A mother has been defended for offering her handmade flowers to her daughter after her son said he no longer needed them for his own wedding . In a recent post shared to the popular “Am I The A**hole?” Reddit forum, a woman asked if she was in the wrong for using the flowers for her daughter’s baby shower . She detailed how she initially made the flowers for her son’s wedding, noting that he and his fiancée “were tight on money and upset over the price of flowers”.
She went on to emphasize how expensive the flowers were that her son wanted, before she offered to make fake ones. “It wasn’t in their budget and they had a very specific image. I looked at prices for what they wanted and it was out of my own budget,” the mother wrote.
“I instead offered to do what they wanted with fake flowers. They agreed and sent over images for me to use.” The woman explained that she spent “over $500 buying all the stuff” to make the flowers on her “own time”.
After acknowledging that she thought the flowers “turned out great,” she then revealed how her son and daughter-in-law decided not to use them. “I got a call [saying] they won’t need them anymore and that they have the money to have real flowers. That they already booked it.
So in short all my time was for nothing,” she continued. According to the Reddit user, she realized that her flowers didn’t have to go to waste when her daughter noticed and complimented them. “My daughter was over and co.
