Wedding Party Blues

Hi sorry abt ur situation, but ur message isnt too clear. Why not post it again? Who`s d bride? and who are the sisters? and why exactly doesnt someone want somebody in the wedding???
All the best...

Okay, let me see if I understand this right. Your friend who is like a sister to you (or atleast that`s what she started saying a year ago) wanted you to be a bridesmaid and you already bought the dress. Her family is mad that her sister isn`t in the wedding but she is estranged with her sister. You are friends with her sister and she feels that that is somehow betraying her and so she has kicked you out of the wedding. Is that correct? Personally I would say if you have been friends for 16 years then you should try to mend this. Tell her that you understand how she feels as far as her sister goes, but that you can`t hate someone just b/c someone else does, but that it doesn`t mean you care any less about her. If it`s possible to reconcile, try. If not you may politely ask her to help you recover all or some of the cost of the dress she had you buy already and if that doesn`t work then you should just forget about it, don`t create a bigger fight, if after asking nicely she refuses then just accept the fact that you`re not going to recover that loss and move on, that`s all you can do. Hope everything works out for you.