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A bride has made the decision to cancel invitations to 25 people at her wedding and wants to hear from the Internet on whether she did the right thing.
In a recent post on the popular subreddit “Am I the Idiot?” the woman explained that her wedding, which she had been planning for two years, was scheduled to take place on Halloween. However, both her grandmother and mother decided that the theme was “satanic” and needed “last-minute changes.”
“I told my mom and grandma no. My family has known for two years and because I told them no, half of my maternal family thought they would be adorable and not come in some random power struggle,” the post reads.
The bride responded by canceling wedding invitations to anyone who complained about the Halloween wedding or decided to defend her mother and grandmother.
“One of my sisters acted like she skipped her maid of honor duty so I filled in for her. It was about 25 people who decided to act stupid before the 6 weeks were up so I sent out unsolicited invites and sent out new QR codes for attendees and the venue will only be registered for people to enter,” the Reddit post continued.
Her aunt, who was not invited, tried to explain to her that people were “allowed to disagree with her” and that did not mean revoking her invitation.
“I told my aunt they had two years to complain but saying you can’t leave 6 weeks before my wedding is bullshit and they all got it wrong and found out my family won’t bully me for this,” the bride-to-be wrote.
Other Redditors weighed in with their thoughts in the comments section.
“They are allowed to disagree with you. From the comfort of their own homes,” one commenter wrote. “Telling someone their wedding is 1) Satanic and 2) needs to change is not ‘disagreeing.’ It’s a request for you to alter your wedding to suit them, and you are perfectly within your rights to refuse to spend the day with people who judge you so harshly. Have fun with guests who aren’t idiots.”
Another wrote: “You’ve spent two years planning your wedding and it’s your special day. It’s understandable that you feel frustrated when people try to impose their beliefs at the last minute. If you didn’t agree from the beginning, you should have spoken up sooner. You did what you had to do to protect your peace.”
“Your wedding, your decor choices, venue, etc,” another noted. “Anyone who wants to pull this kind of shenanigans six weeks out from the big event after having had two whole years (a total of about 104 weeks) to do so is a stalker of the worst kind and you don’t need people like that in your life.”
