My Sister Tried to Steal the Spotlight at My Wedding, So I Gave Way

A wedding is not only a ceremony to bind couples together, but it is also a ceremony to celebrate their love. A meaningful celebration meant to show snippets of their personality and relationship. Our Bright Side reader planned their wedding to represent their love, simple yet meaningful, but her sister had another plan for her.

Our dear reader was looking forward to her wedding.

Hello Bright Side! I am writing this to share my wedding story, which was an unexpected experience for me and my husband.

I have been engaged for almost 3 years, and was finally getting married to the love of my life. We are each other’s first love. The wedding took longer to happen because my now husband and I have been planning for our wedding for the last two years. We managed to save up a bit and decided to go with something simple yet meaningful, as we didn’t have a lot to spend.

We booked a beachfront venue and sent out the invitations to the 30 people we allowed to have according to the plan we took with the venue. It’s an intimate wedding because we wanted to surround ourselves with special and closest people in our lives. And two of the seats were given to my sister and her fiancé.

The sister suddenly entered the frame and brought an unlikable suggestion.

A few days before the wedding, my sister called and said that she suddenly wanted us to have a double wedding. I was taken aback and tried to say no. I have no idea what’s gotten into her to say something like that out of nowhere.

My sister’s taste tends to be extravagant, and I knew my simple wedding wasn’t going to cut it. I tried to talk her out of it, but she insisted, saying it would make sense since “the entire family” would be there. She added that it would be convenient for both of us, despite pointing out the differences in our preferences and the budget.

But she forgot to mention that she doesn’t plan to pay for everything that goes into a wedding, even though she earns three times the amount I do. So I emphasized that she should reconsider everything or just plan her wedding at a later date. I brushed her off, thinking she’d get the point. But she didn’t.

By the end of the week, she was announcing the double wedding to everyone we knew. But that was just the beginning.

She faced problems caused by her sister.

My sister offered to help finalize everything because she thought about reconsidering the double wedding. She said that it’s a compensation for the stress she has caused. After telling the guests? She suddenly changed her mind? I knew my sister was impulsive and all, but this was extreme. I guided her to the stuff she can help with since she offered.

The next day, when I was checking the plan, my jaw dropped when I noticed something was wrong. Even though it was our day, she changed everything last minute. Suddenly, our venue was moved to a more extravagant place, and there was a massive fee for the last-minute booking. The flowers were swapped to the ones she likes, again at a massive fee. She bought a designer dress and wanted us to match, so she got a second one. Even the decorations tripled in price.

The wedding coordinator reached out to me with a letter. It was from my sister saying that she made an effort to surprise me for our double wedding. At that point, I’ve had enough. The whole idea we had was flushed down the toilet. It wasn’t a meaningful ceremony anymore. It was an out-of-character, magazine-worthy event. And none of the stuff that meant something to me was there anymore. She stole the show and made me a guest at my own wedding,

The spark for her own wedding was lost, so she made a decision.

So, the night before the wedding, my then-fiancé and I packed our bags, got on a plane, and eloped to the countryside. After seeing what my sister was doing to me, he booked a lovely log cabin and arranged for an official to perform our ceremony there. I had no idea and was surprised that the only people in attendance were my maid of honor and his best man. They helped him make it happen. I honestly couldn’t have asked for anything else.

Our wedding was perfect. It was a lovely and peaceful ceremony where only three people and nature witnessed how we sweetly announced our love.

When we returned, I got a furious call from my sister saying she had received bills worth thousands of dollars. She demanded I pay them, or she would take me to court. I calmly told her that she had booked everything and canceled everything I was supposed to pay for, so the bills were hers and hers alone. I did congratulate her, which made her scream at me.

She tried to call me names, but I hung up on her. My mom later told me that she was still livid and lying to people that I ruined her wedding by leaving her with the bill. It was a weak statement from her. I am unsure how I would deal with my sister once I come back, but at the moment, I want to enjoy my time as a newlywed with my husband.

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