We all want our wedding to be as perfect as possible, but for most of us, that just means tying the knot with the person you love without any major disasters or family drama getting in the way.
But one bride has said her perfect wedding will be ruined unless she and her fiancé wait until he's had his braces taken off - because otherwise, he'll ruin the photos.
The woman explained her 25-year-old partner recently got braces after his dentist told him they wouldn't be able to replace a recently extracted tooth until his crooked ones were corrected.
And although the bride claimed she's happy her husband-to-be is "finally fixing" his teeth, she's also decided she wants to postpone the wedding, because she can't imagine the idea of marrying someone with braces.
In a post on Reddit, she said: "My fiance has braces. He refused to get them when he was a child because he feared people would make fun of him, but he finally accepted to get them after the dentists told him clearly that it wouldn't be recommended to replace his extracted teeth until he fixes his crooked ones.
"The issue is that our wedding was supposed to be coming up soon, but now I plan to postpone till my fiancé gets rid of his braces. I have nothing against him wearing braces. I even encouraged him to get them to finally fix his bad teeth, but did you ever hear of a groom wearing braces in his wedding photos? I don't think so."
The bride assumed her partner would "be understanding" of her decision, but she was shocked to discover he was actually furious - as he believed she was "ashamed" of being with him because of his braces.
In response, the woman said she just wanted to have "aesthetically pleasing" wedding photos, which left her boyfriend so seething he threatened to call the wedding off altogether.
She added: "I thought my fiancé would be understanding, but instead, he got mad at me and accused me of being ashamed of him. That's obviously not true, I just want our wedding photos to be as aesthetically pleasing as possible and that's why I want to postpone our wedding until his braces come off.
"I also told him he could've avoided all this if he got invisible braces, but he said these were much more expensive and wanted to save money specifically for our wedding and honeymoon and didn't think his fiancée would be so shallow to care about it.
"He ended up saying that if I postpone the wedding now I might as well just call it off altogether, which I think is incredibly unfair of him to do, but maybe I shouldn't have insisted on this issue either."
Commenters on the post were firmly on the man's side, with many saying he should be calling off the wedding until the woman "matures", as it seemed she favoured having perfect wedding photos over a happy marriage.
One person said: "He should postpone the wedding until you mature."
While another added: "You are prioritising your wedding photos over everything else. Over your fiancé's feelings, over your marriage, over the wedding itself. If the photos are the most important thing to you, I hope your fiancé reconsiders what he's getting into."
And a third wrote: "So he didn't get braces when he was younger because he was afraid of what people would say. And now you, his fiancée, are confirming his fears. Wow."
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