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Three days before her wedding, my best friend Camille suddenly removed me from the bridal party.<\/p>\n
Why?<\/p>\n
Because I had cut my hair short.<\/p>\n
I explained that I was losing my hair because of a medical condition, and I had no choice but to cut it. At first, Camille said she understood.<\/p>\n
But then she admitted my short haircut would \u201cthrow off the symmetry\u201d<\/strong> of her wedding photos.<\/p>\n Three days before the wedding, she emailed me:<\/p>\n \u201cI need you to step down from the wedding.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n I was devastated.<\/p>\n Then I calculated everything I had spent on her wedding\u2014dresses, shoes, alterations, jewelry, and events.<\/p>\n $1,200.<\/strong><\/p>\n I sent her the bill and blocked her number.<\/p>\n Then the other bridesmaids found out what happened.<\/p>\n And they did something I never expected.<\/p>\n They quit too.<\/strong><\/p>\n They told Camille to pay me back\u2014or they were out.<\/p>\n Camille finally sent the $1,200<\/strong>, but her wedding still didn\u2019t go as planned.<\/p>\n The bridesmaids showed up late, the choreographed dance fell apart, and Camille had to explain why I wasn’t there.<\/p>\n In the end, I realized I hadn’t lost my friends.<\/p>\n I had discovered who my real friends were.<\/strong><\/p>\n And sometimes, standing up for yourself costs $1,200\u2014but it’s worth every penny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three days before her wedding, my best friend Camille suddenly removed me from the bridal party. Why? Because I had cut my hair short. I explained that I was losing my hair because of a medical condition, and I had no choice but to cut it. At first, Camille said she understood. But then …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11004,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003\/revisions\/11004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}