My Horror of a Wedding!

Me and my husband had got married October 2nd 2018 ❤️ We did our wedding planning last summer and although we wanted a small wedding, we have a lot of family members so we decided instead of sending out 40 invitations that we would send out 100 invitations. Reason being is because we didn’t want any family member being left out so even though I talk to some of my family members more often, those family members would be close to my other family members and so forth and we knew talk would go around. We just figured that we rather be surrounded by loving family on our big day that we won’t have again plus we didn’t want to get phone calls or messages on why this person wasn’t invited or anything like that. 70 people RSVP on my wedding day and I was happy because it was more than half. I honestly thought I would only get maybe 40 RSVP! We sent out the invitation February 2018 because we wanted to make sure that we gave everyone time to think about it and if they were going to make sure they don’t have plans on our wedding day. We paid for the everything for our wedding and honeymoon. I was actually very excited that I was going to marry my fiancé and have all my family members come. I only have 3 friends and they were my bridesmaids, I didn’t have a maid of honor because I was so close with my friends and I didn’t want either one of them to get butt hurt about it. It was a week before my wedding and we are getting everything ready and having our rehearsal dinner and everyone that was invited showed up, we had a good time. I couldn’t wait for the actual day to come. We did rehearsal for wedding and everything was turning out perfect just like I imagined. We paid for the venue and food (we got enough to feed about 80 people just in case anyone showed up but didn’t get to RSVP) and paid for the DJ. It’s the day before my wedding and one of my bridesmaid decided that she can’t come because she got food poisoning... I was little bit devastated but I couldn’t help the situation. I was panicking at first because my husband had 3 groomsmen and I thought to myself, we can’t have a groomsmen walk down the isle by himself. But I also can’t ask my husband to cut one of them out of the wedding, it’s bad enough my husband has 5 best friends that are very close but only got to choose 3 of them since I didn’t have any girlfriends expect 3 and I don’t want anyone to be my bridesmaid unless we are close and I choose you to be. We got it figured out and knew what we were going to do so it didn’t look dumb. So it’s the day of my wedding! Yay! I’m so excited, I couldn’t wait for the day. I haven’t seen my husband in over 24 hours and I just kept getting butterflies imagining myself walking down the isle, marrying my best friend. The wedding time was 4 pm and the reception was at 6 pm because we wanted to take pictures after the wedding. It’s 3:45 pm and I’m pretty much ready and our wedding planner came in the room and asked me if I put down 4 pm on my invitations. I had them on me and it did say 4 pm and I asked her why she was asking and she said she wanted to make sure. But I think inside she was freaking out because she didn’t want to stress me out so she just brushed it off as ok people are just showing up late. It’s 3:59 pm and I’m ready to walk down the isle, my wedding planner said well let’s wait a few more minutes just in case some people are late. I was to anxious to walk down and didn’t want to wait any longer but I did. It’s 4:15 pm and I said I’m ready to go so the people that are late will just miss some of it. I didn’t want anyone thinking that I was a runaway bride and my wedding planner had this look on her face but she proceeded as it is her job to let the show go on. The music started playing, the ring bearer and flower girl walk down then it’s me! I’m walking down the isle with a big fat smile on my face, had such a glow. I get up to my husband and turn to see the people and only 10 people were there... I was about to cry... we went on with the wedding and got to the reception and still there was only 10 people at the reception plus me, my husband, my bridesmaids and his groomsmen, ring bearer and flower girl. We danced to our first song even though I was so sad and after that song played, everyone sat down to eat and I went to the bathroom, freaking out and crying my eyes out. Why did no one show up!? The reception ended at 7:30 pm!! Only an hour and half long. Most likely it was because no one was there. We still had a good time and I still got to marry my best friend. All the money wasted, food wasted, I mean everything. We spent $60,000 on our wedding when we could have just spent $10,000-20,000 the most. The next day, I went through my RSVP & all 70 said yes.. no call, no text, no email, nothing!! It is now the 18th and still haven’t heard from anyone who was suppose to show up. I am now getting ready for our honeymoon. I am very devastated and angry....

This isn’t my story, I am in a women’s community group and she shared and I felt so bad!!