Woman Posts Harsh Texts From Her Aunt Requesting To Make Her Wedding Cake, Change Her Dress And Decide Her Seating Arrangements
Preparing for a wedding is a crazy and stressful situation, even when you have unlimited resources. If you want a simple ceremony and a dinner, and not planning on blowing your entire life savings on a single day of your life, that is entirely understandable, and commendable.
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Most people would call that smart thinking - even cheapskates like the aunt in this story. She is not planning on spending a lot of money on her wedding, but the problem is she doesn’t want to give up on anything.
She wants it all, but someone else should pay for it.
Reddit user u/fishbebrave posted this text exchange between her and her aunt on r/ChoosingBeggars.
The OP didn’t want to make the cake, not only because it hard work, but because she literally has no idea about making cakes.
Well, the aunt is not too demanding, it’ll just be “baking the 4 sponges, cutting them to size and covering them in icing and maybe a bit of superficial decorating.”
Oh, is that all? She then starts insulting, saying, “Everyone is pitching in, ur the only one i’m having problems with so far.”
The OP wants to help somehow and asks if there is another way. The aunt then says she could hem a dress and attach a mesh overlay because her tailor was asking too much money for that. If you’re presuming the OP has no skills as a seamstress, you guessed right.
“You mean dress altering?” she asks. “I’m sorry, but I reeeealllly wouldn’t feel good about doing that. Again, I have absolutely no idea how. I think it’s best left to the professionals.”
“Oh come on,” the aunt responds. “You’re being belligerent now.”
“Is there anything i can say that you’ll actually do??” the aunt asks “Everyone else has been rushing to help us. the smaller jobs are things like designing and creating reminders for guests and the final seating plan but as its smaller id prefer both done together.”
“I honestly can’t tell if you’re joking or not lol, ” the OP replies. She offers to stop by and advise her on “reminders” though she’s not really sure what that is. She also proposes to help with set up prior to the wedding.
“This.” Auntie says “This. is why people say you’re lazy and will have problems later on in life.”
“I don’t think anybody says that but I’ll write it on the inside of my wrist for later to keep me grounded, thanks,” the OP replied.
Her aunt then says to her she won’t be getting into college, basically disclosing she is asking a person who is not yet in college to bake her a wedding cake and make her a dress.
Surprise, surprise. She concludes that her young niece will probably end up in hell for not aiding family and that she might revoke her wedding invite.