A French woman took to Reddit to find out if she was wrong for uninviting her aunt from her post-wedding celebrations, even though her aunt had traveled across the world to attend the event.
A French bride, marrying her South African husband, found herself in a challenging situation with her aunt on her wedding weekend. The couple had meticulously planned a small, intimate wedding in a private savanna reserve in South Africa, inviting only 30 people, including 13 guests from France. They wanted to ensure that only their closest and most loved people attended the ceremony and the pool party the next day.
The bride and groom rented a lodge where some of their guests would be staying for the weekend. The lodge accommodated 10 people. The bride, in a gesture of extending an olive branch, invited an aunt with whom she had not spoken for eight years, hoping to mend past differences.
This decision was made despite the wedding’s intimate nature, which did not allow for plus-ones. The bride told her aunt that although she was invited, her husband and child were not, since the couple did not know them. However, there were many people at the wedding with whom the aunt would feel comfortable as they were family members.
The aunt’s insistence on bringing her family led to a year-long campaign from both the aunt and the bride’s mother, which the bride resisted, emphasizing the personal and intimate nature of the ceremony. Despite this, the bride’s aunt did as she pleased when the wedding came. The bride’s aunt booked tickets for not only herself but also her family, saying that because other guests had RSVP’d saying they weren’t coming, there was space for her husband and child.
The bride was shocked, but offered a compromise, allowing the aunt’s family to attend the pool party the day after the wedding but not the ceremony itself. On the wedding day, the aunt was present at the ceremony but disappeared for a short time when the bride and her husband went to take photos in the savanna. When she returned for the wedding dinner, the aunt brought her family to the wedding venue, leading to a confrontation.
The bride, not knowing how to react at first, politely greeted her aunt’s family. The incident at the wedding dinner, where the bride’s mother and grandmother suggested that the extra chairs and food could accommodate the uninvited guests, left the bride in a further predicament. The bride’s sister supported her and told the aunt and her family that there were no more chairs as some were broken.
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