So, I get that everything's been done before. My wedding, as beautiful as I thought it was, was by no means the most original event ever put on. No big deal. That said...
This has been a huge wedding year for my family (literally 5 weddings, all exactly 4 weeks apart). My aunt got married 4 weeks after I did, and it was actually kind of cool how many details we had in common with each other because we planned completely independently of each other. It wasn't weird at all that we had similar locations, types of food, colors, flowers, etc. because the end results were each unique to us and, for all the similarities (she did go out and get all the wines I served because she liked them so much, for example), the weddings each had different vibes and were completely different experiences.
My cousin's wedding coming up next month, however, is feeling a little strange for me. His mom (my other aunt) is basically recreating my wedding in every detail possible for him and his FI. She is serving all the same food (literally every single item off the menu, using the same recipes), is using my playlist, is having my same wedding cake, same beverages, same color scheme and flowers, same invitations (and I handmade those suckers!), and even boxed up a chunk of my decorations to reuse at his wedding, without ever asking if that was ok. She even took the table runners I had made so she could use them at my cousin's wedding. This was especially awkward because I had agreed to give them to my rental guy after my wedding because he liked them so much (in exchange for a nice reduction in his fees--and my aunt KNEW this), but they were nowhere to be found the next day. Lo and behold...my cousin's FI is posting pictures of them on facebook from halfway across the U.S. Even our dresses are similar. After seeing my dress, the FI decided to ditch her ballgown and go for a sheath with an empire waistline.
My cousin's FI has also "scalped" half of my bridesmaids. After talking to them at my wedding, she asked them to be in her wedding (even though she had never met them before that day) to replace members of her bridal party that she had kicked out. Since these girls are family, they felt too awkward to say no because my bridesmaids didn't want to disappoint my cousin. His FI told me that they looked so good up there with me, that she wanted to make sure she had the same look at her wedding. She's even making them wear the same BM dresses for her wedding, just in a different color so the aesthetic will be the same.
Is this as weird as I think it is? Like I said before, I understand weddings are rarely original, but this seems to go beyond imitation being the sincerest form of flattery (although I do appreciate that obviously they liked my wedding). I also understand that in the long run, none of this matters at all, but that still doesn't stop me from just looking at this situation and thinking, wtf?