Your wedding is the one time in your life where you can – and should – expect all attention to be on you.

Ban kids if you want to. Put your bridesmaids in dull dresses. Banish your drunkard of an uncle from your reception.

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All things going well, you’re only going to do it once so you don’t need any distractions.

And you definitely don’t need someone using your wedding as an opportunity to propose to their own girlfriend, like one unnamed bride who recently wrote into the Slate’s advice column ‘Dear Prudence’.


In the letter, which was shared on Twitter, the bride asked whether it was unreasonable to feel angry about being upstaged at her wedding, which by all accounts, had been a long time coming.

Look at this nightmare y'all. I absolutely wouldn't speak to John or Jane ever again. pic.twitter.com/SUvAv64XFa — Yung Receipta (@ashuhhleeee_) May 31, 2017

‘My husband and I started dating, got pregnant, had a child, moved in together, bought a house and got a dog in that order,’ the letter began.



‘Our friends and family have asked us for years why we weren’t married yet. We always pushed it off to build better lives. We’ve done really well for ourselves and finally reached a point where we could afford a huge blowout wedding to celebrate our lives with everyone we know and love. My husband’s best friend, “John”, was the best man/officiant.

‘The setting was beautiful, everyone seemed happy, our families were overjoyed. My mum may have used the phrase “Hallelujah’” a few dozen times. The entire atmosphere felt moving.

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