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Wedding dress. AIBU to feel a little upset?

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Brightskiesandcoffee · 29/01/2025 08:10

I was waiting for my wedding dress delivery but as it was scheduled roughly same time as my GP appointment I called my Sis who lives 10 minutes away to take my niece (3) and come chill with me and receive the delivery if I’m not in exactly that time.
She happily agreed and Sod’s Law it came exactly when I was out. I received the message and despite the fact that I’m feeling horrible due to suspected chest and ear infections it just made my day knowing it’s here.
Went home, opened the door and my parcel was on the sofa, taken out of the plastic wrapping, there was supposed to be a nice little white bow on one of the corners which was missing. Sis apologised and said that her DD wanted to see “the princess dress” so she promised her “ just a quick little peek”. When I opened the lid the little card that was supposed to be there on the top was also missing and the tissue paper was a bit crumpled and broken. Again, she explained and she’s so sorry but my niece was just so fast, grabbed the card from the top and disturbed the paper. Both the white bow and little card I found on the kitchen floor. Obviously I’m not mad at my niece but AIBU to feel upset that I feel like I lost little bit of that magic? I thought I’m gonna do maybe a little unboxing video just for myself and have that first feeling of opening your wedding dress, delicate and beautiful and now it doesn’t feel the same anymore.
The dress is not dirty or damaged but I’m just upset that I got no bow and no card but crumpled and broken tissue paper… it was completely opposite what I had in my mind for this special moment, well at least for me?

OP posts:
GrannyJJ · 01/02/2025 16:44

ThejoyofNC · 29/01/2025 08:15

I'd be really pissed off that she opened it.

Couldn't get worked up about a bow and some tissue paper. "Unboxing" videos are stupid.

children whose parents can’t say no to them when wanting to open a parcel that’s not theirs, are likely to be the ones who grow up and do unboxing videos. Nobody cares about you taking your dress out of the box. Folk come to weddings to watch a couple get married - not the instawank nonsense

MyspecialMug · 01/02/2025 16:51

She had no business opening it, and should tell her daughter no, it's not ours to open.
She could have at least put it back the way it came.
I completely understand why you feel this way.

Botanybaby · 01/02/2025 16:53

I would be furious not at the neice but at my sister

It was not hers to open and if she can't control her child's tantrums and sulking because she said no that's on her rubbish parenting

Talkingfrog · 01/02/2025 17:03

YNBU- she should have not promised her daughter a peek at the princess dress or opened it before you were there.
She could have told her daughter that the dress was special and you may want to keep it as a surprise for the special day, but she would ask if she could take a peek at the princess dress.

She would then have been prewarned that the answer may be no.
I know she is only little, but old enough to understand that she can't always have what she wants.

Julimia · 01/02/2025 17:16

It's the height of bad manners to open someone else's post, regardless of what's inside it, let alone allow a child's fingers to be all over it. Have a wonderful day when the time comes.

BuildbyNumbere · 01/02/2025 17:23

I’d be livid that they thought it was ok to open a wedding dress!!! Who does that?!?!

Auldlang · 01/02/2025 17:46

Jesus! I wasn't precious about my wedding dress but I LOVE a good package, even just a brown paper one, and would be a bit pissed if even that was taken from me!

Auldlang · 01/02/2025 17:47

@GrannyJJ OP wanted to make the video for herself as a momento, can you not read? Doesn't bloody matter what anyone else thinks of it.

Mummyto2boyz · 01/02/2025 18:25

Very strange that your sister would open it in the first place. I don't blame you being annoyed about it but you need to let it go. It's not the end of the world.

Iloveyoubut · 01/02/2025 18:25

Yeas I would have been totally pissed off! It’s a moment! Ffs… I wouldn’t peel the protective olastic screen cover off someone’s new mobile phone! So what if it’s daft to other people… you had a moment in your head where you were opening that bow and she stole it and I am actually so pissed off for you!

Welshmonster · 01/02/2025 18:26

Sis needs to tell her DD no once in a while. She shouldn’t have opened it without you. Regardless of what you wanted to do with unboxing. What if the dress was damaged but you didn’t open it?

mathanxiety · 01/02/2025 19:15

Your sister is an idiot. What is she afraid would happen if she said "No, that's not yours" to her child?

The whole unboxing disapppintment thing is a bit ott though. Make sure you don't fall prey to the silly social media-driven trend of making every single tiny detail around a wedding so significant that you're upset when it's not a fairy tale. "Unboxing" isn't important. It just isn't.

Are you able to get the bow sewn back on neatly?

WeCanOnlyDoOurBest · 01/02/2025 19:30

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 31/01/2025 21:25

Oh FFS, OP states in her first post the video is for her. What is so hard to understand about that? It's not hurting anyone, least of all you.

Why do so many people on this thread want to kick the OP?

… because some people are just plain horrid and only happy when they’re being nasty. So much unnecessary vitriol on this platform, probably from people who have shit lives and wish others did too.

JRM17 · 01/02/2025 21:05

I'm sorry but you sound a bit unhinged. "and unboxing video" fml get a grip. Yes your sister had no right to open the parcel but come on this is earth.

Harassedevictee · 02/02/2025 08:18

JRM17 · 01/02/2025 21:05

I'm sorry but you sound a bit unhinged. "and unboxing video" fml get a grip. Yes your sister had no right to open the parcel but come on this is earth.

People make £££ on YouTube from unboxing videos. Whilst it is not what everyone would do it’s very far from unhinged. A really unpleasant thing to say.

MadmansLibrary · 02/02/2025 10:45

JRM17 · 01/02/2025 21:05

I'm sorry but you sound a bit unhinged. "and unboxing video" fml get a grip. Yes your sister had no right to open the parcel but come on this is earth.

"Unhinged" is a bit much, don't you think? Are you often prone to hyperbole?

HipToTheHopDontStop · 02/02/2025 10:46

Harassedevictee · 02/02/2025 08:18

People make £££ on YouTube from unboxing videos. Whilst it is not what everyone would do it’s very far from unhinged. A really unpleasant thing to say.

Very very few of them

Harassedevictee · 02/02/2025 10:50

HipToTheHopDontStop · 02/02/2025 10:46

Very very few of them

@Harmonypus I agree it’s very few. My point was it is not unhinged to make a one off video unboxing your wedding dress.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 02/02/2025 12:32

I agree completely, @Harassedevictee - it was going to be part of her memory of the run up to her wedding - what's wrong with that?

wholettheturnipsburn · 02/02/2025 12:34

JRM17 · 01/02/2025 21:05

I'm sorry but you sound a bit unhinged. "and unboxing video" fml get a grip. Yes your sister had no right to open the parcel but come on this is earth.

How rude

FormidableMizzP · 03/02/2025 16:23

Not at all unreasonable! Am sorry I kissed the vote, cannot believe the amount of unreasonable votes. How dare she open such a special delivery. I'd be fuming!

IndysMamaRex · 04/02/2025 11:40

Sister needs to start telling DD no more often. I get why you’re upset as it’s a nice once in a lifetime event (for some) and they’ve taken that moment from you. Not worth falling out over but I would explain that it upset you

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