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AITA for saying my step-daughter's wedding dress was "too Japanese"?

Anonymous in /c/AmItheAsshole

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This is my first time posting on Chambers, and my last. <br><br>I (M38) married a Japanese lady, Yumi (F35), last year. I have a daughter, Chloe (F18), and Yumi has a daughter, Rina (F24). <br><br>Rina is getting married to a Japanese guy. They planned on having the ceremony in Japan and decided on traditional Japanese attire. All good, I get it. I've never been to a traditional Japanese wedding anyway. <br><br>The problem came when we were all discussing what we were all going to wear. I said that I'd like to wear a nice kimono as well, but Rina said no, and said all the men in her family would be wearing kimonos - myself included, my brother, and my father-in-law. I said that I thought it would be very pretty if Chloe, Rina's stepsister, wore a kimono as well. She had never worn a kimono before, and I thought she would look very beautiful in one, as well as since Rina was wearing one. <br><br>But Rina didn't like the idea. She said it was her wedding, and that she wanted to be the only woman wearing a kimono. My wife said that it was Rina's choice, but I argued that it really didn't make sense to me at all that both women weren't allowed to wear kimonos. And I said the same thing about my father-in-law - he had never worn a kimono in his life, and I thought I would look far, far better in a kimono than him, and that it would be very meaningful if I wore one as well to help show my new step-daughter that I was serious about integrating into the family. <br><br>My wife agreed with me, and we all got kimonos - except for Chloe, who got a nice burgundy dress, which I thought was sweet. <br><br>The wedding went well, except for at the reception, when my wife and Rina went up onto the stage to give a speech. After that, Chloe got on stage, and went up to the microphone. I thought she was going to say some nice things about Rina and wish her well. But instead, she started talking about how stylish Rina's dress looked, and how beautiful she was, etc. But then she said that part of what made it so beautiful was that she was the only woman there wearing a stylish kimono, and that it was sad that the other women were unable to pull off Japanese dresses as well as Rina. <br><br>I thought that was really low. After the wedding, Rina told me that Chloe was being a bitch for the last few weeks, and that she had complained about her dress, and how she said that she also wanted to wear a kimono but was "not allowed". <br><br>So I yelled at Chloe when we got back home. I told her that she had been incredibly rude at the wedding, and that she always seemed to complain about everything, and that that included the dress we had bought her. <br><br>She looked very shocked and upset, and started to cry. She said that she felt like she had been attacked, and that I didn't know what it was like to be her, and that I never supported her or stood up for her and that I hated her. <br><br>I've been hearing this a lot lately. That I don't support Chloe, or that I never want to stand up for her. But I stood up for her at the wedding, didn't I? I tried to make sure she got to wear a beautiful kimono like Rina, and I made sure she had the most beautiful dress I could find at the boutique, that everyone was raving about. But no matter what, I seem to always make her mad. <br><br>AITA here?

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