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37:36 r/okstorytime - I'm dealing with a lot inner turmoil over my daughter wedding!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Cowboy Sam and this is yeh John, And we've.
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Speaker 3 (00:18):
The Bridezilla discarded me after using me.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
For her wedding.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Oh no, long time good friends of mine announced they
were getting married. I had been friends with both of
them since childhood. We went to school together, stated at
each other's houses, our parents socialized with each other. Basically
best friends of mine. We remained in touch socially and
had attended each other's family events frequently over the years.
I was part of the fairly large group that made
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up the gang that eventually made up the wedding party.
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Speaker 1 (00:55):
I'm Dakota, I'm Kyle, I'm Keon, and we're here.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
To give you good advice. Goofly, But we don't have
all the answers. We only know what we would do,
so if you would do something different, let us know
in the comments. As Op says, Bridezilla always had to
be the center of attention, but that was not unusual
behavior in our group of friends. She was not the
only one who needed to always be the star at
social gatherings, and her Groomzilla would do outrageous things to
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get attention to Ah.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
They're made for each other.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
There were two peas in a pod. They were destined
to end up together. Really. I was one of the
more shy ones of the group, so I was kind
of grateful. Bridezilla was one of the extroverts and kept
the focus firmly on herself whenever possible. When they announced
they were getting married, it was no great surprise. It
was going to be a destination wedding for about half
the guests. The rest of family and friends lived close
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by the destination, so it made sense to hold it
there and make it a fun weekend to get away.
They handed out Save the Eight cards at the engagement party,
which was a lovely event at the local Rowers club.
I was then pulled aside at the ngagement party by
bride and Groomzilla and in front of their parents officially
invited to be a part of the wedding party. They
asked me to assist the bride with organizing some things
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in person, because we cannot trust anyone else with this
like we can with you. I was extremely flattered to
be asked in this manner and thought it indicated how
close and strong our friendship remained. I of course agreed
to both being a part of the wedding party and
to assisting Bridezilla, as most of her immediate family and
wedding party lived near the destination. The request was worded
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that I would be part of the wedding party, officially
as only a bridesmaid because the maid of honor was
her older sister, but unofficially the co made of honor
because the bride knew I could handle the great responsibility
this would be. Her sister lived near the destination and
was busy as a stay at home mom to three
little ones, so I agreed. Everyone was happy and all
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seemed right with the world. Time went by, and I
ended up doing a lot of running around to all
sorts of appointments, with Bridezilla apologizing for her increasing the
outlandish and entitled behavior to the staff at these appointments.
I was the one phoning places to confirm or change
things as she came up with new ideas, taking calls
from venues and suppliers regularly, and organizing the other members
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of the bridal party. It was much more work than
I expected, but other friends from our group assured me
that a maid of honor did a ton of stuff
and that it was typical. I had agreed to it,
and her sister was far too busy and far away
to be involved. It was taking up most of my
free time when I wasn't working. I've never been a
maid of honor before, so I went along with it
because with the reassurances of the rest of our friends,
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I was told constantly it was not over the top
and it was their day, their way. Until their reassurances
started to sound more like please for me to not quit.
The number of hens slash stag shower, kitchen, bridegroom, pre
wedding parties and events that were planned and I was
organizing single handedly became ridiculous. I had only initially thought
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I would need to organize a kitchen tea and hen night.
I advised Groomzilla that he needed to get his best
man to organize their events. That ended up being a
shouting match between bride and Groomzilla about who was having
the more memorable event.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yikes, that's exhausting.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
This sounds like you've got a real great group of
friends here.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah, sounds like they are made for each other.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Though, to keep things calm, I ended up organizing the
grooms events too, which in hindsight may have been why
they staged the shouting match. Once I said I would
do it, they were all beaming smiles and hugged me.
I tried to keep things affordable so that it was
not going to put people into debt, but both bride
and groom's families were well off, and Bridezilla needed things
to be memorable. I want people to be talking about
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my wedding for years after. You have a weddings because
so that you want people to talk about it, like
shouldn't you have a wedding? Because it's like you want
it to be a good memory for you and your husband?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Should he?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Should you have a wedding to just marry your husband
and be happy?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Excise me, pick, you want my wedding to be so
good that when other people have their wedding, they're like
oh my God, like I just want to throw myself
into the oscen because my wedding will that good as mine.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I don't even know you terrible to me so much
as just like hate you. Exhausting.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Nah, I want you to do a secret wedding where
it's actually no one gets married and I have to
reckon with your own faults. She insisted on expensive, overly
complicated events and shot down anything suggested otherwise. They were
all in the two hundred plus dollars per person per
event range. It ended up at least six separate events
for Bridezilla's side alone, not including the hen and stag
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parties and the wedding itself. The other thing that really
bugged me was every event inevitably had someone loudly suggests
the bride and group should not be paying for anything,
and so all the other attendees would need to increase
their contribution to cover the costs. Of course, Bridezilla and
her groom would never protest these suggestions. It ended up
about two thousand dollars if you were going to all
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of these events as a guest, but zero dollars for
the bride or a groom, which seemed completely entitled and
selfish on their part, as they most definitely could afford
to pay their way. I say too, huh, two thousand.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Two thousand dollars a person and they're not paying a thing.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Just the fact that you could expect your friends to
pay two thousand dollars or expect me to pay two
dollars to go to your I'm sure lame events.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
It's gonna be so staged and so like just having
to do things a bunch of times to make it
like perfect.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, I'm sure it'll be like Okay, and now's the
time where you guys all build us a farmhouse, right,
you get the honor of building me property. Yeah, that's
gonna cost four hundred dollars for materials.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
I feel like this is gonna go so crazy. Is
like they're gonna show up and they're gonna be like, Okay,
my feet shall not touch the ground the whole day.
You guys will carry me everywhere.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah. The way I would lose this person's number and
not go to their wedding is insane.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah, I'm not paying two thousand dollars after all that.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I should have cut my losses at this point and
walked away. Dude, isn't hindsight the worst, but I was
heavily guilted into attending and remaining involved by Bridezilla and
the other family members. Sunk cost fallacy, I think is
the term stupidity is probably more accurate. Three weeks before
the wedding, Bride and Groomzilla told us their exciting news.
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Their respective families decided to surprise them with yet another
wedding gift and were hosting a week long pre wedding
vacation for them with a range of events organized at
the destination city. All guests attending the wedding were invited
to participate in the sixtravaganza at their own cost for
flights and accommodation. There was a silver lining, however, Bridezilla's
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parents were graciously paying for private buses to take all
the attendees to and from the hotel and events. The
bride and groom's families had booked into the same luxury
boutique hotel near the marina for the pre wedding week,
the wedding, and the week after just because they felt
like it. So if you were not staying at the
same hotel, you needed to get yourself to their hotel
to take advantage of this bus offer. It was designed
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to allow a repeat of all the showers, hens, et cetera,
so the rest of the family and friends did not
miss out. That was going to work out at just
over five thousand ahead to attend all the events. No, no,
have fun having no one at your wedding events. Honestly, no,
I'm not going to anything.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
The events are optional, right.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yeah, I guess, but they're I'm sure that these people
are like, well read come to these events. It's only money.
What matters more our friendship or money?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I'm sure too. It's kind of like they expect the
wedding party to be there, but that's ridiculous. At that point,
you got to pay for the wedding party to be
in some of them.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah. Also, yeah, Amanda Case has pre wedding vacation. Seriously, Yeah,
it happened after guys, are ridiculous. Of course. Bride and
Groomzillow were again none paying attendees, and other attendees were
covering their contributions, also looking at another three thousand to
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stay at the boutique hotel where they had reserved suites.
Ride and Groomsella both worked extremely well paying jobs in
their respective family corporations, so they had never had to
worry about job and security. The house they lived in
and the one next to it they rented out had
been bought outright for them by both sets of parents
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as engagement presents. These parents are buying them two houses
as an engagement present and.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
A pre wedding vacation.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I've never heard a story where these people have been
so spoiled.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
They're so spoiled.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
This is disgusting, just literally the most entitled degenerate. Yeah.
I don't even know how to insult these pays.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
You know what's it be crazy? Oh? Go, go go ahead.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I want to know, like when it comes to the
actual wedding, our bridesmaids like also paying for their dress
and their makeup and their hair, Like is anything paid for?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
What I was gonna say is hey, once once your
you know, six feet into the ground, your six feet
in the ground.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
This is one of those these if you like the
kind of a holes who were like, well, how do
you think we made all this money by spending it?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
We save?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
It doesn't make it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Because we joined the family business, we have to make
the best wedding in history. Nobody else can tap this.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
It's going to be the best, but it's gonna cost
you eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, you have to pay to come to our wedding.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
They were quite put out when I said I could
only make the wedding and not the whole pre wedding week,
and could only make it the night before the wedding
and leave the day after because of finances and needing
to go back to work. They seemed to have no
understanding of that. As a single person working a normal
casual shift work type job, I could not afford to
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just take time off for that length of time with
little notice and expect to have a job when I
got back, let alone have the money to pay for
all the extra events on top of all the other expenses.
I'm sure I was not the only wedding guest who
could not attend the pre wedding week, but I was
the only bridal party member not there. Bridezilla kept texting
me to update me on what I was missing, and
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posting on her socials about some people not being committed
enough to celebrate their with them fully and completely. This
is one I'm calling the irs and being like, these
companies need to be audited. I'm calling the Better Business
Bureau and I'm leaving complaints about their business not operating
above board. I'm now gonna I'm going to actively sabotage
this wedding. I would be so annoyed.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I bet these people don't tip.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah, oh yeah, that is when I really should have
told them. Thanks. But I'm out. I can no longer
afford this. But I had already booked accommodation in flights
for the wedding months before, and I would have lost
money if I canceled. The weekend for the wedding itself
was costing me eight weeks wages. I was staying about
an hour's taxi ride away from the venue because it
was the cheapest, decent looking place I could find. I
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got the cheapest flights I could, and the plane unexpectedly
departed very late due to a technical issue, so it
landed late, well after the airport bus shuttle service finished,
on which I had booked a seat, so I lost
that money. I was lucky at the airport to get
talking to one of the information desk ladies and she
phoned the free taxi shuttle service they were trialing. That
saved me having to sleep in the airport. Day of
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the wedding, I showed up as planned at their hotel.
There was a very noticeable coolness when I arrived from
Bridezilla and the rest of the bridal party, but I
dismissed it as stress of the occasion and me feeling
overly sensitive. I was given quite a number of last
minute tasks to do and was running around for a
while until mid afternoon, so I had not even got
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a chance to get dressed properly in my bride'smaid dress,
which I had brought with me. I finally stopped long
enough to notice the rest of the bridal party were
done having their hair and makeup, and the photographer was
snapping the bridle session. I approached the stylists, apologizing profusely
for not realizing the time, and was about to sit
down in the chair when one of the aunts of
the bride suddenly appeared beside me. She took my arm
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and saying, oh, darling, no, no, not you. You aren't
need it anymore, so you can go now, off you go,
and physically pushed me out of the hotel suite without
the bride'smaid outfit. I found out later it had been
given to a cousin on the groom's side to wear
and step into the bridle party because Bridezilla did decided
they were a better fit for a family event and
it was obvious I was not committed to celebrating their
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wedding properly.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
That's wild too, because she probably doesn't have another dress. Yeah,
they go to a wedding with the wedding with the
dress you're gonna wear, so she just can't go to
the wedding.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Now I'm still going, but that I'm not going.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
No, I'm not going, and I'm I'm.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Gonna look up the coolest thing to do near that
venue and I'm going.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
To do that, not gonna lie. I would make it
this happening after planning all of that stuff. I would
have to make it my mission to ruin these people's lives.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Yeah, yeah, I would wonder if there was any way
that you could go back and like send.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Them because you would read the wedding.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Invoice for all the work be like, oh, sorry, I
didn't realize you were hiring me as a contractor for
your wedding or something.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Because again they want to I don't think.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
You can because there's no signed contract these people.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Want to picture perfect wedding. You already being there, not
making it perfect. So you being there, it's already.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Yeah, I don't really want to be there though.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I don't want to be there either, but it's time
to get petty.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
I want to go.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah, I'd go to the wedding and be like I
slept with the groom. No, I was gonna say that
I slept with the groom. He'll never admit it. He
said I was better than you. I slept with the groom.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I would leave and just not even bother.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
A lot of people are saying, just ruin the ruin
the wedding.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
That's fine. I'm My advice is I wouldn't. I think
it's fine if you want to.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
What are we doing today? Riley?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
So they were playing a little game game, says the man,
about three special gifts for you guys, eBay. Each one
picks with one of you in mind.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
These guys.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Right, he's got one.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And that's a lot of box in the box. I
feel like eBay like has like a lot of great
things with like potential for great memory. So I'm excited
to see what's in it.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I wanted to kind of like let viewers know what
these gifts made you think of. So we guess whose
gift is who reveals it?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Okay, so should I open rine first?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I was thinking a key on okay, five? All right, biggest,
I want to open.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
It box down like a cylinder you got.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
That is.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Look at these colors, I think I know exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I feel like I'm a colorful man.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
This is this is the most vibrant man in the room.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I have been wanting to wear more colors, but this
looks perfect.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
The cod I got something for you, all right. It's
another well cylinder, cylinder like I wonder that is definitely.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Colors.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Mama, Oh yeah, I know this has got to be
for me, right, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Totally another colorful man. I have one more gift.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I guess I don't get a gift, and what is it?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
It is a cowboy hat.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I feel like this has gotta be key root and okay,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Here we go, the y the ye to my huw
Yeah we two stepping. We love line dancing. I've been
telling him I need a cowboy hat, and yes what
he got me a cowboy hat. Boom fits really well.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
To thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I got the biggest size they had to make sure
it fit your loghead.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Thank you so much, Riley. These are such a thoughtful guests.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
It was really fun picking these out for you guys.
On eBay, they got like a million things on there.
I will randomly browse eBay for fun.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
You can find some crazy things on there.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Shop eBay for millions of fines, each with a story.
eBay Things People Love. I was incredibly hurt and confused
at being shoved out of the room without the dress
I had paid for and brought with me. I had
a good cry in a bathroom and then dusted myself
off mentally and prepared to attend the wedding, seeing as
I had spent so much time involved with it. The
ceremony was on a remote beach location, an hour's boat
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trip away from the hotel at the marina. The parents
were taking all the guests to it in their private
hired vessel. They even had their own security guards checking
off names on the list. I was thinking to myself,
I was glad I had worn something nice enough that day.
Even though I had thought I would be part of
the bridle party and wearing the bridesmaid outfit, I did
not want to show up looking terrible in front of
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their families.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Are you going to be on the list to get
on the boat?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I hope so. I was wearing similar attire to other
guests already on board. So approached the security to board
invitation in my purse and was told, sorry, not on
the list. Please leave the area.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
What called it? They don't want you there. They have
a way to make sure you can't get there.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I'd be furious, I'd be pissed.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
For sure, you can swim.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I'm writing my own boat. I've already paid so much
money for this. I'm writing my own boat. I'm going
to that destination, and I'm causing a ruckus.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I have no words for the level of slime that
these people are.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
They were planning that the whole time.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I politely disagreed with the guards and said I must
be on the list because I'd been invited to the wedding,
and pulled the invitation out to show them. They looked
at it, checked the list again, and said, sorry, not
on the list. You'll have to leave the area. I
was now visibly distressed, and the guards were looking uncomfortable
as I stood there trying to call her mother, not
answering while they boarded other guests. That was when I
happened to notice some of the guests. I recognized Groomzilla
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and his groomsmen on board, pointing and laughing at me.
That was when it finally sunk in and I gave up,
walked back to the hotel lobby and called a taxi
to take me back to where I was staying. By
the time I had got back to my accommodation, I
had been blocked on all social media and probably for
phone calls too, but I didn't bother to keep ringing.
Once I left the marina, I had decided I would
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just sit in the pool at the accommodation and quietly
mentally check out for the evening and head home the
next day. But the universe had other plans. Whoo, there
was a great bunch of other guests at the accommodation
having a birthday bash around the pool and barbecue area
for one of them. They welcomed me into their celebrations
like I was a long lost family member, and I've
even stayed in touch with some of them to this day.
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I even ended up having a much better time that
weekend with strangers than people I considered chosen family. We
have a little bit more story left. I'm glad that
you found some people worth hanging out with. I wouldn't
stop until these people were ruined in some way.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I already see a divorce coming.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
They're just gonna one up each other until they eventually.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Like op, he should plant the seed. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I don't think there's probably something that you can do
to call or like report or something. I wouldn't go
and do anything in person because I think they're just
gonna purposely try to embarrass you more and probably just
have security physically escort you out, and I don't think
that's worth it. But I think there's ways to get
other people there that can try to do something about it.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
No, I don't worry. Kara Karma will get them.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yes, that's what I'm figuring.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Well, let's finished this story. I know people will think
I was an idiot for not realizing sooner that they
probably had never genuinely planned for me to be anything
but some kind of unpaid wedding coordinator. I just genuinely
got blindsided by it because I believed I was still
a valued member of our friendship group. They had never
acted like they looked down on me as we had
grown up in the same area and went to the
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same schools. It was only after UNI and I started
working in a very different field to them and was
not earning the same is them that obviously things changed
in their minds. However, they never indicated to me I
was now not part of the gang anymore, as they
invited me to the same things and our families still
socialized in the same way. They never acted like I
was less than them until the wedding. It was through
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friends of friends I found out the other information long
after the wedding was over. Bride and Groomzilla never spoke
to me or my family again after that. No great
loss in the end if that was how they treated
people not at their same financial level, definitely better off
without them in my life, and that is the end
of that story.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I'm perspective to have how much Op ended up spending
in total, because I know she didn't go to everything,
so she didn't spend the like full what was it
seven K at the end, but I'm sure with everything
she probably still did enough. And I see people saying
in the chat like, technically she paid for that dress,
so that dress is hers and like, yeah, yeah, I said,
invoice for the wedding coordination, but like going to small
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claims or some sort like fully just being like not
gonna talk to you, then not gonna talk to anybody,
like you'll be hearing from someone and like when you
get like search, are you.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Sure though, with the amount of financial assets they have,
they could just bury you in lawyers.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
It's small claims two, which I'm sure they could.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I mean, couldn't you bury someone with lawyers and small
claims too? I don't know how that works.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
I think sometimes small claims you're representing yourself.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yeah, but that's just because you can choose to write.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I hope their boat sinks and that's the end of
that story. I hope one hundred flying monkeys rain on
their wedding and pick everyone up and throw them in
the Laurentchian abyss. That's what I hope.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I refuse to give up my inheritance to pay for
my sister's wedding.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yeah, probably it's a good move.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
My dad passed away last year after a long illness.
It was devastating. I twenty eight female was the one
who moved back home to take care of him. I
handled doctor's appointments, late night emergencies, bills, and basically ran
the house when he couldn't anymore. It was exhausting, but
I don't regret it. He and I got very close
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during that time. By the way, this comes from Extension
Gold thirty one forty nine. And if you want us
to make your own stories, go to the r slash
Oki storytime subreddit and we're here to give good advice. Goofully,
But we don't have all the answers. We only know
what we would do, So let us know what you
would do in the comments. And Opie says. My sister
thirty two female, on the other hand, lives out of state.
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She came back twice in the last year of his life,
once for Christmas and once for his birthday. I don't
think she's a bad person, but she definitely distanced herself
from the responsibility. Her excuse was that she had her
own life and couldn't just drop everything. I understood at
the time, but it still hurt. When Dad passed, his
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will specifically left me a decent chunk of money, not millions,
but enough that I could pay off my student loans
and actually start saving for a house. It was clear
in the will that this money was for me because
of the sacrifices I made while caring for him. My
sister received other things. He left her, some jewelry and
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a classic car he had restored that she always loved,
but the majority of liquid assets went to me. Fast
forward to now. My sister got engaged in May. Her
fiance is nice enough, but they both have champagne tastes
on in adult soda budget. Uh. The wedding they're planning
is way out of their price range. Destination resort, designer dress,
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open bar, huge guest list. I assumed they were going
into debt for it, which I thought was their choice.
But then about a month ago, my sister sat me
down and said, I need your help. Dad would have
wanted you to use some of that inheritance to make
my wedding special.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah, but he actually wouldn't. That's the thing. He actually
didn't say in the will that he wanted me to
spend it on your stupid wedding. Remember how you couldn't
you couldn't make it, Remember how you were too busy
because you had your own life. I actually have my
own life too.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
It's in this safe text. It's in the writing from
his will, the sacred texts, the sacred text.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
She wasn't asking for a small loan. She wanted me
to hand over thirty thousand dollars to cover the venue
in catering.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I'd send her three hundred pennies.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I told her no. I said that Dad left me
that money for a reason, and I'm using it to
build stability in my life, not blow it on a party.
She immediately got defensive and accused me of being selfish
and choosing money over family. Now my mom has gotten involved.
She says Dad would have wanted me to share, and
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that family comes first. I told her Dad literally wrote
a will that reflected his wishes, and if he wanted
to fund my sister's wedding, he would have set aside
money for that. Mom keeps saying I'm tearing the family apart.
My sister has been telling relatives that I'm punishing her
for not being around when Dad was sick, which makes
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me feel sick to my stomach because it it's kind
of true. I am resentful, but it also feels unfair
that the person who did all the work gets nothing
and the one who barely showed up gets rewarded.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Ya.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Wait, can you imagine her telling the families like, yeah,
she's not you know, she's taking it out on me
because I wasn't there for dad being sick, And everyone's like.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Why weren't you there for dad being Wait?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
You weren't there for when your dad was sick?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Yeah, just wait.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Some cousins are on her side and have texted me
things like it's just money, you'll make more, and your
dad would have wanted her to have a special day. Others,
thankfully you have said it's insane. She's even asking.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Now.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
My sister says she won't invite me to the wedding
unless I do the right thing.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
These dumbasses are saying, it's just money. How about you
give her yours? Yes, this is just money. You give
her your money? Right?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Oh wait, it's different now, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
I was gonna say, I don't think that it's wrong
to maybe, out of your own kindness, maybe be like
I'll do something special for you, Like maybe like I'll
give you a really big budget to buy a cool dress,
like a really pretty dress that you wanted, and that'll
be like my contribution to your wedding, Like not something
that's gonna be crazy, crazy expensive, but something that's like
a couple thousand dollars more than she probably would have spent.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I should just pick out a fifteen thousand dollars wedding.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
You cap it. Still, you'd be like, you have five
thousand dollars to find a dress or ten thousand dollars to.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Pay to guarantee you. She's like, I don't know, that's
not a good enough present.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Well, I'm saying like off or something like that, and
if she wants to turn that down, then buy.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
That's what you're gonna do for me.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I gave you after you already like before she's like, yeah,
give me thirty k. And it's like, yeah, sure you
as soon as she's like, you know, no, give me
thirty k. I think if she gave you exactly nothing now.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
I think if she came and she was like yeah, also,
like Kat said, she has a really nice car, and was.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
It it didn't she say like oh I'm too busy
to make it to the funeral or what was the beginning?
What was it She's like, oh, I have my own life,
I can't make it. Yeah, Well, and it was to
what to like see their dad off just out more times.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
She only came out for Christmas and his birthday. She
said she just couldn't come home more than that. I'd
offer like something tiny and then be like, okay, you
don't want to take that. That was me being generous.
Nothing certainly not thirty thousand dollars. And it would be
all gone after this part, because now my sister says
she won't invite me to the wedding at all unless
I do the right thing.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
She's threatening you. Yeah, Oh my gosh, you're threatening me
because you want my money. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
At that point, it sounds like a I'm actually really
busy with my own life the weekend of your wedding.
I know, I don't know what weekend it is yet,
but I'm really busy that weekend. I don't think I
can come anyway.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Sorry, I have my own life. I can't just drop
everything for your wedding.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
My mom is begging me to reconsider for the sake
of peace, but honestly, I can't see myself handing over
thirty k just so my sister can have a fancy
Instagram wedding while I put my future on hold. Still well,
the guilt is eating at me. Am I really the
knucklehead for refusing to share my inheritance with my sister
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to pay for her wedding. We have some comments, but no.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
What would be extra funny is if you spent thirty
thousand dollars on really elaborate skywriting and I say skyriders,
oh writing, airplanes right, happy future divorce over your sister's wedding.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
That'd be great, crazy crazy crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
It's your wedding, it's my money. Do whatever you want
with your wedding. I'll do whatever I want with my money.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Dad specified it was to me. Top Comments A Temporary
Bench fifty ninety five s stand your ground and holds
your boundaries. No one needs or is entitled to an
extravagant wedding. They chose to plan outside of their budget.
They can figure it out. Their request is selfish and rude.
Glass Armadillo ninety eight seventy one says, tell her you
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are right. Family comes first. Dad is family and respecting
his wishes comes first. Don't tell me what Dad would
have wanted. I know because he literally wrote it down.
Don't ask me to disrespect my passed away father's final
wishes of Yola Swamp says, you're right. Family comes first.
That's why I made sacrifices to be there for Dad
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when he needed help. You chose to prioritize yourself as
you're doing now. I don't owe you anything, and you're
not getting a cent from me. When turn in right,
she's using family comes first only when it's convenient for her.
Arwin's Roe says, you are right. Family comes first, which
is why I moved home and took care of dad.
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Mike drop Hey, pretty lady ma'am says, and if her
wedding is so important to her, she can sell her
vintage restored classic car for the thirty k she expects
from her sister Opie. Tell her Dad already gave her
money for the wedding. She just doesn't want to part
with her inheritance when she can keep hers and scam
you for yours. Tell you your family she got the
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money she needed from Dad already. She can sell her
share if she's that desperate. I'm so tired of selfish,
lazy siblings refusing to do their part and demanding the rewards.
Stop feeling guilty. Send her an auto trader and tell
her to get cracking. That car ain't selling itself, and
you're not giving her money she already has relishing nonsense,
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says Opie. Tell her dad already gave her money for
her wedding and responding to that comment, yes, this is perfect.
Sister is choosing to have a fancy wedding. If she
thinks Dad would have wanted her to have it, then
she can sell the car and pay for it. He
probably didn't give her cash because he knew she would
waste it on something like an overpriced wedding. Why do
people think you should give up financial safety nets so
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that she can play pretty princess for a day. A
good marriage doesn't need an expensive wedding, Opie. Did you
have to give up working or work less while you
were taking care of your dad? Your sister didn't. If
you did, then you could point out that your dad
understood that taking care of him had set you back financially,
hence the liquid funds, et cetera. We have an update
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two days later.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Dude, everyone in these stories, it's like the worst people
I've ever heard in my life. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
The second she's like, you're not coming to my wedding.
Then I'm like, Okay, prioritize peace.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
What is your mom smoking? Get out of here. Your
sister's trying to extort money out of you by not
allowing you to go to her wedding, which she's choosing
to make extravagantly too expensive. Yeah, because she's sane and shallow,
too self important to show up for her ailing father
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who passed away and in his wisdom, left his liquid
assets to the child who actually gave a crap about
him and still left her a restored sports car.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
And other stuff to love stuff. But we have an update, Sam.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Here we're gonna get back to the stories. But here's
three of us bad from our spot.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Two days later. I didn't expect to be writing again
so soon, but the last couple of days have been
a whirlwind. I've cried, I've screamed into pillows, and at
one point I've just sat in the dark, staring at
the ceiling, wondering what the heck happened to my family.
After my first post, things with my sister kept escalating.
She kept sending me guilt trippy text saying things like,
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if you really loved me, you'd do this for me.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Don't love you. I don't love you.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Sorry, sorry, she doesn't love you. She loves money.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I love the money more than you, I guess.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
And you're choosing money over your only sister. I was
holding strong, but it's still hurt.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I would have pulled up. What about my only father?
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Then something came out that I wasn't prepared for. One
of my cousins who's been quietly on my side, told
me my sister hasn't exactly been faithful to her fiance.
At first I didn't believe it. It sounded too wild and
too cruel, but then they showed me messages. My sister
has been seeing a man from her job for months,
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married man. She apparently told my cousin she's not even
sure she wants to marry her fiance, but she's going
through with the wedding anyway because everything's already in motion
and she deserves the spotlight after a hard year.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Oh my god, Wow, we really are reading like the
worst people today.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Put her in the river, dude.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
That's insane. The fact that she's like, yeah, I'm gonna
just I don't want to marry this guy, but I
deserve the spotlight everyone. So I've had a hard year.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
How the fiance tell the wife of the man she's
cheating on him with she's had a hard year. One
needs to know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
And I guarantee you she's just saying that she's had
a hard year. She's using the passing of her father
that she wasn't there for helping out as an excuse.
Tod be like, yeah, I you know, I really deserved.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
It, she said, a hard year trying to live this
double life.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
You deserve a razor scooter to the shins.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I would literally respond to the sister and be like,
all right, you really want to play this game. You
want to keep pushing my buttons. Push it one more time.
I want to see you try.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
You deserve na'er in your shampoo bottle.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I want to see you do it.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
I felt like I'd been punched, not because I care
about her fiance that much, We've never been close, but
because it shattered the last bit of moral ground she
had to stand on. She's been calling me selfish, manipulative,
greedy all while living a double life. Here's the part
that broke me. My mom knows she admitted it. When
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I confronted her last night. She says. She walked in
on my sister late at night whispering on the phone,
and when she pushed her, my sister confessed. Mom's exact
words to me were, she just needs to get it
out of her system. When she's married, she'll settle down.
Don't ruin this for her.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Nah, I'm not going to ruin anything for her. She
ruined it. Yeah, your mom, create you do this to
my dad is what I'd immediately then ask, so did
you do this too? Running the family?
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Mom is just as stinky as the sister.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Mom's a little cuckoo.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Golden child. I think someone said earlier it was golden child,
but this is giving golden child.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
I don't even know who my mother is anymore. The
woman who raised me to believe in honesty and integrity
is now telling me to keep quiet while my sister
destroys her relationship and another family's marriage, all so we
can have a happy event to cover the grief of
losing Dad. And here's the kicker. My sister is still
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hammering me for the money, still saying Dad would want
me to share, still threatening to cut me out of
her life completely. She has no idea. I know what
she's doing. Part of me wants to out her, tell
her fiance, tell the whole dang family, throw the truth
like a grenade, and walk away. Another part of me
is exhausted. I already spent years holding my dad's hand
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in hospitals while everyone else lived their lives. Do I
really want to take on this into for now? I've
decided to step back. I'm not going to her wedding
invite or no invite, I won't be there. I took
more of the inheritance and paid down my student loans today,
and I cried when I saw my balance shrink. Not
out of guilt this time, but relief because Dad left
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me that money so I could finally breathe. Yeah, there's
a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Tell everybody, dude, do the grenade. Yeah, do the grenade.
I'd want to have the grenade thrown. If I was him,
I'd say do it. If I was you, I wouldn't
be able to help myself. Why are there's so many
flies in her?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
He think it's just one that's like really good one.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Here, there's one flying above me. She's ruining her her future,
She's ruining someone else's marriage, She's ruined her relationship with you,
and if your mom is uh, like, I don't know,
I don't know what to call it short sighted? Your
mom is silly enough to try to tell you that
that's your fault. Cut them both off.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Yeah, I feel like this was probably like the sister
was always Mom's closer mom, and she was probably always
way closer to so it's like she doesn't have her
little sidekick anymore.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
It sounds like your mom she did on your dad.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I know that too.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
That's house Would she be okay.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
With this a little bit more? My sister might never
forgive me, my mom might never understand me, and maybe
I'll be painted as the villain for the rest of
my life. But at least I know deep down I'm
not the one lying to everyone. I just wish dad
was still here. He'd cut through all this noise in
five seconds flat. That is the end of that story.
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So sorry for your loss of your dad too, And
you're doing the right thing. Pay down those student loans rip.
But that's the end of that story. We got another one.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
My stepdaughter's mother is furious that I'm the one walking
her down the aisle.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Who does she want to walk down the aisle?
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Trigger warning substance abuse. Her background. I married my husband
Frank at twenty four years old. He was also twenty
four and had two children from his previous relationship, daughter
Cindy six at the time of our marriage, currently twenty two,
and son Max, seven and a half at the time,
currently twenty three. By the way, this comes from user
inner Research eighty eight nineteen. And if you want to
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submit your own stories, go to the r slash okay
storytime subreddit where this story was submitted. And we are
here to give you good advice. Goofy, But we don't
have all the answers. We only know what we would do,
So if you would do something different, let us know
in the comments. And ope, says their biological mother, Stephanie,
who was the same age as Frank and myself, decided
at twenty she was too young to be a mother.
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She and my husband separated, and Stephanie gave up her
legal rights to her children. My husband's family stepped in
to help him during that time. I lived several towns
over and met my husband in passing, and it was magical.
We built a wonderful home and family together. I adopted
his children and became their mom. Aw now for the
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tragic events that occurred. Ten years into our marriage. My
husband suffered a severe back injury. He received surgery and
was doing well with physical therapy and his doctors. We
thought we actually beat this and it was a small
setback in an otherwise healthy relationship. Unfortunately, my husband became
addicted to pain medication and passed away several years ago.
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The memories are still painful, and our children are still
struggling with the memories of their father. I have always
said to remember the man he was prior to his
substance use disorder and passing. I do blame myself in
the end for asking him to leave. It was too
much on the children and myself. We tried rehabs, method owne, NA,
you name it. If it was available, we tried. However,
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the toll of maintaining a household and making sure the
children were well cared for was too much. It broke
my heart. I blamed the doctors, and I blame the
companies for making those pills, and I blame my husband
for not being honest and telling me sooner about his problems.
I still love him and remember the man he was
before all of this. I'm more in the loss of
that man the most. Now for the current situation, my
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daughter Cindy is getting married to her high school sweetheart
and love of her life. Cindy has been through a
lot has been my greatest friend. I'm so proud and
grateful for her and my son Max. If it wasn't
for them, I wouldn't have been able to survive and
thrive after the loss of Frank. Cindy's wedding is in
a few months, and even though her biological mother isn't
in her life except for the random cards and calls,
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she did invite Stephanie to the wedding as a guest.
Stephanie is remarried and has a new family of her own,
two twin boys aged ten and a husband named John.
Cindy asked me to give her away at the wedding,
as well as being the mother of the bride. I
was proud to give her away and shared this special
moment with her. I was a supportive mother of the bride.
I let her choose the dress and didn't interfere with anything.
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This is Cindy's special day.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Now.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
This week, coming to my house, Cindy was in tears.
Her mother called her and was furious that she was
listed as a guest on the invitation and not as
her proper title as mother of the bride. Cindy said
her mother was furious, but she didn't care. Stephanie was
never there and she didn't see her as her mother. Yeah, yeah,
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because she gave up her parental rights to be your mother.
She's on. I don't know what she's on. Cindy said
she was upset over the hurtful words Stephanie said to her.
Once I got Cindy calmed down, I asked if she
would like me to talk to Stephanie about this, and
Cindy agreed. Cindy said if Stephanie was not going to
be supportive, she's not welcome anymore. I called Stephanie as
soon as Cindy left the house. Stephanie answered with, oh,
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it's you. I told her to excuse herself and check it.
Stephanie said she would not because I'm stealing her rightful place.
Her only daughter is getting married and she's not listed
as the mother of the bride. It's bad enough that
I'm giving her only daughter away, but it's wrong that
a barren woman is stealing her only daughter. She said
that I should have had children of my own if
I wanted to be a mother of the bride.
Speaker 4 (41:42):
Stephanie, shut up, you should have been a mother of
your kids.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
Yeah, Stephanie, literally, you have no place to talk. Your
words have no value. You are irrelevant to this conversation.
I hung up after that and texted Stephanie that she's
no longer welcome as a guest at Cindy's wedding if
this is how she feels, Cindy, Max's, my mother's and
my own phone are being spammed by extended family members
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of Stephanie's family. This includes Stephanie's mother, whom Cindy or
Max have no type of relationship with, and various other
family members. We do not have a relationship with. Cindy
and Max want nothing to do with Stephanie. We have
a little bit more story.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Yeah, no, she's not coming to the wedding. Then if
she doesn't want to behave stop being a little poopoo. Stephanie,
you didn't ever act like a mom. You gave up
your rights to be a mom.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Yeah, you didn't raise my mom, So why now do
you feel entitled to be the mother of the bride
when you weren't.
Speaker 4 (42:41):
There ever, it's just for show at this point.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
My mother is another story. My mother wants to compromise
with either us acting as co mothers of the bride,
or if I give Cindy away, maybe we should just
make Stephanie mother of the bride. My mom isn't one
to have conflict with strangers. Myself is another story. I
am teams Cindy and told her I will do whatever
you need. Cindy said, Stephanie is a guest or nothing
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at all. My mother and father are helping to pay,
and they insist we keep the peace. And mother said,
I don't understand what Stephanie is going through because I've
never birthed a child. I am very close to writing
my parents a check and paying their share. Any advice, Yeah,
I would do that as well. Yeah for your own mother.
Again to throw it back and that, well, you haven't
had children.
Speaker 6 (43:25):
It's like she gave up her parental right, she signed
away any obligation or responsibility she had to this child. Yeah,
and now she wants to come around like she's her mother.
You have to raise somebody to be their mother.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
Yeah, coming out of this person doesn't just automatically be like, yes,
you have all the rights of all the last years
that you were ignoring me to come back and be
my mom.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Maybe it would be different if there wasn't you know,
OP in the picture and it was like, oh, well
I lost my father. I guess my estranged mother is
coming back into the picture. It's better than having no one.
OPI is Cindy's mother. For all intents and purposes, these
people are in shame.
Speaker 4 (44:09):
Yeah, Cindy's wedding too, Like, if Cindy's telling you that
that's what she wants to do, that's what her wedding
should do. It's Cindy's wedding.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
Yeah, but I don't know.
Speaker 4 (44:17):
Let Cindy walk herself down the aisle if she wants to,
but she should get what she wants her wedding.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
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But we do have comments on our video. My ex's
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twenty twenty five. This is the story story one, so
the first story and a quick told you are here,
Op twenty one male dated his ex nineteen female and
her super strict dad just found out they slept together.
Now the dad is calling Opie's parents, calling him a
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man or and trying to shame him for taking her virginity.
Opie's family is caught in the middle and things are
about to get real awkward. If you're curious to know
the full story, you can go watch the full video.
And we do have some comments here. The first comment here,
it's a little lengthy one, so be prepared. This is
from Katie sixty five fifty one. I was raised Christian
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and I love my parents, but the talk was terrible. Again.
The talk a cartoon book written by our pastor at
the time, and they whipped the book out of our
favorite restaurant when I was a kid, and proceeded to
make out with tongue and pass a mint back and forth.
After what what? What did I just read?
Speaker 6 (45:36):
Hold on, They're like, let me show you out worse,
let me show you babe.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
Yeah, you know I read that correctly. A cartoon book
written by our pastor at the time, and they whipped
out the book at our favorite restaurant when I was
a kid and proceeded to make out with tongue and
pass a mint back and forth after. Oh my god,
I will never forget that nasty memory, and neither will
I now. Thank you for that. But I learned nothing
about feminine hygiene or anything of the sort and had
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to figure it out from my teenage to young adult years.
I have a relationship with God and truly appreciate my parents,
but I have no intention of going about that topic
anywhere near the way my parents did and not leave
out important things like hygiene, safety, and honesty. I never
was able to talk to my parents about it. When
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I lost my V card, my mom actually went crazy,
took us to a restaurant and she freaked me out
and I had to hide in the bathroom until I
felt safe. Wow, this is.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
Girl, this comment, there's a whole story in its own.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Then, now as a married woman, my mom makes a lot,
and a lot is emphasized of uncomfortable spicy jokes. That
seems like she wants to know about our spicy time.
She nags my dad NonStop, then makes jokes about wanting
to go home and do the do It makes my
spouse and myself very uncomfortable. Wow, that's a comment. For
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the ages.
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Works about women's bodies.
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I don't know anything about that.
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Reading another comment here by Megan Korkorn nineteen fifty two,
it's so weird that dads are so involved in the
virginity of their legal adult daughter. That's crossing so many boundaries.
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girlfriend did, that's probably what he meant by fixing it.
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To give you good advice. Goofly, But we don't have
all the answers. We only know what we would do,
so if you would do something different, let us know
in the comments. As Op says, Bridezilla always had to
be the center of attention, but that was not unusual
behavior in our group of friends. She was not the
only one who needed to always be the star at
social gatherings, and her Groomzilla would do outrageous things to
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get attention to Ah.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
They're made for each other.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
There were two peas in a pod. They were destined
to end up together. Really. I was one of the
more shy ones of the group, so I was kind
of grateful. Bridezilla was one of the extroverts and kept
the focus firmly on herself whenever possible. When they announced
they were getting married, it was no great surprise. It
was going to be a destination wedding for about half
the guests. The rest of family and friends lived close
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by the destination, so it made sense to hold it
there and make it a fun weekend to get away.
They handed out Save the Eight cards at the engagement party,
which was a lovely event at the local Rowers club.
I was then pulled aside at the ngagement party by
bride and Groomzilla and in front of their parents officially
invited to be a part of the wedding party. They
asked me to assist the bride with organizing some things
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in person, because we cannot trust anyone else with this
like we can with you. I was extremely flattered to
be asked in this manner and thought it indicated how
close and strong our friendship remained. I of course agreed
to both being a part of the wedding party and
to assisting Bridezilla, as most of her immediate family and
wedding party lived near the destination. The request was worded
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that I would be part of the wedding party, officially
as only a bridesmaid because the maid of honor was
her older sister, but unofficially the co made of honor
because the bride knew I could handle the great responsibility
this would be. Her sister lived near the destination and
was busy as a stay at home mom to three
little ones, so I agreed. Everyone was happy and all
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seemed right with the world. Time went by, and I
ended up doing a lot of running around to all
sorts of appointments, with Bridezilla apologizing for her increasing the
outlandish and entitled behavior to the staff at these appointments.
I was the one phoning places to confirm or change
things as she came up with new ideas, taking calls
from venues and suppliers regularly, and organizing the other members
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of the bridal party. It was much more work than
I expected, but other friends from our group assured me
that a maid of honor did a ton of stuff
and that it was typical. I had agreed to it,
and her sister was far too busy and far away
to be involved. It was taking up most of my
free time when I wasn't working. I've never been a
maid of honor before, so I went along with it
because with the reassurances of the rest of our friends,
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I was told constantly it was not over the top
and it was their day, their way. Until their reassurances
started to sound more like please for me to not quit.
The number of hens slash stag shower, kitchen, bridegroom, pre
wedding parties and events that were planned and I was
organizing single handedly became ridiculous. I had only initially thought
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I would need to organize a kitchen tea and hen night.
I advised Groomzilla that he needed to get his best
man to organize their events. That ended up being a
shouting match between bride and Groomzilla about who was having
the more memorable event.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yikes, that's exhausting.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
This sounds like you've got a real great group of
friends here.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah, sounds like they are made for each other.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Though, to keep things calm, I ended up organizing the
grooms events too, which in hindsight may have been why
they staged the shouting match. Once I said I would
do it, they were all beaming smiles and hugged me.
I tried to keep things affordable so that it was
not going to put people into debt, but both bride
and groom's families were well off, and Bridezilla needed things
to be memorable. I want people to be talking about
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my wedding for years after. You have a weddings because
so that you want people to talk about it, like
shouldn't you have a wedding? Because it's like you want
it to be a good memory for you and your husband?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Should he?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Should you have a wedding to just marry your husband
and be happy?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Excise me, pick, you want my wedding to be so
good that when other people have their wedding, they're like
oh my God, like I just want to throw myself
into the oscen because my wedding will that good as mine.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I don't even know you terrible to me so much
as just like hate you. Exhausting.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Nah, I want you to do a secret wedding where
it's actually no one gets married and I have to
reckon with your own faults. She insisted on expensive, overly
complicated events and shot down anything suggested otherwise. They were
all in the two hundred plus dollars per person per
event range. It ended up at least six separate events
for Bridezilla's side alone, not including the hen and stag
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parties and the wedding itself. The other thing that really
bugged me was every event inevitably had someone loudly suggests
the bride and group should not be paying for anything,
and so all the other attendees would need to increase
their contribution to cover the costs. Of course, Bridezilla and
her groom would never protest these suggestions. It ended up
about two thousand dollars if you were going to all
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of these events as a guest, but zero dollars for
the bride or a groom, which seemed completely entitled and
selfish on their part, as they most definitely could afford
to pay their way. I say too, huh, two thousand.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Two thousand dollars a person and they're not paying a thing.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Just the fact that you could expect your friends to
pay two thousand dollars or expect me to pay two
dollars to go to your I'm sure lame events.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
It's gonna be so staged and so like just having
to do things a bunch of times to make it
like perfect.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, I'm sure it'll be like Okay, and now's the
time where you guys all build us a farmhouse, right,
you get the honor of building me property. Yeah, that's
gonna cost four hundred dollars for materials.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
I feel like this is gonna go so crazy. Is
like they're gonna show up and they're gonna be like, Okay,
my feet shall not touch the ground the whole day.
You guys will carry me everywhere.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah. The way I would lose this person's number and
not go to their wedding is insane.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah, I'm not paying two thousand dollars after all that.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I should have cut my losses at this point and
walked away. Dude, isn't hindsight the worst, but I was
heavily guilted into attending and remaining involved by Bridezilla and
the other family members. Sunk cost fallacy, I think is
the term stupidity is probably more accurate. Three weeks before
the wedding, Bride and Groomzilla told us their exciting news.
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Their respective families decided to surprise them with yet another
wedding gift and were hosting a week long pre wedding
vacation for them with a range of events organized at
the destination city. All guests attending the wedding were invited
to participate in the sixtravaganza at their own cost for
flights and accommodation. There was a silver lining, however, Bridezilla's
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parents were graciously paying for private buses to take all
the attendees to and from the hotel and events. The
bride and groom's families had booked into the same luxury
boutique hotel near the marina for the pre wedding week,
the wedding, and the week after just because they felt
like it. So if you were not staying at the
same hotel, you needed to get yourself to their hotel
to take advantage of this bus offer. It was designed
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to allow a repeat of all the showers, hens, et cetera,
so the rest of the family and friends did not
miss out. That was going to work out at just
over five thousand ahead to attend all the events. No, no,
have fun having no one at your wedding events. Honestly, no,
I'm not going to anything.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
The events are optional, right.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yeah, I guess, but they're I'm sure that these people
are like, well read come to these events. It's only money.
What matters more our friendship or money?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I'm sure too. It's kind of like they expect the
wedding party to be there, but that's ridiculous. At that point,
you got to pay for the wedding party to be
in some of them.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah. Also, yeah, Amanda Case has pre wedding vacation. Seriously, Yeah,
it happened after guys, are ridiculous. Of course. Bride and
Groomzillow were again none paying attendees, and other attendees were
covering their contributions, also looking at another three thousand to
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stay at the boutique hotel where they had reserved suites.
Ride and Groomsella both worked extremely well paying jobs in
their respective family corporations, so they had never had to
worry about job and security. The house they lived in
and the one next to it they rented out had
been bought outright for them by both sets of parents
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as engagement presents. These parents are buying them two houses
as an engagement present and.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
A pre wedding vacation.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I've never heard a story where these people have been
so spoiled.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
They're so spoiled.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
This is disgusting, just literally the most entitled degenerate. Yeah.
I don't even know how to insult these pays.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
You know what's it be crazy? Oh? Go, go go ahead.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I want to know, like when it comes to the
actual wedding, our bridesmaids like also paying for their dress
and their makeup and their hair, Like is anything paid for?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
What I was gonna say is hey, once once your
you know, six feet into the ground, your six feet
in the ground.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
This is one of those these if you like the
kind of a holes who were like, well, how do
you think we made all this money by spending it?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
We save?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
It doesn't make it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Because we joined the family business, we have to make
the best wedding in history. Nobody else can tap this.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
It's going to be the best, but it's gonna cost
you eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, you have to pay to come to our wedding.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
They were quite put out when I said I could
only make the wedding and not the whole pre wedding week,
and could only make it the night before the wedding
and leave the day after because of finances and needing
to go back to work. They seemed to have no
understanding of that. As a single person working a normal
casual shift work type job, I could not afford to
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just take time off for that length of time with
little notice and expect to have a job when I
got back, let alone have the money to pay for
all the extra events on top of all the other expenses.
I'm sure I was not the only wedding guest who
could not attend the pre wedding week, but I was
the only bridal party member not there. Bridezilla kept texting
me to update me on what I was missing, and
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posting on her socials about some people not being committed
enough to celebrate their with them fully and completely. This
is one I'm calling the irs and being like, these
companies need to be audited. I'm calling the Better Business
Bureau and I'm leaving complaints about their business not operating
above board. I'm now gonna I'm going to actively sabotage
this wedding. I would be so annoyed.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I bet these people don't tip.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah, oh yeah, that is when I really should have
told them. Thanks. But I'm out. I can no longer
afford this. But I had already booked accommodation in flights
for the wedding months before, and I would have lost
money if I canceled. The weekend for the wedding itself
was costing me eight weeks wages. I was staying about
an hour's taxi ride away from the venue because it
was the cheapest, decent looking place I could find. I
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got the cheapest flights I could, and the plane unexpectedly
departed very late due to a technical issue, so it
landed late, well after the airport bus shuttle service finished,
on which I had booked a seat, so I lost
that money. I was lucky at the airport to get
talking to one of the information desk ladies and she
phoned the free taxi shuttle service they were trialing. That
saved me having to sleep in the airport. Day of
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the wedding, I showed up as planned at their hotel.
There was a very noticeable coolness when I arrived from
Bridezilla and the rest of the bridal party, but I
dismissed it as stress of the occasion and me feeling
overly sensitive. I was given quite a number of last
minute tasks to do and was running around for a
while until mid afternoon, so I had not even got
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a chance to get dressed properly in my bride'smaid dress,
which I had brought with me. I finally stopped long
enough to notice the rest of the bridal party were
done having their hair and makeup, and the photographer was
snapping the bridle session. I approached the stylists, apologizing profusely
for not realizing the time, and was about to sit
down in the chair when one of the aunts of
the bride suddenly appeared beside me. She took my arm
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and saying, oh, darling, no, no, not you. You aren't
need it anymore, so you can go now, off you go,
and physically pushed me out of the hotel suite without
the bride'smaid outfit. I found out later it had been
given to a cousin on the groom's side to wear
and step into the bridle party because Bridezilla did decided
they were a better fit for a family event and
it was obvious I was not committed to celebrating their
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wedding properly.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
That's wild too, because she probably doesn't have another dress. Yeah,
they go to a wedding with the wedding with the
dress you're gonna wear, so she just can't go to
the wedding.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Now I'm still going, but that I'm not going.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
No, I'm not going, and I'm I'm.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Gonna look up the coolest thing to do near that
venue and I'm going.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
To do that, not gonna lie. I would make it
this happening after planning all of that stuff. I would
have to make it my mission to ruin these people's lives.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Yeah, yeah, I would wonder if there was any way
that you could go back and like send.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Them because you would read the wedding.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Invoice for all the work be like, oh, sorry, I
didn't realize you were hiring me as a contractor for
your wedding or something.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Because again they want to I don't think.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
You can because there's no signed contract these people.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Want to picture perfect wedding. You already being there, not
making it perfect. So you being there, it's already.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Yeah, I don't really want to be there though.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I don't want to be there either, but it's time
to get petty.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
I want to go.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah, I'd go to the wedding and be like I
slept with the groom. No, I was gonna say that
I slept with the groom. He'll never admit it. He
said I was better than you. I slept with the groom.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I would leave and just not even bother.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
A lot of people are saying, just ruin the ruin
the wedding.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
That's fine. I'm My advice is I wouldn't. I think
it's fine if you want to.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
What are we doing today? Riley?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
So they were playing a little game game, says the man,
about three special gifts for you guys, eBay. Each one
picks with one of you in mind.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
These guys.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Right, he's got one.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And that's a lot of box in the box. I
feel like eBay like has like a lot of great
things with like potential for great memory. So I'm excited
to see what's in it.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I wanted to kind of like let viewers know what
these gifts made you think of. So we guess whose
gift is who reveals it?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Okay, so should I open rine first?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I was thinking a key on okay, five? All right, biggest,
I want to open.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
It box down like a cylinder you got.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
That is.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Look at these colors, I think I know exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I feel like I'm a colorful man.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
This is this is the most vibrant man in the room.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I have been wanting to wear more colors, but this
looks perfect.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
The cod I got something for you, all right. It's
another well cylinder, cylinder like I wonder that is definitely.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Colors.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Mama, Oh yeah, I know this has got to be
for me, right, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Totally another colorful man. I have one more gift.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I guess I don't get a gift, and what is it?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
It is a cowboy hat.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I feel like this has gotta be key root and okay,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Here we go, the y the ye to my huw
Yeah we two stepping. We love line dancing. I've been
telling him I need a cowboy hat, and yes what
he got me a cowboy hat. Boom fits really well.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
To thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I got the biggest size they had to make sure
it fit your loghead.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Thank you so much, Riley. These are such a thoughtful guests.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
It was really fun picking these out for you guys.
On eBay, they got like a million things on there.
I will randomly browse eBay for fun.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
You can find some crazy things on there.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Shop eBay for millions of fines, each with a story.
eBay Things People Love. I was incredibly hurt and confused
at being shoved out of the room without the dress
I had paid for and brought with me. I had
a good cry in a bathroom and then dusted myself
off mentally and prepared to attend the wedding, seeing as
I had spent so much time involved with it. The
ceremony was on a remote beach location, an hour's boat
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trip away from the hotel at the marina. The parents
were taking all the guests to it in their private
hired vessel. They even had their own security guards checking
off names on the list. I was thinking to myself,
I was glad I had worn something nice enough that day.
Even though I had thought I would be part of
the bridle party and wearing the bridesmaid outfit, I did
not want to show up looking terrible in front of
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their families.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Are you going to be on the list to get
on the boat?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I hope so. I was wearing similar attire to other
guests already on board. So approached the security to board
invitation in my purse and was told, sorry, not on
the list. Please leave the area.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
What called it? They don't want you there. They have
a way to make sure you can't get there.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I'd be furious, I'd be pissed.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
For sure, you can swim.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I'm writing my own boat. I've already paid so much
money for this. I'm writing my own boat. I'm going
to that destination, and I'm causing a ruckus.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I have no words for the level of slime that
these people are.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
They were planning that the whole time.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I politely disagreed with the guards and said I must
be on the list because I'd been invited to the wedding,
and pulled the invitation out to show them. They looked
at it, checked the list again, and said, sorry, not
on the list. You'll have to leave the area. I
was now visibly distressed, and the guards were looking uncomfortable
as I stood there trying to call her mother, not
answering while they boarded other guests. That was when I
happened to notice some of the guests. I recognized Groomzilla
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and his groomsmen on board, pointing and laughing at me.
That was when it finally sunk in and I gave up,
walked back to the hotel lobby and called a taxi
to take me back to where I was staying. By
the time I had got back to my accommodation, I
had been blocked on all social media and probably for
phone calls too, but I didn't bother to keep ringing.
Once I left the marina, I had decided I would
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just sit in the pool at the accommodation and quietly
mentally check out for the evening and head home the
next day. But the universe had other plans. Whoo, there
was a great bunch of other guests at the accommodation
having a birthday bash around the pool and barbecue area
for one of them. They welcomed me into their celebrations
like I was a long lost family member, and I've
even stayed in touch with some of them to this day.
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I even ended up having a much better time that
weekend with strangers than people I considered chosen family. We
have a little bit more story left. I'm glad that
you found some people worth hanging out with. I wouldn't
stop until these people were ruined in some way.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I already see a divorce coming.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
They're just gonna one up each other until they eventually.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Like op, he should plant the seed. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I don't think there's probably something that you can do
to call or like report or something. I wouldn't go
and do anything in person because I think they're just
gonna purposely try to embarrass you more and probably just
have security physically escort you out, and I don't think
that's worth it. But I think there's ways to get
other people there that can try to do something about it.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
No, I don't worry. Kara Karma will get them.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yes, that's what I'm figuring.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Well, let's finished this story. I know people will think
I was an idiot for not realizing sooner that they
probably had never genuinely planned for me to be anything
but some kind of unpaid wedding coordinator. I just genuinely
got blindsided by it because I believed I was still
a valued member of our friendship group. They had never
acted like they looked down on me as we had
grown up in the same area and went to the
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same schools. It was only after UNI and I started
working in a very different field to them and was
not earning the same is them that obviously things changed
in their minds. However, they never indicated to me I
was now not part of the gang anymore, as they
invited me to the same things and our families still
socialized in the same way. They never acted like I
was less than them until the wedding. It was through
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friends of friends I found out the other information long
after the wedding was over. Bride and Groomzilla never spoke
to me or my family again after that. No great
loss in the end if that was how they treated
people not at their same financial level, definitely better off
without them in my life, and that is the end
of that story.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I'm perspective to have how much Op ended up spending
in total, because I know she didn't go to everything,
so she didn't spend the like full what was it
seven K at the end, but I'm sure with everything
she probably still did enough. And I see people saying
in the chat like, technically she paid for that dress,
so that dress is hers and like, yeah, yeah, I said,
invoice for the wedding coordination, but like going to small
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claims or some sort like fully just being like not
gonna talk to you, then not gonna talk to anybody,
like you'll be hearing from someone and like when you
get like search, are you.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Sure though, with the amount of financial assets they have,
they could just bury you in lawyers.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
It's small claims two, which I'm sure they could.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I mean, couldn't you bury someone with lawyers and small
claims too? I don't know how that works.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
I think sometimes small claims you're representing yourself.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yeah, but that's just because you can choose to write.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I hope their boat sinks and that's the end of
that story. I hope one hundred flying monkeys rain on
their wedding and pick everyone up and throw them in
the Laurentchian abyss. That's what I hope.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I refuse to give up my inheritance to pay for
my sister's wedding.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yeah, probably it's a good move.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
My dad passed away last year after a long illness.
It was devastating. I twenty eight female was the one
who moved back home to take care of him. I
handled doctor's appointments, late night emergencies, bills, and basically ran
the house when he couldn't anymore. It was exhausting, but
I don't regret it. He and I got very close
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during that time. By the way, this comes from Extension
Gold thirty one forty nine. And if you want us
to make your own stories, go to the r slash
Oki storytime subreddit and we're here to give good advice. Goofully,
But we don't have all the answers. We only know
what we would do, So let us know what you
would do in the comments. And Opie says. My sister
thirty two female, on the other hand, lives out of state.
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She came back twice in the last year of his life,
once for Christmas and once for his birthday. I don't
think she's a bad person, but she definitely distanced herself
from the responsibility. Her excuse was that she had her
own life and couldn't just drop everything. I understood at
the time, but it still hurt. When Dad passed, his
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will specifically left me a decent chunk of money, not millions,
but enough that I could pay off my student loans
and actually start saving for a house. It was clear
in the will that this money was for me because
of the sacrifices I made while caring for him. My
sister received other things. He left her, some jewelry and
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a classic car he had restored that she always loved,
but the majority of liquid assets went to me. Fast
forward to now. My sister got engaged in May. Her
fiance is nice enough, but they both have champagne tastes
on in adult soda budget. Uh. The wedding they're planning
is way out of their price range. Destination resort, designer dress,
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open bar, huge guest list. I assumed they were going
into debt for it, which I thought was their choice.
But then about a month ago, my sister sat me
down and said, I need your help. Dad would have
wanted you to use some of that inheritance to make
my wedding special.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah, but he actually wouldn't. That's the thing. He actually
didn't say in the will that he wanted me to
spend it on your stupid wedding. Remember how you couldn't
you couldn't make it, Remember how you were too busy
because you had your own life. I actually have my
own life too.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
It's in this safe text. It's in the writing from
his will, the sacred texts, the sacred text.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
She wasn't asking for a small loan. She wanted me
to hand over thirty thousand dollars to cover the venue
in catering.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I'd send her three hundred pennies.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I told her no. I said that Dad left me
that money for a reason, and I'm using it to
build stability in my life, not blow it on a party.
She immediately got defensive and accused me of being selfish
and choosing money over family. Now my mom has gotten involved.
She says Dad would have wanted me to share, and
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that family comes first. I told her Dad literally wrote
a will that reflected his wishes, and if he wanted
to fund my sister's wedding, he would have set aside
money for that. Mom keeps saying I'm tearing the family apart.
My sister has been telling relatives that I'm punishing her
for not being around when Dad was sick, which makes
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me feel sick to my stomach because it it's kind
of true. I am resentful, but it also feels unfair
that the person who did all the work gets nothing
and the one who barely showed up gets rewarded.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Ya.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Wait, can you imagine her telling the families like, yeah,
she's not you know, she's taking it out on me
because I wasn't there for dad being sick, And everyone's like.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Why weren't you there for dad being Wait?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
You weren't there for when your dad was sick?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Yeah, just wait.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Some cousins are on her side and have texted me
things like it's just money, you'll make more, and your
dad would have wanted her to have a special day. Others,
thankfully you have said it's insane. She's even asking.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Now.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
My sister says she won't invite me to the wedding
unless I do the right thing.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
These dumbasses are saying, it's just money. How about you
give her yours? Yes, this is just money. You give
her your money? Right?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Oh wait, it's different now, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
I was gonna say, I don't think that it's wrong
to maybe, out of your own kindness, maybe be like
I'll do something special for you, Like maybe like I'll
give you a really big budget to buy a cool dress,
like a really pretty dress that you wanted, and that'll
be like my contribution to your wedding, Like not something
that's gonna be crazy, crazy expensive, but something that's like
a couple thousand dollars more than she probably would have spent.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I should just pick out a fifteen thousand dollars wedding.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
You cap it. Still, you'd be like, you have five
thousand dollars to find a dress or ten thousand dollars to.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Pay to guarantee you. She's like, I don't know, that's
not a good enough present.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Well, I'm saying like off or something like that, and
if she wants to turn that down, then buy.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
That's what you're gonna do for me.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I gave you after you already like before she's like, yeah,
give me thirty k. And it's like, yeah, sure you
as soon as she's like, you know, no, give me
thirty k. I think if she gave you exactly nothing now.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
I think if she came and she was like yeah, also,
like Kat said, she has a really nice car, and was.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
It it didn't she say like oh I'm too busy
to make it to the funeral or what was the beginning?
What was it She's like, oh, I have my own life,
I can't make it. Yeah, Well, and it was to
what to like see their dad off just out more times.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
She only came out for Christmas and his birthday. She
said she just couldn't come home more than that. I'd
offer like something tiny and then be like, okay, you
don't want to take that. That was me being generous.
Nothing certainly not thirty thousand dollars. And it would be
all gone after this part, because now my sister says
she won't invite me to the wedding at all unless
I do the right thing.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
She's threatening you. Yeah, Oh my gosh, you're threatening me
because you want my money. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
At that point, it sounds like a I'm actually really
busy with my own life the weekend of your wedding.
I know, I don't know what weekend it is yet,
but I'm really busy that weekend. I don't think I
can come anyway.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Sorry, I have my own life. I can't just drop
everything for your wedding.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
My mom is begging me to reconsider for the sake
of peace, but honestly, I can't see myself handing over
thirty k just so my sister can have a fancy
Instagram wedding while I put my future on hold. Still well,
the guilt is eating at me. Am I really the
knucklehead for refusing to share my inheritance with my sister
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to pay for her wedding. We have some comments, but no.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
What would be extra funny is if you spent thirty
thousand dollars on really elaborate skywriting and I say skyriders,
oh writing, airplanes right, happy future divorce over your sister's wedding.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
That'd be great, crazy crazy crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
It's your wedding, it's my money. Do whatever you want
with your wedding. I'll do whatever I want with my money.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Dad specified it was to me. Top Comments A Temporary
Bench fifty ninety five s stand your ground and holds
your boundaries. No one needs or is entitled to an
extravagant wedding. They chose to plan outside of their budget.
They can figure it out. Their request is selfish and rude.
Glass Armadillo ninety eight seventy one says, tell her you
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are right. Family comes first. Dad is family and respecting
his wishes comes first. Don't tell me what Dad would
have wanted. I know because he literally wrote it down.
Don't ask me to disrespect my passed away father's final
wishes of Yola Swamp says, you're right. Family comes first.
That's why I made sacrifices to be there for Dad
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when he needed help. You chose to prioritize yourself as
you're doing now. I don't owe you anything, and you're
not getting a cent from me. When turn in right,
she's using family comes first only when it's convenient for her.
Arwin's Roe says, you are right. Family comes first, which
is why I moved home and took care of dad.
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Mike drop Hey, pretty lady ma'am says, and if her
wedding is so important to her, she can sell her
vintage restored classic car for the thirty k she expects
from her sister Opie. Tell her Dad already gave her
money for the wedding. She just doesn't want to part
with her inheritance when she can keep hers and scam
you for yours. Tell you your family she got the
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money she needed from Dad already. She can sell her
share if she's that desperate. I'm so tired of selfish,
lazy siblings refusing to do their part and demanding the rewards.
Stop feeling guilty. Send her an auto trader and tell
her to get cracking. That car ain't selling itself, and
you're not giving her money she already has relishing nonsense,
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says Opie. Tell her dad already gave her money for
her wedding and responding to that comment, yes, this is perfect.
Sister is choosing to have a fancy wedding. If she
thinks Dad would have wanted her to have it, then
she can sell the car and pay for it. He
probably didn't give her cash because he knew she would
waste it on something like an overpriced wedding. Why do
people think you should give up financial safety nets so
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that she can play pretty princess for a day. A
good marriage doesn't need an expensive wedding, Opie. Did you
have to give up working or work less while you
were taking care of your dad? Your sister didn't. If
you did, then you could point out that your dad
understood that taking care of him had set you back financially,
hence the liquid funds, et cetera. We have an update
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two days later.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Dude, everyone in these stories, it's like the worst people
I've ever heard in my life. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
The second she's like, you're not coming to my wedding.
Then I'm like, Okay, prioritize peace.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
What is your mom smoking? Get out of here. Your
sister's trying to extort money out of you by not
allowing you to go to her wedding, which she's choosing
to make extravagantly too expensive. Yeah, because she's sane and shallow,
too self important to show up for her ailing father
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who passed away and in his wisdom, left his liquid
assets to the child who actually gave a crap about
him and still left her a restored sports car.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
And other stuff to love stuff. But we have an update, Sam.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Here we're gonna get back to the stories. But here's
three of us bad from our spot.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Two days later. I didn't expect to be writing again
so soon, but the last couple of days have been
a whirlwind. I've cried, I've screamed into pillows, and at
one point I've just sat in the dark, staring at
the ceiling, wondering what the heck happened to my family.
After my first post, things with my sister kept escalating.
She kept sending me guilt trippy text saying things like,
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if you really loved me, you'd do this for me.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Don't love you. I don't love you.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Sorry, sorry, she doesn't love you. She loves money.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I love the money more than you, I guess.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
And you're choosing money over your only sister. I was
holding strong, but it's still hurt.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I would have pulled up. What about my only father?
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Then something came out that I wasn't prepared for. One
of my cousins who's been quietly on my side, told
me my sister hasn't exactly been faithful to her fiance.
At first I didn't believe it. It sounded too wild and
too cruel, but then they showed me messages. My sister
has been seeing a man from her job for months,
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married man. She apparently told my cousin she's not even
sure she wants to marry her fiance, but she's going
through with the wedding anyway because everything's already in motion
and she deserves the spotlight after a hard year.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Oh my god, Wow, we really are reading like the
worst people today.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Put her in the river, dude.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
That's insane. The fact that she's like, yeah, I'm gonna
just I don't want to marry this guy, but I
deserve the spotlight everyone. So I've had a hard year.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
How the fiance tell the wife of the man she's
cheating on him with she's had a hard year. One
needs to know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
And I guarantee you she's just saying that she's had
a hard year. She's using the passing of her father
that she wasn't there for helping out as an excuse.
Tod be like, yeah, I you know, I really deserved.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
It, she said, a hard year trying to live this
double life.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
You deserve a razor scooter to the shins.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I would literally respond to the sister and be like,
all right, you really want to play this game. You
want to keep pushing my buttons. Push it one more time.
I want to see you try.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
You deserve na'er in your shampoo bottle.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I want to see you do it.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
I felt like I'd been punched, not because I care
about her fiance that much, We've never been close, but
because it shattered the last bit of moral ground she
had to stand on. She's been calling me selfish, manipulative,
greedy all while living a double life. Here's the part
that broke me. My mom knows she admitted it. When
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I confronted her last night. She says. She walked in
on my sister late at night whispering on the phone,
and when she pushed her, my sister confessed. Mom's exact
words to me were, she just needs to get it
out of her system. When she's married, she'll settle down.
Don't ruin this for her.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Nah, I'm not going to ruin anything for her. She
ruined it. Yeah, your mom, create you do this to
my dad is what I'd immediately then ask, so did
you do this too? Running the family?
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Mom is just as stinky as the sister.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Mom's a little cuckoo.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Golden child. I think someone said earlier it was golden child,
but this is giving golden child.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
I don't even know who my mother is anymore. The
woman who raised me to believe in honesty and integrity
is now telling me to keep quiet while my sister
destroys her relationship and another family's marriage, all so we
can have a happy event to cover the grief of
losing Dad. And here's the kicker. My sister is still
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hammering me for the money, still saying Dad would want
me to share, still threatening to cut me out of
her life completely. She has no idea. I know what
she's doing. Part of me wants to out her, tell
her fiance, tell the whole dang family, throw the truth
like a grenade, and walk away. Another part of me
is exhausted. I already spent years holding my dad's hand
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in hospitals while everyone else lived their lives. Do I
really want to take on this into for now? I've
decided to step back. I'm not going to her wedding
invite or no invite, I won't be there. I took
more of the inheritance and paid down my student loans today,
and I cried when I saw my balance shrink. Not
out of guilt this time, but relief because Dad left
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me that money so I could finally breathe. Yeah, there's
a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Tell everybody, dude, do the grenade. Yeah, do the grenade.
I'd want to have the grenade thrown. If I was him,
I'd say do it. If I was you, I wouldn't
be able to help myself. Why are there's so many
flies in her?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
He think it's just one that's like really good one.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Here, there's one flying above me. She's ruining her her future,
She's ruining someone else's marriage, She's ruined her relationship with you,
and if your mom is uh, like, I don't know,
I don't know what to call it short sighted? Your
mom is silly enough to try to tell you that
that's your fault. Cut them both off.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Yeah, I feel like this was probably like the sister
was always Mom's closer mom, and she was probably always
way closer to so it's like she doesn't have her
little sidekick anymore.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
It sounds like your mom she did on your dad.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I know that too.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
That's house Would she be okay.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
With this a little bit more? My sister might never
forgive me, my mom might never understand me, and maybe
I'll be painted as the villain for the rest of
my life. But at least I know deep down I'm
not the one lying to everyone. I just wish dad
was still here. He'd cut through all this noise in
five seconds flat. That is the end of that story.
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So sorry for your loss of your dad too, And
you're doing the right thing. Pay down those student loans rip.
But that's the end of that story. We got another one.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
My stepdaughter's mother is furious that I'm the one walking
her down the aisle.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Who does she want to walk down the aisle?
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Trigger warning substance abuse. Her background. I married my husband
Frank at twenty four years old. He was also twenty
four and had two children from his previous relationship, daughter
Cindy six at the time of our marriage, currently twenty two,
and son Max, seven and a half at the time,
currently twenty three. By the way, this comes from user
inner Research eighty eight nineteen. And if you want to
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submit your own stories, go to the r slash okay
storytime subreddit where this story was submitted. And we are
here to give you good advice. Goofy, But we don't
have all the answers. We only know what we would do,
So if you would do something different, let us know
in the comments. And ope, says their biological mother, Stephanie,
who was the same age as Frank and myself, decided
at twenty she was too young to be a mother.
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She and my husband separated, and Stephanie gave up her
legal rights to her children. My husband's family stepped in
to help him during that time. I lived several towns
over and met my husband in passing, and it was magical.
We built a wonderful home and family together. I adopted
his children and became their mom. Aw now for the
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tragic events that occurred. Ten years into our marriage. My
husband suffered a severe back injury. He received surgery and
was doing well with physical therapy and his doctors. We
thought we actually beat this and it was a small
setback in an otherwise healthy relationship. Unfortunately, my husband became
addicted to pain medication and passed away several years ago.
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The memories are still painful, and our children are still
struggling with the memories of their father. I have always
said to remember the man he was prior to his
substance use disorder and passing. I do blame myself in
the end for asking him to leave. It was too
much on the children and myself. We tried rehabs, method owne, NA,
you name it. If it was available, we tried. However,
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the toll of maintaining a household and making sure the
children were well cared for was too much. It broke
my heart. I blamed the doctors, and I blame the
companies for making those pills, and I blame my husband
for not being honest and telling me sooner about his problems.
I still love him and remember the man he was
before all of this. I'm more in the loss of
that man the most. Now for the current situation, my
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daughter Cindy is getting married to her high school sweetheart
and love of her life. Cindy has been through a
lot has been my greatest friend. I'm so proud and
grateful for her and my son Max. If it wasn't
for them, I wouldn't have been able to survive and
thrive after the loss of Frank. Cindy's wedding is in
a few months, and even though her biological mother isn't
in her life except for the random cards and calls,
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she did invite Stephanie to the wedding as a guest.
Stephanie is remarried and has a new family of her own,
two twin boys aged ten and a husband named John.
Cindy asked me to give her away at the wedding,
as well as being the mother of the bride. I
was proud to give her away and shared this special
moment with her. I was a supportive mother of the bride.
I let her choose the dress and didn't interfere with anything.
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This is Cindy's special day.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Now.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
This week, coming to my house, Cindy was in tears.
Her mother called her and was furious that she was
listed as a guest on the invitation and not as
her proper title as mother of the bride. Cindy said
her mother was furious, but she didn't care. Stephanie was
never there and she didn't see her as her mother. Yeah, yeah,
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because she gave up her parental rights to be your mother.
She's on. I don't know what she's on. Cindy said
she was upset over the hurtful words Stephanie said to her.
Once I got Cindy calmed down, I asked if she
would like me to talk to Stephanie about this, and
Cindy agreed. Cindy said if Stephanie was not going to
be supportive, she's not welcome anymore. I called Stephanie as
soon as Cindy left the house. Stephanie answered with, oh,
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it's you. I told her to excuse herself and check it.
Stephanie said she would not because I'm stealing her rightful place.
Her only daughter is getting married and she's not listed
as the mother of the bride. It's bad enough that
I'm giving her only daughter away, but it's wrong that
a barren woman is stealing her only daughter. She said
that I should have had children of my own if
I wanted to be a mother of the bride.
Speaker 4 (41:42):
Stephanie, shut up, you should have been a mother of
your kids.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
Yeah, Stephanie, literally, you have no place to talk. Your
words have no value. You are irrelevant to this conversation.
I hung up after that and texted Stephanie that she's
no longer welcome as a guest at Cindy's wedding if
this is how she feels, Cindy, Max's, my mother's and
my own phone are being spammed by extended family members
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of Stephanie's family. This includes Stephanie's mother, whom Cindy or
Max have no type of relationship with, and various other
family members. We do not have a relationship with. Cindy
and Max want nothing to do with Stephanie. We have
a little bit more story.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Yeah, no, she's not coming to the wedding. Then if
she doesn't want to behave stop being a little poopoo. Stephanie,
you didn't ever act like a mom. You gave up
your rights to be a mom.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Yeah, you didn't raise my mom, So why now do
you feel entitled to be the mother of the bride
when you weren't.
Speaker 4 (42:41):
There ever, it's just for show at this point.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
My mother is another story. My mother wants to compromise
with either us acting as co mothers of the bride,
or if I give Cindy away, maybe we should just
make Stephanie mother of the bride. My mom isn't one
to have conflict with strangers. Myself is another story. I
am teams Cindy and told her I will do whatever
you need. Cindy said, Stephanie is a guest or nothing
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at all. My mother and father are helping to pay,
and they insist we keep the peace. And mother said,
I don't understand what Stephanie is going through because I've
never birthed a child. I am very close to writing
my parents a check and paying their share. Any advice, Yeah,
I would do that as well. Yeah for your own mother.
Again to throw it back and that, well, you haven't
had children.
Speaker 6 (43:25):
It's like she gave up her parental right, she signed
away any obligation or responsibility she had to this child. Yeah,
and now she wants to come around like she's her mother.
You have to raise somebody to be their mother.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
Yeah, coming out of this person doesn't just automatically be like, yes,
you have all the rights of all the last years
that you were ignoring me to come back and be
my mom.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Maybe it would be different if there wasn't you know,
OP in the picture and it was like, oh, well
I lost my father. I guess my estranged mother is
coming back into the picture. It's better than having no one.
OPI is Cindy's mother. For all intents and purposes, these
people are in shame.
Speaker 4 (44:09):
Yeah, Cindy's wedding too, Like, if Cindy's telling you that
that's what she wants to do, that's what her wedding
should do. It's Cindy's wedding.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
Yeah, but I don't know.
Speaker 4 (44:17):
Let Cindy walk herself down the aisle if she wants to,
but she should get what she wants her wedding.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
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But we do have comments on our video. My ex's
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Op twenty one male dated his ex nineteen female and
her super strict dad just found out they slept together.
Now the dad is calling Opie's parents, calling him a
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man or and trying to shame him for taking her virginity.
Opie's family is caught in the middle and things are
about to get real awkward. If you're curious to know
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And we do have some comments here. The first comment here,
it's a little lengthy one, so be prepared. This is
from Katie sixty five fifty one. I was raised Christian
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and I love my parents, but the talk was terrible. Again.
The talk a cartoon book written by our pastor at
the time, and they whipped the book out of our
favorite restaurant when I was a kid, and proceeded to
make out with tongue and pass a mint back and forth.
After what what? What did I just read?
Speaker 6 (45:36):
Hold on, They're like, let me show you out worse,
let me show you babe.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
Yeah, you know I read that correctly. A cartoon book
written by our pastor at the time, and they whipped
out the book at our favorite restaurant when I was
a kid and proceeded to make out with tongue and
pass a mint back and forth after. Oh my god,
I will never forget that nasty memory, and neither will
I now. Thank you for that. But I learned nothing
about feminine hygiene or anything of the sort and had
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to figure it out from my teenage to young adult years.
I have a relationship with God and truly appreciate my parents,
but I have no intention of going about that topic
anywhere near the way my parents did and not leave
out important things like hygiene, safety, and honesty. I never
was able to talk to my parents about it. When
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I lost my V card, my mom actually went crazy,
took us to a restaurant and she freaked me out
and I had to hide in the bathroom until I
felt safe. Wow, this is.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
Girl, this comment, there's a whole story in its own.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Then, now as a married woman, my mom makes a lot,
and a lot is emphasized of uncomfortable spicy jokes. That
seems like she wants to know about our spicy time.
She nags my dad NonStop, then makes jokes about wanting
to go home and do the do It makes my
spouse and myself very uncomfortable. Wow, that's a comment. For
(46:59):
the ages.
Speaker 4 (46:59):
How many of you guys in the chat had the
American girl doll one girl doll book about this?
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Oh, there's an American girl doll book about how reproduction.
Speaker 4 (47:09):
Works about women's bodies.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
I don't know anything about that.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
Let me know, all right, Well, we have another comment here.
Reading another comment here by Megan Korkorn nineteen fifty two,
it's so weird that dads are so involved in the
virginity of their legal adult daughter. That's crossing so many boundaries.
Speaker 4 (47:29):
Yikes. Yeah, yeah, he I did not read this story.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
I don't remember this story.
Speaker 3 (47:34):
Come on, that was a good one, right, I don't
think I was here for it.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
Reading the final comment here for this story, Queen of
the Zombie Apocalypse says pretty sure that if the dad
hooks up, it cancels out whatever OPI and the ex
girlfriend did, that's probably what he meant by fixing it.
That is the end of those comments and the end
of this episode.
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