‘I blackmailed my brother so he wouldn’t suggest at my wedding ceremony’

Aug 05, 2023 at 5:15 PM
‘I blackmailed my brother so he wouldn’t suggest at my wedding ceremony’

A lady who barred her beloved brother from hijacking her wedding ceremony day has turned to the web to ask whether or not she has finished the best factor.

A 27-year-old social media person with the nickname Infinite-Hotel-7837 took to Reddit’s fashionable neighborhood “Am I the a**hole?” to recall how her youthful brother had deliberate to suggest to his girlfriend throughout her wedding ceremony reception.

To cease the 24-year-old man from shifting the highlight from the newlyweds to himself, the bride-to-be determined to blackmail him earlier than the nuptials.

The now-married girl, who mentioned to have been introduced up in a “very traditional Southern Baptist household”, wrote on Reddit: “He wanted to ask his girlfriend Sara to marry him at the reception during his speech welcoming my husband to the family.

“My dad handed away final 12 months and I believed it will be good to have my brother do the honours. Thank God he instructed me his thought beforehand.

“My brother didn’t know that Sara, who is one of my best friends, had already told me that she was pregnant.

“My brother is a youth pastor at our church. Sara is the choir director. Everyone seems to be as much as them.

“I told him that if he had the audacity to try and include himself in my day the response to his speech would be me toasting his new baby.

“He was livid that I knew about it. And that I might leverage it towards him. 

“I saw red. I said that if he and his girlfriend were willing to go against our beliefs then I had no problem calling him out.

“Our battle acquired loud sufficient that our mother got here in to interrupt it up. I saved my mouth shut regardless of desirous to blab proper there after which.”

The brother, the newlywed said, decided against asking for his girlfriend’s hand during the reception but, rather, proposed privately after people had left the party.

The Redditor said that, without her brother hijacking the event, the nuptials went “with out a hitch”. 

Sara, she added, ended up thanking her for “convincing my dumb*** brother to not attempt to horn in on my day” and for her discretion.

After returning from her honeymoon, however, the social media user realised her brother was still angry at her, as he told her she had been “petty” to keep him from proposing and allowing Sara to have “a second within the solar”.

Hundreds of fellow Redditors judged the situation, with many siding with the newlywed.

One social media user said: “Sara even thanked you for stopping him. He can keep salty.”

Another argued the brother didn’t “need ‘a’ second within the solar, he wished ‘your’ second within the solar”.

A third praised both Sara and the Redditor, saying: “Seems like you could have a stable sister-in-law.”