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Brides of the world, consider yourself entitled to a bridezilla moment or two. After all, you’re under a lot of stress with budgets to keep track of, vendors to chase down, and your well-intended mother in law breathing down your neck. Your friends and family will probably forgive and forget if you shed a tear over a wilting bouquet or your jigsaw puzzle of a seating chart. An unforgivable bridezilla transgression? Straight up racism. As one Reddit user tells it, she was cut from a friend’s bridal party — for one of the most horrible reasons we can think of.
According to former bridesmaid and Reddit user, throwittothewolves60, she was invited to be a bridesmaid in a friend’s wedding when she and another woman suddenly had their invitations revoked. Under the impression that it was simply because there weren’t enough groomsmen for a balanced wedding party (uneven wedding parties can be done, y’all!), she let it slide — until she learned of the real reason she and her fellow former bridesmaid were nixed.
As reported by Refinery29, the bride didn’t want the two women in her wedding photos… because of their skin color.
“A month after the wedding, one of the bridesmaids was venting to me about how the bride still hadn’t paid for the catering that her boyfriend did and how angry she was about it. During this conversation, she casually lets it slip that the real reason we were removed from the wedding was because I (South Asian) and my friend (Black) had dark skin, and she preferred how the dresses looked on pale skin. I still haven’t told the other removed bridesmaid about this revelation,” wrote throwittothewolves60.
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With 12 years of friendship under their belt and the fact that this bride had in fact been in her wedding when she tied the knot, we can’t imagine how devasting the news must have been to this bridesmaid. And we thought the woman demanding that her bridesmaids dye their hair was bad…
There’s no getting around that this bride’s preference to how the bridesmaid dresses looked on pale skin is horribly discriminatory. This ain’t no bridezilla — this is just a racist…