A bride’s mother purchased a wedding dress for her without consulting her beforehand.
It’s common for a bride to bring her mother with her when she goes wedding dress shopping. But that’s not what happened for one bride, who explained in a post on Reddit’s “Wedding” forum that her mother went behind her back and bought her a dress that she has never tried on or even seen before.
“Got a text this morning from my mum saying she’d found ‘the perfect dress’ for me on eBay and won the bid,” she wrote. “It’s ex-sample so apparently a bargain, but it was still very expensive. Far more than I would’ve spent myself.”
The poster added that she hasn’t ever visited a bridal shop or had a single conversation with her mother about wedding dresses.
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“We haven’t gone dress shopping. We haven’t ever discussed the styles I like or what I have …