My sister ordered her bridesmaids to cut six inches off their hair

The bridezilla didn't want anyone to have longer hair than her on her 'perfect' day. 

A woman has taken to a popular online forum to explain her sister's unusual request for her bridesmaids ahead of her wedding.

To make a long story short, excuse the pun, she has requested that all of her bridesmaids cut their hair so it's shorter than hers.

The poster said this meant she would have to cut more than "two feet" of her hair off - something her sister insisted was required for her to have the 'perfect' day. 

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She didn't want anyone to have longer hair than her. Image: IStock

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"My sister freaked out when I said I wasn’t gonna cut my hair"

The story began on Reddit, where the sister of the bride took to the r/bridezillas forum and said: "My sister is losing her mind over my hair being too long for her wedding."

She begins by saying that while she's happy that her sister is getting hitched, she's taken issue with her 'requirements' for her bridal party. 

The poster explains: "Some of the requirements were understandable (Like wearing longer sleeves to cover up my tattoos, I’m fine with that), but one of them was really weird and felt kind of pointed at me, everyone in the wedding party must have shorter hair than the bride by at least six inches.

"Now, my hair is super important to me, it’s a significant part of my identity and I really love it, it’s knee length and I take super good care of it. My sisters' is to the middle of her back, so about two feet shorter than mine. She has longer hair than her friends aside from one who agreed to cut her hair, but I did not.

"My sister freaked out when I said I wasn’t gonna cut my hair."

The OP then offered to wear her hair up, but the bride just said that would distract guests even more and take the attention away from her. 

"She wanted all her bridesmaids to wear their hair down, I assured her no one would be distracted because of my hair and our mother agreed with me and tried to assure her as well."

After that suggestion backfired, she offered to pull out of being in the wedding party altogether and just attend the wedding instead but that just enraged the bridge even further.

"She began throwing a temper tantrum," the woman says. "Eventually I just left and said we could figure this out when she calmed down. Later on, I get a call from her fiancé who just says,"Hey, I know you don’t want to cut your hair, I’m sorry about that. Could you just do it for your sister? It’ll grow back. And obviously, I told him I’m not cutting half my hair off for one day just to spend years growing it all back out."

She then explains that ultimately she's been left pretty p**sed off by this whole ordeal and worries about what else her sister is going to freak out about ahead of the wedding. 

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"You need to decide between your hair or your sister"

The post now has over 1.8k upvotes and 454 comments, with some users defending the poster while others said that she may sacrifice her relationship with her sister if she doesn't want to comply with her rules.

One person wrote: "I’m not sure why anyone would think asking someone to alter themselves in a way that will take years to return to the original state for eight - 12 hours of ‘IT’S MY SPECIAL DAY’ is reasonable? But when are bridezillas ever reasonable… you may need to decide between your hair and being a bridesmaid/the relationship with your sister."

Then another person agreed, saying: "She can't tell you what to do with your body, and that most definitely includes your hair!"

"This is asking too damn much and frankly your sister sounds unhinged," someone else replied.

And one person shared their theory on how this debacle came to be. They said:

"Here's what I think:

Sister has always been jealous of OP's hair (and/or maybe just OP herself). Maybe she can't grow it that long, maybe her current length is as long as she can keep it nice.

"Whatever, she's jealous of OP's hair and since she can't/won't grow hers longer, she's taking a 'shortcut' by using her wedding as an excuse to force OP to cut hers.

"This is why she's throwing a temper tantrum and risks losing the entire wedding because fiancé realises that sister is a little too...broken? dramatic? ridiculous?...to build his life with.

"You should also be very, VERY, VERY careful around her sister lest sis pull out a pair of scissors and do it herself."

The OP then added an update to her original post saying: "So I got another phone call from my soon-to-be brother-in-law, he was like, 'Hey, she hasn’t stopped crying for like thirty minutes, can you please just cut your hair?' I told him no and also that I’d be dropping out as a bridesmaid and just going as a guest. He sighed again and basically said, 'Yeah, I kinda figured that would happen. I’m sorry about this.' At least he was nice about it but she keeps putting this poor man on me lol."

And then she later added another edit, writing, "I got a phone call from the bride herself, she was crying and said fine I don’t have to cut my hair or be a bridesmaid but to please wear it up. So at the very least, she came to some kind of compromise. I think she was expecting me to feel bad and come around because when I said, 'I’ll just be a guest then', she began crying harder and hung up."

Oh, dear... I guess we'll just have to keep our eyes peeled for another update.

Originally published as My sister ordered her bridesmaids to cut six inches off their hair