My mother-in-law got the same bridal gown as me for my wedding – I had the best revenge & still make her pay 20 years on
MOST people get to know what their in-laws are like before the wedding – and one woman knew her husband's manipulative mother's ways too well.
In a Reddit post, the bride recounts the outrageous act her mother-in-law planned before her wedding day and how she got even – and still twists the knife 20 years later.
The relationship you have with your partner's family is not something to take lightly, especially if you're planning on being with them for the rest of your life.
One woman's unconventional methods of dealing with her mother-in-law on her wedding day transpired after years of past resentment and disapproval.
On Reddit, the former bride detailed the chilling story of how her husband's mother purchased the exact same bridal gown she had bought for her big day.
"I was looking at my wedding photos today and thought this community would appreciate my success," she begins the revenge tale.
The woman says that her mother-in-law disliked her son's relationship from the very beginning.
"I moved in with her son and had a baby without getting married and she truly believed I was the devil incarnate sent to draw her baby boy into the depths of hell," she says.
"There followed years of petty microaggressions, a constant barrage of manipulation and guilt-tripping."
When the couple finally decided to tie the knot, this didn't please the mother-in-law in the slightest.
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Following their engagement announcement, the mother-in-law sent a priest to her son's door knowing that they weren't planning on having the wedding in a church.
"He had been sent by MIL to schedule a date for our wedding and book us in for premarital counseling," she explains.
After she refused the priest's services, he and the woman formed an "unlikely friendship" that would come back to haunt her mother-in-law.
She admits: "I was fairly annoyed by this stunt. We had to address this immediately or it would escalate."
"It went about as well as you'd expect."
Amid hours of screaming and crying, the woman threatened to expose the actions and words of her mother-in-law and her husband's three sisters, which ultimately quieted them.
Fast-forward to wedding dress shopping, and the woman kindly invited her in-laws to the event and they surprisingly behaved themselves while she decided on her gown.
She chose a $300 dress.
"The next day, I got a call from the shop. MIL and the SILs had ordered themselves THE EXACT SAME DRESS AS ME," she exclaims.
Her husband didn't believe her when she told him, but luckily, she hatched a plan to prove it.
The woman sent out invitations encouraging guests to wear white dresses or their old wedding gowns on her special day.
However, she sent separate invitations out to her in-laws requesting they don't wear white – knowing they would anyway.
She ordered a new purple wedding gown for her, her mom, and her brother's wife.
The in-laws showed up to the wedding in the same dress the woman had initially bought with them.
"My hubby, who up to that point really didn't think they would do something so vile, turned to stone that day," she says.
"Remember the priest? Well, he wasn't allowed to officiate outside a church as a priest, so he was our MC. This was the icing on the cake, because I saw MILs face light up when she saw him."
In a fit of rage, the mother-in-law came face-to-face with her son's new wife at the door.
"She went to speak, but my hubby stepped forward ... and he shushed her! Right in front of everyone! It was glorious," the woman recounts.
For the rest of the night and the next month, her in-laws were silent.
Now, 20 years later, their relationship is cordial, except for the occasional mockery the woman displays by wearing her purple wedding gown in front of her mother-in-law.
"Shout out to the bridal shop for informing OP of what the MIL and SILs were planning. Real life-savers," one reader commented.
A positive reader said: "You not just made your revenge, you also made all those women's day by letting them wear their wedding dresses again. Love it!"
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Another individual understood the woman's revenge tactic.
"I love the part that because MIL and SIL's are wearing white, they're seen just normal party guests and no one can pick them out as part of the groom's party when they look at the pictures," they wrote.