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A wedding is an important event, and one of the most important rules is that the bride should get what she wants.

What would you do if you went to a wedding where the one rule was that the bride didn’t want any gifts, but one person made sure to break that rule and make a big show of it.

That is what happened in the wedding in this story, and that is just one problem that this person caused to upset the bride.

Read through the full story below and see what you think of what the guest did.

Sister of Groom makes wedding toast all about her

I was a bridesmaid for one of my best friends earlier this year.

Some people are troublemakers.

The groom’s sister (let’s call her Martha) was his Best Person.

Bride and I are very close and she had told me before she feels a little insecure around Groom’s sister because she’s really pretty, high achieving, and constantly gets attention.

Who would complain about not bringing a gift?

Bride and groom specifically asked guests not to bring any physical gifts, even citing anxiety over having too much useless clutter as a reason they didn’t want gifts.

They didn’t ask for cash or anything either, they really just did. Not. Want. Physical gifts.

Whatever her reasons, people should respect her wishes.

I know the bride really well and I know how much anxiety she gets from not knowing what to do with stuff she doesn’t need but doesn’t have the heart to throw away.

But no means no. She shouldn’t even have to tell everyone she has anxiety just to respect that boundary.

Brevity is not her strong suit.

Anyways, when Martha gave her toast, it was literally the same length as everyone else’s toast put together.

There were like 5 other toasts, so this was a long speech. Ok, fine, she loves her brother and made a bunch of jokes. Whatever.

Honestly, that is kind of sweet.

But then she literally says in her speech “I know you guys asked for no gifts, but then I wondered how I could make myself look better than everyone else here [cue audience laughing]. So I did buy you something”

And she takes out a clock. “This clock was stopped at the exact moment you two first kissed after getting married [cue “awwh”s from the audience]. You can throw it away if it gives you too much anxiety.”

They can overlook this.

Ugh Ok like I guess I can see how the gesture is sweet if it were anyone else.

But this girl is clearly so used to being the center of attention she literally put that in her speech. Then she did the one thing the bride had specifically requested people not to do.

The bride is making things easy for everyone.

Btw this bride was chill about everything. She didn’t even care if people wanted to wear white or show up with an extra person, and never asked anyone in the wedding party for anything except receipts to reimburse any expenses. We were all allowed to choose any outfit/shoes/whatever and she was happy to pay for it if we got something new.

They had zero decorations/flowers because they didn’t want to deal with random junk they’d have to throw away.

She couldn’t have been more easy going.

They literally got their cake from Publix on the day of (just a sheet cake, not preordered).

Even though she only wanted the bridal party in the bridal suite, she allowed even the Groom’s family to come in.

All she asked for was zero physical gifts because truly she has severe anxiety about clutter, which Martha was completely aware of.

As long as the bride wasn’t to upset, it shouldn’t ruin the day.

Bride was struggling to keep smiling during this speech and not roll her eyes when this happened.

And of course, she was gracious and hugged Martha afterwards, but jeez can this girl not go without being the center of attention for one day???

Maybe this is a little tacky, but not the end of the world.

Then to top it off, when their professional wedding photos came out, bride and groom shared them with the wedding party.

Martha had the audacity to share the professional wedding photos on her personal social media before bride even had a chance to do so.

She really shouldn’t have done that.

Like, a day after the photos were shared with the party, this girl posts the professional photos, not just ones with herself (actually I don’t think any of the pictures were of herself), which would have been understandable.

But literally the pictures of the highlight moments (first kiss, first dance, cutting the cake).

Why not ask her to take her post down?

What the actual heck. Bride came crying to me about this because she was so upset.

She wanted to wait until the photographer finished editing some specific photos before sharing them for the first time.

Why did they wait two days?

The groom talked to his sister to get her to take them down, which she did. But they had been up for two days at that point and had like 800 likes, with very little clarifying whose wedding it actually was.

So, a bunch of people actually commented congratulating HER over the wedding. Bride now feels she had her opportunity to share those photos taken away.

The bride should not let this ruin her event.

It’s been like 6 months and she still hasn’t posted them because she feels it would be less magical if people see the same photos for the second time.

I really could have passed off the gift thing as just her trying to make a cute gesture, but posting those photos really sealed it as her just being attention seeking and inconsiderate.

Thankfully they live on opposite sides of the country.

While the sister shouldn’t have done this type of stuff, the bride shouldn’t let it ruin her big event.

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say about this story.

The bride does seem to be overreacting.

Yeah, just throw it away if you want.

I agree with this commenter.

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This person thinks the bride needs to get over it.

Not buying a gift should be easy.

The sister is definitely annoying, but you can’t let her ruin the whole event. The bride needs to get over it and make the best of things.

Nothing that she was doing was big enough to ruin the whole day.