Couple Uninvites Man To Wedding Despite Still Wanting To Use His Property For It

Emily Izsak | December 18, 2024 3:00 am

Planning a wedding can be a super stressful experience. There are a lot of opinions to account for, there's a lot of money to spend, and tensions are at an all-time high. Is that stress an excuse to act like a total (insert your expletive of choice here)?

Recently, a Reddit user who goes by the handle weddingproperty told a tale of a shattered friendship.

How It All Started

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The narrator of our story is a 29-year-old man who chose not to share his name on the internet. His good friend Carla was engaged and planning a small wedding.

She asked if she could use his backyard as her wedding venue.

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The Backstory

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Carla is engaged to a man named Rick, but back in the day, Carla and our narrator used to date. Our narrator is now married to his own lovely wife.

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She knows about his history with Carla and she doesn't care that they're still friends.

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Rick Didn't Know

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Rick had no idea that Carla and our narrator used to date. He found out a month before the wedding from a mutual friend.

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He was pretty shocked that Carla hadn't told him about her history with her friend.

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An Uninvited Guest

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Carla and Rick are now in couple's counseling, but apparently, the wedding is still on. Rick has just requested that our narrator not be there.

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The thing is, the wedding is happening on his property.

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What To Do?

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This person still really likes his friend Carla.

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But the idea of just leaving his house so that a wedding he's not invited to can happen in his backyard doesn't make much sense.

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He Told Her No

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So after much thought and deliberation, our narrator decided to tell Carla that she couldn't have the wedding at his house.

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He wasn't comfortable with people being on his property without him or his wife at home.

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Is He Being A Jerk?

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Now, not only are Carla and Rick upset, but so are a lot of their mutual friends.

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They can't understand why, at the last minute, Carla's friend would do this to her.

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Is It Sabotage?

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Now our narrator is being accused of sabotaging Carla's wedding.

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And Rick thinks that letting them use his property is the least he could do after messing up their relationship.

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What Do You Think?

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So what do you think? Are Carla and Rick in the wrong here? Or are they right to be upset?

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Honestly, I think that our narrator did absolutely nothing wrong.

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A New Perspective

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A Redditor who goes by the handle pomme_dor commented on the story. They wrote: "Rick doesn't want to get married anymore but doesn't want to be the bad guy breaking up with his fiancée, so he's put her in an impossible position so he can get the sympathy when they split."

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That seems pretty spot-on to us.