Sister Claims Leftover Wedding Food as ‘Payment,’ Leaving Bride in Disbelief

A bride’s “final straw” was broken after her sister stole her wedding food.

The bride, who tied the knot over the weekend, vented in a post on Reddit’s “Wedding Shaming” forum about how her entire family “acted selfishly” at her wedding. The worst part was when her sister “packed up early to steal what food and desserts and decorations” were remaining.

“The place was empty, and there was no food in sight,” the bride wrote.

Issues began during the wedding setup. The bride’s oldest sister and her girlfriend “really pushed” to help the bride with appetizers and coordinating the event. The couple “ignored” the bride’s attempts to help them, and instead told her to “relax” as they “shoved” her into the bridal suite.

The one thing the bride was relying on her sister to do was keep their mother and siblings “away” from her — but her sister failed as they found “various times to ambush” her. They were “hovering and watching” throughout the night, “even sending disgusted looks” to the groom.

When the bride pointed out that her events, including dinner, were starting late, she was “scolded” while her guests grew “restless.” Food wasn’t brought out until the bride “had to yell at them to feed everybody,” and during dinnertime, entire appetizers were forgotten about.

From the seating charts being messed up to the vendors and security teams being sent home early, the bride was frustrated with how “very specific details that [she] wanted to make sure happened got ignored.”

At the end of the night, the bride went to help clean up and noticed that almost everything was already “packed” in her sister’s car.

“She said she had planned to give our food to her friends and offered to give us 1-4 servings of frozen food,” the bride wrote. “That came out of MY bank account. There was never a single discussion with me about this until they made the decision and executed their plan.”

Although the bride said people could “take leftovers,” she never expected anyone to stop her from “taking stuff home that night.”

“I didn’t think I’d have to clarify that they could take whatever we didn’t want, not the other way around,” she said.

A few days later, the bride texted her sister that she was frustrated that she had taken “all of the control from [her]” and tried to “ruin” the wedding.

“[I] told her I was upset by everyone’s actions, that I feel like they owe me for the cost of the food, and that I will not speak to her about anything other than returning my property to me,” she said. “…All of them prevented me from enjoying my wedding to the fullest and that’s something I can never forgive. Her response? ‘Excuse me?!’ ”

The bride predicts that her sister will “disguise everyone’s behavior” as wedding assistance, and claim that “taking the food was her ‘payment.’ ”

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Fellow Reddit users commented that this wedding conflict serves as an example of why “family and friends should be guests, not vendors.”

“BOUNDARIES. You need some,” one person commented, with another person agreeing, “Seems like you really needed to advocate for yourself and choose the easier road. Lesson learned!”

The bride updated her situation in a comment, writing that she’s unable to take any of the food back because it will be “bad” by the time she’s able to pick it up from her sister’s house. She also “cannot go off on her without fear she will retaliate” because she still has her remaining wedding property.