Bride slammed for excluding bridesmaid from wedding snaps over 'cruel' reason

Weddings are joyous occasions where people join together to celebrate the love of two people. If you're lucky enough to be in the bridal party, you'll likely also benefit from a super fun hen do, and maybe a dress for you to wear on the bride's big day. It's an exciting time, with drinks flowing, and photos being taken left, right and centre for everyone to remember the occasion.

However, when one woman shared that she didn't want one of her bridesmaids to be in the official wedding photographs, people were left saying she was "cruel".

The bride posted on Reddit's 'Am I The A******' forum to explain what had happened, trying to justify her standpoint. However, some people in the comments were having none of it.

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She wrote: "I had five bridesmaids plus my maid of honour, but I'll just refer to all of them as bridesmaids. Between the ceremony and the reception, we took photos, as you do. The problem started when it was time to take photos with my bridesmaids.

"One of my bridesmaids (23F and who I've been friends with since college) is super tall and has a muscular build. I'll call her N. N really stands out next to me and my other bridesmaids.

"She was also wearing a patterned dress when I specifically asked all my bridesmaids to wear solid colours (they got to pick their own dresses and just had to match the colour I picked ahead of time). So between the dress and her build, N really stood out in the photos and was throwing them all off."

When the bride looked at the photos, she wasn't satisfied. Thankfully, her pal said: "I understand if you want to take some without me," and the bride said her friend didn't seem "sad" about it.

"Fast forward to about an hour into the reception, N finds me and congratulates me and says something came up and she needs to leave early. So we say goodbye and that's it," she wrote.

The bride explained that it had been two weeks since her wedding, and she hadn't heard from her friend who had left the wedding early, but she said she was on her honeymoon, so she wasn't too concerned.

She continued: "The photographer sent me the finished photos yesterday, and I posted my favourites on Facebook. I didn't include any with N since I was only posting like 30 of the absolute best ones.

"Pretty quickly after posting them, N messaged me saying how hurt she was that I didn't post any with her in them and that I took photos without her in the first place. I apologised, of course, and told her I would post the rest of the photos in a few days.

"I also reminded her that she was the one who suggested I take some without her. She called me a narcissist and selfish, and now she's not responding to me at all".

The bride said that she was "confused" because her pal said she could "retake" the pictures "without her". "I also don't think it's such a crime for me to want my wedding photos to be perfect. My husband also agrees with me. However, I can tell she's really hurt, and she's not the type to work herself up like this over nothing," she ended the post by sharing.

In the comments, people were horrified. One person wrote: "Damn, you really are a rather s***** friend. You really told her that her 'build' doesn't match your aestetic. I hope the pictures and the irrelevant likes on social media are worth the friendship you have just killed. Good on her for calling you on your shallowness. She's definitely better off".

Another defended the bride, however, saying: "But N didn't listen to the dress code. She was testing the friendship first".

Somebody seethed: "Her height and build are things she has absolutely no control over. With friends like you, nobody needs enemies".