My sister got engaged 18 months ago & asked me to be one of her bridesmaids. I agreed & we started choosing dresses & accessories & planning showers & hens parties. The wedding is to be held on Decmeber 19th of this year)...
Anyway, two weeks ago I was out to lunch with the girls for our annual pre-Christmas get-together & I caught her fiance in a compromising position with another woman (turned out to be his receptionist, how cliched!)...they were having lunch, complete with expensive champagne & he was feeding her his dessert & she was rubbing his leg with her bare foot & when he got up to leave they kissed passionately. I chose to observe (rather than confront) & managed to capture the goodbye kiss on my mobile phone as evidence.
It took me a day & a half to work up the courage to show my sister but I thought that she should know just what sort of man she was planning on marrying. Needless to say, this was a big mistake as she screamed at me & ordered me out of their house. I then get an email from her stating that I am no longer her bridesmaid & I need to return my dress (& accessories) so she can have it altered to fit one of her friends who has agreed to take my place. She also said that I must have taken their meeting out of context & I did it because I am jealous that her fiance makes a LOT of money (he buys cheap crap from poor villagers in 3rd world countries, imports it into Australia & sells it to rich people who don't mind exploiting poeple) & my husband is just a dumb grease-monkey (he is a heavy vehicle & transport mechanic for Integra coal).
She then went on to say that I am not welcome at her wedding. I am not welcome at her kitchen tea. I am not welcome at her hens weekend away. I am not welcome at the pre-wedding spa day.
Anyway, I returned the dress & the shoes & the handbag & the hair accessory to her so that they could be used by this other friend & with it I included an invoice for a little over $2000.00
Dress: $850.00
Alterations: $150.00
Shoes: $120.00
Handbag: $50.00
Hair Clip: $40.00
Hair & Make-up Trial: $85.00
Catering for kitchen tea: $200.00 (this was going to be my kitchen tea gift to her but if I am not allowed to go then she can forget about a gift!)
Deposit for my pace at spa day: $50.00 (non-refundable but I assume that my place will be taken by the new bridesmaid)
Deposit for Hens weekend away: $500.00 (everyone's deposit went on my Visa card & I was to be reimbursed in cash when we all met up at the airport)
I have not included their wedding gift on the invoice (2x 1000 thread count egyptian cotton sheets sets) which I will still send to her before the wedding because if you are invited to a wedding & cannot attend it is still polite to send a gift.
So, I figure that as her husband does SOOO Much better than mine financially he can AFFORD to reimburse me for my out-of-pocket expenses in the lead up to the wedding.
She has refused to pay & is now telling other family members that I made up lies about her fiance because I am trying to destroy their relationship out of jealousy. Our nanna even called me to ask me why I am so jealous of my sister's happiness!!!!!!!!!
I am now considering taking this to the small claims court to recover my expenses.
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