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<p>There are ways to recover from a mistake as out-of-the-ordinary as accidentally inviting somebody to your wedding, but having them ejected is not it.</p><p>If any bride deserves to be shamed in <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingshaming/comments/cw51jj/opinions_needed_was_i_right_to_walk_out_and_not/">Wedding Shaming</a>, it&#39;s this one who would rather humiliate a couple than pull up a chair.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/OllieC84/">OllieC84 </a>shared the story on&mdash;where else?&ndash;Reddit, and it&#39;s the kind of cringe you&#39;d expect to see on <em>Curb Your Enthusiasm.</em></p><h2>They opened with photographic evidence proving that they were indeed invited to the ceremony at 2 PM.</h2><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Reddit: u/OllieC84" data-attribution-url="https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingshaming/comments/cw51jj/opinions_needed_was_i_right_to_walk_out_and_not/" height="1280" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/ikwb8crx70j31-1j1xrs.jpg" width="960" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingshaming/comments/cw51jj/opinions_needed_was_i_right_to_walk_out_and_not/">Reddit: u/OllieC84</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>Here&#39;s how the awkwardness began:</h2><blockquote> <p>On the invite you can see in the pic, we were invited from 2pm, so we duly arrived in time for that. We were surprised to be invited to the day, but knowing what a flakey friend the bride has been over the years, I could understand why she might be struggling to fill a room these days.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>After the service we had a lovely chat with her over a drink before the wedding dinner and carried on mingling.. until the chief bridesmaid came over to shepherd me aside starting with &lsquo;This is really awkward and I&rsquo;m really sorry to say this, but you&rsquo;re not supposed to be here until the evening and the bride is freaking out because there&rsquo;s no place setting for you.&rsquo; I wanted the earth to open up and swallow me.</p> </blockquote><h2>Evicting a couple is bad enough, but implying that its their fault is even meaner. There was PHYSICAL EVIDENCE of the mistake, but it&#39;s her party, she can kick people out if she wants to:</h2><blockquote> <p>She was implying that we had just rocked up and crashed the wedding, so I got the day invite, (which I&rsquo;d luckily brought along,) out of my pocket and showed her. Rather than accept the mistake and try to accommodate us, she just kept saying how awkward this is until I said, don&rsquo;t worry, we&rsquo;ll go and have some food elsewhere and come back for the party.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>We waited until everyone was called for dinner to not make a scene and strop out, but just before that happened, we could see the bride telling the ushers and bridesmaids what had happened and they all turned and looked at us at once from the balcony above. To add further insult- the ushers physically separated us with an arm gesture when calling everyone else to dinner, making us feel like social lepers.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>We left, opened the card with &pound;100 cash inside and went and spent it on getting pissed up together in town- like hell did we go back for the evening do after that. I&rsquo;ve not heard from the bride at all since then, which is twisting the knife.</p> </blockquote><h2>Ollie decided not to give the bride and groom their cash gift, and I hope they were strong cocktails.</h2><p>Consistent with the internet&#39;s obsession with the question of &quot;Am I The A-hole?&quot;, Ollie asked the group:</p><blockquote> <p>Is it acceptable to ask someone to leave your wedding if you&rsquo;ve made a mistake with inviting them?</p> <p>Was it the right thing for us to not to come back and spend her gift?</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>&quot;Wow, what a bizarre situation you got thrown into by very rude and tactless people,&quot; a nice person commented.</p><p>&quot;I believe you did the right thing. You had proof, cold hard physical proof that the bride made a mistake and still they wanted to blame you and humiliate you,&quot; added another.</p><p>The consensus in the comments is the obvious one: the bride who had ushers physically eject a couple instead of just giving them some salmon is clearly the a-hole here.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Couple asks if it was wrong to keep gift after being kicked out of wedding.

There are ways to recover from a mistake as out-of-the-ordinary as accidentally inviting somebody to your wedding, but having them ejected is not it.If any bride deserves to be shamed in Wedding Shaming, it&#39;s this one who would rather humiliate a couple than pull up a chair.OllieC84 shared the story on&mdash;where else?&ndash;Reddit, and it&#39;s the kind of cringe you&#39;d expect to see on Curb Your Enthusiasm.They opened with photographic evidence proving that they were indeed invited to the ceremony at 2 PM.Reddit: u/OllieC84Here&#39;s how the awkwardness began: On the invite you can see in the pic, we were invited from 2pm, so we duly arrived in time for that. We were surprised to be invited to the day, but knowing what a flakey friend the bride has been over the years, I could understand why she might be struggling to fill a room these days.  After the service we had a lovely chat with her over a drink before the wedding dinner and carried on mingling.. until the chief bridesmaid came over to shepherd me aside starting with &lsquo;This is really awkward and I&rsquo;m really sorry to say this, but you&rsquo;re not supposed to be here until the evening and the bride is freaking out because there&rsquo;s no place setting for you.&rsquo; I wanted the earth to open up and swallow me. Evicting a couple is bad enough, but implying that its their fault is even meaner. There was PHYSICAL EVIDENCE of the mistake, but it&#39;s her party, she can kick people out if she wants to: She was implying that we had just rocked up and crashed the wedding, so I got the day invite, (which I&rsquo;d luckily brought along,) out of my pocket and showed her. Rather than accept the mistake and try to accommodate us, she just kept saying how awkward this is until I said, don&rsquo;t worry, we&rsquo;ll go and have some food elsewhere and come back for the party.  We waited until everyone was called for dinner to not make a scene and strop out, but just before that happened, we could see the bride telling the ushers and bridesmaids what had happened and they all turned and looked at us at once from the balcony above. To add further insult- the ushers physically separated us with an arm gesture when calling everyone else to dinner, making us feel like social lepers.  We left, opened the card with &pound;100 cash inside and went and spent it on getting pissed up together in town- like hell did we go back for the evening do after that. I&rsquo;ve not heard from the bride at all since then, which is twisting the knife. Ollie decided not to give the bride and groom their cash gift, and I hope they were strong cocktails.Consistent with the internet&#39;s obsession with the question of &quot;Am I The A-hole?&quot;, Ollie asked the group: Is it acceptable to ask someone to leave your wedding if you&rsquo;ve made a mistake with inviting them? Was it the right thing for us to not to come back and spend her gift? &quot;Wow, what a bizarre situation you got thrown into by very rude and tactless people,&quot; a nice person commented.&quot;I believe you did the right thing. You had proof, cold hard physical proof that the bride made a mistake and still they wanted to blame you and humiliate you,&quot; added another.The consensus in the comments is the obvious one: the bride who had ushers physically eject a couple instead of just giving them some salmon is clearly the a-hole here.

There are ways to recover from a mistake as out-of-the-ordinary as accidentally inviting somebody to your wedding, but having them ejected is not it.  If any bride deserves to be shamed in Wedding Shaming, it&#39;s this one who would...