She Brought Her Own Food To Her Cousin’s Wedding And Her Cousin Got Upset With Her For Doing So

A 26-year-old woman has a slew of medical problems, and some of those issues do impact how she can eat.
She has to really restrict her diet in an effort to help her medical problems.
Several weeks ago, her cousin got married, and when she saw the menu that her cousin picked out for wedding food, she realized she couldn’t eat anything but some of the appetizers.
“Even then, I am a little uncomfortable because they chose buffet style for the side dishes and catering creates a lot of opportunity for cross-contamination,” she explained.
“I would never expect someone to change or add to their wedding menu on my behalf so I messaged her as soon as we received the menu and just let her know that I would be unable to dine with them at the reception because of the dietary stuff and let her know that I would come back after I was able to eat.”
She sent her cousin the message through Facebook, and although she could see her cousin opened up the message, she never got a reply back.
Knowing that her cousin probably had a lot on her plate with wedding-related activities, she thought the best thing to do would be to make a lunchbox of things she could eat and put in her car on the day of the wedding.
She figure during her cousin’s wedding, if she felt hungry, she could just run out to her car to get something to eat and then return to the wedding.
When it came time for the wedding reception and dinner to be served, she got up to leave and her cousin quickly made a beeline for her.

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Her cousin confronted her and wanted to know why she was leaving, and so she let her cousin know that she had some food in the car that she was going to grab and she would return as soon as she ate.
“She got an appalled look on her face and asked why I would bring food to a wedding I knew would have some of the best,” she said.
“I let her know about the restrictions and reminded her about the message. She said “I just figured you were being dramatic and someone in the family would get you under control. Guess nobody could.” My jaw hit the floor.”
“I wish that my restrictions could be casually broken, but unfortunately I get quite ill if I break the food boundary. It is well known within my family that this is true. I’ve ruined a holiday or two by accidentally eating contaminated food.”
She had no idea what to even say to her cousin, so she walked away from her and headed out to her car to eat.
She hoped that once she had eaten, she would be in a better state of mind to figure out how to handle her cousin, but after she are, she was so angry she was shaking.
She returned to her cousin’s wedding and took her seat, but then her uncle and aunt came rushing over to share with her that her cousin felt hurt that she brought her own food to the wedding.
“I explained (although I still feel a certain sort of way about having to explain) the restrictions again and told them I tried to be as polite as humanly possible by reaching out beforehand and leaving my snacks out of sight of the reception guests,” she continued.
“They told me it gave the whole wedding a bad look and if it was really that big of a deal then I needed to eat beforehand.”
She genuinely doesn’t know if she was wrong to bring food to her cousin’s wedding, but she couldn’t eat much there at all.

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