Wedding planning can be complicated when your parents remarried.

If you were planning a small wedding, would you invite your stepmom and stepdad or just your mom and dad?

This man decided to invite only close relatives and his parents, but not their current spouses.

Each of his parents had a wildly different reaction when they found out.

Check out the full story below for all the details.

AITA for not inviting my father’s wife to wedding celebration?

I (25M) got married in February.

But then, there was no opportunity to celebrate, so we scheduled two events in September, one of them with close relatives, and the other with friends/colleagues.

This man decided to invite his parents, but not their respective partners.

I have a large family and we thought for a long time about who to invite from my side.

We decided to invite my grandmother, grandfather, aunt and her husband, mother, and father.

My parents divorced when I was 3, so we decided that we would not invite my father’s 4th wife and my mother’s second husband.

He had his reasons for making this decision.

Firstly, so as not to embarrass them.

And secondly, because these people appeared in my life not so long ago, and I am technically not connected with them.

I sent my father an invitation and said that we were inviting him, but without his wife.

His father didn’t like this decision.

He replied that I should have consulted with him.

He said he refuses to go without his wife and “you act stupid.”

At the same time, my mother’s husband himself said that he would not go.

He said, “He has a living father, I did not raise him, what should I do there if only relatives gather there.”

So, AITA?

You never know how someone’s going to react when they find out someone they love isn’t invited to an important celebration.

Let’s read the responses of other people on Reddit to this story.

This person gives their honest opinion.

Short and straightforward.

You’re making it awkward, says this person.

Here’s a valid point from this user.

Finally, this person is calling him childish.

Invitations are a privilege, not an entitlement.

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