An anonymous bride is getting dragged online after her outrageous wedding drama and guests requirement went viral on Reddit.
According to the post, the bride-to-be was trying to charge guests an entrance fee to her wedding. But after the groom found out and nixed the idea, things blew up.
The long tale was first shared on Facebook.
A screenshot of the novella-esque post, which was allegedly written by the bride, was later shared in the subreddit CringePics. In that forum, the bride goes into great detail about why she’s suddenly canceling her wedding — and boy, is it a doozy of a tale.
“Dear Friends,” her post begins. “It comes with great sadness that I am announcing the cancellation of the [redacted] wedding … Unfortunately, [redacted] and I have broken up due to some recent and irreparable problems. We have decided to end our relationship and not go forth with any future proceedings.”
The almost-bride does share that she and her ex are committed to being “civil” with one another and plan to co-parent their son, whose age is not mentioned. However, she did note that the decision to end their engagement comes after “hours of tears and mental exhaustion.”
The bride could have left things at that but chose to keep going …
“How did it all come crashing down?” she asked in her post. “Well, I invite you all on Facebook — players, bystanders, and side characters of the people in my life — to take a seat and listen.”
“You’re all involved somehow,” the bride continued. “Somehow, everyone is wrapped into this mess. Even if you weren’t invited to my wedding, I don’t care. You might hear of the drama and I’d rather you hear it from me.”
Before she begins, she asks the reader to put themselves in her shoes.
“For once, let me take the stage and let me voice the most painful few months of my life,” she continued.
“First, things were a fairytale,” she wrote. “I met the love of my life at 14. We were both young, but somehow we just knew we were meant to be. We worked on my family’s farm together and each warm summer spent in the fields our love grew deeper and deeper.”
By 18, they were engaged, and by 20, they found out they were pregnant.
“We were elated, tearful, and thankful to God for this gift,” the bride wrote.
After welcoming their son, Declyn, the couple decided to put their wedding on hold and focus on becoming more financially stable first.
“We saved and saved,” she recalled. “I was in love, I was happy, and I was looking forward to life. We continued working and even got our degrees. It was hard, yes, but so blissfully worth it.”
During that time, the couple managed to save up $15,000 for what they hoped to be “an extravagant blow-out wedding” that would include their son. But when they started touring venues, they were torn between two.
“A local psychic told us to go with the more expensive option and we thought, ‘Why the h— not?’” the bride went on. “We just needed a little push.”
The only problem? When they actually did the numbers, that “more expensive option” — paired with everything else they wanted, which included flights to Aruba — added up to a whopping $60,000.
Apparently, the bride wasn’t deterred.
“All we asked for was a little help from friends and family to make it happen,” she explained.
That “help” came in the form of an entrance fee, which would give them the funds they needed to pay off the remaining wedding balance.
“I SPECIFICALLY, I mean SPECIFICALLY asked for cash gifts,” the bride went on, “How could we have OUR wedding that WE dreamed of without proper funding? We’d sacrificed so much and only asked each guest for around $1,500 each.”
After sending out their wedding invites, the couple eagerly awaited replies
“We made it CLEAR [in the invites]. If you couldn’t contribute, you weren’t invited to our exclusive wedding,” the bride wrote. “It’s a once in a lifetime party.”
In the meantime, close friends and family came forward to offer their contributions — including $5,000 from the maid of honor and $3,000 from the groom’s family.
Still, there was a long way to go to make up $60,000, so the couple set up an additional GoFundMe campaign to add to the pot.
