A bride and groom recently got married on September 4th, but even though their wedding has been over for weeks, it is still causing some drama amongst family members due to what happened at the wedding ceremony.
This bride and groom specifically asked their guests to honor their choice of a device-free ceremony.
“We paid a lot of money for a videographer to capture our ceremony,” the groom explained. “We told everyone at the rehearsal dinner we would be having everyone turn their devices off for the ceremony, just so that there wouldn’t be any distractions.”
That sounds like a completely reasonable thing to ask your guests to abide by at a wedding.
Later on that night, the groom’s brother approached him to insist that his daughter (who is 4) absolutely required her iPad in order to make it through the wedding ceremony.
His brother told him that his daughter would not be able to stay still and would most likely make a lot of noise if she didn’t have her iPad to distract her.
The groom replied that he did not want his 4-year-old niece to use her iPad during the ceremony, as he was concerned that she might accidentally put the volume on and disrupt the ceremony that way.
After their conversation concluded, he figured his brother would respect the decision that he and his wife had made, but it turns out that wasn’t the case.
On the day of the wedding, his brother said he needed to give his daughter her iPad because she was already struggling.
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The groom said no for a second time, and his brother wasn’t willing to let it go that easily.
“He said that if she didn’t have it, she would make a fuss, and “the missus wouldn’t want that ruining her big day, now would she?” the groom recalled.
That comment really rubbed him the wrong way because his wife wasn’t the one to dictate the no device rule, it was a choice that they had made with one another.
“I told him if he couldn’t respect it, then his daughter could wait outside with either him or his wife. But her iPad wouldn’t be in there,” he continued.
Anyway, fast forward to the wedding ceremony and his brother is up there as his best man.
“And then it happens,” he wrote.
“Middle of the ceremony, we hear “We finally found the perfect house” and then some fumbling as my SIL is trying to get the iPad to shut off and my niece starts to whine. Some ad started playing as my niece was playing a game.”
He was upset, and his wife was upset. Despite that, they attempted to brush it off and keep going with the ceremony. The ceremony finished and then the reception started.
At the reception, his brother and sister-in-law rushed up to him and his wife to mention that they did not realize the volume was high up on the iPad.
They made their daughter say sorry for what happened, and then his wife stated that it was simply disrespectful that it even happened in the first place.
His brother then complained it wasn’t right for his wife to state that, but he countered with it wasn’t right he let his daughter have the iPad knowing they wanted the ceremony to be device-free.
He also took issue with the fact that his brother never said sorry, but forced his 4-year-old to do it when she didn’t even get what had really gone down.
Then, when it came time for his brother to give his speech as best man at the wedding, he attempted to downplay the iPad situation by calling his 4-year-old a “rule-breaker.”
That comment was it for this groom and his bride, and they were infuriated.
In the weeks since the wedding, he has not really spoken to his brother at all, especially in light of the fact that he still has yet to apologize.
He doesn’t see anything wrong with this, but his parents are now calling him a jerk for not getting over it.
How would you deal with this?
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