This bride was approached by her family, who demanded that she give up her wedding plans to her sister, who "Needs it more" after she fell unexpectedly pregnant. When she declined to answer the demand, her parents began to usurp her bookings and contact her reservations behind her back.
This story was shared by Redditor, u/paperweightfairy, to the r/entitledparents subreddit, where it has become one of the highest voted posts of all time for the sub. As you might expect from the name, r/entitledparents is a sub where people can share stories they have experienced with entitled people who think that they are a gift to the earth just because they crapped out a child. These stories often center on people's parents and the entitled and selfish things that their parents have put them through.
Such was the case for u/paperweightfairy, who will hereafter be referred to as the OP (Original Poster.)
OP had planned her wedding for years, she explains, as she had been finishing her Ph.D. She and her fiancé had been sure to book in her "dream venue" for after her graduation, which is when the two planned to finally be married after a three-year engagement.
This delayed engagement indicates a significant trend among younger generations getting married at lower rates than ever before.
A two-year-old study conducted in 2020 indicated that only 3 in 10 millennials have a family of their own. Down from 4 in 10 amongst Gen-Xers and 59% of Boomers when they were at comparable ages.[1]
All indications are that modern work and education requirements and decreased affordability thanks to higher costs of living have contributed to these declines.
OPs family, frantic and the news of her sister's pregnancy, ambushed her at a family barbecue and insisted that she give her approaching wedding reservations to her younger sister.
When OP declined to give her reservations to her sister, her sister rushed off in tears. Her mother then retorted, "You waited three years. Would it have killed you to wait a few more months?"
This would be the beginning of a major ordeal for OP and her fiancé. Her family would begin using underhanded and shady tactics to try to tear their reservation away from them. It just begs the question; Wouldn't it have been a better use of time and energy to just put that energy towards planning an additional wedding?
Luckily for OP, and seldom the case in these stories, her future in-laws were a voice of reason. Her father-in-law stepped in to help his son and daughter-in-law out and told her parents to "F*** right off." Read on for the full story below.
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