'Brat' bride demands second wedding dress for FREE after last-minute pregnancy reveal – The Mirror
A bride has been branded a ‘brat’ after she demanded a second wedding dress be made for her for free – because she failed to tell the seamstress she was pregnant
If you buy a wedding dress from a bridal shop, then more often than not it'll be tailored to your measurements to make sure that it fits you perfectly on your big day. So it's important that whoever is designing your dress knows about any changes your body might go through before your big day, as it could alter the way the gown fits.
And one bride is learning that lesson the hard way after her cousin spent months designing and tailoring a wedding dress for her – before the bride decided to drop the bombshell that she'll actually be 20 weeks pregnant at her ceremony.
The woman's cousin, who owns a bridal shop, was never told about the pregnancy during any of the dress fittings so must now work from scratch to create a new dress that the bride will be able to wear over her baby bump.
While making a new dress isn't a huge problem for the seamstress, her cousin is also refusing to pay for the labour involved in making the second gown and will only pay for the materials – leaving her overworked and out of pocket.
In a post on Reddit, the bridal shop owner wrote: "I own a bridal shop. My cousin Lucy is getting married in two months and I designed and tailored her wedding dress as a gift. She paid me for the materials. It will take another week to finish the dress, and I constantly update Lucy on the status of her dress and asked if she is happy at every stage and if she had any more ideas. She would make the odd comment, but never anything major. The dress in total took me just over four months.
"Last weekend, she and her fiancé hosted a family dinner, and at the end, Lucy announced she was pregnant. At the dinner, I congratulated her and her fiancé. She came to my store with my aunt that week for her final fitting. I again mentioned the pregnancy and asked how far along she was. She was 12 weeks along and told me how hard to keep the pregnancy a secret. I told her the dress wouldn't fit her at 20ish weeks during the wedding and she said she knew, and asked me to retailor the dress to fit her new proportions as she would show heavily at the wedding.
"I told her I can't do that due to the intricate beading that I will have to carefully remove and reattach. I told her she might as well get a new dress as it would be easier for me to start from scratch and essentially I was just making her a second wedding dress.
"She agreed and then I gave her the invoice for a new dress. I gave her a breakdown and charged her for materials, tailoring, labour and overtime (still with a discount). I will have to work outside my hours to make her the new dress on time as I have a busy schedule with existing clients that pay full price.
"I told her if she had told me about her pregnancy from the second she had found out, I might've been able to adjust the dress then, but it is complete now. She said her fiancé wanted to keep it private, which I understand, but I wouldn't have told anyone, and I only needed to know for the dress purposes."
The bride was left furious when she realised she'd have to pay for the replacement dress, and her mum even accused the shop owner of being "cruel" by not giving her the dress for free.
She added: "She called me the a**hole for not understanding where she is coming from and said she will only pay for materials. I refused to back down and told her that this close to the wedding she will struggle to finalise a new dress she likes and get it tailored in time. I also refused to give her the dress sketch, as it was my design and I didn't want her to replicate my work elsewhere. She left angry with her mom who later called me up to say Lucy is upset about not having a dress this close to the wedding and that I am being cruel because this stress is not good for the baby."
Commenters on the post were firmly on the shop owner's side, with many of them branding her cousin a "brat".
One person posted: "Lucy is an entitled brat. Hold your lane and don't give in," While another added: "She knew she was pregnant and didn't tell you. You are under no obligation to foot the bill. Sucks that it will cost her money, but actions have consequences."
And a third stated: "You're running a business, not a charity. It's plenty kind to give her a discount and prioritise her dress including outside work hours to have it ready in time. But she needs to compensate you for the work."
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