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A bride-to-be mocked her fiancé for a mistake on the wedding registry.
In a viral TikTok video, Caroline Wise, a 25-year-old Texan, shared a text exchange with her fiancé Austin Reed Thomas, in which they discussed a mix-up over bamboo plates. Thomas had been panicking over what appeared to be a hilarious misunderstanding that Wise gleefully made fun of.
Wise superimposed a green screen over screenshots of the messages and said, “In today's edition of being in a relationship with a straight man…”
“My fiancé texted me about our wedding registry,” she continued. “He said, ‘Can you take those bamboo plates away? I’m allergic to bamboo.’” To which a shocked Wise replied, “Are you kidding me?”
When Thomas sent the bride a screenshot of the plates, Wise realized they were Pillivuyt's bamboo porcelain salad plates, which were clearly not made of bamboo at all. Instead, the cookware set (which comes in four plates total and is priced at $109.95) is made of porcelain with a delicate bamboo pattern on the plate's rim.
The bride-to-be quickly told her that she had nothing to worry about.
“It’s just the pattern. It’s not real bamboo. It’s ceramic,” he wrote. A little embarrassed, he replied: “How am I supposed to know that?”
“I love this man and at least he keeps it interesting,” she wrote in the caption of the video, which has garnered more than 1.7 million views since she posted it. People in the comments section found the situation hilarious.
“The fact that her response is 'How am I supposed to know that?' and not 'Oh my god, oops' is crazy,” one person wrote.
“GIRL IT'S NOT TOO LATE,” one user joked, while another added: “That would be a deal breaker for me.”
“Welcome to the rest of your life,” another person commented.
As more and more comments began calling Thomas’s mistake a red flag, Wise decided to set the record straight and defend her soon-to-be husband in a subsequent video. In particular, she responded to one comment that read, “Make sure you include them in the divorce.”
“I never thought I would wake up and find a thousand people on the internet telling me to cancel my wedding,” she said in the video. “But here I am!”
She defended their relationship, explaining that they met on Halloween two years ago and are expected to marry this November. However, people in the comments section continued to insist to Wise that her fiancé is a walking red flag.
“Unobservant men make for incompetent partners/parents,” one person wrote. “They rely on you to know everything for them… that’s my opinion.”
Wise replied: “Does your arm hurt from reaching for something that strong?”
