Recently, a bride walked down the aisle by herself because her mother didn't arrive on time.
A newlywed took to Reddit for advice after her wedding was a disaster because several family members were late.
“My wedding day started like any other day. I [the bride] “We've been getting ready and the finishing touches are being made outside,” she wrote in a blog post on August 27. Social media posts.
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She continued: “Even though we were almost ready by midday, my mother had to run back to the hotel 20 minutes away to get changed and join my grandmother and a family friend.”
With a strict 2pm start time for the ceremony, the bride said the group was running a little late, but not enough to change the schedule of the day's events.
The bride (not pictured) was extremely upset that her mother and grandmother were absent from her wedding, and questioned whether it had been wrong to delay the start of the ceremony to wait for them. (iStock)
“The next thing I knew, I was walking down the aisle alone with no one in sight, no mom, no grandmother, no family friends,” she said.
“The ceremony continued and ended in a flash.”
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The bride said the three wedding guests arrived 45 minutes later.
“Then I went up to them and told them it was over, they missed it…. 2:00 meant 2:00,” she continued.
In a Reddit post, the bride (not pictured) said that her wedding day was going smoothly until her mother left to return with her grandmother and a family friend, but was unable to make it in time for the ceremony. (iStock)
She added: “My mother quickly became hostile and started blaming the baker for the bread not being ready. [she] He said he got stopped by a train, but my personal favorite was, 'It's your fault for not calling or emailing us to find out where we were.'”
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The bride simply replied, “The invitation said 2 o'clock,” and the wedding officiant said the schedule was tight because there was another ceremony after hers.
At the end of her Reddit post, the bride says she later found out her mother was late to the wedding because she “wasn't finished getting ready.”
The Reddit user said that their mother and grandmother were unable to attend the wedding because they showed up 45 minutes late (no photo). (iStock)
Someone should have called the mother and “asked her where she was and why she was late,” Jacqueline Whitmore, a Florida-based etiquette expert, told Fox News Digital.
She added, “Many weddings get a little delayed due to various issues, so if my mother and grandmother were a few minutes late, it wouldn't have been a big deal to wait for them to come back.”
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She also stressed the importance of punctuality at weddings.
“A wedding is a once-in-a-lifetime event, so it seems a bit extreme to exclude important family members just to start on time,” she said.
Sharing her experience on social media, the bride (not pictured) said that her mother was late, which meant she ended up walking down the aisle alone. (iStock)
Whitmore said the issues described on Reddit seem like ones that could have been avoided with a simple phone call and proper planning.
Other users also shared their thoughts in the comments section of the bride's post.
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One user sided with the bride, saying: “If you can receive texts, you can send them. It's not the bride or groom's responsibility to know what their family is up to on their wedding day.”
Another Reddit user agreed, writing, “I would never postpone the wedding for my mom. You never know when someone like her will come along. You have to move on with your life.”
One bride (not pictured) was upset that her mother and grandmother were not at her wedding, so she took to Reddit to ask for advice. (iStock)
Another user took an entirely different approach.
“If my mom and grandmother hadn't arrived within 15 minutes of the start time, I would have assumed they were dead in a ditch somewhere and called them,” this person wrote.
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Another person wrote on the platform: “If it was my mum… she would have waited. It's a special day and I can't imagine my parents not being there.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to the bride for comment.
