It’s strange how family drama inevitably becomes a part of weddings. If not during the wedding, then it starts before or even after the wedding. For one newlywed man known on Reddit as u/Cold_Natural_3955, it started after the wedding when his wedding photos started coming in. The 28-year-old groom married his sweetheart in a beautiful wedding on a riverside farm, and his 30-year-old sister-in-law was part of the wedding party. He pointed out that unlike his wife, his sister-in-law has always been a negative person, and the negativity got even worse when she wasn’t happy with the wedding photos.

The man believed that his wife had only included her pessimistic older sister among the bridesmaids to appease her parents. “My sister-in-law and my wife were never very close. She stood at the end of the bridesmaids’ line and was usually on the sidelines during group photos,” the groom mentioned. Even during the photoshoot, the sister-in-law constantly complained about the sunny weather and that her dress “absorbed heat.” While on the wedding day everyone ignored her comments, after receiving the pictures she was furious.

“Most people thanked me for the photos, but my sister-in-law called my wife and was very angry. She was screaming that she looks ‘like a fat pig’ in every photo she’s in and demanding that we not use any of the photos she’s in,” the groom explained. He confirmed that although his sister-in-law is taller than his wife, she is not extremely overweight and looks quite similar to her normal self in the pictures. “She reiterated that she would never speak to us again and would ‘attack’ us if we used a photo of her on social media, whatever that means,” he added. So the man decided to edit out the sister-in-law before posting his wedding photos online, hoping it would be OK since she was in the margins of the pictures anyway.

Little did he know that it would turn into a nightmarish family drama. “She then called me, even angrier than before, accusing me of wanting to ‘erase her from the memory of the wedding.’ I told her I only did it to comply with her wishes and at the same time be able to use our own wedding photos,” the man explained. Despite his explanation, the sister-in-law gave him and his wife the cold shoulder, and the man’s in-laws were also angry with him. “Although my wife is on my side, she thinks I could have handled it more maturely,” the groom said. In the comments, he added that the sister-in-law expected him to post the pictures that originally didn’t include her, instead of cropping them out. “I don’t like the principle that she thinks she can tell us what to post and what not to post,” he mentioned.

He was accused in this sense by people of having ridiculous expectations from the sister-in-law. “Your sister-in-law cannot demand that you not use your wedding photos. This is presumptuousness beyond presumptuousness,” said u/101037633. “Your sister-in-law sounds exhausting. You can’t post wedding photos that have her in them, but you also can’t post photos that don’t have her in them,” noted u/VisionAri_VA. “I’m sorry to break it to you, but she will act like this for the rest of her eternity. There’s no point in feeling guilty about this incident because if it wasn’t this, it would be something else,” added u/EZCarter040.