World's Worst Mother-Of-The-Bride Writes Offensive Letter About Bridesmaid

A wedding can be a stressful time not just for the bride and groom but for their entire family, with everyone wanting the special day to be perfect. 

However one mother-of-the-bride is stressing about the absolute wrong thing - like, really wrong - and Twitter can't believe how tone deaf she is. 

The momzilla sent a letter to Slate's Dear Prudence explaining her awful issue. It reads: 

My 27-year-old daughter and her best friend, Katie, have been best friends since they were 4. Katie practically grew up in our house and is like a daughter to me. My daughter recently got engaged to her fiancé and announced that Katie would be the maid of honor (Katie’s boyfriend is also a good friend of my future son-in-law). The problem is that Katie walks with a pretty severe limp due to a birth defect (not an underlying medical issue). She has no problem wearing high heels and has already been fitted for the dress, but I still think it will look unsightly if she’s in the wedding procession limping ahead of my daughter. I mentioned this to my daughter and suggested that maybe Katie could take video or hand out programs (while sitting) so she doesn’t ruin the aesthetic aspect of the wedding. My daughter is no longer speaking to me (we were never that close), but this is her big wedding and I want it to be perfect. All of the other bridesmaids will look gorgeous walking down the aisle with my daughter. Is it wrong to have her friend sit out?

So to summarize, because the bride's friend has a limp, the mom doesn't think she should be allowed to walk down the aisle as a bridesmaid and said as much, and now the bride-to-be no longer wants to speak to her mother. 

Here's Twitter's take on it:

And here's Prudence's perfect take on it:

I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around this letter. I encourage you to reread it and to ask yourself that time-honored question, “Do I sound like a villain in a Reese Witherspoon movie?” You are, presumably, sympathetic to your own situation and are invested in making sure that you come across as reasonable and as caring as possible, and yet you have written a letter indicting yourself at every turn. This girl is “like a daughter” to you, and yet you want to shove her to the side of your other daughter’s wedding just because she walks with a limp. Your daughter’s wedding will be perfect with Katie as a full and honored member of the bridal party. A limp is not a fly in the ointment; it’s a part of Katie’s life. It is not only wrong to have asked your daughter to consider excluding her best friend over this—it is ableist, and cruel, and it speaks to a massive failure of empathy, compassion, and grace on your part. You must and should apologize to your daughter immediately, and I encourage you to profoundly reconsider the orientation of your heart.

One final thought - it never says that the person who wrote the letter is the bride's mom. It could be her father. Either way, no bueno. 

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