He Got Asked To Drive His Fiancée’s Maid Of Honor To The Airport At 5:00 A.M. The Day After Their Wedding, And He Thinks It’s Really Disrespectful
This 42-year-old man and his fiancée, 34, are getting married next week.
Since they’d been so busy with planning the wedding and running errands, they were recently hanging out on the couch and spending some time just resting together.
While he and his fiancée were hanging out, his fiancée’s maid of honor, Lisa, called.
She was talking to Lisa about some wedding details, and then she looked at him while she was still on the phone and told him that they needed to give Lisa a ride to the airport the morning after their wedding, telling him that her flight was at 8 a.m.
This meant that they would have to wake up at about 5 a.m. since the airport was a 35-minute drive away, and Lisa would have to be at the airport by around 6 a.m. so that she could make her flight.
“I said, ‘Really? We have to wake up at 5 a.m. the day after our wedding to give her a ride to the airport? How about I get her an Uber? Does that work?’ She gave me a death stare. I knew Lisa could hear what I was saying. Isn’t the day after your wedding supposed to be sleeping in, intimacy, and relaxation?” he said.
His fiancée is originally from the Philippines, and she’s been an American citizen for the last 13 years. She has her driver’s license, but she feels nervous driving on the highway, so the plan would be for him to drive Lisa to the airport, and his fiancée would come along for the ride.
Apparently, Lisa’s husband doesn’t want her to take an Uber to the airport because he doesn’t think that would be safe. He’s not positive that Lisa’s husband really feels that way, but this was what Lisa said.
“We live in Portland, Oregon, not Ciudad Juarez, Mexico,” he explained.
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Within his fiancée’s Filipino culture, it’s normal for people to do whatever they can for family or close friends they care about.
For her, Lisa is like family, and so she wants to help her. He acknowledges that some cultures value helping each other and working together more than others.
“For example, I was kicked out of my parents’ house at 16 for using substances. I became extraordinarily self-sufficient at a very young age. My fiancée lived with her parents and three to four other siblings until her first marriage at age 24,” he shared.
Plus, it’s customary for those in the Filipino culture to live with their parents until they get married. When they work, they often send some money to their family members back home to help financially support them.
He understands that this is all part of his fiancée’s culture, and he accepts it and has respect for their values and customs.
Despite all of this, he still doesn’t want to have to be the one driving Lisa to the airport. He doesn’t want his fiancée to have to do it, either, and he believes that helping Lisa get a taxi or an Uber would be a better option for her. He was thinking about calling Lisa’s husband to assure him that it wouldn’t be dangerous.
Lisa and her husband live in Virginia, and she spent a month visiting family in the Philippines. After her stay, she flew back home to Virginia to see her husband and son for a week before flying to Portland for the wedding.
In 2020, he built a guest house on the property he and his fiancée own in order to make some extra money during the pandemic.
So, Lisa has been staying in their guest house instead of at a hotel so that she could save some money after all the expensive flights she’s been taking and because she had to take so much time off of work for all this traveling.
In the end, a bridesmaid was willing to give Lisa a ride to the airport instead.
While on the phone with his fiancée, Lisa didn’t ask her directly for a ride but just heavily insinuated that she would appreciate it, saying that she had a flight at 8 a.m. the day after the wedding. So, his fiancée wanted to help Lisa.
Do you think he was right to be annoyed that he would have had to give Lisa a ride to the airport the morning after his wedding?
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