A man has asked the internet for advice after cropping his sister-in-law out of his wedding photos after she complained about them.
The 28-year-old groom recently got married to his 27-year-old bride.
The couple’s wedding was set at a riverside farm with the pair organising outdoor photos, which included the 30-year-old sister-in-law, who was one of the bridesmaids.
The groom explains that his wife and her sister “have never been very close” and she was “at the end of the line of bridesmaids” when the selection process took place.
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Throughout the shoot, the sister-in-law reportedly complained, including saying that her dress was “absorbing heat”, as reported by What’s The Jam.
The photographer sent over the images three weeks later.
The happy couple shared the album with their guests and announced that they intended to upload the snaps on social media.
But this didn’t go down well with the bride’s sister.
“Most people thanked us for the photos but my SIL [sister-in-law] called my wife and was very angry, yelling that she ‘looked like a fat pig’ in every photo she was in and demanded that we not use any of the photos with her in them,” said the groom.
“For context, SIL is bigger than my wife but not to an extreme extent.
“She doesn’t look unhealthy and I’ve never heard her have body issues before but I admittedly wouldn’t know much about it.
“In the wedding photos, she really doesn’t look any different from her normal self.
“My wife tried to reason with her, saying she looks just as pretty as everyone else but SIL did not want to hear it.
“She reiterated that if we used any photo of her on social media that she would never speak to us again and would ‘put us on blast’, whatever that means.
“My wife was really hurt by her sister’s outburst and I was very bothered that she thought she could tell us what to do with our special moment.”
Eager to find a workable solution, the groom decides to simply crop this particular bridesmaid out of the photos.
But after sharing the amended images on social media, he was once again blasted by the sister-in-law.
“I thought it would be fine and it was easy since she was at the edge anyway,” he said.
“After posting, she then called me even angrier than before and accused me of trying to ‘erase her from the memory of the wedding’.
“I told her I only did it to accommodate her wishes while also getting to use our own wedding photos.
“SIL hasn’t talked to us in a week, my wife’s parents are mad at us for upsetting SIL.
“While my wife is on my side, she thinks I could have been more mature about it.
“I don’t think I did anything wrong and accommodated her already unreasonable request.”
“So, am I the a**hole?”
Reddit users have come out in defence of the groom, saying he did nothing wrong.
Others have called his pragmatic solution “genius”.
“It sounds like a great outcome. Just consider the SIL’s silence as an extra wedding gift. In all honesty, it sounds like she was angry her sister was the center of attention. Sounds like she was doing whatever she could to sabotage things,” said one person.
“NTA [not the a**hoe], she sounds jealous,” said someone else.
Someone else added: “Yes this is it exactly. She is jealous and wants to dull her sisters spot light moment. What better way to do it then say can’t post pictures I’m in. You found a brilliant way to troubleshoot that but that wasn’t her real issue so now she is even more angry because her real motive was to stop her sister from having attention but what kind of monster says that out loud. NTA [not the a**hole].”
Another person said: “I think you were already damned, no matter which pictures you posted, SIL cropped out or not. I’d wager your SIL says she ‘HATES DRAMA’.”
Someone else agreed, saying: “That’s ridiculous. You’re NTA [not the a**hole]. She said she didn’t want the photos of her shared. So you took her out. Kind of genius tbh.”
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