I REFUSED to prank-propose to the groom… because I love him! | Reddit Stories | EP3079

0:00 Hey, this is Riley.

0:01 And this is Keon, your favorite OK Storytime host. And we've got some great stories coming up.

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0:11 Welcome back to OK Storytime. I'm Sophia.

0:14 I'm Riley.

0:14 I'm Keon.

0:15 And today we're covering the worst wedding stories that we've ever seen.

0:19 Oh my God, do not get me started on women wearing white to weddings or anyone in fact. I hate it when that happens.

0:25 Have you had a really bad wedding story?

0:28 Not yet. I was at a wedding once and I was a server helping out and everyone there, half the people were Hispanic.

0:33 Yeah.

0:34 So I thought I could speak Hispanic back to them.

0:36 Yeah.

0:36 And they did not like it. I was like, they had chicken and fish. I was like, oh, pollo, pescado. And they go, fish.

0:44 Yeah.

0:44 Felt melted.

0:45 I was like, oh.

0:46 I didn't know what or was.

0:48 Oh.

0:48 Anyway.

0:49 Well, that's pretty tough. But Riley, these stories are way crazier than that one.

0:55 Mine's pretty tame, I guess. Wow.

0:57 Compared to these stories.

0:58 Thanks.

0:59 We've got one groomsman who gets asked to fake propose to the groom during a pool noodle sword fight. But the problem is it wouldn't be fake for him.

1:07 The sword fight or the proposal?

1:09 I think just the love.

1:10 And I see that we have another story. One groom vanishes the night before his wedding and comes back with no ring, no bride, and a story no one believes.

1:20 Is this Gone Girl? I'm pretty sure we have labor laws for this.

1:24 Well, he might not be union.

1:26 But we're going to find out, so let's get into it. I refuse to prank propose to the groom because I love him.

1:33 As you should, diva.

1:34 Trigger warning, grim ending. Oh, no. I, 23 male, am one of the groomsmen for my best friend's 35 male wedding. His fiancee, 33 female, is a known jokester and likes pulling pranks that don't affect anyone beyond making us laugh.

1:49 Aw.

1:50 Stupid funny things nothing harmful the farthest she's ever gone was accidentally destroying the groom's crappy Toshiba laptop and surprising him with a brand new Alienware one he's been saving for for two years.

2:03 It's crazy I mean the first half there finished off strong.

2:06 She backed everything up so nothing was actually lost great my friend is the serious logician type so she balances him out a.

2:13 Lot that was logical It's like a magician, but logical.

2:15 Yeah, a logical magician. Well, it doesn't say logical.

2:18 I know I'm wrong.

2:18 He finds her antics pretty amusing too. So neither of them really care for the ceremony aspect of a wedding. They're going to a courthouse wedding and save the money for a nice reception with only close family and friends. There's going to be three witnesses. Me, the best man, and the maid of honor.

2:34 What are you doing there?

2:36 OP's just a real one.

2:37 But you had the best man and the maid of honor. You just need two signatures.

2:40 That's true. I don't know why you're there.

2:42 Just for fun.

2:42 And the wedding will have at most four or five more friends and some of the groom's family. The bride was all for this and she gets anxious in big events, but she still feels like it's not something to really write home about. So she wants to pull a pretty notable prank by having a dramatic objection during the ceremony.

3:00 I see now why you're here.

3:01 Yeah.

3:02 Yeah.

3:02 I guess. Yeah.

3:03 She's like, well, I needed a third person. Since I'll be the only single one there, she wants me to do the objection thing. Seem like I'm going for her and then plot twist, a vibe for the groom. Then she wants us to do a sword fight for his hand.

3:17 This is whimsical.

3:17 This does sound really sick. I think I've seen a video of this exact thing.

3:22 Like actual swords or lightsabers, yeah.

3:24 Like someone objects and then does a sword fight. I've seen like you could probably find the video.

3:28 This is not like done once, yeah.

3:30 Keon and I do that, but we don't usually object. We just sword fight.

3:33 I wish I was joking, but she and the groom actually have a sizable sword collection, and she said she'd get her maid of honor to sneak two of the smaller ones in. Can you do that?

3:43 No, you can't.

3:44 My grandmother, as a magistrate, she worked as a magistrate, and every time you went to the courthouse, there were two police officers.

3:51 Yeah, it's a metal detector.

3:52 And you had to take out everything in your pockets, and they had to cut you down.

3:55 And when she says that they have a sword collection, I'm assuming these are either real swords or close to.

4:01 Yeah. And so, you know what? You know what you say? Sometimes the sword is mightier than the pen, everyone. I'm taking this to the courthouse. I can't wait to be a dad.

4:08 That was so cringe. I'm sorry.

4:10 Thanks.

4:10 He's trying! He's trying, right?

4:12 You're supposed to say yes and me.

4:13 Yeah, Riley.

4:14 I laughed.

4:15 I laughed.

4:17 The maid of honor who was there while the bride was talking to me interjected and said it was a stupid idea. Okay.

4:23 Fair.

4:23 Relief.

4:24 She'd use fake swords since smuggling real ones could cause issues and said she'd run it by the officiant to make sure not too much of a commotion was created. Stress. That's so funny.

4:34 There are still cops in the courthouse.

4:36 That's hilarious, though.

4:38 But they're foam swords.

4:39 Yeah, foam swords that you run by the officiant or something.

4:41 I don't know. With these track records with these cops, I don't think they'd see the difference.

4:45 They'd see the sword and they'd put it down.

4:47 Put it down!

4:47 Put it down!

4:49 I love that OP was talking to the bride and she was like, yeah, I want to do these real swords. And, you know, my maid of honor is going to bring them. And the maid of honor is like, whoa, that's a terrible idea. I'll bring fake swords.

5:01 That's why she's the maid of honor.

5:03 I'm admittedly a bit of a doormat and didn't outright say no at first, hoping the maid of honor would say something instead. Then I realized I needed to pull my big boy pants on and say no, which I did. They weren't happy about it, not in an angry way, but in a way that made me feel immediately guilty.

5:19 I stupidly offered to think of a different joke to pull instead. They've added me to a group chat where I've kept trying to reiterate that I'm not comfortable with the prank and they keep trying to reassure me into reconsidering.

5:30 Him to fight the groom?

5:31 They want OP to fight the bride.

5:34 With fake swords.

5:35 Get ready to be whimsical.

5:36 Mm-hmm.

5:37 Practice your sword moves.

5:38 The maid of honor is calling me an a-hole for not following the bride's wishes, as is one other mutual friend the bride talked to about this. It's getting harder and harder to stick to my no. So am I the a-hole? And we've got comments, but what do you think?

5:53 He's just uncomfortable.

5:55 Just doing a sword fight, like fighting for his hand. Like, no, I won't let you marry him. I object.

6:01 If he's uncomfortable with that, then he must have some sort of feelings for him.

6:05 I feel like this is too fun thing to do for there not to be another reason why Opie's saying no. So I think I'm on your side.

6:12 I was going to say, show me someone who's in the theater. Theater.

6:15 This sounds fun. So I feel like OP's got some other reasons.

6:18 And I feel like they asked him because he would commit to the bit because they only have so many people as witnesses.

6:23 Are you guys going to have a part in your wedding where you object?

6:26 No.

6:26 I think you can also just take that out.

6:28 I'm going to keep it in there. So make sure if there's anyone else out there that may have had a crush on me.

6:32 Angie's just writing notes. I'm keeping them.

6:35 Keep it open so we know who to keep on our crap list. Honestly, you should add that in there. Isn't it nice to know that someone has a crush on you? Even if you don't feel that way and you're like, I'm not looking for anyone, but it's nice to know, oh, that person has a crush on me.

6:45 Great.

6:45 Yeah, but I don't know if I would want them to object at my wedding.

6:48 How else are you supposed to know?

6:49 Dang, I'm going to have so many objections.

6:51 Comments.

6:51 But for real, how else are you supposed to know if someone has a crush on you? They're not going to tell you.

6:55 Because you're booed up. I always know.

6:57 You always know?

6:58 Why does the groom seem comfortable with the bride's pranks? He often says he loves her sense of humor and has made his boundaries on them clear, which he's dutifully kept. The groom, being Dutch, sees the wedding more as a legal matter than a major life step. He said before he didn't really care if they got married or not.

7:13 It was more her wants that encouraged him to propose in the first place. Why is the bride so determined to make the wedding prank happen? It's mostly for the story. The bride's Italian and has always been to glamorous Italian weddings. She knows a wedding like that isn't in their budget, but she still wants something to make hers special and finds objection pranks funny.

7:33 It's literally the joke of, A Dutch person and an Italian person get married.

7:36 Yes.

7:37 So there's a sword fight.

7:38 Why are you so personally uncomfortable with playing the groom's romantic rival? The groom is Pan and no one really knows my identity since I still don't know what it is either.

7:47 Oh.

7:49 I mean, he's 23. The bride assumes I am aro ace since I'm apparently showed no interest in anyone beyond an aesthetic approach. She believes since I have little to no chance of being attracted to the groom, there's no harm in me pulling the choke.

8:02 Time out. Bro.

8:03 It sounds like you maybe have a little crush on him.

8:07 You're like, this is not just a whimsy thing. This is me actually being serious.

8:11 And is the reason you won't do this is because the approach you would have on the husband isn't that aesthetic or you're pleasing to your aesthetic? Also, what does aesthetic approach mean?

8:19 I think OP is just saying, like, I usually just appreciate if someone is attractive, but I'm not interested. I'm not attracted to them.

8:26 I'm not buying that.

8:26 I don't know.

8:27 What does aesthetic approach mean?

8:28 It seems a little presumptuous that the bride is assuming that you are arrogant. It seems like you're very unsure.

8:35 She seems like a person that just throws out assumptions.

8:37 That's you. So you're going to object. Thank you.

8:39 Yep.

8:39 I'm assuming that you're going to help me out.

8:41 Yeah.

8:41 I have a fun conspiracy theory. I think if OP does do this, it's going to get serious. You know when it's like play fighting and then he starts like getting aggressive like, no, no, I want him.

8:50 I want him.

8:51 I want him. It's actually going to become an all out sword fight and they're going to find out that they actually brought the real swords and it's going to get dangerous. OP has another comment that says, why can't the maid of honor simply do the prank instead? She would have asked her, but she's into women with a bit of a toxic girlfriend who'd hound her for pulling a stunt like that. The bride assumes I have zero feelings involved, so I'd be the best option. The best man is also in a committed relationship and is a bit more like the groom in being less inclined to pull pranks. What would the fake swords actually be? She clarified in the group chat, pool noodles cut and colored to look like swords.

9:26 Cute.

9:27 Since the bride and I are crafty with our hands, we could do it, but I'm not going to, or even help out if she replaces me with someone else. It now rings as sort of disrespectful to my friend. But Opie continues, what are the couple's plans for the wedding and how far along is the prank planning? They aren't Catholic. The idea was spawned from a short conversation a week ago. And since the wedding itself isn't happening for at least another year while they save up, They haven't done any real planning for the prank. Why might the wedding take place in the Netherlands instead? The groom is Dutch, but we're planning on doing it in America since we all met here. The bride is considering the Netherlands instead, closer to where they want to settle down.

10:03 The maid of honor and I are slowly learning Dutch anyways, just in case they change their minds. And what is the financial situation for the wedding? The groom and bride aren't well off and all of us are pitching in to make their reception at least halfway to the bride's dream. I'm making most of the food. Two of the bride's friends are helping her thrift and alter a dress by hand.

10:21 And the groom's most well-off friend is paying for their honeymoon as a gift. Wow, that's very nice. The limited funds we'll be able to scrounge up going to waste should probably convince the bride not to do this.

10:33 Hmm.

10:35 He's still fine in it.

10:36 Yeah, I mean, he's really against it.

10:38 He's still fine in it. It's not that expensive to do because you already have the swords.

10:44 Yeah, I don't understand. Maybe he's saying if groom hated it and called off the wedding. I don't know.

10:50 Yeah, this is a little strange.

10:52 If he's getting this extra to make something playful and whimsical to this extent, don't even do it.

10:58 Why are you still committed to attending the wedding despite your issues with the bride's antics? I want to support my best friend. He's been there for me through it all. I may not be the biggest fan of the bride's antics, but I'm not going to abandon my friend over it. Why do you and the groom have such a close relationship despite the age gap? We met in a mixed age online community for those 18 and older. He had sort of a moderator-like position and became like an older brother figure to me. It wasn't until recently I realized I'd crushed on him.

11:26 Here we go.

11:27 Here it is. There it is.

11:29 He's kept age-appropriate boundaries with me and warns me when it seems like I've accidentally crossed one. What is the bride's history with pranks and why do you think she does them? She's genuinely thoughtful and sweet. She isn't the type others would call conventionally hot. Very cute with a brilliant smile, but average all around. Dang.

11:45 That could be hot.

11:46 Dang.

11:47 OP is just roasting this girl.

11:50 OP said, aesthetically, average.

11:53 They were long distance for a long time since she traveled a lot for humanitarian work. She doesn't have any family left that's alive or not a harmful prick she's cut out. And we do have an update, folks. But any new thoughts or feelings after that discovery?

12:09 Makes a lot of sense.

12:11 It sure does.

12:12 Why you don't feel comfortable?

12:14 Yeah, he's like, it's too real.

12:17 It's too real.

12:18 I would still go through with this prank.

12:20 Yeah.

12:20 You have a real sword.

12:21 Yeah.

12:22 You get rid of her. Now you can have him for all for yourself. Oh, okay. It's true.

12:27 So we're really going with that.

12:28 That's called real love, Keon.

12:30 You gotta fight for your love.

12:31 You're telling me if my wife-to-be and some crush that I have go sword fighting and my wife loses, she wasn't meant to be with me.

12:38 She wasn't meant to be my wife.

12:40 Yeah.

12:40 Wow. Survival of the fittest.

12:42 Yeah, real love would have won. And the person that won that, I guess I gotta marry him now.

12:46 That's my real love. Update. Holy crap, there's a lot of you in here.

12:50 You reached out to the internet.

12:52 Yeah, this is an interesting one.

12:53 I've DM'd the bride and maid of honor everything Reddit advised me to do. I told them very firmly that I did not want to do any sort of prank during the ceremony, nor any prank that have me seemingly disrespect the newly wedded couple. I didn't mention any feelings I had, but did use the fact she assumes I'm hero ace to explain how uncomfortable this made me.

13:13 You made it very easy to know who you are. I'm not going to lie.

13:17 Yeah, you gave everything. The swords. If she has a Reddit, she's found you. Yeah.

13:21 I'm assuming they're on Discord because he said a moderator type role.

13:25 Yeah.

13:25 They're definitely going to.

13:26 Come across this. Yeah. You said exactly all the details we needed.

13:31 The buzzwords.

13:32 It was quiet for a while, even though I knew they'd probably read it since they were active on Discord. Boom!

13:37 You put on your thinking cap today.

13:38 Sometimes I just read ahead. There it is. Well, no, not actually, but like.

13:41 You think ahead.

13:42 Think ahead. There we go.

13:43 Soon the bride DM'd asking if I could meet up with her and the maid of honor later in the evening to talk. I'm very nervous at physical confrontations. Are you guys going to be sword fighting?

13:52 How many times have you sword fighted?

13:53 How many times have you had a physical... Confrontation?

13:56 And felt like they might use that to their advantage to shoehorn me into an agreement. Plus, whatever we'd say, I wouldn't be able to screenshot. Then she said we could meet at my favorite tattoo. Well, a piece like four to make sure I have proof of everything and then recount it all on Reddit.

14:11 Whatever she says, IRL, I can't screenshot it.

14:14 I cannot.

14:15 That's a problem for me.

14:16 I have to remember it. Then she said we could meet at my favorite Thai place halfway between where we lived and she'd pay.

14:23 Free food.

14:23 I go, what's the catch?

14:24 Bribe. Bribery.

14:27 I'm taking it.

14:27 Yeah, for free Thai food? Yeah.

14:29 So right now I'm getting ready to leave and our reservation's in an hour. We'll update once it's over. Edit. One of the bride's huskies needs to be rushed to the emergency vet. So the talk didn't end up happening. We might talk tomorrow or Saturday instead. Messed up. No Thai.

14:43 No free tie, bro.

14:44 That's... Over the dog? I hope the dog's fine.

14:47 Oh, me too.

14:47 No, there's no free tie. The dog's fine.

14:50 Update two. She probably just didn't want to pay for the free tie.

14:53 Oh, she doesn't even have a husky.

14:55 Yeah, it was a lie. Update two. No one is reading this anymore, probably.

14:59 A lie.

15:00 But this is the mini final update. There will be no wedding ceremony. The bride was diagnosed with terminal illness and due to the hospital effing up and her not having insurance, her prognosis is poor.

15:12 That took a turn.

15:13 The groom is going to elope with her as quickly as fathomably possible in the next three months, just to make sure she won't pass along with her parents' horrible last name. Oh, boy.

15:23 What a left turn. So maybe you should have did it. Maybe there's a sign that you should have went through with it.

15:28 Yeah, I mean, like, she's got the trump cards of all trump cards there. She just goes, now will you do this sort of thing?

15:33 My final wish.

15:34 Damn it. I actually have to.

15:36 To anyone seeing this in the future, I just have one request. Please keep it respectful to the bride now. As far as I'm aware, she didn't recognize she had the terminal illness, but I wouldn't be surprised if she was hiding it just to not burden us. I have a slight suspicion her strong desire to leave a lasting prank during the ceremony was her coming to terms with all of this beforehand. I will not be answering any more questions about the bride nor the diagnosis. nor further theories.

16:02 This is not a prank. It's 100% true, and I will not be tolerating anything against my best friend's wife-to-be.

16:10 Okay, Billy Tom says, maybe she's pranking OP to guilt him into it.

16:16 Truly diabolical. That was really sad.

16:18 Take a turn.

16:19 But we have another story. Maybe it's less sad.

16:21 Let's get out of this one.

16:24 Oh.

16:24 Oh, whoa.

16:26 My friend vanished days before his wedding. but his fiance refused to cancel the party.

16:32 Who are we throwing the party for?

16:34 My buddy Kalen was supposed to get married to his ex-fiance Haley next weekend. They were together like four to five years and seemed like a perfect couple in love, happy, always doing sweet things for one another. We always joke that they were relationship goals. So everyone was shocked when Haley called us last week, frantically asking if we knew where Kalen was.

16:58 Oh.

16:59 Amber alert.

16:59 Amber alert.

17:00 Amber alert.

17:00 Where's Kaylin?

17:02 Yes. It's spelled like Jalen, but with a K.

17:04 Kaylin.

17:04 Why are there so many Jalens in the NBA?

17:06 True.

17:07 It's a song. You would love it.

17:08 You played it.

17:09 He just didn't come home from work that day. No warning. No nothing.

17:12 Okay.

17:13 That's actually kind of scary.

17:14 Yeah.

17:14 That's like a very concerning.

17:16 I don't know what all went down, but a couple of days ago, Haley makes a post that the wedding is off, but there is still going to be an unwedding party slash reception because it's too late to get most of the refunds.

17:30 Okay, the only way this is acceptable, she found Kaylin and Kaylin said, I don't want to marry you. I wanted to walk out on you. That is the only way that having an unwedding party is acceptable.

17:41 If Kalen is still missing.

17:45 And no one knows what happened to him, it is not appropriate to throw a party.

17:50 Maybe Kalen's doing a surprise party.

17:51 Time out, time out.

17:52 Kalen's gonna be there. We throw a search party where we get all fueled up.

17:57 Oh.

17:57 And then we go looking for him.

17:58 And then we go look for Kalen. Okay.

18:00 Was it Haley? Haley's just Slurms McKenzie. You guys who know that?

18:03 Yes? No idea.

18:04 Children.

18:04 I just didn't have TV growing up.

18:06 Immediately after, Kaylin starts messaging all of us upset, asking if we're going. Okay.

18:12 Kaylin is okay. Kaylin is okay. Which immediately, I'm like, Kaylin, dude, you just walked out on your fiancee?

18:19 Apparently, he was going through something but wanted to stay together and Haley broke up with him instead. Now he's devastated.

18:26 Is that something a girl?

18:28 Okay, okay. There are very few things that you can go through and just vanish off the face of the earth and it'd be okay.

18:35 We're going through something or through someone?

18:37 Ooh.

18:38 He's furious that we're thinking of partying when that will be just a hard day for him. And he needs support. Our friends are split. By the way, this comes from 3454324. And if you want to submit your own stories, go to the r slash OKStoryTime subreddit. OPCS, the way I see it. I already took time off for the wedding, our cabins are already booked, and I don't know if we can get refunds. We already bought new clothes for the wedding, and we were looking forward to a romantic weekend away in the mountains. It sucks that Kalen is heartbroken, but he kind of brought it on himself yes plus hayley has upgraded the cash bar to an open bar.

19:15 Sick we're partying i'm at the party i'm like yo kaylin sorry buddy but it's open bar time.

19:21 My friendship with kaylin open bar open bar my friendship with kaylin i can't even see it anymore it's.

19:29 Gone beautiful things i have seen someone do whenever they cancel their wedding was claire yeah She did this theatrical one-woman show where she talked about why she broke up with Beyonce. It was absolutely amazing. I love that. And we haven't had her on the show since.

19:44 It's true.

19:44 It's hard it's hard to contact her how to pin her down but my other friends think that since we're his friends first we should be there for him when he's going through a hard time even if his own dumb butt fault and that we will be responsible if he harms himself while we're partying and drinking.

20:01 That's, that's very incredibly dramatic. And if they think that, then they should call, you know, a wellness check or something. Cause you can't stop. That is not, that's ridiculous.

20:12 Yikes.

20:12 I think you should go OP. Yeah. You already booked all this. Kalen did it to himself.

20:18 You can't just vanish. You got responsibilities as a person.

20:20 Especially right before your wedding.

20:21 They say we should use the time off to do something nice with him instead. Am I the a-hole? We have an update. You can plan another time to be with Kaylin.

20:30 You can say, hey, Kaylin, we already have all this booked and my partner and I were looking forward to a nice romantic weekend. I would love to do something with you when I get back.

20:40 Exactly. And Hayley's your friend too, Opie. Yeah. So you got to kind of go on both sides here.

20:44 And she was like basically, you know, stood up.

20:47 Okay, Billy time. Just go to Kaylin and say she's up the ante and ask what Kaylin can offer you.

20:52 Yeah, I'll stay home, Kaylin. I'll stay home. What are you giving me though?

20:56 Katie says that's a massive guilt trip.

20:58 Yeah, it is.

20:59 Sofa King, party like a rock star, Opie.

21:01 Party party.

21:02 Kimberly fine. Next thing we know, Kaylin's going to throw his own funeral and make everyone who went to the party give a speech about how much he means to them to make up for this. What if I threw a birthday party and it was a funeral?

21:13 What do you mean?

21:14 We're acting like I'm dead. What would you say as a speech for me?

21:16 Like you're like in a little coffin like this.

21:18 Are you okay?

21:19 So you just want like little eulogies?

21:22 Yeah, little eulogies like a funeral. And I talk about my will and what people are going to get.

21:26 I don't know why. It just sounds very deep and dark.

21:28 I think it would be a comedic fun thing.

21:31 Like you want people to say nice things about you?

21:33 Say nice things about me. They can like roast me a little bit. But then I talk about the will and there'd be a will party. Everyone that shows up to my party gets 1% of my will. And that 1% is split up amongst everyone.

21:43 Oh my God.

21:43 Wow. Yeah. If there's a will, there's a way.

21:45 Take that deal.

21:46 Yeah.

21:46 You would get the 1% of it, but you'd get like, if 200 people show up.

21:50 Yeah, I'd get 1% of, I get 200. I get 1, 200. You get 0.5% of the 1%.

21:52 Of the 1%, yeah. Yeah, what if your will says I get like 5%? Of the 1%?

21:58 Yeah.

21:59 Sure.

21:59 Dang.

21:59 And we play games and whoever gets what gets like a percentage of that 1%.

22:03 You'd still be in the coffin.

22:04 Riley just wants everyone to say how much they love him.

22:06 But he's doing a roast.

22:08 I am doing a roast for my birthday. A honey roast. Update! Though I didn't make it clear in the first post, I do consider both Hayley and Kaylin to be good friends.

22:17 Yeah.

22:18 And wanted to support them both. So girlfriend and I decided to take the advice for her to go to the unwedding and I would stay and hang out with Kalen as long as we stay in town. Can't afford that expense on top of what we spent on the wedding. Kalen didn't want to stay in though because he's too depressing, which I get.

22:38 So he's not going anymore?

22:40 No, not on that. Lame. I'd rather go road tripping with buddies than sit at home thinking about my broken heart too. But that would leave me sitting at home alone on a long weekend, which doesn't really help him anyway. Long story short, girlfriend went up Friday night with friends. I hung out with Kaylin and the guys until they headed out on Saturday afternoon, then drove up to join her.

23:02 He wasn't thrilled, but seems to understand. The party itself wasn't as awkward as I worried it would be.

23:09 Of course it wasn't.

23:10 But.

23:10 It's an open bar.

23:11 Not a crazy shindig either.

23:13 You win, Sam, you lose, Sam.

23:14 What is that? I'll never forget when Sam says he wants his friends to boof him. What does that mean?

23:18 Oh, boy.

23:19 It was more.

23:20 Do you know what it is?

23:21 Like smoke his ashes?

23:23 No.

23:23 You know what?

23:23 Smoke his ashes? Yeah. Oh, gosh.

23:25 That's not what boofing is.

23:27 It was more like a family reunion for her family and also a bunch of our friends. Just a chill long weekend vibe. Kaylee never mentioned Kaylin, the wedding, or any of the drama. But of course, everyone was gossiping. Kaylee's sister, Lisa, filled my girlfriend in a lot of the details. The condensed stripped-down version is that Kalen did admit to spending at least part of his missing weekend in town with a female co-worker or former co-worker, but says nothing happened.

23:56 So I called it.

23:57 Hmm.

23:58 I knew that's something.

23:59 Kalen, Kalen, Kalen, was there really an emergency that you had? Were you really going through something? Or maybe there was a girl.

24:08 He was going through someone. Honestly.

24:10 He told Haley he was nervous about the wedding and she's a good friend. The co-worker confirms they never hooked up, but she also said that he never told her he wasn't single, which he said is a lie slash mistake. I don't know what to believe. Kalen still won't talk about it, which... That's all his business, but it doesn't make him look good. Girlfriend and I dipped out early and spent the next couple of days just hiking, chilling, and not putting out any fires for the first time since mid-2020. It sounds like you needed this trip, honestly.

24:41 Yeah, it sounds like you had a good time just, you know, hanging out. Because, well, like, clearly OP didn't have to stay with the friend group the whole time. Like, most of it was just, we have a cabin and we have a place to stay in this pretty Area.

24:55 I wonder if it was Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, or this is like a mountain area.

24:59 Mountain area?

25:00 Mammoth.

25:01 The Appalachians.

25:03 That's the update. Not a lot of drama. The closest we came to drama was when I got texts from the other group warning that Kaylin wanted to drive up to the party and drunkenly confront... Kaylee. They calmed him down quickly. He's a mopey, docile, wasted. And wasted.

25:18 I can picture that. Like, he just says it and all the guys go, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, don't do that.

25:24 I'm gonna do it.

25:25 Don't do that. Don't do that.

25:26 I'm gonna do it right now.

25:28 Are you sure? Don't do that.

25:29 I'm gonna do it.

25:30 He's gonna drive him there.

25:31 I'm gonna take an Uber.

25:33 I have my keys right here. No, no, no. Give me the keys.

25:36 Sorry, it's not more exciting, but people message me asking how it went and I didn't want to leave you hanging.

25:42 Thank you. Thank you for your service.

25:44 That is the end of that update and story, but we got another one.

25:47 Sure do.

25:47 That was fun. That was a good one.

25:49 I deleted all their wedding photos. Because they wouldn't feed me.

25:54 Should have eaten the wedding photos. I'm not really a photographer. I'm a dog groomer. Okay.

26:00 I don't even know what to.

26:01 Say to that. I don't know anything about you yet, dude. This means nothing to me.

26:04 So why did you take the job?

26:06 I take lots of photos of dogs all day to put on my Facebook and Instagram.

26:10 It's my thing, if that makes sense.

26:12 Okay.

26:13 This is like me when I come up with like something and then I say it and then Riley's like, that has nothing to do with the story.

26:18 And I'm like, no, it does. I promise. Just wait.

26:21 This may be the big thing, but like I'm over here and eventually it will be like.

26:25 Oh, So eventually we'll understand why this is important.

26:29 Cut and a photo with every appointment. I very seldom shoot things other than dogs, even if I have a nice setup. Friend got married a few days ago and wanted to save money.

26:39 Asked if I'd shoot it for them.

26:41 I told him it's not really my forte, but he convinced me by saying he didn't care if they were perfect. They were on a shoestring budget, and I agreed to shoot it for $ 250, which is nothing for a 10-hour event.

26:53 Yeah, that's insane. That's actually crazy.

26:55 Yeah, but they're not professionals.

26:57 Yeah, but even still, for a 10-hour event, you should still at least pay them just for the time. time that they were there.

27:04 Yeah that's 25 an hour yeah maybe for a friends and family fee i guess.

27:09 So i guess that's not that crazy probably at least do.

27:12 300 on the day of i'm driving around following the bride as she goes from appointment to appointment before the ceremony taking photos along the way they better be paying for your gas that's all i'm saying ka-chow.

27:21 Yes they better be paying for that gas.

27:24 I shoot the ceremony itself, and during the reception, I'm shooting speeches and people mingling. I started around 11am and was due to finish around 7.30pm. Around 5pm, food is being served and I was told I cannot stop to eat because I need to be the photographer. In fact, they didn't save me a spot at any table. I'm getting tired and at this point kind of regretting doing this for next to nothing. It's also unfortunate.

27:47 Unbelievably hot.

27:49 The venue is in an old Veterans Legion and it's 110 degrees Fahrenheit and there's no AC.

27:55 $ 2.

27:55 50 was not worth it.

27:58 Ooh, I would hate that. The only thing I would advise you is... Actually, I'll wait. I'll advise you after this next sentence.

28:08 By the way, this comes from Icy Reserve. $ 69. 95.

28:12 And if you want to spend your own stories, go!

28:13 To the r slash okay story time subreddit as op says i told the groom i need to take off for 20 minutes to get something to eat and drink there's no open bar or anything i can't even get water and my two water bottles are long empty he tells me i need to either be the photographer or leave without pay wow i do leave that's actually wild this is your friend I don't even care. Whenever people even come to the gardeners and stuff, we come to the house, we give them drinks, we give them lemonade.

28:43 We're like, hey, we made an extra sandwich.

28:45 You want it?

28:46 Never have I ever just been like, no taking breaks. Get up off your lazy butt and start taking pictures.

28:52 That's insane. How do you do that? Especially to a friend? No. I asked if he was sure and he said yes.

29:01 So I deleted all the photos I took in front of him and took off saying I'm not his photographer anymore.

29:06 He's like, wait, no, I thought you could do the other option.

29:09 No, wait, no, that's not what I wanted.

29:11 Was I the a-hole? They went right on their honeymoon and they've been off of social media, but a lot of people have been posting on their wall about asking about photos with zero responses.

29:22 Yeah.

29:23 You can't just expect to work without any breaks. One without any breaks.

29:28 Also, no water.

29:29 Yeah.

29:30 Water.

29:30 Can I can I use can I get a snack?

29:33 Maybe.

29:33 I mean, 10 hours on your feet, like really focusing on these things. And you're not even like if they hired a professional and.

29:40 OP already worked six hours, which now I guess they're not being paid for.

29:46 Yeah. Even if it was 250 bucks, I'd block a long time ago. Oh yeah, yeah.

29:49 I'd be like, uh, bye. Yeah, I'd be like, this is actually horrific. I guess I'll just leave. I guess I'm out of here.

29:56 Update.

29:57 Four weeks later.

29:58 Oh.

29:59 Hey, this is Riley, your favorite Southern belle. We're going to get back to these stories, but here's three minutes worth of ads from our sponsors.

30:07 Immediately after the wedding, they went off for their honeymoon. They went to a cottage up north and didn't use social media for a week. In that time, they got lots of requests for photos on Facebook and I didn't reply to anyone because to me, this was done and I didn't want the headache of dealing with the fallout.

30:22 I don't know a lot of these people. It's their circle of friends. So I thought it was best.

30:26 They handled it.

30:27 The bride contacted me when they returned and asked me my side of the story. I don't know when the groom spilled the beans, but he wasn't truthful about it, obviously.

30:35 Unsurprised.

30:36 He told her I had camera problems and.

30:39 Lost the photos. Oh, is that what happened? Actually, that's not what happens at all. Unless you like completely destroy the memory card. Yeah, unless you break the camera. Yeah, unless it just like flew away.

30:52 Yeah.

30:53 Yeah, there go the photos.

30:54 But no, I told her plainly what happened and told her that while I felt guilty, there's no way to treat someone doing them a favor.

31:00 I mean, you do say to her? Your husband literally gave me two options.

31:04 Yeah.

31:04 Continue to be the photographer until I pass out or I go. I took the latter.

31:09 She wasn't in the know about any of this and asked if there was any way we could mend this. We got to talking and I've agreed to do a reshoot for some photos later in the season. She wants some photos of just them in an outdoor shoot. Photos of the rings, some artsy fartsy shots.

31:25 And that's it. She offered me the original.

31:26 $ 250 and I agreed under the condition I bail at word one of crap from either of them.

31:32 I would also put, can I get water and food in that?

31:35 Yeah, I wouldn't do this. I would say pay me my original price. What I'm wondering is, because that was somewhat unclear to me, is OP getting the original $ 250 plus more money or just original $ 250?

31:47 Probably the original $ 250.

31:48 I would not accept that.

31:50 I would just respond, hey, not a photographer, by the way. Maybe hire someone.

31:54 If you are upset with my work, then you don't get my work.

31:57 As for the original photos, I offered to bring my SD card to a place that could attempt to recover them, but at their cost, and she declined. Word did get out on social media about some of this, and we agreed to sweep it under the rug and try to diffuse or downplay what happened. Of the few comments I did read, they were wholly against me because the story is twisted with the her camera passed away narrative, the groom spun.

32:20 I'm upset, but not enough to make a big deal of it.

32:23 None of them even know my name. I did make two interesting connections, though.

32:27 The DJ was privy to the situation.

32:29 He was the person I vented to originally, and he asked if I'd shoot their band at an upcoming event.

32:34 Look at you, P. You keep getting photography jobs.

32:37 The legit photographers are getting pissed off. This dog groomer is doing better than me?

32:42 That's crazy.

32:43 Imagine Christian hearing that.

32:44 Additionally, the minister asked if I'd like to shoot some promotional images of his church and choir.

32:49 Oh my god, how did you get two jobs out of this? They're like, hey. No, has anyone even seen your work? I don't understand. I know, yeah, I would ask for.

32:58 They saw Opie do her six hours and like just like working to the bone. Yeah. She's so good. She commits to the bit.

33:05 Getting low, getting high.

33:06 She's all over the place.

33:08 Hilarious though because again they haven't seen any of the photos.

33:12 They're all just like overexposed let me connect the dots wait but it's hilarious Update two.

33:19 Seven weeks later. Seven weeks later.

33:22 A common sentiment in the previous thread was I was a doormat. And I know that.

33:27 I guess for taking back the job. Yeah, for taking the second offer.

33:31 But if I can justify it just one time, this was never about the money. I'm experienced with photography, but only really in one subject area.

33:39 Pet portraits.

33:40 And I would gladly jump at any opportunity to practice and gain more experience and exposure in other areas of photography. Even if they offered me nothing, I would have gladly accepted the opportunity just so I can practice more and try new things. Plus, it was under the assumption they didn't care. They were perfect photos. I got the bride to correct the record on Facebook that there was a disagreement between her husband and I. A lot of people were upset and actually taking my side for once. The bride said we... All worked it out, which sort of happened, and would have some photos to post soon. For my update, I bailed on the shoot. It was meant to be later in November, so they could have snowy photos, but

34:17 a few nights ago, they asked if I could do it the day before yesterday. I wasn't doing anything, so I agreed. I picked out a location I thought was nice. as there's lots of wineries and vineyards in our area. Plus, it was relatively close to me. I meet them there and they're both prettied up and ready to go. We congregate around my car while I'm unloading my lights and gear bag and I talk about how the shoot is going to go. I laid out the specific shots I was going to take, then where the lights would be, the poses, etc. I asked the husband if he could help me carry sandbags and he declined, saying my.

34:50 Job is photographer, not him. Okay, buddy. And then we don't actually have to carry the sandbags anywhere because I'm packing everything else.

34:58 Remember, wife said, once they say one thing that's out of line.

35:01 You said your one thing.

35:03 I can understand if it was like something that was going to get you dirty.

35:07 Sure. Like a sand. I mean, sandbags are heavy.

35:10 It's going to take a while to lug them around with just one person doing it.

35:13 It's just going to take longer with you being in the cold. Everyone being in the cold.

35:16 Yeah. He's definitely the type of guy of just like, hey, can you help me out? No.

35:19 No, it's not my job.

35:20 It's not my job.

35:21 No, I don't work here.

35:22 Something in me snapped and I just started loading my stuff up again and got into my car despite their protests. I remarked that when they both get married a second time, don't contact me to shoot it.

35:34 Leave me out of it.

35:35 Rolled my windows up, locked my doors, and off I went. First thing I did when I got home was block everyone. All told, my investment in this shoot was maybe 30 minutes making a game plan on what shoots and what to bring and a five minute drive each way. As well, I'm learning I'm not really cut out for this stuff.

35:53 I need more experience, in particular, dealing with clients, before I take on this kind of work.

35:58 But I mean, the only way to, you know, to get that experience is to do it. Yeah, it's true. But I don't know. I don't think you have to deal with people's crap. Like, that's the thing. Like, especially not for a favor.

36:08 You think Gordon Ramsay is taking crap from anyone? He's not taking crap from anyone.

36:13 He's taking crap from no one. He's putting people's heads into bits of sandwiches.

36:18 What are you?

36:18 An idiot sandwich.

36:20 Actually, we should do like a one word story. I feel like we could come up with a good one. I went to my house and saw my mother eating a drink. I thought that it was strange that she was doing that.

36:35 So I exclaimed, stop, you monster.

36:40 What's in that cup?

36:43 To her left, she saw my daddy and other daddy.

36:48 That's two words.

36:49 Other daddy. He was very shocked.

36:54 All right.

36:55 Okay, one more story, go.

36:57 I went to the store and found my daddy.

37:03 My family excluded my fiance from every wedding photo out of jealousy.

37:08 I'm just jealous of her hair, that's why.

37:10 My stepsister invited my fiance and I to her wedding when she heard she was going to be in town to spend time with me. We were long distance and before she flew, she asked me if there was a theme or color or dress code because sometimes people require you to wear something specific. and she wanted to be prepared.

37:26 I texted my stepsister and her fiance, and they sent me their wedding website, so I forwarded that to my fiance. The website invite said that the vibe was fairy flower forest or camping theme. Those are so different.

37:37 I was going to say, fairy flower forest, triple F.

37:40 Camping theme what does that mean if i were a girl and my partner said i said hey what's the dress code and my partner said fairy flower forest or camping theme i would say what.

37:52 The heck does that mean i'm wearing full-on leaves.

37:55 Yeah am i doing ren fair fairy outfit or am i like am i supposed to wear like ears or do i yeah or.

38:02 Am i bringing a backpack yeah.

38:04 Am i bringing a tent Camping fairy.

38:06 You could wear what you felt most comfortable in and bright and fun colors were encouraged. My fiance was still unsure, so we FaceTimed and she put on different dresses and asked me which one I thought was the most appropriate. I told her I liked the gold sparkly dress she wore to her high school friend's wedding the best. That honestly sounds like not the right pick. Any of the themes that were mentioned. She asked me if maybe it was too formal and if she should bring a backup.

38:30 And I told her that to me it looked good because she looked like a fairy with no wings.

38:34 Where's the whimsy then?

38:35 I fear that you have led her astray. And there we go. You're done for.

38:39 Just go Tinkerbell.

38:40 When she was finally here, every time we visited my family, she would ask them what they would be wearing to the wedding because she was still worried. And we had time to buy a backup dress since we were buying me a dress shirt to match hers anyway. By the way, this comes from Prestigious Focus 63. And if you want to submit your own stories, go to the r slash showcase story time subreddit and op says, My mom told her she would be wearing a sparkly long dress. My stepdad said he was wearing a button up with a matching vest and pants. My cousin said she was wearing a long bright pink dress and my other stepsister said she was wearing a flowery cardigan. Okay, so other people agree with it. So it's not just your fault. It's

39:17 not just your fault. She finally eased up. So that day, we just bought me a dress shirt so we could be matchy. Matchies! Matchy matchies! On the day of the wedding, we arrived a little late, but we got there in time for the vows. When the ceremony ended and they were taking pictures, we got to say hi to my mom and stepdad and other family and friends. I noticed straight away that when people saw my fiance, their eyes widened or they gave a weird expression. She noticed this too.

39:48 and she squeezed my hand twice to signal she was getting anxious. When the photographer asked our side of the family for photos, I took my fiancé' s hand to include her, but the photographer said, family only.

39:59 Oh.

40:00 Uh, she's my fiancé?

40:01 I go, she is family. What makes you think that, huh?

40:04 I told him, she is family.

40:05 Oh.

40:06 She's my fiancé, but he still said no.

40:08 Why is the photographer, is this.

40:11 Really annoying and like probably bride's doing of not letting fiance be in the picture? But if like good photographer, because you kind of don't want to have to deal with that. You know, you don't want to be the one to kick people out of the photos. You get the photographer's doing his job. All of this nastiness aside, the photographer's doing a good job. It's just to have an upside. Is that all you wanted to say? Yeah, it's just kind of like a guy would hire him.

40:32 The photographer's in the right. He's being a jerk, but he's being a right jerk. Yeah, I mean, yeah. He's doing his job. What more can you say? She gently let go of my hand and mouthed to me that it was okay and smiled that I knew she was hurt. After taking photos, I asked my stepsister, who was the maid of honor, if we could take a picture with the family and my fiance in it. She said she was sorry and it wasn't up to her. Who is it up to?

40:54 The photographer.

40:55 Yeah, it's the photographer.

40:57 It's in the, it's in their vision.

40:58 Oh wait, she asked who the bridesmaid or who the maid of honor was. She asked the bride.

41:04 She asked the stepsister, my stepsister, who was the maid of honor. Okay.

41:08 So she asked the maid of honor and she said, oh, I'm not in charge, which.

41:10 Which is, I mean, she isn't.

41:11 Okay.

41:12 I found my fiance at the bar area by herself and I told her what happened and she said it was okay and we should just try and have a good time. Throughout the party, every time the family would take pictures, the photographer would say that my fiancé couldn't join, even when it was a group picture that included both the bride's and groom's families. I also noticed that people would ask her to stand somewhere else if she was seen in photos.

41:34 Aww. Being punked right now? What's going on?

41:35 She kept squeezing my hand and whispering to me that it was okay, or that she understood, or that she was okay. But I was getting more and more bothered by how judgmental people were looking at my fiancé. and how everyone was excluding her from being photographed. When my fiance went to the restroom, I walked up to my family and just asked why they were excluding her from everything.

41:54 And they said it was her dress. They said it looked like she was upstaging the bride. Wow. I told them that wasn't her fault, and she wasn't doing it on purpose, and that we thought this dress was okay, and that she even wore it to her friend's wedding, who had a similar fairy flower garden theme. They said that they understood that she couldn't have known, but if she wanted to be included in wedding activities, she should change.

42:15 But like, are any of the family members who are saying this right now, any of the ones who looked at the picture and said that it was okay? Because if they are, that's so stupid.

42:23 Yeah, if they're the ones that were like, yeah, this looks so good. And then they get there like, why would you wear that?

42:27 I just say, if she's not included, then I won't be included.

42:30 And I throw stuff. Yeah.

42:31 And then I throw a tantrum and food at the bride.

42:35 Look at this photo.

42:36 Look at this graph. I like that one. I told them that was impossible since the venue was miles away from anywhere we could buy a dress and my apartment is a three hour drive from the venue. When my fiance came looking for me, she heard a little bit of the conversation and said that she was very sorry and she would try to find a way to dress it down so it would be less problematic for everyone.

42:57 Everyone gave her a look and walked away.

42:59 She's doing what she wanted. What do you mean?

43:01 Everyone gave her a look.

43:02 I looked right back. Yeah, she's just freaking pretty. She's just gorgeous. Sorry.

43:06 Sorry my beauty is like hurting you guys.

43:08 Sorry that I'm a beauty and you're a beast.

43:11 Ooh, take that. She took off all her jewelry except her engagement ring, let her hair down, braided it, changed her shoes to the sneakers. we brought in the car and washed off her makeup. Wow. Throughout the party, people were still looking at her and treating her weird. And even when everyone was on the dance floor, my family told me she couldn't dance because she might be caught on camera in the back.

43:30 What?

43:30 This is insane.

43:31 That's actually wild. I couldn't take it anymore. I took my fiance and told her I wanted memories with her and took her to all the spots where the bride and groom and wedding party had their pictures taken. And we took pictures and videos of us.

43:42 Yeah.

43:43 It's so sad that she took off all her makeup and jewelry though. I'm sure she's very pretty, but like to have to now take pictures when she's not all dolled up and her hair's not all, you know, nicely done. Like that's so rude.

43:55 It's just why, like this is all, it all stems from just insecurity. Yeah.

44:00 It has nothing to do with this girl.

44:02 And this girl has to like feel bad about being herself.

44:06 Literally. That's insane. We were dancing and laughing and I told her that I couldn't wait to marry her and that I loved her so much. And she told me the same. I was ready to go home, but she told me we should at least say goodbye. So we did, but only to the bride and groom. When we were on the car ride home, I received so many missed calls and angry texts from my family telling me that what my fiance and I did was rude and disrespectful.

44:29 I told them that we already tried to respect their wishes, but they still excluded her and treated her like crap. So I'm not apologizing for anything. They said I was overreacting and that she was trying to upstage the bride and that was hurtful. I was going to try and reason with them again, but I just stopped responding because I didn't want to end the night like this. So I told her that I would deal with this tomorrow and told her to put her playlist on. We partied in the car like we were at a rave. And when we got home, we danced. We spent the night together and she's now asleep. Yeah, your family sucks. They're the worst.

44:58 That actually like pisses me off to the max. I hate when other when it's like jealousy like that. Just like, oh, my God. Like I've been like jealous of people, but jealous and like, oh, my gosh, like I'm so like it's like happy. Like I'm happy that you get to experience. I wish I could as well. But like, oh, my gosh, someone gets to like that's amazing. Like I'm not like one of my friends like got like a part in like a movie and like I didn't like that's just, you know, I'd be like, oh, my God, that's freaking sick.

45:23 Yeah.

45:24 Are you kidding me? Exactly. Like, that's amazing.

45:26 And I'm not going to be like, oh, well, maybe they just, you know, didn't see me.

45:30 Yeah. Like like that is just so rude to do.

45:33 Why would you why do you have to downplay? You know, like, who are you?

45:37 Oh, I hate those people.

45:38 Jealousy turning saints into the sea swimming through.

45:41 Uh lullaby oh yeah choking on their alibi i love my family and i didn't want to create trauma or take attention away from my stepsister's wedding i understand maybe my fiance overdressed but how they treated and excluded was not okay my family says i overreacted and owe them an apology you overreacted.

45:58 You literally said verbatim she can't be in any of the.

46:02 Shots like how is that not an overreaction Like, I mean, I get because we always have this argument of like, okay, they're wetting their rolls, but that's just blatantly disrespectful.

46:10 Yeah, that's just bullying.

46:11 Like, why even invite them? Yeah. You know, like, I don't know. Or give a better description of what to wear.

46:17 Yes. I don't know.

46:18 Don't say fairy flower forest or camping.

46:21 Camping. What does that mean? Like, give us like a tones of like colors or something. Like, I don't know.

46:26 Be more descriptive if you're looking for something specific.

46:30 I feel like I was just standing up for the person I love. Am I really overreacting?

46:33 No.

46:34 Not at all. Stand up for your girl.

46:36 Your family sucks. Go dance in the car with your girl. Yeah, and also dance on the dance floor. And who gives a crap? She's probably more comfortable in her sneakers anyway. I'd be like, thank you for making me more comfortable. Now I don't have to take off my makeup later.

46:47 Yeah, now I'm all clean. Now I'm all nice and in like whatever. Like comfortable for dancing.

46:52 Yeah.

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46:58 I'm going to start by clarifying some things that I didn't get to put in my original post and try to explain in the comments. I have three stepsisters. I mean, I guess they're all evil. The oldest one is the bride. The second is the maid of honor. And the third is a bride's maid. I was never close with my stepsisters.

47:13 I never grew up with them and only saw them on holidays. My stepsister, the bride, asked me a year ago if my fiance was coming to her wedding. I told her I didn't know because we didn't know when she would be back in town. So when she sent out their RSVPs, my fiance didn't receive any. Why wouldn't you just receive a plus one? Yeah, that's exactly what I thought. But when we bought her ticket two months ago and she would be here in time for the wedding, I asked my stepsister, the bride, and she told me, of course, my fiance is invited. My fiance and I have been to several weddings together and separately before we met.

47:44 We both have never brought a backup outfit. We would only bring a pair of comfortable shoes or a jacket for her because she gets cold easily. My stepsister, the bride, and my brother-in-law told my fiance and I that they didn't mind that we were late. They said lots of people were late, even grandparents and one bridesmaid and groomsman.

48:01 It didn't ruin their ceremony. They actually got to take extra photos together before it started, so they're not mad at anyone. It seems like the bride and the brother-in-law weren't part of the photo stuff. I mean, I don't know if that was what other people got from that. Because they were like, oh, we want you to, you know, blah, blah, blah.

48:18 Maybe other people said that she was... I wonder if someone else told the photographer don't include.

48:23 Someone paid the photographer to be like, Yeah. Op, don't put her in any of the photos. I guarantee you, bride.

48:29 Yeah, but I don't know because she like invited her and... Update. I texted my stepsister to the bride to ask if we could call and talk about what happened at the wedding. We got on FaceTime and I explained everything. She told me she had no clue.

48:42 Nice.

48:43 That my fiance was excluded in photos.

48:45 Wow.

48:45 And that the family was treating her poorly and people gave weird looks to her dress.

48:49 Okay, so I'm wrong. Okay.

48:50 She said she thought she looked beautiful and loved her dress and was just happy we attended and is now really bummed we didn't have a great time. Yeah, that is.

48:58 So who gave the photographer all those directions?

49:01 I really hope it didn't turn out to be one of the people that was.

49:03 Like, oh, that's a great dress.

49:06 It has to be someone that knew about the dress.

49:08 Because it seems like it was someone ahead of time.

49:10 Family member or like a bridesmaid, maid of honor. It has to be someone high up in the wedding to make a call.

49:16 Truthfully, yeah.

49:16 I'm thinking it's maid of honor because she was like, I'm not the one in charge.

49:20 You know. I told her I was relieved because I thought she was the one telling the family to treat her that way. She said she understands how it could seem and she's both bothered and curious herself as to who started the brigade of hate towards my fiancee. She told me that we're clearing things up tonight because she doesn't want this to linger, especially since she and her husband are preparing for their honeymoon soon. She added her sisters to the call and asked them. My stepsister, the maid of honor, said they were just trying to protect the bride because my fiance was trying to upstage her.

49:49 That is such- Oh, my God. Like, OK, tell me you're jealous without telling me you're jealous.

49:55 My stepsister, the bride, said the same thing. She told me that she thought my fiance was beautiful and loved her dress and that she is disappointed that they assume things and that they could act on her behalf and treat someone like crap. without confirming with her first if she actually felt some type of way or not. The maid of honor said they didn't want to bother her and ask because they didn't want to ruin her mood and they wanted her to not have to worry about anything.

50:18 Yeah, I'm sure that's why you asked.

50:19 Sure, sure, bud. Because you'd make yourself look like a fool.

50:23 That's why, you idiot.

50:24 The bride said that if they had told her it wouldn't have ruined anything because then things would have been cleared up and everyone would be happy and have a great time and there wouldn't be this issue that we're having right now.

50:35 Wait, and then so the rest of the family just took that?

50:38 Yeah, the rest of the family just went along with it.

50:40 Which is crazy.

50:42 And then probably went around to everyone and were like, oh my God, I can't believe she wore that.

50:45 That's just like, why? Why start drama at the wedding?

50:49 Yeah, Kim Pryce says, whoever cut the check for the photographer. I'm wondering who paid because this is no longer a good photographer if bride and groom hired them and then he did this.

51:01 Well, if like maid of honor or like best man came up to the photographer and said, hey, the bride told me to tell you this.

51:06 Check with the bride. That's always check with the bride.

51:08 But in the height of like wedding and you're like, ah.

51:11 That's the photographer's job.

51:12 Check with the bride.

51:13 It's whoever's paying me. Check with them.

51:14 I'm just surprised like the rumors spread around the entire wedding, but somehow didn't get back to the bride and or groom.

51:20 Well, they said they didn't want to bug her. So yeah, they didn't.

51:23 I could see it because, you know, they're doing so many other different things.

51:26 Yeah.

51:27 Like they're greeting people.

51:28 They're eating. They're getting ready for the next thing. They're doing this. They're doing that.

51:31 You know, like they're doing everything.

51:34 It's all their day.

51:35 So they have many things to worry about other than like who's in the pictures and who's not.

51:38 OP continues, my stepsister the bride asked them what the heck they said to people like the photographer for them to exclude my fiance. They both didn't answer and my stepsister the bride got so frustrated that she ended the call. She messaged me after a couple minutes and told me she'll get to the bottom of this because she's really hurt that my fiance had a horrible experience.

51:58 I mean, out of the three, but yeah, good successor.

52:00 She told me she'll give me a call once she finds answers. After a couple hours, my stepsister, the bride, called me back and told me the maid of honor said she was just protecting our younger sister, the bride's maid.

52:11 What?

52:11 Since her dress was a similar color, she was jealous that my fiance's looked prettier.

52:16 So it.

52:17 Well, so now it has nothing to do with the bride at all.

52:19 Weird how that story just went to ashes.

52:22 She felt insecure and told her older sister... So the maid of honor started telling people that my fiance was trying to upstage the bride and that the bride told her this. This would severely damage my relationship with my sister in a way that I don't know if I could fix that.

52:38 Yeah, there's no way. You knew it.

52:39 Yeah.

52:39 Yeah, you knew it was bad.

52:40 To lie on my behalf? That's why the photographer, a lot of the guests, and our family treated my fiance so badly. My stepsister, the bride, said she was so sorry. And to make up for it, she wants to do a little photo shoot with my fiance and I wearing our outfits to her wedding and them in their wedding outfits.

52:56 They want her to be in the wedding book to post that she was there and for her to feel like she's family. That's so sweet. i told her i really appreciated this and that i'm really glad she had nothing to do with it op continues she said that she understands that it's hard to accept a new family member especially if you're so used to the people you had your whole life she thought that way too with my mom marrying their dad when we were all teenagers she said it took a really long time for her to accept my mom as her stepmom and to accept that her dad was happy and in love with someone that wasn't her her mom she said she doesn't think it's hopeless and i shouldn't give up on the family yet about them accepting my fiance she's been amazing throughout

53:31 this whole thing and the more she gets to know her the more she sees why i love her i told my stepsister thank you and that i'm grateful to have her as a sister we said our goodbyes and hung up and now what i assume you all wanted to see the dress oh dress tax dress tax i posted the dress.

53:46 In the comments You guys ready? Yeah. But again, it's not even about the white dress. It's about Third Step Sister's dress.

53:53 Yeah, it's the same color.

53:54 Same color.

53:54 Yeah.

53:55 Third Step Sister's dress is quite white. That one I would say is Fairy Flower Forest.

54:00 Yes.

54:01 But you obviously like that's the bridesmaids dresses, though. They're all different styles and different colors, which actually they kind of look like the same style. No, they're different.

54:09 The only thing I would say is that it just looks a little white. OP isn't pictured there, I don't think.

54:14 OP is not in the photo.

54:15 Oh, is OP a guy?

54:16 OP's a guy.

54:16 OP's a guy?

54:17 I thought OP was a girl.

54:18 This whole time. I don't know why you said that earlier and I was confused. Well, thanks for correcting me.

54:22 Now I went that whole time thinking it was a gay story.

54:25 Now it's not. Now my dreams are crushed. Thanks!

54:27 Because if OP was a girl, she would have been a bridesmaid.

54:30 That's what I thought! I literally was like, why didn't they have her? Now I get it, guys. All coming together.

54:36 Now I get it.

54:37 But that's the end of that story. And the end of this episode.

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