Wedding day drama
I really need some support and a place to vent right now. This is gonna be long so please bare with me. I just got married on Saturday and most people would be on cloud 9. My wedding day was a disaster. We went out of town an hour away for the weekend for our wedding. We invited only my close friends and our families. My close friends have been like my family for most of my adult life. I love my family but we're pretty distant. My friends spent Friday and Saturday night and our families were just coming for the ceremony and going to dinner afterwards.
The morning of my wedding I wanted everyone (friends and us) to go to breakfast, come go with a plan to get ready, and possibly do a quick rehearsal at the park. I woke up and texted my one friend to wake everyone up and get ready. I found out everyone was up until 4 AM getting drunk...whatever I'll get over it. No one would get up so I said whatever we'll go without them, no big deal. So we go to pick her up and she tells me my best friend (who is also the officiant) has to tell me something. Great...I go in and she tells me she might have to leave because her brothers girlfriend is in labor. She's the type of person that has to be there for everything...except my wedding obviously. I walk out crying because I'm speechless. My husband walks in and I'm not exactly sure what he said but I know he was mad.
We go to breakfast and I can't stop crying. He's mad and frustrated about the whole situation and ends up walking out to cool off. He leaves me there with his 18 yo son who gives me a ride back to the hotel and then leaves to go find his Dad. I call my sister and ask her to come pick me up so we can talk and I can get my life together while he's calming down. She shows up a half an hour later with her boyfriend and 5 of our friends and is telling me to get in the car. I'm the meantime, I see my best friend (the officiant) leaving town and my husband shows back up to the hotel much calmer but he had just sent a nasty text to the one who left (which I'm sorry, I don't blame him because it's his wedding day and he's upset too!) And then the yelling and fighting starts! My sister and one of my other close friends start screaming at him and bringing up things from his past. Keep in mind...they don't know him. My sister had only been introduced to him once at my bridal shower for 5 minutes...like I said my family isn't close and she lives 3 hours away and doesn't come home for holidays. They're all yelling and I'm just standing there crying, speechless, and can't believe this is happening on the morning of my wedding. If they had issues maybe the should have mentioned them before the day of. My husband tells him he doesn't like them, will never forget this and they'll never be friends. My friend decides they will fake it for the day. They're trying to tell me to get in the car so we can go get ready and I'm still bawling so I go up to the hotel room and long story short call my husband up, we have a heart to heart and we decide we wanna get married anyway. A different friend that wasn't there yet is going to step in to do the ceremony but it won't be legal.
Everything goes smooth through getting ready, the ceremony, and dinner. We go out for drinks and it's clearly all about my friends and we were on our own. People start to get drunk and we planned to go home early. My best friend/the officiant comes back to town to hang out with my friends. My husband tries to apologize and explain his feelings and another friend steps in and starts running her mouth...I tell her to stop and that this is OUR WEDDING DAY. She shuts her mouth walks back by my sister and I clearly here my sister say the wedding is over insinuating that they can act however they want and there's no need to "fake" it like they did earlier. We leave without saying good bye because I'm gonna start crying again and my husband is pissed. No one included him in any conversations or tried to get to know him.
We get back to the hotel room, he cries, I cry and we go to sleep. Next morning we don't hear from anyone except a different friend who said he would've liked to go to breakfast with us so he could get to know my husband. My sister and her boyfriend come say goodbye but she doesn't even acknowledge my husband.
The reception is supposed to be in 3 weeks and I made a Facebook post stating if you don't support my husband or my marriage then I don't want you there. I could've sent them all messages but I really have ZERO desire to talk to any of them. I did message the officiant because she was supposed to send out the invites before we left for the weekend and all she responded with was...you're something else right now. So my guess is they didn't get sent out so my husband is going to have them printed today.
I see all sides of it, I really do. I just don't think there is any coming back from this. I'm hurt, my husband is done with all of them, and I know they're pissed. The whole thing got way out of hand. I have no one to turn to except my husband. I have no friends left. I still can't believe this happened. I guess I just needed to vent, I'll keep crying it out, and I'll lean on him as much as possible.
Achieve your health goals from period to parenting.