An anonymous bridezilla is getting dragged online after her outrageous wedding drama went viral on Reddit. According to the post, the bride-to-be was trying to charge guests an entrance fee to her wedding (yes, really). But after the groom found out and nixed the idea, things blew up …
The long and sordid tale was first shared on Facebook.
A screenshot of the novella-esque post, which was allegedly written by the bride, was later shared in the subreddit CringePics. In that forum, the bride goes into great detail about why she's suddenly canceling her wedding — and boy, is it a doozy of a tale.
“Dear Friends," her post begins. "It comes with great sadness that I am announcing the cancellation of the [redacted] wedding … Unfortunately, [redacted] and I have broken up due to some recent and irreparable problems. We have decided to end our relationship and not go forth with any future proceedings."
The almost-bride does share that she and her ex are committed to being "civil" with one another and plan to co-parent their son, whose age is not mentioned. However, she did note that the decision to end their engagement comes after "hours of tears and mental exhaustion."
The bride could have left things at that but chose to keep going ...
"How did it all come crashing down?" she asked in her post. “Well, I invite you all on Facebook — players, bystanders, and side characters of the people in my life — to take a seat and listen."
"You’re all involved somehow," the bride continued. "Somehow, everyone is wrapped into this mess. Even if you weren't invited to my wedding, I don't care. You might hear of the drama and I’d rather you hear it from me."
Before she begins, she asks the reader to put themselves in her shoes.
“For once, let me take the stage and let me voice the most painful few months of my life," she continued.
Then she begins her story … which starts off sounding like something out of a Nicholas Sparks novel.
“First, things were a fairytale," she wrote. "I met the love of my life at 14. We were both young, but somehow we just knew we were meant to be. We worked on my family’s farm together and each warm summer spent in the fields our love grew deeper and deeper."
By 18, they were engaged, and by 20, they found out they were pregnant.
"We were elated, tearful, and thankful to God for this gift," the bride wrote.
After welcoming their son, Declyn, the couple decided to put their wedding on hold and focus on becoming more financially stable first.
“We saved and saved," she recalled. "I was in love, I was happy, and I was looking forward to life. We continued working and even got our degrees. It was hard, yes, but so blissfully worth it."
During that time, the couple managed to save up $15,000 for what they hoped to be "an extravagant blow-out wedding" that would include their son. But when they started touring venues, they were torn between two.
“A local psychic told us to go with the more expensive option and we thought, ‘Why the h— not?’" the bride went on. "We just needed a little push.”
The only problem? When they actually did the numbers, that "more expensive option" — paired with everything else they wanted, which included flights to Aruba — added up to a whopping $60,000.
Apparently, the bride wasn't deterred.
"All we asked for was a little help from friends and family to make it happen," she explained.
That "help" came in the form of an entrance fee, which would give them the funds they needed to pay off the remaining wedding balance.
“I SPECIFICALLY, I mean SPECIFICALLY asked for cash gifts,” the bride went on, “How could we have OUR wedding that WE dreamed of without proper funding? We’d sacrificed so much and only asked each guest for around $1,500 each."
After sending out their wedding invites, the couple eagerly awaited replies.
“We made it CLEAR [in the invites]. If you couldn’t contribute, you weren’t invited to our exclusive wedding," the bride wrote. "It’s a once in a lifetime party.”
In the meantime, close friends and family came forward to offer their contributions — including $5,000 from the maid of honor and $3,000 from the groom’s family.
Still, there was a long way to go to make up $60,000, so the couple set up an additional GoFundMe campaign to add to the pot.
Things started to turn sour once the RSVPs began rolling in.
According to the bride, they received a total of eight replies with checks inside. In addition, their GoFundMe only managed to raise an extra $250.
That's when they started to panic. Actually, scratch that — in the words of the bride, they were "livid." And from the sound of things, the couple made no secret about their anger.
“How was this supposed to happen without a little help from our friends?" the bride insisted.
Needless to say, things got TENSE. But when the groom’s family decided to take back their offer of $5,000, they went from bad to worse.
By now, the bride says she realized her 'dream wedding' was not going to happen.
In fact, she claims it had all turned into a "nightmare" and that she was quickly beginning to unravel. So she called off the wedding entirely.
“I’m exhausted. I am bone tired," she explained. "My heart is not the same. It’s stone cold. Fragmented. Empty.”
Now she feels she has no choice but to — in her words — "cut off all you snakes."
“I need to get away from this awful society,” the bride concluded. "How hard would it have been to [expletive] donate, friends? Do I matter to you? Just give me money for my wedding. I won’t even sugarcoat it. I won’t even pretend that’s not what I wanted. It was for a dream."
But instead of getting that dream, she claims she was “stabbed, cheated on, and Wrk’d.”
“Goodbye, see you in two months," she signed her post.
Some Facebook comments can be seen in the screenshare.
And (surprise, surprise) people found the whole thing to be pretty crazy.
"I have no words," wrote one anonymous person. "You're out of your mind, Susan."
"WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU??" asked someone else. "Who on h— EXPECTS that kind of money?"
Most Redditors were equally appalled.
"I could be a billionaire, and as a matter of principle I wouldn’t give them
$1,500 to pay for their wedding," wrote one person.
Another person called requiring that kind of money simply to attend "absurd."
A lot of people couldn't get over the bride's sense of entitlement. At least one person called her a "narcissist," and several others said she gave off "main character energy" — and not in a good way.
Others said it's possible to have a budget-friendly wedding that's still special.
"I’m getting married next year … what kind of blow-out kardashian wedding are you getting for $60,000?" asked one person.
To be fair, the average cost of a wedding in the US is somewhere around $28,000, according to The Knot, and depending on the state the couple lives in, that number could go much, much higher.
The bottom line, according to most Reddit commenters, is that if the couple didn't have the money for an over-the-top wedding then they shouldn't have planned one. Instead, they should have pulled back, made different decisions, and been more thrifty with the money they did manage to save. Expecting guests to foot the bill for your unrealistic expectations is just … well, selfish.
In fact, lots of people shared stories of their own low-cost weddings to show that it is possible.
"I got married for under $1,000, not including a modest ring," one person wrote. "My first wedding, my wife's first wedding, and we would have loved to have something fancy, but we didn't want to start out in debt."
Bust most of all, Redditors couldn't get over the fact that all of this led the bride to not only cancel the wedding entirely but also take off on a two-month backpacking excursion in South America with the money she'd already received.
Especially because she has a fiancé and a kid at home.
If you ask us, this story doesn't seem like it's going to get a happy ending, but according to a lot of commenters, that may be for the best — for her fiancé, at least.
As one person put it, "That man dodged a nuke."
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