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Winning a spouse but losing a friend We normally think of weddings as the beginning of something beautiful, but they are often so transformative that they bring hidden things to light. Weddings are profoundly symbolic celebrations that represent the beginning of a new chapter in the couple's life; most of the couple’s friends gather to cheer them on into this new adventure, and typically everyone celebrates until dawn.

Wedding Results in Losing Most of the Invited Friends: ‘I look around now, a yearish later, and only 2 people from the entire bridal party are still in our lives (minus our siblings).’

Friendhsip is the ultimate, most important kind of love a person can have I believe we should change our priorities and our pre-imposed hierarchies when it comes to love. Everyone seems to think that romantic love is the ultimate kind of love and what we all should aspire to. And don’t get me wrong, it is important, but what’s a person without friends? What’s a person without someone who feels this other kind of (almost disinterested) love towards them?

Woman attends what was supposed to be a wedding celebration but ends up at a divorce party: ‘Those speeches were for every woman in that room who had ever experienced any kind of suffering from any man’

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Heartbreak and unrequited feelings also happen in friendships It’s a peculiar kind of heartbreak. One day you find out you’re not as important as you thought you were in your friend’s life, and it’s terrible. You might have been living in a fantasy, just like it happened with some of your adolescent romances. It’s okay; we’ve all been there.

Woman finds out her best friend got engaged through Instagram Stories: ‘I've watched her from afar on Instagram - with her posting her accomplishments with multiple graduate degrees, and refining her art and her career’

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Bride gets upset and throws a temper tantrum when her sister gives advice on changing the seating chart to avoid conflict with some family members: ‘The final decision is mine’

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Some parents can’t handle not being the centre of attention, but you can’t point it out to them because they won’t admit it Your wedding is supposed to be your night. It’s one of those (rare) occasions in which the spotlight is on you. Yet some parents still manage to make it about themselves.

Bride’s Father Leaves Wedding Immediately After Walking His Daughter Down the Aisle: ‘He walked over to my in-laws and said he was “feeling sick” so he left’

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Only if we were raised by someone who taught us to watch how our love interests handle finances can we escape what happened to the woman who wrote this story. Honestly, that would be pretty clever advice, but sadly, very few people actually get it.

33-year-old woman regrets “badly misjudging” her husband and trusting him with finances: ‘I’m divorcing him and having our finances investigated, but I’m really struggling to reconcile his behavior with the person I thought I married’

I guess we have all learned the lesson by now. Weddings have stopped being about celebrating love and have become an absolute cash grab

Couple gets angry at future bridesmaid for not spending all her money on their wedding: ‘Apparently because I wasn’t putting the wedding first financially, I was being viewed as a bad friend’

Finally, a story from the A..ehem… point of view! These are rare; most of the stories I read get another verdict. It’s usually the morally correct side that gets to tell the story, but luckily for us, there are some exeptions where the narrator is blissfully unaware of it’s implications in the story.

Woman pays for her sister’s plane ticket to attend the wedding, but the sister exchanges it for a voucher: ‘A few days later she asked me to send her the $1,200 voucher’

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Girl, are you sure you miss him as a person? Is it love for Use or a Real connection? I love to see how people don’t realize they’re being extremely instrumental sometimes. They talk about real love or longing, and as they dive deep into it, you realize they are not talking about appreciating

Woman regrets not marrying her boyfriend of six years after he married someone else right after she dumped him: ‘He said that he was only 27 and needed 2 more years because he wanted to buy a house first. I didn’t believe him then’

A wedding is the one time in our lives when we’re allowed to go absolutely crazy and drag our family into that loophole

Woman is worried she’ll be caught in the middle of her cousin’s wedding drama: ‘Someone please explain to me why my dad’s girlfriend decided to go with a WHITE DRESS WITH GIANT SKY BLUE FLOWERS ON IT’

ome petty things are mandatory Some things in life are obligatory. Not all of them are nice and ethical. Not all of them make us the bigger person. Sometimes we must do the petty thing, as this is the only way the message we mean to send will be understood.

Couple flies 600 miles for a wedding, only to discover one of them doesn’t have an assigned seat: ‘I went over to the gift table and found my envelope. I put it in my jacket and we left’

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At one point, we all had a friend or family member whom we thought was trapped in a very bad relationship It’s obvious from the outside: the person isn’t good for you, plus being in a relationship isn’t mandatory; you can totally do life on your own and avoid unnecessary suffering. But when you are the person i

‘I hate her fiancé, I think he’s a waste of space and honestly a rock has more personality than him’: 31-year-old woman looks for advice on how to discourage her best friend from getting married

By now, we should all know that no is a full sentence. Of course, with family, sometimes that might get a little messy. Family members sometimes think that family relationships don’t need to follow most of the behavioral and moral rules that apply to every other relationship; and in a way, they don’t. Of course you’re not going to stop seeing

Bride-to-be uninvited her brother to her wedding but still expected to get ready at his place: ‘She still expected to come to my apartment at 7am with the bridesmaids, photographer and makeup artist while I just made myself scarce for the day’

Why don’t they charge guests upfront and stop this madness? Here’s a little preemptive truth-telling: they don’t because they know almost nobody would come to their weddings. Of course it’s nice and helpful to receive an expensive, useful gift, but we can’t expect

Recently married couple calls wedding guests to complain their gifts weren’t expensive enough: ‘I sell those sweaters for $350(AT LEAST) a piece and my partner sells sets like that for $300. I guess we should have sent an envelope with cash instead 🫩’

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Bride calls out sister-in-law's un-touched up roots on her wedding day, sister-in-law storms out and family berates her: 'I just couldn't get past that comment'

Saving money by avoiding food isn't an okay practice when you have guests. Technically, it wouldn’t be okay either if you were the only one starving, but at least you wouldn’t be forcing other people to join you on the ride.

Couple organizes wedding and decides to save money on food for their guests, only serving appetizers: ‘I, and about 30 other ravenous guests went to a pizza place across the street to eat’