A BRIDE has left people raging after showing how she turned her grandma’s vintage wedding dress into a “Shein two-piece”.
Brittany shared a video of herself greeting her grandmother as she walked into her wedding rehearsal.
The TikTok clip showed the older woman gasping in astonishment and shouting “Oh my God!” as she saw her granddaughter’s transformation.
She then burst into tears and pulled Brittany in for a tight hug in the church.
Brittany then shared pictures of how the dress had originally looked on her grandmother – a white, puff sleeved, sweetheart neckline fitted pencil-style dress with a huge train.
She had teamed the dress with elbow-length gloves and a puffy veil, along with a pearl necklace and beaming smile.
But changing up the dress for her wedding rehearsal, Brittany chose to have it made into a two-piece outfit.
The top featured the same puffy sleeves and sweetheart neckline, but was made into a cropped top.
And the bottom was turned into a matching miniskirt.
As an extra nod to her grandmother, Brittany wore a pearl bracelet on her wrist, and finished it off with a pair of white open-toe heels.
“3rd generation wedding dress turned into a rehearsal dress,” she captioned the TikTok.
But lots of people in the comments were unimpressed by the transformation.
“Turned it into a Shein two piece,” one wrote.
“My mum would get so mad if I cut her dress,” another added.
“I would be crying too, she chopped up her dress,” a third commented.
“I would be devastated, it looks so cheap now,” someone else said.
“Shorten it yes, but making it a 2 piece no,” another wrote.
“Bro if I was granny I’d be absolutely heated,” someone else said.
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“You cut her wedding dress in half,” another raged.
“I wouldn’t have cut it into 2 pieces,” someone else insisted.
“You can alter it to be the more current style but now the next generation doesn’t have a dress…….”
“You can hear how sad she was seeing her dress unexpectedly mutilated in front of her,” another sighed.
“That was a priceless heirloom, I couldn’t do something like that,” someone else said.
However, others defended Brittany for the transformation, with one writing: “Y’all saying that it’s crazy she cut it two but let alone she turned a wedding dress into just a rehearsal dress!”
“This is so sweet and RESPECTFULLY everyone in the comments saying how *they* wouldn’t have cut the dress that much can just shush,” another said.
“‘I couldn’t cut it’ okay??” a third said.
“It’s not y’all’s choice. obviously the previous generations reaction was excited. much love girly, you look so beautiful.”
“As a mother I would live for the upycle and support fully,” someone else wrote.
“Realistically if it’s the 3rd gen I wouldn’t be mad it got cut, fashion changes. I’d just be happy seeing it kept in the family!” another added.
