His Wife Was Devastated When Her Cousin’s Boyfriend Proposed In The Middle of Their Wedding Reception, So He Kicked The Couple Out
Two weeks ago, this 32-year-old man and his wife, 26, got married. At the reception, his wife’s 24-year-old cousin, Rachel, attended with her boyfriend, Ross, 25.
It turned out that Ross had bought an engagement ring and had the ring in his pocket during the wedding reception, but he was hoping for the perfect moment to propose.
During the bouquet toss, Rachel was the one who caught it.
“Ross decided that Rachel catching the bouquet was a sign. So, immediately after Rachel caught the bouquet, Ross ran out to the dance floor and got down on one knee to propose to her,” he said.
“She said yes, and so, obviously, this shifted all of the attention onto Ross and Rachel. Everyone surrounded them to congratulate them, and then Rachel asked the DJ to play ‘their song’ for them to dance, which derailed the next few things we had planned.”
Understandably, he was irritated, especially because he and his wife had only booked their photographer for a specific amount of time, so they didn’t have time for specially planned moments to get off track.
However, he was devastated on behalf of his wife because he could tell that she was deeply upset that the attention was being diverted onto Ross and Rachel instead.
“My wife is really not the type of person to want a lot of attention or to be comfortable spending a lot of money on herself, so our wedding was the one special day when she was able to do so without feeling guilty about it, and seeing it get ruined for her was awful. I decided to ask Ross and Rachel to leave, and at the time, my wife agreed with me,” he explained.
After coming to this decision, he finally found a moment to talk to Ross alone while out on the dance floor.
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“I told Ross that I didn’t appreciate him upstaging us and that I thought it would be best if he and Rachel left so we could enjoy the rest of the night,” he continued.
“Ross started arguing with me, saying that I was acting nuts, which caused more of a scene than I expected or wanted because a small group of our wedding guests overheard the conversation and jumped in with their opinions.”
Eventually, Ross and Rachel relented and left. However, throughout the rest of the reception, guests gossiped about Ross’s proposal, as well as how Ross and Rachel were asked to leave because of it.
Despite everyone appearing to be on their side, he and his wife didn’t like that the conversations continued to revolve around Ross and Rachel.
The whole point of kicking them out in the first place was so that he and his wife could put the proposal out of their minds and have fun.
Now, in hindsight, his wife thinks that it would have been a better idea to just feign excitement for Ross and Rachel and just try to move on.
She thinks that if they’d done that, maybe the guests would have eventually moved on, too, and just enjoyed the reception.
In her view, it seems like kicking Ross and Rachel out backfired because it drew even more attention to the proposal, which wasn’t her husband’s intention.
Then, Rachel’s mother reached out to his wife’s mother about the situation and said that it was inappropriate for him to confront Ross on the dance floor.
Rachel’s mother believed that he should have gone with Ross to a private area to discuss his feelings.
She added that Ross making a bad decision to propose at someone’s wedding became a bigger deal because he and Rachel were kicked out, and now that’s the most vivid memory guests will have from the wedding.
Do you think he was wrong to ask Ross and Rachel to leave the wedding reception?
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