Bride’s parents demand she ‘tone down’ her wedding after sister was left at the altar
IT’S one day of your life where you’re guaranteed to have all eyes on you. But unfortunately for one bride-to-be, her wedding will be much more low-key affair after her parents asked her to “tone it down” for her sister’s sake. Posting on Reddit’s “Am I The A******” forum, the woman explained how her sister […]
IT’S one day of your life where you’re guaranteed to have all eyes on you.
But unfortunately for one bride-to-be, her wedding will be much more low-key affair after her parents asked her to “tone it down” for her sister’s sake.
Posting on Reddit’s “Am I The A******” forum, the woman explained how her sister had been left at the altar last December.
She wrote: “She found out she wasn’t getting married when the groom showed up to the church late, asked her to go into another room with him in full view of everyone already seated, and a few minutes later she left the church while he announced that the wedding was off.”
However, the bride says her sister’s wedding was “significantly larger” than her 60-guest affair which is shaping up to be fairly “low-key”.
Last week, the bride was on the phone to her sister when she asked if the wedding was still happening out of the blue.
She continued: “I said of course it was, why wouldn’t it be? She said “no reason” and then said she had to go.
“I called mum today and she asked why I was talking about my wedding with my sister, said I upset her and need to tone the wedding down.
“I thought she meant talking about the wedding and responded that my sister was the one who asked, but then mum said she meant the actual wedding.”
Now her parents have asked the bride if she would consider having her wedding in a registry office with just two other people for witnesses.
What’s more, her parents are now offering to reimburse the couple’s deposit on their wedding venue if they agree to “tone down” their day.
She added: “I said no, he’s not paying us a penny because we’re not cancelling. He then said it would be easier for everyone. I said I had to go.”
Understandably angry and upset, the bride then called her sister to ask if she truly wanted her to cancel her wedding.
“She confirmed it,” the bride said. “And went on to say I was insensitive/cruel for going ahead with my wedding after what happened with hers and that our weddings should never have been so close together, anyway.”
Although the bride is reluctant to change her wedding plans so dramatically, she added: “I still have this guilt in the pit of my stomach and I feel really bad at upsetting my sister. I don’t want to lose her over this but I feel she’s being unreasonable.”
My fiance says we shouldn’t let her wedding affect ours, and while I do want to be sensitive to her, I kind of agree with him…
Unsurprisingly, other users on the forum rallied around the bride and urged her not to give in to her family’s demands.
One replied: “Your sister wants to ruin your dream wedding because she didn’t get hers. It is beyond selfish what she and your parents are asking.”
Another added: “Something tells me if the roles were reversed, she would have no problem going ahead with her wedding.
“Grief makes people do weird things sometimes, but this reaction makes me think she might be a golden child and had pulled this kind of stuff before, but on a smaller scale. The fact that the parents are siding with the sister is insane.”
Meanwhile, a third waded in with: “[You] should consider having a bigger and flashier wedding. Tone down my a**.”
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