I refuse to invite my homewrecking stepmom to my wedding — am I being cruel to my dad?
They were wedding bells from hell.
A bride is on the fence about inviting her stepmom and father’s new wife to her wedding — all because their homewrecker affair got her birth parents divorced.
The bride, who penned a since-deleted Reddit post, said it even still “feels so weird” to call the woman her stepmom. The woman was a foreign language teacher at the bride’s high school while she attended.
At the time, her dad — who she “hadn’t planned on asking” to walk her down the aisle — and the teacher engaged in an “unapologetic” and “emotional affair” leading to divorce.
“Fast forward to this week, when my fiancé and I sent save the dates to our small wedding,” the bride wrote of the 25-person event stressing her out over her dad’s situation.
“Ultimately, I decided it was my choice and ideally would like [to celebrate] with him. He asked if the invite [was] extended to my stepmom. I said ‘no,’ just him. Honestly, I was shocked he even asked,” she added.
The decision even angered her own fiancé and her dad sent his daughter a long-winded message of how hurt the stepmom was feeling.
“He said he’d like to talk after the wedding about any unresolved feelings I have about the divorce and a way to connect moving forward, including her.”
“My fiancé and I made a lot of hard decisions when finalizing our wedding list. We heard repeated advice to do whatever we wanted, whatever was best for us, because it was our special day,” the bride wrote.
Online, some called for her dad to be uninvited as the internet quicky defended the bride’s position.
The bride was shocked by the request.
“Please don’t call her your Step-Mom. She is not a mother to you in any way. She is your Dad’s wife and is not invited to your wedding,” another added.
