Woman Gets Police Called To Colleague's Wedding By Accidentally Discovering His Thievery

May 19, 2022 by apost team

Many eyebrow-raising stories start with the disclaimer, "it sounds bad, but hear me out." This was the opening to a post from February 5, 2022, on the Reddit subthread r/AITA. As the poster explained it, she attended a wedding and witnessed both the bride and groom summarily being arrested. How, readers wondered, was that her fault? 

OP rewound to a few years earlier. She had two colleagues, whom she called Mary and Adam. She recalled, "Mary started in the company first, and then she got Adam to join, they worked in different departments and Mary was in mine." OP recalled how, eventually, "Mary left the company to pursue another carrier." So far, the story seemed to be an office place drama without the drama, not cops and robbers. 

OP explained that Mary was "the kindest and loveliest person [she had] ever met." When Mary left the company, their company "missed her dearly." Given Mary's glowing character, it was "a shock when [OP] found out [that] she [was] divorcing Adam because he had cheated on her." OP felt horrible and "called [Mary] to express how sorry [she was.]" The two then became close. 

OP remarked on how impressed she was with "how well Mary [held] herself in such [a] situation, she wouldn't bad mouth Adam and the only thing she mentioned was how her wedding dress and a few family heirlooms went missing when she was moving." Mary concluded that the items must have been "misplaced in a different box and [would] turn up eventually." Just where they would turn up would lead OP to ask, "AITA?"

After a few years, OP found herself working again with Adam. Even though she knew him to be a cheater, OP admitted that Adam was a "good work colleague," however she also conceded that he could "be dismissive and ignorant sometimes." Overall, it seemed to be a peaceful office, so much so that Adam eventually invited the entire department to his second wedding. 

OP explained that Adam was marrying Chelsea, the woman whom "he cheated on Mary with." Despite this realization, OP "said yes" to the invitation, but not before "making sure Mary [was] OK with [her attending the ceremony.]" In getting Mary's blessing, OP admitted she also "told [Mary] where the wedding [would] be." Her thought had been that the venue was "not too far from where she lives" and that she and Mary "could go for some drinks after if she wanted" to forget the day.  

When the day of the wedding rolled around, OP recalled how she noticed that Adam's new wife was "wearing a similar dress" to what Mary had "worn in the photos of hers and Adams' wedding years ago." A coincidence, perhaps. Still, OP felt the urge to tell her friend, and "without thinking," she "snapped a picture and send it to Mary." OP captioned the photo, "saying: 'doesn't this dress [look] familiar?'" After sending it, OP watched Mary open the message, but "she didn't respond." OP assumed Mary was merely, understandably, upset on her ex-husband's wedding day. That is until "about an hour later [when] the police show[ed] up at the venue."

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Speaking about the harsh reaction from law enforcement, OP clarified, saying, "I need to add [that] the police in our country [are] ruthless and any theft is considered a criminal matter for the police to deal with." She continued, relaying how the officers asked the bride "to take the dress and all the jewelry off." In front of the entire wedding party, the bride "refused and started arguing with them, and then Adam joined in." In response to the fact that "they were rude to the police, they were taken to the police station." OP recalled how next, "everyone at the wedding had to leave." Perhaps remembering the photo, OP then "tried to call Mary but she wouldn't pick up the phone."

OP then explained how she found out later that the bride "was wearing Mary's wedding dress and her heirlooms." Her friend had "spotted them on her in the picture" OP had sent to her and called the police immediately. OP learned that Mary had "previously asked Adam if he had [the dress and heirlooms] and he declined, saying he never saw them." Mary knew Adam "was lying and stole them" when she saw the photo. 

After being bailed out, OP recalled how "Adam returned to the office and went completely mental" at her, blaming her for "sending a picture to Mary and ruining his wedding." Given OP was the one to snap and pass the photo along, she wondered if she had done wrong. No, as one commenter summarily remarked, "It's clear that Adam ruined his own wedding."

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