t take issue with those. Instead, her sister-in-law was furious that her oldest niece wore a white dress.
“She wasn’t in a puffy, white ballgown. It was a little sundress with flowers. They told me to change her clothes. I had a t-shirt and shorts in the car, but she loved that dress, and there was nothing wrong with it,” she explained.
Obviously, she was aware of the rule that adults should not wear white to weddings, but she wasn’t aware that this rule was supposed to include children as well.
Alex Vog – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual child
In her view, since her niece’s white dress had a colorful pattern on it, she didn’t see why the dress would be inappropriate.
Since the wedding, her nephew and his wife haven’t been keeping in touch as often as they used to, but she and her sister’s children got together with them for Christmas.
Her nephew and his wife gave gifts to all of her nieces and nephews but excluded her oldest niece (the one who wore the white dress).
Her oldest niece is super quiet, so she didn’t say anything, but she could tell that her niece was crushed.
Afterward, she asked her nephew and his wife why they did this. In response, they told her they only wanted to buy gifts for the children who “behaved appropriately” at their wedding ceremony.
She pointed out that her niece is a 10-year-old child who simply wanted to wear a beautiful dress. Then, she pointed out that the dress she wore looked nothing like a wedding dress and didn’t even look like a flower dress, either.
“The outfits weren’t costumes. One was hot pink with a rainbow tutu, and one was light pink with some princesses on it. The costume pieces could’ve been easily removed and stored in the stroller. That’s what they felt good in,'” she shared.
Eventually, she called her nephew, and his wife jerks for “punishing” her niece. But they have doubled down on their view that she and her niece are in the wrong. They don’t understand why she allowed her niece to wear white to the ceremony.
What would you have done if you were in her shoes?
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