A bride-to-be has revealed how a wedding guest became furious after he was not allowed to stay in the honeymoon suite on their first night as newlyweds.
The unnamed woman took to Reddit‘sr/weddingshaming forum to vent after learning her fiancé’s great-aunt had thought it was “rude” not to be offered a bed in the same cabin as the lovebirds.
She began by explaining that she and her fiancé are having “a very causal wedding on his family’s hunting grounds in Northern Michigan.”
The bride-to-be said the ceremony would be ‘small’, with just 12 members of ‘just immediate family’, followed by a reception for 100 people – all on the hunting grounds.
A bride-to-be has revealed how a wedding guest became enraged after she was not allowed to stay in the honeymoon suite on their first night as newlyweds
The unnamed woman took to Reddit’s r/weddingshaming forum to vent after hearing that her fiancé’s great-aunt thought it was “rude” not to be offered a bed in the same cabin as the lovebirds (stock image)
In the post, the bride-to-be explained that her fiancé has a great aunt who he hadn’t seen in eight years, and who she had also “never met in the five years we’ve been together.”
They invited her to the reception but not to the ceremony, “as did the vast majority of the family,” the woman pointed out.
“When she returned her RSVP, she wrote on the card, ‘No ceremony, no attendance, we are family!!’ And declined this invitation,” the woman described.
‘My fiance and I were shocked! The whole year leading up to the wedding, we told the entire family that the ceremony would be small, short and sweet, so it shouldn’t have been a surprise to her at all.
“If she really cared that much, she could have just declined the invitation, no rude note needed.”
A few weeks later, the couple went to dinner with the groom-to-be’s parents and mentioned the great aunt’s rude comment when she declined the invitation.
The parents then intervened and said she had complained to them further about wanting to ‘stay in the little hut on the hunting grounds’.
“Apparently this woman, who I’ve never met, and who my fiancée hasn’t seen in eight years, wanted to stay in the little cabin on the hunting grounds.
Many took to the comments and shared similar stories, out of sympathy for the woman who posted the original post
‘The same cabin my fiance and I will be staying in after the wedding!!
‘She knew we would be staying in the cabin and was offended that we had not invited her to stay with us and that it was ‘rude to expect important guests to have to stay in a hotel if there is accommodation available’ , the spokesperson said. bride-to-be furious about great-aunt’s entitlement.
In an update, the woman admitted that her original title for the post – ‘The daring of the elderly never ceases to amaze me’ – had been a ‘little rude’.
‘Not all older people are terrible!!’ she clarified.
“I originally said that based on my future in-laws’ comments that she always pulled the age card in the past in an attempt to get special treatment.”
Hundreds of other Reddit users took to the comments to commiserate with the original poster.
‘We had a wedding with 100 people, I decided not to invite my adult cousin (as we had an argument and hadn’t spoken in six years, she was 37). When she found out she was having such a seizure, her parents said they wouldn’t be there if she wasn’t invited. I said, “Okay! I’ll take you off the list.”
“Invited great friends that we didn’t have room for and moved on. The fun part was that a week later I found out that she had just gotten married a month earlier and hadn’t invited me! Lol I love it when the trash takes itself out,” one person wrote.
‘Haha, that’s great!!! Same thing happened at my cousin’s wedding,” came another.
‘They got married at my parents’ house. We have an aunt who is not close to the family and was not invited to the dinner/ceremony, just the reception (same as you, that part was small, just immediate family, then the reception was everyone) and on one Somehow she just assumed that she and her kids had a room at my parents’ house to sleep in… she and my mom haven’t spoken in years after she stole a bunch of jewelry from her!
“She ended up booking a hotel but then got too drunk and slept in her car in a horse pasture lol,” the anecdote concluded.
A third chimed in with another hilarious, infuriating story.
‘We rented a small lodge for our wedding and reserved a wheelchair-accessible room for my husband’s grandmother.
‘It was a little bigger than the others, so there was room for her wheelchair, and it had a terrace. My husband’s aunt (grandma’s daughter) made passive-aggressive comments to us all weekend about not giving her the big room with the patio.
“Maybe because you’re not in a damn wheelchair, Aunt Kathy!”