When getting married, you want to make sure that everything goes according to plan.
Sometimes, that means only inviting adult friends and family, and asking that they leave their kids at home.
What happens if a relative brings their little ones to a child-free event?
That’s what happened in this story, and the response is oh-so-satisfying.
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Petty
I got married a few years ago now, and though I wasn’t a total bridezilla, there was one no-exceptions no-compromise clause that I had with my husband about our day.
No big deal at all.
The wedding must be child-free.
I’ve never really got on with kids and growing up as the
unpaid zookeepereldest child with at least eleven cousins I had thehorrorpleasure ofbeing forced to babysitseeing multiple times a week meant I was pretty much surrounded by kids.My husband knew this and he agreed one day not surrounded by
gobby little bratsprecious little angels wasn’t too much to ask.So, I put ‘Child-Free Wedding’ on all the invitations, knowing the invited guests would respond with respect.
At least that was the plan.
There has to be one.
Enter one of my aunts, known as Aunt D, and her trio of
snot-nosed gremlinsmy beloved cousins aged 10, 7, and 4,shoving each otherbeing typical little boys andrunning amok and screamingworking off their energy around the outdoor venue during the ceremony, whilst Aunt D sat there and let themcause total chaosamuse themselves.After all, they were just being
hellspawntypical young boys.This is where my chief bridesmaid HollyDunmer steps in.
We’ve known each other since she was the same age as Aunt D’s youngest
snotragangel, and she was due to give a speech during the receptionover the three demon brats’ screamingto the bride and groom.She’s also a professional (and most importantly, fast) writer, and at times can have zero filter.
So I pulled her aside, and asked if she wouldn’t mind editing her little speech for me.
I wish I were there to hear it!
Soon enough, the speeches came, things seemed to go as plan, then HollyDunmer stood up to give hers, which she’d loaded with innuendos and rigged with various explosive expletives ready to drop in every other sentence.
For me, my husband, and most of our guests, this was
well needed comic reliefpretty standard, as we weren’t the most serious of people.For Aunt D however, this was utterly horrifying!
Well, she brought them!
How dare I let such a vulgar speech assault the delicate ears of her innocent babies!
I mean, it’s not like her youngest
hellspawnangel had ever heard any of those words before!After the speeches, once I’d had
three glasses ofa few sips of champagne and herannoying little bratssweet little angels werecharging around the dancefloorhaving fun, Aunt D comes up to me and points her finger straight at my chief bridesmaid,demandingasking to know why on Earth I’d allowed such ahilarious speech writervulgar little trollop to say such things in front of herbratschildren.Whether it was the champagne or just general giddiness making me brave remains to be decided, but I just calmly pointed out to her that the wedding was child-free.
When she
yelledasked to know what difference that meant, I said “Child-free, as in no children, as in they shouldn’t have been around to hear it in the first place.”Oh the shock on her face.
Needless to say, she took her
crotch-spawnprecious babies home early, leaving three precious child-free hours left to enjoy my wedding day.
Wow, that is quite the story!
Let’s see what people had to say about it.
I think it should have been obvious.
Sometimes those are the best.
This person is not leaving anything to chance.
It really made it funny.
She got what she deserved!
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