Weddings

<h2>We&#39;ve heard of guests complaining about child-free weddings, but what about a family member who thinks a wedding is a great venue for her 4-year-old&#39;s birthday party?</h2><p>Who doesn&#39;t love a round of toddler temper tantrums and bounce house on their wedding dance floor? So, when a boundary-setting bride decided to consult the gloriously petty<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingshaming/comments/11jqr9u/let_my_kid_celebrate_his_birthday_on_your_wedding/" target="_blank"> &quot;Wedding Shaming&quot;</a> group on Reddit about a mom&#39;s outrageous &quot;pitch&quot; for her wedding, people were ready to hear the tale of brazen entitlement.</p><h2>Let my kid celebrate his birthday on your WEDDING?</h2><blockquote> <p>As I have already told in another post, I am getting married in some months. It&#39;s a small wedding in my house, with just 28 people (including us). One of them is my aunt (the wife of my father&#39;s brother).</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>So, last Saturday (1 week ago) I told everyone about the wedding. It was great, besides my grandpa&#39;s telling me they won&#39;t come because they are too old...</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>But yesterday, I received a WhatsApp message from a phone that I didn&#39;t know. It was my aunt&#39;s niece from her part of the family, who I have never met. Turns out that her kid&#39;s (4 years old) birthday is 3 days before my wedding.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>She thought it would be a great idea to join my wedding and celebrate her kid&#39;s birthday too, because &quot;it&#39;s just the family and it&#39;s not in a church or pretty place anyway, so it&#39;s a great idea.&quot; And also said we should invite her family and the kid&#39;s school friends.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I am done about all the bulls*it that I am handling while arranging this wedding, so I just said &quot;Sorry, I have never meet you, and my wedding is not gonna become your child&#39;s birthday party. Bye&quot; And blocked her.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I was expecting my aunt to call me furious, but she apologized, saying she had no idea. She thought her niece only wanted to congratulate me, and that&#39;s why she gave her my number after telling her the news.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Also she told me to not worry, because her other niece called her to say how horrible I am, but she scolded her. I am sure at the end of this wedding I will have enough stories to write a book. How does people handle with this stuff?</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>Of course, the jury of wedding shamers was eager to roast this bold mom&#39;s utterly unhinged request. Here&#39;s what people had to say:</h2><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Tasty_Doughnut_9226/">Tasty_Doughnut_9226</a> said:</p><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m not sure what I just read. How on earth did she think it was ok to contact someone she&#39;s never met and ask to have her kids party at the other person&#39;s wedding whilst putting it down. I need to get myself some of that audacity!</p> </blockquote><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Blue_Camellia/">Blue_Camellia</a> said</p><blockquote> <p>Perfect response. I&#39;m also willing to bet that if you had agreed, at least 80% of the attention would have been on the kids, and the niece would have been nasty to/about you afterwards for taking attention away from her precious child.</p> </blockquote><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/imhere4blkpeople/">imhere4blkpeople</a> said:</p><blockquote> <p>I can already see the fingerprints and teeth marks in the cake. Yikes.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/EnvironmentalFun8175/">EnvironmentalFun8175</a> said:</p><blockquote> <p>Nope. Absolutely the hell not. It&#39;s a wedding, not a kid&#39;s birthday party. You did the right thing by refusing this madness. If this niece, who you have NEVER met, wants to celebrate her kid&#39;s birthday, she should do it at HER HOME ON HIS BIRTHDAY. Period.</p> </blockquote><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/the_greek_italian/">the_greek_italian</a> said:</p><blockquote> <p>So someone you&#39;re not even related to and never met, thought that it would be a completely brilliant idea to contact you and ask to arrange your wedding into her kid&#39;s birthday? At your expense? That is single handedly the biggest &quot;I am super cheap&quot; excuse I have ever heard.</p> </blockquote><h2>Let&#39;s all light a candle for this 4-year-old who has to grow up with the ultimate Karen for a mom. Unfortunately, the manager of this wedding was brave enough to fully shut her down. Good luck at the family reunion, team...</h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Entitled mom asks the bride if she can throw her kid a birthday party at the wedding.

We&#39;ve heard of guests complaining about child-free weddings, but what about a family member who thinks a wedding is a great venue for her 4-year-old&#39;s birthday party?Who doesn&#39;t love a round of toddler temper tantrums and bounce house on their wedding dance floor? So, when a boundary-setting bride decided to consult the gloriously petty &quot;Wedding Shaming&quot; group on Reddit about a mom&#39;s outrageous &quot;pitch&quot; for her wedding, people were ready to hear the tale of brazen entitlement.Let my kid celebrate his birthday on your WEDDING? As I have already told in another post, I am getting married in some months. It&#39;s a small wedding in my house, with just 28 people (including us). One of them is my aunt (the wife of my father&#39;s brother).  So, last Saturday (1 week ago) I told everyone about the wedding. It was great, besides my grandpa&#39;s telling me they won&#39;t come because they are too old...  But yesterday, I received a WhatsApp message from a phone that I didn&#39;t know. It was my aunt&#39;s niece from her part of the family, who I have never met. Turns out that her kid&#39;s (4 years old) birthday is 3 days before my wedding.  She thought it would be a great idea to join my wedding and celebrate her kid&#39;s birthday too, because &quot;it&#39;s just the family and it&#39;s not in a church or pretty place anyway, so it&#39;s a great idea.&quot; And also said we should invite her family and the kid&#39;s school friends.  I am done about all the bulls*it that I am handling while arranging this wedding, so I just said &quot;Sorry, I have never meet you, and my wedding is not gonna become your child&#39;s birthday party. Bye&quot; And blocked her.  I was expecting my aunt to call me furious, but she apologized, saying she had no idea. She thought her niece only wanted to congratulate me, and that&#39;s why she gave her my number after telling her the news.  Also she told me to not worry, because her other niece called her to say how horrible I am, but she scolded her. I am sure at the end of this wedding I will have enough stories to write a book. How does people handle with this stuff? Of course, the jury of wedding shamers was eager to roast this bold mom&#39;s utterly unhinged request. Here&#39;s what people had to say:Tasty_Doughnut_9226 said: I&#39;m not sure what I just read. How on earth did she think it was ok to contact someone she&#39;s never met and ask to have her kids party at the other person&#39;s wedding whilst putting it down. I need to get myself some of that audacity! Blue_Camellia said Perfect response. I&#39;m also willing to bet that if you had agreed, at least 80% of the attention would have been on the kids, and the niece would have been nasty to/about you afterwards for taking attention away from her precious child. imhere4blkpeople said: I can already see the fingerprints and teeth marks in the cake. Yikes. EnvironmentalFun8175 said: Nope. Absolutely the hell not. It&#39;s a wedding, not a kid&#39;s birthday party. You did the right thing by refusing this madness. If this niece, who you have NEVER met, wants to celebrate her kid&#39;s birthday, she should do it at HER HOME ON HIS BIRTHDAY. Period. the_greek_italian said: So someone you&#39;re not even related to and never met, thought that it would be a completely brilliant idea to contact you and ask to arrange your wedding into her kid&#39;s birthday? At your expense? That is single handedly the biggest &quot;I am super cheap&quot; excuse I have ever heard. Let&#39;s all light a candle for this 4-year-old who has to grow up with the ultimate Karen for a mom. Unfortunately, the manager of this wedding was brave enough to fully shut her down. Good luck at the family reunion, team...

We&#39;ve heard of guests complaining about child-free weddings, but what about a family member who thinks a wedding is a great venue for her 4-year-old&#39;s birthday party?  Who doesn&#39;t love a round of toddler temper tantrums and...