Recently, a woman turned to the AITA community to ask if she crossed the line when she kicked out a friend from her wedding.
“I strictly said no kids at my wedding, & my really good friend decided to bring her 2 year old who is a biter!” the author wrote and added that her friend couldn’t get a sitter for the day. “Her husband recently left her and I feel terrible but her child was crying before my wedding while I was trying to have my makeup and hair get finished,” the author recounted.
While everyone was preparing for the ceremony, her friend’s baby kept crying in the background, which triggered the author, who had warned the guests that it was a no-kids wedding. What followed afterwards made everyone turn against the bride, who now wonders if she was wrong to react that way.
A bride wonders if she was wrong to kick out her dear friend from her childfree wedding because she brought her toddler who was crying all the time
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Bored Panda reached out to the author of this story who wanted to remain anonymous and who told us that she’s been to many weddings for friends and family and seeing how some children can act during these special events, she decided to make her child-free. “Respectfully though,” the Redditor said.
“My first reaction was confusion,” the author said recounting the moment she heard the toddler crying during her wedding. “I really was just assuming it was her child screaming because I could tell by his cry. Once I had known it was her child for sure I was a little annoyed but understood since she said the sitter would be picking him up in 45min.”
Having said that, the author said that her wedding was absolutely beautiful and she had a wonderful night, and so did her now husband. “If I could change anything I wish I wouldn’t have been so stressed about preparing for this wedding and having anxiety. I wanted it to go perfectly because it’s something I’ve dreamed about since I was a little girl.”
The Redditor also said that having to ask a good friend to leave was hard. “I care about her but her child was way too disruptive and loud. If I have to be honest she doesn’t discipline her child causing my vowels to get disrupted.”
For people thinking of having a child-free wedding, the author’s advice would be “do it as I did, I planned my wedding 1 year in advance and sent the invitations out 6 months in advance.”
“This gives people the time to decide if they will be able to attend or not. I said specifically on the invitations ‘child-free, if you and your loved one are having trouble finding a sitter please contact me 24 hours in advance.’”
The reason she did this was “to reassure them that I still want them at my wedding and I will do everything I can to help with the sitter situation. My friend on the other hand didn’t do any of those things.”
Someone asked for more details about the whole situation and the author replied
Many people expressed their support and said that the bride did nothing wrong
Other people thought that the author was to blame in this situation and questioned the childfree wedding concept
