You're NTA, but your brother sure is

Somewhere along the line, something click-baity appeared out of nowhere. I got baited into clicking on it. And before I knew it, I was flooded with outrage sagas from Brides magazine, most of which connected to Reddit AITA (Am I The Asshole). 

Now, while I may not be the last person on the face of the earth who'd be reading Brides magazine, I suspect I'd be in the top - or is it the bottom? - ten. 

But there I was, reading all sorts of outrages. My sister picked out the same colored bridesmaid dresses...My mother-in-law to be last-minute invited 30 guests without telling me...My now former best friend refused fund my bachelorette party at the resort of my dreams in Lake Como...

And then there was the gem from the vegan bride whose brother had a snit because the vegan couple served vegan food at the wedding. The bride:

"...watched in horror as he and my cousins walked in carrying 20 large pizzas,” she wrote. “They started distributing them to guests, announcing ‘Real food for anyone who wants it!’ I was mortified. The caterers looked so embarrassed, and several guests hadn't even tried our carefully planned menu yet.”

When the bride confronted her brother over the unapproved order, he told her that her aunt had informed him that the food was just vegetables—and that they would be going hungry at the wedding... My mother-in-law posted on Facebook about how her son's wedding was ‘saved by pizza’ because the bride tried to ‘force everyone to eat rabbit food.’” (Source: Brides)

Conniptions ensued. The bride: weeping in the ladies room. The groom: asking the brother and cousins to leave. Accusations, back and fro.

...and now half the family is calling us stuck-up and saying we ruined our own wedding by ‘pushing our beliefs’ on everyone,” she wrote. “They're saying we should have warned people about the vegan menu.”

Warning people about serving a vegan menu? FFS!!!

They were serving a vegetable tart, a mushroom dish, truffle risotto. Admittedly, I don't like the taste of truffles, and I do know plenty of people who loathe mushrooms, but jeez louise, it's not as if they were serving kelp-wrapped boogers on hardtack, or even tofu out of a can. Surely anyone can gag down a vegetable tart and salad. Surely no one is going to starve to death if they didn't get the surf and turf they wanted. And I can pretty much guarantee that no one can tell the difference between a vegan desert and a "normie" one.

I'm not and never say never but never will be a vegan.

Vegetarian, maybe. Pescatarian, definitely. But I could never be a vegan. No eggs? No dairy? No honey? No thanks!

But vegan food can be terrific. 

I've eaten at vegan restaurants, eaten in vegan homes, and - get this - even been to a vegan wedding, where we were not warned ahead of time that we'd be served vegan food.

Anyway, there's been some controversy over this AITA sitch, with some claiming that the story is a shitpost, just there to stir things up. The tell that it's fake AITA? No one would ever serve truffle anything. (Okay. I almost agree here.) Then there's the rumor that this story is a figment of AI, of ChatGPT's imagination. LOL to the L.

Whether this story is true, almost true, or never happened, what I find interesting is that people weighing in are split over whether the bride is the a-hole or her brother is, with a lot of folks saying that the couple really should have "disclosed" the horror of a vegan meal. Sure, the brother shouldn't have pulled his stunt, but what's a bro to do when the newlyweds were so "deceptive."

I can't imagine going to a wedding an creating a scene about the food.  If you're so bent out of shape about the vegan food,leave before the dancing. You're no doubt expecting the "entertainment" to be Lawrence Welk and/or Morris Dancing anyway. 

If you're about to hit the fainting couch, surely someone has a Tic Tac or a Kind Bar to revive you. And how far is anyplace in America from a CVS where you get something to soothe those hunger pains - and soothe them discreetly. Without making a big show of ordering 20 pizzas - probably inedible gunk from Papa John's. 

Let alone posting about it on FB. Talk about MIL from hell!

If the story is fiction, then I guess no one's the a-hole here. Except for those commenters who excoriated the bride for serving vegan food.

Grow up, big babies. Grow up!