Brother and new sister-in-law get mad when sister gets engaged at the Grand Canyon 3 days after their wedding: '[They] said the timing and location were hurtful and that we shouldn’t planned around the wedding'

Brad Dickson • Managing Editor

Dec 27, 2024 12:00 PM EST

For some reason, there's a particularly common and troubling thing that happens at important events and celebrations when guests—often those closest to the celebrants, try to make the day about themselves by announcing their own important thing at that event, taking attention away from the hosts and guests of honor and turning it towards themselves instead.

This is dreadfully common, and you can chalk it up to sheer incompetence, egotism, and immersion in the event, resulting in a loss of oneself in the excitement of the celebration. Usually, it will be a combination of all these things and more. Still, as with anything, there are limits as to what actually constitutes "thunder stealing," which mainly has to do with the relatedness of said thing to said event.

Certainly, getting engaged at your brother's wedding is disrespectful to your brother and his bride and generally out of bounds—but how about getting married after your brother's wedding? How long after? How far away from the event?

I think we can all generally accept that getting engaged three days after the wedding and far away from the venue at a massive public landmark (the literal Grand Canyon) is probably a safe bet. The day is yours, but two things you don't have claim to are distant locations and time itself, and the nuance of the timing of the supposed offense is key.
Still, this didn't stop this brother and sister-in-law from getting upset when his sister and her fiancé got engaged at the Grand Canyon days after her brother's wedding.
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