She’s Only Letting One Of Her Cousins Bring A Plus One To Her Wedding, And This Made Waves In Her Family
A 28-year-old woman is tying the knot in a few more months, and she and her 28-year-old husband-to-be are paying for the entire thing alone.
Since they have no financial help with funding their wedding, they decided to only include 50 guests to keep things more affordable.
They have already made a list of everyone they would like to invite, which is basically only their closest family members and friends, and they didn’t want anyone to have a plus one.
She thought that not letting her guests have a plus one would be fine, but then she made an exception for one of her guests.
So, she does have several sets of cousins that she is inviting to her wedding, and a few of them are married so they were allowed to bring their spouses.
However, 4 of her male cousins (who also are siblings) have girlfriends that they have been with for between 4 months to 2 years, and she didn’t invite any of their girlfriends…except for one of them.
Her cousin Anthony has a girlfriend that she feels is more like her friend than just some girl her cousin is dating.
“We talk on the phone regularly, I have dinner at her house at least once a month, and she has been helpful with small planning things like calling florists and helping pick out decorations,” she explained.
“We met two years ago when she and Anthony started dating and have built a strong friendship.”
Denys – stock.adobe.com
Sign up for Chip Chick’s newsletter and get stories like this delivered to your inbox.
So Anthony’s three other brothers Tate, Blake, and Jake all have girlfriends that she doesn’t spend a lot of time with.
She doesn’t live remotely close to any of her cousins and their girlfriends, and so she’s never been given the opportunity to develop a friendship with any of these girls.
“I don’t dislike them at all, I’m just not close enough to want to give three seats to them at our 50 person wedding,” she said.
“I’ll add that if a lot of people RSVP with regrets, I wouldn’t be opposed to adding them later, but there are other friends and family friends I would choose first.”
She did already send out her save the dates, and her family quickly figured out that Anthony was the only one of the unmarried cousins to get a plus one.
This made waves in her family, and all of her cousins aside from Anthony feel slighted and that she doesn’t take their girlfriends “seriously.”
“…The girlfriends have been sending texts to others in the family about their plan to book an Airbnb near the wedding venue for anyone else “not invited,” she continued.
“This is hurtful to me, but maybe what I did crossed some sort of line. Should I have omitted Anthony’s girlfriend? Am I being unfair in choosing one girlfriend over the others?”
“I’ll add that there are other girlfriends and boyfriends that are not invited, and none of them seem to have any issue with us omitting plus ones.”
Do you think it was wrong of her to only invite Anthony’s girlfriend and not the boyfriends or girlfriends of other family members? You can read the original post on Reddit here.
If true crime defines your free time, this is for you: join Chip Chick’s True Crime Tribe.
More About:Weddings
