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A bride’s carefully plannedweddingturned into a logistical nightmare after her in-laws added 10 extra people to the guest list — without asking.
The bride explained the sticky situation in a recentReddit poston the always popular subreddit “Am I an A——?” and sparked a spirited discussion about wedding etiquette.
“I married my husband last weekend after about a year of planning,” the bride wrote. “The ceremony went off perfectly even with kids in the church. The formal photos weren’t delayed. No one got drunk and wrecked anything. No one insisted on bringing their emotional support goat.”
“The only hitch was that my in-laws invited about 10 extra people without telling us,” she continued. “Not relatives or anything — just friends of theirs we did not invite since we don’t know them.”
She explained that the extra guests blended into the crowd at the ceremony so she didn’t notice their presence until the reception, when there were no seats available for them.
This evidently upset her in-laws, who confronted the bride and said they were “embarrassed” that their friends were being treated that way.
“I very politely asked them what they expected when they invited people without telling the people planning and paying for the wedding,” the bride explained.
However, her in-laws still weren’t satisfied and requested that she apologize to their friends. “I said I would but I would also explain that they had not actually been invited. If they wanted their guests told anything else then they had to go explain,” she wrote.
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“They were essentially wedding crashers. The fact they got seated and fed is surprising. At least Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson made sure people had a great time while crashing weddings,” another person joked, referencing the 2005 comedy classicWedding Crashers.
Several commenters also told the bride that her husband should have been the one to deal with the situation with the extra guests since his parents created the issue.
“Would’ve had my husband handle it,” they wrote. “His family, his crazy. I handle my crazy family — helps us keep the peace.”
source: people.com
