Bride Refuses to Pay Friend for Anniversary Wedding Portrait After She Says She Was ‘Sexualized’ in Sketch
“My husband looked great, but I looked completely different," the bride noted of the sketch
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Stock image of bride and groom (left); stock image of paintingA woman is refusing to pay her friend for a wedding portrait she commissioned after she said her friend “sexualized” her in the painting.
The bride shared in a post on Reddit’s popular "Am I The A------" forum that she decided to have her painter friend do a sketch of her and her husband in their “wedding outfits” as a gift to her husband to celebrate their first wedding anniversary.
The user noted, "I have seen her work and she can do [a] realist painting of people."
She said she gave her friend some "reference" photos from the wedding in order to create the painting. She also shared that she put down a $300 deposit, and that the two "agreed on a total of $700."
However, the woman said that the portrait that she received was a far cry from what she had expected, writing, "My husband looked great but I looked completely different. In short she sexualized me and I find it so gross."
"The painting has me with huge boobs," the woman shared, adding that she has smaller breasts. She continued, "My wedding dress is showing much more skin. She even added a split to my dress to show off more leg."
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The Reddit user said she didn’t think that she looked "like that in any of my photos I gave her." She added that she told her friend she “will not be paying her” and “she needs to fix it or she can keep it.”
This ultimately caused an "argument" between the two as the bride wrote "she thinks I am a jerk for not paying" and for "pointing out" the changes from her figure to the painting.
"It is going around with my friends, some think I am being petty and others are standing by me," the former bride noted before asking the internet on whether or not she was right for refusing to pay.
Some people questioned why the woman’s friend did not send her "progress photos" of her sketches to ensure that it was what the bride wanted, to which the bride said that her friend was "going off the one picture I gave her."
One person commented, “As an artist myself I check in about those kinds of modifications along the way, to make sure the client is happy with the progress."
Others also backed up the bride’s decision to not pay the full $700 for the portrait if it wasn’t to her standards. One artist commented that as someone who paints commissions, it’s often an artist’s job to “stick to the request of the client.”
"Part of her job is listening to the client's response and adjusting her painting accordingly," the commenter said. "It makes no sense for her to get [paid] for a job poorly done. This was not a favor from her, you are paying her to do a job which she did not do and is continuing to refuse to do. I’d take the deposit as a loss and stand your ground."
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