Her Dad Said He Booked A Vacation And Won’t Be Attending Her Wedding, All Because She Didn’t Invite Her Stepmom To Go Dress Shopping With Her
It’s upsetting when you’re trying to plan your dream wedding but feel like you have to please everyone around you in the process.
One woman is stuck in a storm of family drama after not inviting her stepmother to go wedding dress shopping. Now, her dad is saying he won’t go to her wedding.
She’s 22 years old and got engaged last summer. Although she’s excited to get married, issues within her family have made wedding planning quite stressful.
Her parents are divorced, and her dad remarried. Unfortunately, her parents don’t do anything together, and she can’t have her mom and stepmom involved in the same wedding planning activities.
When her mom threw her an engagement party for her side of the family, her dad and stepmom let her know that her stepmom was upset about missing out on the celebrations.
So, she decided to do some wedding planning activities with her stepmom and different ones with her mom so that she could please everyone. She does see her stepmom like another mother figure and wanted to make sure her feelings weren’t hurt.
However, her stepmom had a weird request. She didn’t want to know about the planning activities she wouldn’t be involved in.
This fall, she carefully selected which wedding planning activities each person would be involved in. She asked her stepmom to pick the venue with her, and it went well.
In October, her stepmom asked her when they’d go wedding dress shopping together. However, she had already gone shopping and picked out her dress with her mom one month before.
Viacheslav Yakobchuk – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
When she broke the news to her stepmom, she reminded her that she didn’t say anything because of her request not to know what she wasn’t involved in.
Her stepmom was very upset and told her she couldn’t go to the wedding because she was still hurt. Her dad got involved and was angry with her for upsetting his wife. He told her she wouldn’t be invited to visit them anymore.
“I told him I have been the one making peace and apologizing since I was a child,” she said. “It is a pattern for [her] to blow things out of proportion and not take accountability for it.”
For months, she struggled to communicate with her dad, who began to say he wouldn’t go to the wedding. In the winter, she and her dad finally decided to sit with a counselor to see if they could fix things.
But before the session, he laid out a list of ridiculous rules he wanted her to follow at the wedding. Some included seating him far away from her mom, her mom and stepdad couldn’t participate in the ceremony with them, only he and his wife would be giving her away, etc.
She told her dad there was no way she’d abide by his rules at her wedding. Since then, things have gotten worse with her dad. He began spreading false rumors about her relationship with other relatives. The other day, when she asked him if he’d RSVP to her wedding, he told her he had booked a vacation instead.
Should she try and make things right with her dad and stepmom or leave them out of the wedding?
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