Wedding guest sits in the middle of the dance floor during bride and groom’s first dance: ‘The jealous best friend’

It takes a special kind of person to want to be the center of attention at someone else’s wedding. Weddings are one of the only times in your life when you can take up all the attention and not feel bad about it. It’s your day, and nobody can take that away from you. You …
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20+ Moments When Wedding Guests Knew the Couple Wasn’t Going To Make It

Have you ever been to a wedding where you said «yikes?» Weddings are a great way for a couple to show the world what kind of couple they are. How you approach your wedding says a lot about you as a person. Maybe you want a huge wedding where everybody can participate and witness your …
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Hospital Denies Employee’s PTO Request For Her Sister’s Wedding 6 Months in Advance, Approves Assistant Manager’s 3 Week Vacation Instantly: ‘I’m The Maid of Honor.’

How do they know that they’ll have a staffing shortage in six months?  PTO can be such a contentious issue in already contentious workplaces. If your company is functioning well, an employee should be able to take off any days of the year they please with the paid time off they’ve earned. If they’ve earned …
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Bride-to-be asks her lifelong best friend to be maid of honor, then sends her a spreadsheet showing it will cost $4,700 to participate: ‘Money is part of showing up’

Would you spend $4,700 to stand beside your best friend on her wedding day? After being asked to serve as maid of honor in her best friend’s wedding, a woman was shocked to receive a spreadsheet estimating that the role would cost her nearly $4,700. When she explained that the expense wasn’t realistic for her …
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Maid-of-honor helps plan all events only to be demoted to bridesmaid during the rehearsal dinner: ‘The actual MOH has been the other girl all along’

Would you be upset if your wedding title was suddenly demoted? Humans are simple creatures. We like to be told that we’re important. We like to know that we’re needed by the people in our lives. That includes our friends, and at their weddings. That’s what happened in this story, shared on the MildlyInfuriating subreddit. …
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Mom-to-be refuses to be maid of honor for wedding that’s 9 days after her due date, bride doesn’t understand why she can’t attend: ‘This isn’t like me getting a cavity filled’

Would you attend a wedding 9 days postpartum? Weddings are a big deal. They’re usually all-day or all-weekend events, and they require a lot out you, even as a guest. They are expensive, overblown deals and you sacrifice a lot of your time and energy to them. This doesn’t always feel good to do, even …
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Bride calls out 39-year-old who claims she can’t afford a wedding gift but spends $500 on her outfit: ‘We’re almost 40 now and her prioritizing looking hot has long since become sad’

Other people’s weddings are not about you. Plain and simple. Sure, it’s fun to dress up and party with your friends, but ultimately, you’re there to celebrate the couple. They should be the focal point of the evening, not you. But this is difficult for some folks to internalize. They see a wedding as an …
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Entitled bride fines bridesmaid $100 for missing ‘mandatory’ spray tan: ‘I have eczema, […] derm said hard no’

Becoming an adult means realizing that nothing is truly mandatory except for death and taxes. Sure, people may try to get you to do things, but you don’t have to. You might face the consequences of not doing them, but that’s your decision to make. This is especially true when it comes to weddings. You …
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Wedding planner seats guests alphabetically by first name, separating them from their dates: ‘One table was pretty much just women named Sue/Susan/Suzanne who didn’t know each other at all’

Going to a wedding is a big social event. Sure, you’re there to celebrate the happy couple, but you’re also there to hang out with all the other guests. Actually, that’s mainly what you’ll be doing since the couple is probably going to be busy. You have to spend the whole (usually all-day) affair with …
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Bride refuses to let maid-of-honor be part of wedding planning and pre-events, after she told her she couldn’t attend the wedding due to booking a photography gig on the same day, refusing to cancel it 7 months in advance: ‘She has a policy not to cancel’

Being asked to be in someone’s bridal party is an honor, but being asked to be their maid of honor…Well, it’s clearly written in the name! It isn’t always the easiest role, there are definitely important responsibilities that come with the title, but when it is for someone we love, nothing about creating their perfect wedding …
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