A Reddit user who was kicked out of a wedding for ordering pizza because the reception ran out of food should have been more careful and well-behaved, an etiquette expert told Fox News Digital — but the story does have a happy ending.
“Am I stupid for ordering pizza at my friend’s wedding because there was no food available?” asked user “Adorable_Distance_15” in a recent post on the advice forum “Am I the A–hole” subreddit.
In the post, the man said he and his wife had recently attended a friend’s wedding, which was attended by around 70 guests, including “mostly family.”
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“When we got there we sat at a table with some other people. They were nice people and we quickly got along, chatted and had a good time,” he wrote.
“The wedding was great. My friend and his new wife seemed very happy,” Adorable_Distance_15 said.
According to a Reddit user, while drinks were being served at the reception (not pictured), they quickly noticed that many tables had no food left. (iStock)
After the wedding, two bottles of wine, bread and butter were distributed to the tables and the bar was opened.
“Then the food came out, and it looked absolutely delicious,” he said, noting that the wedding reception was buffet style.
“I was half drunk and looking forward to getting some food in my stomach,” he added.
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He said that as dinner began, a few tables were called at a time at the buffet. “Naturally, the first few tables called were families from both sides,” Adorable_Distance_15 wrote.
But this is where the problems began.
“To our surprise, there was nothing left when we were called.”
“Now, I don’t judge people for how much they eat, but I noticed how much they were eating while we were patiently waiting to be called,” he said. “I also noticed that they were having second helpings before every table was called, and no one stopped them.”
At the time, Adorable_Distance_15 said she thought the behaviour was rude but “just thought they had too much food.”
“To our surprise, there was nothing left when we were called,” he added.
After grabbing the remaining “leftovers,” “We’re still pretty hungry and we’re a little [angry]”So there was a bit of bad-mouthing from the first few tables that ended up eating all their food,” he said.
Food at the wedding was served buffet-style (not pictured) and was quickly devoured by the bride’s family, the Reddit user wrote in the post. (iStock)
After someone suggested eating pizza, Adorable_Distance_15 came up with the idea to “drunkenly order pizza.”
So “we all worked together and ordered four large pizzas and chicken wings from a pizza place close to the venue, so the delivery didn’t take long,” he said.
“I met the guy outside, he brought the food to our table and we started eating.”
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Hungry people at other tables noticed the pizza too, “so we all shared it,” Adorable_Distance_15 said.
“This caused a bit of a stir,” and people began asking wedding-goers if they still had pizza.
“My friend came over and asked why I ordered food because his bride wasn’t happy about it,” the Reddit poster said, “So I told her we couldn’t eat and the food was gone long before the table was called and we were super hungry.”
“What were we to do, starve to death?”
“What were we to do,” he said, “starve to death?”
But the wedding drama continued when the bride’s father noticed leftover pizza.
“This is me. [a–hole]” Adorable_Distance_15 wrote, “There were only 2 slices left. [and] I knew he was after them.”
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“I asked the other people at the table if they wanted one and they all said no. Then one guy said he did,” he said.
“I took the two slices, put them on my plate and started to eat, then I looked at him and said, ‘No, you and everyone at your table ate way more than the buffet portion, which is why we ordered food in the first place, and now you’re being rude and asking us to share.'”
At the time, he didn’t know it was the bride’s father.
A bride (not pictured) was extremely upset when she discovered her wedding guests were eating the pizza they had ordered at the reception. (iStock)
The man “returned to the table red-faced,” where “a lot of arguing had taken place,” the Reddit user wrote.
“The bride seemed even angrier towards us. She was having a bit of an argument with my friend. He ended up coming back and telling us we had to go home,” he said.
“I didn’t want to cause any trouble so my wife and I called a cab and headed off.”
A few days after the wedding, Adorable_Distance_15’s friend called and told her side of the story.
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“He agreed that it was really rude of my in-laws to eat all the food and leave very little for most of the other guests,” he said, noting that about half of the guests left the reception once the food was gone.
“He was upset because he told his in-laws how many guests were coming and told them to order enough food for that number,” Adorable_Distance_15 said.
The Reddit poster continues, “He told his wife about it, and she said that apparently his in-laws thought that because they paid for the drinks and food, they had the right to eat what they wanted. She was really upset and lashed out at them for tarnishing her special day.”
“He said he wanted to apologize to her for kicking me out.”
Adorable_Distance_15 updated her post, writing that her friend’s wife was “even angrier than he originally stated,” but not at him, but at her family.
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“He also said he wanted to apologize to her for kicking me out,” Adorable_Distance_15 wrote.
To solve the wedding reception issue, my father-in-law had made plans to throw a “post-wedding party” for everyone who attended the original wedding, plus some other people.
The post-wedding party will feature “50 large pizzas,” the man wrote on Reddit. (iStock)
“[The father-in-law] “He also promised that there would be a variety of food,” he said. “He also wanted to personally let me know that there would be 50 large pizzas from the same place that I ordered from. That’s his way of adding humor to the situation.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to Adorable_Distance_15 for further updates.
Lisa Gachet, founder and CEO of California-based Beverly Hills Manors, told Fox News Digital that “this was not the right thing to do” and that Adorable_Distance_15 should have done more to prepare.
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“No matter how you look at it (pun intended), having pizza delivered to eat at a friend’s wedding is a clear insult to the bride, groom and their families,” she said.
It’s “not the right thing to do” for the bride’s family to order pizza after they’ve eaten everything at the buffet, etiquette expert Lisa Gauchet told Fox News Digital. (iStock)
If the group of friends felt they had to order extra food, she said, “it would have been more modest for the people at the table to take turns going to the parking lot to get their pizza and then come right back to celebrate with the happy couple.”
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But there were better options Adorable_Distance_15 could have taken besides just ordering food: When they saw other tables asking for refills, they could have asked one of the waitresses if they could go to the buffet, Gaché says.
“Just because you have manners doesn’t mean you can’t communicate your needs.”
“Being polite doesn’t mean you can’t voice your needs,” Gachet says. “Maybe it was just an oversight on the part of the host, and if our friends had spoken up sooner, they would have been able to get enough food at the buffet.”
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Gachet advised Adorable_Distance_15 to “eat more substantial meals during the day” in the future and to bring protein bars with him in case he runs out of food again.
“Being a guest at a friend’s wedding means bearing it with a smile, no matter what,” she said.
