Becoming Bride is a weekly column from Melissa Petro, who will be sharing her wedding deets with us from engagement to aisle.
Scratching mosquito bites, picking pimples, eating uncooked cookie dough, Googling your ex — these are things you’re really not supposed to do that feel just too good to resist, right?
At the top of my list: hate-reading.
I know it’s bad and wrong, but, well… I sometimes just can’t help myself.
When I came upon the headline, “Invite my kid to your wedding: Trust me — you’ll regret it if you don’t,” I couldn’t resist.
“Wedding season is upon us,” author David Andrew Stoler begins, “and, bless you, you’ve decided that — despite all evidence to the contrary — yours is the love that’s going to last.”
What’s your biggest wedding regret? Post continues below.
Straight from the lede (which links to the national marriage and divorce rate trends) the author sets himself up as insufferable. Man, if I was hoping to be offended, this dude did not disappoint.
The quickest way to reveal yourself as a douchenozzle — not to mention unoriginal — is to remind someone who’s about to get married that most marriages end in divorce. The second-quickest way to offend is tell us what our wedding has to be like or whom we need to invite.
Top Comments
Wow- my head almost exploded reading that stupid article! I can't believe people this selfish even have people in their lives that would invite them to a wedding! What a douchebag.
Trust me. I have been to a lot of weddings and have been a parent for almost 20 years.
Without exception, the parents who are offended when their child/children aren't invited are the same parents whose kids are dreadfully behaved and they don't care or notice and don't do a thing about controlling them.
The parents who are happy to leave their kids at home feel this way because they actually do get a night off. They are the parents who work their arse off at a function to stop wild behaviour, make their kids sit still and try and make them be quiet.
This is the reason my friends!
And probably can't actually find anyone willing to babysit their brat kids, that is why they make such a big deal about inviting them.
I agree. For me bringing my kids would be a night of telling them off for doing normal kid things because they were bored eg talking during speeches, sitting down for several courses, not playing under tables. It's not that they would be being deliberately naughty, it's normal for kids to be bored at these type of events but my expectations of them at an event like this would be unrealistic. As a result none of us would have a good time. My kids have been to few ceremonies of close friends and family which they enjoyed but by the end they were sick of sitting down and listening. People who don't supervise their kids and don't care about their behavior love to bring them every where at any time. Although, after writing all of this i did attend a lovely wedding of a friend who did invite kids as they wanted them there and they specifically catered for them with a table full of entertainment and there were lots of kids there. They weren't pressured into inviting them they wanted them there. But people should never feel obliged to invite kids to a wedding.
I agree with you. I understand that children can be unpredictable and also because costs can restrict their attendance.
However there has only been one instance where I was a little hurt that I couldn't bring my baby. My closest cousin growing up got married and I desperately wanted to attend his wedding however I had a 7 week old baby who was breastfed. I couldn't attend unfortunately but did send a card/present with my family for him.