A WOMAN has revealed the awful reason that she was not invited to her step-sisters’ wedding.
She said that she was really looking forward to the big day and had put money aside to save up for it.
However, when the invitations were handed out, she realised that because she is “overweight” and “doesn’t fit in” with the aesthetic of the “very Instagramable” wedding, she didn’t make the cut.
Taking to Mumsnet, the woman said that although her mother married her step-dad when both of their kids had grown up, the step-siblings had always been close.
She added that even though the wedding is child-free, and she has “a few kids” she doesn’t see this as a reason not be invited, as she and her husband attended another one of her step-siblings’ weddings last year and “had a lovely time”.
“It’s become clear that it is going to be a very ‘Instagramable’ wedding and we just don’t fit in, all their friends are glamorous and we are homely and overweight”, she said.
“They have invited family of parents, step parents, full siblings and their partners and about 40 friends according to my mum but we haven’t made the cut.
“I know people can invite who they want to their wedding but am I being unreasonable to feel sad and angry at not being invited?”
The post was flooded with sympathetic responses from Mumsnet users, many of whom slammed the bride and groom for being “fake”.
One person said: “They are sad, plastic, fake, no substance people, you really do not need to associate with them.
“You are real people, they are show offs. Carry on being the nice person you are.”
A second person said: “Being in the same ‘homely and overweight ‘ category myself I would be thanking my lucky stars that I wasn’t expected to have to attend this wedding.
“Don’t give them another thought except to plan an equally expensive holiday to somewhere of your own choosing at the same time”.
A third person said: “Wow! This is pretty low.
“I think if there’s a nasty streak in someone, weddings just seem to draw it out.”
A fourth person added: “That’s one of the shallowest things I’ve heard in a long time.”
By Josie Griffiths, Deputy Digital Fabulous Editor and bride-to-be
Josie Griffiths said: When was the last time you spotted something in a shop window or browsed past it online and thought “that would be the perfect gift for 120 of my closest friends, work colleagues, relatives and boyfriend’s mate’s partners I barely know”?
I’ll tell you when, never, because there is NO universal gift everyone is going to love – unless you want to bankrupt yourself buying Rolexes and Tiffany jewellery, and even then they wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste.
So why do brides still pile the stress (and expense) of wedding favours on top of everything else we have to organise?
I’ve been to dozens of weddings over the past five years so when I got engaged, I already had a mental list of dos and don’ts for my own big day, and ditching wedding favours was firmly on it.
The cost of buying an individual present for everyone coming is huge, meaning many couples try and keep it in the under-a-fiver category.
But the reality is no-one wants a cheap, ill-thought-out keepsake – they’d probably rather one more free drink from the bar.
It’s not only that, wedding handbags are notoriously small, with no room to stuff an unexpected gift in, and catering waiters have a bad habit of whisking away the wedding favours when they’re clearing the coffee mug off the tables.
I bet none of my guests will even notice the lack of random gift on their dining table.
If you really hate the idea of not buying something for your guests, charity donations are always a nice gesture.
But the last thing your friends and family need is more random tat cluttering up their homes – so it’s time to save them the guilt of binning your Etsy-bought keyring.
A fifth person chimed in: “It sounds like it’s more style over substance and they can’t see what is most important – friends and family, rather than photogenic acquaintances.
“If you have some money put aside then book something nice for your own family.”
A sixth added: ” How boring and shallow are their lives that all they care about is how others look.”
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