'My dad banned me from his childfree wedding - I turned 18 two days after it'
Child-free weddings are always a cause for friction, especially when you have family members with young children. But one teen was left seething after she was snubbed from her own dad's child-free wedding - despite turning 18 two days after the big day.
The excited 17-year-old had already bought her dress and shoes, to be then told just a few weeks before that she wouldn't be allowed to attend as they had a strict over-18s policy, and that even the groom's daughter wasn't exempt from it. As she shared her situation on social media, she wondered whether she was in the wrong for publicly posting about it.
Posting her ordeal on Reddit, she detailed: "I was always pretty close to my dad. Closer to my mum but I often visited my dad about three or four times a week. A few years ago he started dating 'Anna'. Anna and I always got along when my dad proposed I was happy Anna seemed like she would be a great stepmom.
"Well a few weeks before the wedding after I had bought everything dress, shoes, and my dad and Anna said they needed to 'talk to me' Anna and my dad decided to have a child-free wedding which I get especially for young kids. Well turns out child-free means no one under 18. On the day of the wedding, I was still going to be 17 so, therefore, I'm not allowed to be at the wedding because Anna wants to stay true to the child-free rule even for the daughter of the groom and her about-to-be stepdaughter."
Devastated she would miss out on her dad's wedding, she shared that her mum took her away on holiday instead, and joked that she now felt a lot more mature than on the day of the wedding. As she took to social media to call her dad out, she was then called "immature" for doing so.
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She further detailed: "The funny thing is my 18th birthday was just two days after the wedding. But still, I wasn't allowed to go. The wedding was just last weekend (the 12th) and my birthday was yesterday (the 14th). I haven't talked to Anna or my dad since they told me I couldn't attend the wedding since I wasn't an Adult. My mum ended up taking me on a birthday vacation and yesterday I posted birthday pictures on Facebook and said finally an adult I'm so glad my dad and Anna didn't allow me at their wedding since I was under 18 I feel more mature since yesterday.
"The family was freaking out asking if that was true and bashing my dad and Anna. I later got a bunch of texts from my dad and Anna calling me immature and a selfish brat and that's why I was too immature to be at a wedding. I was talking to some friends and they said I was kind of an a**hole for doing that and I should have just let it go."
People agreed that she wasn't in the wrong for posting about how she had been treated, with many horrified she was uninvited. One Redditor wrote: "What kind of man doesn't have his own child at his wedding? Anyway, they made the choice, if they believe it was the right choice they should have no issue about it being publicly known. Plus, people might well assume you weren't there because you disapproved of his new wife or chose a vacation instead. Ensuring people know WHY you weren't there saves your own reputation," as another added: "Banning the 17 year and 363 day old daughter of the groom from a wedding because its child-free is a decision. A decision to exclude. To not invite. To make unwelcome. Not just in their wedding but in their lives."
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