This bride was approached by her family, who demanded that she give up her wedding plans to her sister who "Needs it more" after her sister fell unexpectedly pregnant. When she declined to give in to 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. Though, often, these stories center on people's own 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 as she had been finishing her Ph.D. She and her fiancé had been sure to book her "dream venue," where the two planned to be married after a three-year engagement.
This delayed engagement is not surprising following the trend among younger generations who have been getting married at lower rates than ever before.
A two-year-old study indicated that only 3 in 10 millennials have a family of their own. Down from 4 in 10 amongst Gen X-ers and both down from 59% of Boomers when they were at comparable ages.
All indications are that modern work and education requirements and decreased affordability thanks to higher living costs have contributed to these declines.
OP's 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 begin a significant ordeal for OP and her fiancé. Her family would start using underhanded and shady tactics to tear their reservation away from them.
It begs the question; Wouldn't it have been a better use of time and energy to just, instead, 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."
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