Maid of Honor Has 'Meltdown' and Threatens to Drop Out of Wedding Over 'Mismatched' Dresses: 'Things Got Ugly'

• A bridesmaid shared in a post on Reddit that the bride asked her and other bridesmaids to wear "mismatched but coordinated" dresses for the wedding — but the scheme didn't go over well with the maid of honor

• The Redditor said the maid of honor got frustrated, had a "full meltdown" and threatened to drop out of the wedding after the bride nixed her dress choice

• In the comments section of the post, many people agreed that the bride was being "too picky" and did not clearly communicate her vision for the dresses

A maid of honor had a "full meltdown" and threatened to drop out of her friend's wedding over the bride's dress specifications for the bridesmaids.

In a post on Reddit's "Wedding Drama" forum, one of the bridesmaids shared that the bride decided she wanted her bridal party members to wear "mismatched but coordinated" dresses — and she was all for the plan.

"The idea was cute. She made a group chat and dropped a Pinterest board," the OP (original poster) explained.

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However, she continued, the bride didn't provide "clear guidelines" on her vision, and "every time someone shared a dress, the bride would say something vague like 'Hmm, not quite the vibe' or 'Can you pick something warmer?' "

The OP said this left the bridesmaids feeling "anxious" — particularly the maid of honor, who had already bought her dress "in a dusty rose color that the bride called 'too funeral-ish.' "

After the bride nixed her dress choice, the maid of honor "lost it," according to the bridesmaid.

"Like, full meltdown," she recalled. "Said she wasn’t going to be in the wedding if she had to 'buy a second damn dress to match a mood board that changed every week.' "

The OP added: "Things got ugly."

Faced with the pushback, the bride ultimately decided to scrap the mismatched scheme and "just picked one dress for everyone."

The OP concluded her post by noting that the increasingly popular trend of bridesmaids wearing mismatched but coordinated dresses "looks effortless" — but actually "can be total chaos behind the scenes."

In the comments section, many people sympathized with the maid of honor's frustration, accusing the bride of being "pushy," "too picky" and vague about her vision.

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"It sounds like the bride was being overly picky, had a vision in her head that she wasn't doing a good job conveying to everyone, and probably REALLY frustrating the MOH," one person wrote.

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Another said, "This is what happens when someone tries to be 'very relaxed and go with the flow' when they really have a very specific thing in their head that they really want. Instead of saying 'this is what I want,' they try to gently steer people towards it and end up just frustrating everyone."

Yet another person argued: "If you're going to have bridesmaids pick their own dresses, then, fine, but you then have to have concrete reasons for disallowing choices if you're truly not on board with whatever the bridesmaid picks. 'Not the vibe' is not a concrete reason. How in the hell is a bridesmaid supposed to know 'the vibe?' "

Someone else noted that the bride could have made the situation smoother by narrowing down the choices for her bridesmaids.

"The bride should have selected several dresses that she would approve of and gave the list to the bridesmaids to choose which one each of them would wear," they wrote. "Why she’d want suggestions from more than one person I don’t understand. It’s a recipe for disaster since her taste is what’s going to influence the choice."

Another Redditor agreed, writing, "Bride is being too open-ended, and no one can match what she has in mind if she can't communicate it clearly."

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