A bride on Reddit was fuming after her parents, who didn’t “contribute financially or help plan any aspect” of her wedding, performed a surprise anniversary dance at her destination wedding.
“Unbeknownst to us, my parents went to our wedding planner and requested a special dance to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary, which was actually about a month away and not on the date of our wedding. They did this without consulting me or my partner. The wedding planner decided to accommodate their request by cutting short our first dance, my dance with my father, and my partner’s dance with his mother to ‘surprise’ us with their anniversary dance,” the frustrated woman wrote.
The bride was primarily annoyed her parents didn’t tell her about the surprise dance beforehand.
“Our carefully planned dances were cut short, and my parents’ anniversary dance ended up being the longest dance by far. It came right after our planned dances, making it feel completely out of place and awkward. This interruption was jarring and took away from the special moments we had planned for so long,” the woman continued.
She explained that her wedding was a “significant event” for her and her husband, especially since they had to delay it due to COVID-19 and giving birth to two daughters.
“This was the third major life event where my parents’ actions caused significant disruptions. As a result, I asked the videographer to remove any footage of their anniversary dance from our wedding video so I wouldn’t have to relive it. Since the wedding, I haven’t spoken to my parents,” she continued.
However, her parents think she is “overreacting and that their anniversary dance was a beautiful gesture.”
“It felt like an intrusion on a significant moment in my life and was not something we had agreed to,” she concluded.
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Users came to the woman’s defense in the comments section, with many putting the blame on the wedding planner.
“It’s high time you spread word of the wedding planner’s incompetence,” one person wrote.
“You best TRUST and BELIEVE that I would be putting that planner on blast everywhere. Who allows that?” another commented.
“That wedding planner was so unprofessional. The day is about the bride and groom and anyone trying to throw in ‘surprises’ making the event about themselves for even one minute? Nope. The bride and groom should have been notified and able to veto that from the choreography of the wedding,” someone else chimed in.
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