AITA for blowing up at my sister’s wedding-day makeup artist and wanting to sue her?
As the title says, my sister got married last week. She booked a makeup artist months in advance and paid a deposit.
Fast forward to the wedding day: the makeup artist shows up wearing a mask and says she’s extremely tired. She starts doing my sister’s makeup but then suddenly stops midway, saying she’s “over it,” too exhausted, and can’t continue.
We were honestly very understanding. We even offered to take her to the ER because we thought she was sick. In the end, my sister had to finish her own makeup on her wedding day (even though she was a make-up artist before but she wanted to get pampered on her special day).
Today, one of my sister’s friends sent me a screenshot from a Facebook group. Turns out the makeup artist wasn’t sick at all — she had gotten lip fillers right before my sister's appointment and was exaggerating the pain and symptoms so she gets dismissed. She was joking and laughing about it in the caption and comments, and even said she paid for the lip fillers with our “easy money.”
I called the makeup artist and confronted her. I’m not going to lie — I yelled. I felt like a fool and I told her she took advantage of our kindness, abandoned my sister on her wedding day, and still kept the money (I actually paid the full amount because I felt bad for her).
Now we’re planning to take her to court. Since then, random people (her friends, I guess) have been contacting me saying I’m an a-hole, that we dismissed her, and that we can’t do anything legally.
Extra context: The makeup artist wasn’t a total stranger. She and my sister had worked together a few times before, so there was already some familiarity and trust there . And the people contacting me knew who my sister is.
So, AITA if we go through with the case?