While weddings are often celebrated alongside your closest friends and family, one bride has claimed that her sister "ambushed" her wedding reception.
The parent was fuming as the bride imposed a strict child-free rule at the wedding - only to discover that other kids were welcomed during the ceremony.
Taking to popular forum site Reddit, the anonymous user was left raging upon the discovery that the rule only applied to her - and no other parents.
Seeking advice, she wrote: "Am I the a**hole for 'ambushing' my sister at her wedding reception, because she told me her wedding was child-free when it actually wasn't?"
Explaining the situation, she said: "My sister Tracy and I aren't close, but we have a good relationship (at least before this all happened). Tracy got married recently, and she told me the wedding was child-free.
"I have a 12-year-old daughter called Ella and asked Tracy if she could come, but she said sorry, she and her partner were sticking to the rules. I managed to arrange for Ella to stay at a friend's house for a couple of days since the wedding was in a different city.
"So I went to the wedding and I saw quite a few older children, including my other siblings' kids. I know this sounds like I should've known from before from my other siblings, but I never thought to ask them 'oh are your kids going'. I did ask my brother at the wedding and he said he was told the child-free limit was only for really young kids, the disruptive ages.
"It was obvious Tracy lied to me about not bringing Ella. We went through the ceremony and towards the end of the reception, I pulled Tracy aside and said I realised she'd completely lied to me and there were plenty of other kids.
"She looked pretty uncomfortable and said it wasn't a big deal, but I replied I deserve an apology, and so does Ella at some point.
"Tracy got mad and said I was ambushing her at her own wedding and it's her and her partner's choice what they do. We ended the conversation there and went off to talk to other people.
"She sent me a text later saying I was being selfish and I'm the one that should be apologising to her and her husband for making a big deal out of this."
She added: "I'll admit I sent a not-so-nice text back about her caring more about aesthetics than people. Now it's sort of blown up within our family."
Since sharing the thread online, the woman's post has raked in over 3,000 comments to date - where people rushed to the comment section to discuss the ordeal.
One person wrote: "I'd hold a lifetime grudge if that was me."
Meanwhile, someone else said: "Well, clearly she targeted your daughter. The question is why? Because your daughter is going to figure it out at some point and realise her aunt specifically did not want her at the wedding."
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