Grandmas Cause ‘Full-Blown Drama’ During Flower Girl Walk Down Aisle

A wedding guest couldn’t believe their eyes when they witnessed “grandma rivalry steal the spotlight.”

In a post on Reddit’s “Wedding Drama” forum, the wedding guest recalled the time they attended a ceremony and reception that was overshadowed by the bride and groom’s feuding grandmothers, who served as the couple’s flower girls.

“Instead of flower girls, the couple had both grandmas toss petals down the aisle. Super cute idea, until it wasn’t,” the guest wrote.

The wedding turned into “full-blown drama” due to the different ways the grandmas scattered the flower petals along the path.

“One grandma was living her best life,” the guest said. “She was dancing, tossing petals like confetti, blowing kisses, the crowd loved her. Total star of the show.”

The individual continued: “The other grandma… not so much. She basically dropped a couple petals, sat down, and muttered ‘this isn’t a circus’ loud enough for a few rows to hear. You could feel the shift in the air.”

The awkward moment didn’t end after the ceremony. As guests headed to cocktail hour, and later at reception, they repeatedly approached the ” ‘fun grandma’ for selfies and compliments,” applauding her on her upbeat approach to the wedding processional because “she really made the moment memorable.”

As this was happening, the other grandmother became more and more “visibly annoyed.”

“[She] finally snapped, saying something like, ‘I came here for a wedding, not to make a fool of myself,’ ” the guest remembered the jealous grandmother saying out loud.

A few hours later, the friction was just as intense — so much so that the wedding planner had to rearrange the seating chart because the two elderly women “refused to sit at the same table.”

“The bride looked mortified, the groom was trying not to laugh, and the guests were definitely entertained,” the Reddit poster said before concluding, “Never thought I’d see a grandma rivalry steal the spotlight at a wedding, but here we are.”

They added in a comment, “I think if both of them had just had fun with it, it would’ve been the sweetest thing. Instead, we got a little unexpected side drama on top of the cuteness.”

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Fellow Reddit users expressed mixed feelings in the comments section. Some people agreed that the conflict was likely “fun to watch,” and that the drama could have been avoided if the more reserved grandmother had left out her “sulkiness” and leaned into participating instead.

Other Redditors argued that some older women struggle with so much attention and might have felt “humiliated” or “like a fool” doing all the so-called “fun” actions of “twirling down an aisle and blowing kisses.”

“I am on team surly grandma. Infantilization of older people is insulting. Grandmas should be honored guests, not forced to take the role of young children,” one person wrote, with someone else disagreeing, “Grandma had the opportunity to either say no, or do it with dignity. She chose to make a scene.”