She Claims That Her Parents Were Beyond Obnoxious And “Ruined” Her Little Sister’s Wedding This Past Summer, So She Uninvited Them From Her Own Wedding
This woman claims that her parents are simply just overbearing people. According to her, both her mom and dad have massive personalities, and they will “steamroll” anyone and everyone who tries to get in their way.
And unfortunately, their tendencies seriously came out at her little sister’s wedding this past summer. In fact, she claims that her parents were more obnoxious than ever before.
First of all, her parents reportedly delivered “terrible” speeches during the reception. Then, they got the DJ– who happened to be her cousin– to play really bad music in order to make the “older folks” happy.
Well, she actually claims that they nearly tackled the DJ to make that playlist happen.
“They literally, not figuratively, pushed my cousin out of the way to look through his music,” she recalled. Yikes!
Probably the worst thing that her parents did at the wedding, though, was actually bullying her sister into making the photographer take family pictures of her sister with everyone outside of the wedding party.
And these were not just photos of each family sitting at their tables during the reception, either. No, according to her, her parents pushed for straight-up portraits to be taken of each group because they reasoned that everyone was “already there” and “dressed up.”
Even though that might sound kind of reasonable, too, she claims that the photos took forever.
To paint the picture: there were about fifteen different families invited, and she claimed that none of the photo ops went quickly or smoothly.
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“That was an extra hour and a half of pictures in the middle of [my sister’s] wedding day. The reception started late because of my parents. My sister was on her feet for an extra ninety minutes,” she revealed. Can you even imagine?
Plus, she admitted that she could go on and on about various other ways her parents impacted her sister’s wedding.
But the most important thing she walked away with was knowing exactly how she did not want her own wedding to go.
So, now that she is engaged and gearing up to plan her wedding, she literally told her parents that they better not try “any of that sh*t” on her big day.
According to her, though, her parents just said that was “who they were” and that they refused to change for anyone.
And understandably, she did not like hearing that answer from her parents. In fact, it made her pretty freaking nervous about what might happen or go wrong on one of the biggest days of her life.
In turn, she ended up talking to her fiancé about her concerns, and they decided together to uninvite her parents from the wedding!
More specifically, she told her parents that they were welcome to go to the church and watch her actual wedding ceremony as normal guests.
However, she said they were not allowed to be near her wedding party, in any of the pictures, or at her wedding reception.
“And they are not helping us pay for the wedding, so we don’t really owe them anything,” she reasoned.
Obviously, though, this plan did not go over well with her entire family. In fact, her sister was really the only person who understood her perspective and took her side.
So, the rest of her family has essentially taken her parents’ side– claiming that her mom and dad just are who they are and that it is really unfair of her to expect them to change for any reason.
And now, with the wedding getting closer and closer every day, she has been left wondering if uninviting her parents from her wedding because of how they “ruined” her sister’s wedding was justified or if it just makes her a jerk.
If your parents acted the way her parents did at her sister’s wedding, would you feel like your big day was “ruined” too? Is it reasonable for brides to want their wedding to go a certain way? Do you think uninviting her parents is overboard, or is it justified if they refuse to change their behavior? How would you go about handling this sticky situation?
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