19 January 2024 , 16:01
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This couple made their friend's wedding all about them - and it went down like a led balloon.
There are some definitive social rules you just should not break when attending someone else's wedding day - that has likely cost them a significant amount of time and money to organise and get it just right.
Whether that is no guests wearing white - unless explicitly directed to - or not bringing your kids because the bride and groom have their hearts set on a child-free reception where the party rages on until the early hours, there is one common thread to all of them: it's the couple's big day, not yours.
For one couple, their wedding day was upstaged when two of their guests used the opportunity of their celebration to make it all about them, by staging a proposal celebration of their own.
Posting on Reddit, the cousin of the bride explained that the incident occurred about a year ago, when "one tone-deaf self-centered 'friend' and their girlfriend used the opportunity to stage a proposal".
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However, the guests who planned to hijack the event were already engaged, "but planned this 'proposal event' when they saw and liked the venue, which they wouldn't be able to afford for their own wedding".
"When this plan came to light," the cousin explained, "they were politely but firmly asked not to do it," but this request didn't stop the guests from going ahead anyway.
"Main character alert, I guess," the cousin wrote, adding that they didn't even have the good grace to stage their proposal in an understated way, given that they were already taking attention away from the bride and groom.
"They were absolutely obnoxious about it too, stopping the reception to call a toast to themselves, and ordering everyone off the dance floor so they could have a 'proposal dance'."
The bride and groom, however, realised that revenge is a dish best-served cold, and when the bride fell pregnant as the errant guests' own wedding was fast approaching, she knew exactly what she had to do, the cousin explained.
"She has plans for her baby announcement that may just coincide with the wedding time and place. And we have a couple of close friends who know about this and are planning on bringing baby shower gifts."
While the poster noted that there was no way that their cousin would be as over-the-top as her guests had been at her wedding because she "has too much class to entirely take over the wedding", she was determined to give them at least a bit of a taste of their own medicine, with the poster assuring readers that "revenge will be had."
Commenters were quick to support the bride's plan to get her guests back, with one writing: "People who hijack other people's events are horrible humans. It's magnificent to have the tables turned. They deserve it."
Another commented: "My only objection is they're not going far enough."
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