When you have to travel out of town for a wedding it is pretty normal to get a hotel room, but if the family of the couple getting married wants to provide the room, that is even better.

What would you do if your in-laws provided a room but then also told your partner’s sister she could stay in the room as well?

That is what happened to the boyfriend in this story, so he decided to book his own room for him and his partner so they could be alone, but now his partner is upset.

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AITA for getting my own hotel room instead of sharing it with my partner’s sister?

I (33m) am invited to a wedding in June for my partner’s (28f) Uncle (60m).

The wedding is only about an hour’s drive from home and I don’t drink, so driving home wouldn’t be a problem, but it might be a late night so I figured I’d get a room.

Wow, that is very nice.

Following the invite, I was about to book a hotel but was then informed by my partner that her mother had booked a room.

I thought: what a nice and generous gesture!

I felt very grateful.

This evening we had a get together with friends and my partner’s younger sister (26f) was there and mentioned off hand that she hadn’t been booked a room.

She had been invited to crash in either our room or her mother and step-father’s room after the wedding by her mother.

This seems very reasonable to me.

Now knowing that the “private room” we were given was to be shared, I mentioned that I was just going to book a room anyway and that she didn’t need to be a third wheel because we’re all adults.

My sister-in-law was very happy and relieved about this.

Rooms are about $150 – something I could very much afford (and budgeted for) for a special event.

Why would she get upset about this?

I told my partner I’d just book a room and she is now angry at me because it would be insulting to her mother who was “trying to do something nice for us” – even though I didn’t know until tonight we were to be sharing a room.

Since her sister also expressed discomfort in this situation, I feel like I’m justified – and considering it’s a special occasion I don’t feel like paying money I was already intending to on a hotel room is unjustified or insulting.

I don’t want to be ungrateful – but we’re adults in our 20s and 30s and have the means to get separate rooms.

AITA for just booking a room?

AITAH?

Not at all, this seems very appropriate and will help keep things from being awkward.

Read on to see what the people in the comments say about this story.

These are all very good options.

This is exactly what I was thinking.

This is a good option.

Yeah, his partner is being weird.

This person says the nice gesture wasn’t that nice.

All this drama is unnecessary.

Seriously, who thought a newly married couple would want this?

If you liked that post, check out this story about a guy who was forced to sleep on the couch at his wife’s family’s house, so he went to a hotel instead.