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Upset we weren't invited to the wedding

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Daisypod · 29/06/2024 15:31

My step sister is getting married in august, the invites went out a few weeks ago and it's become clear me and dh aren't invited. I asked my mum about this and she confirmed it, said she had asked my step dad about it and he just said he didn't want to get involved.
Mum and him got together when the kids were older teens/young adults so step siblings have never lived together but we've always got on. We all live in different cities and even countries but we have get togethers at Christmas etc
The wedding is abroad and child free (we have a few kids) but one of the other step siblings got married last year and it was child free and we went and had a lovely time, we had zero problem with this.
It's become clear also that it is going to be a very 'instagramable' wedding and we just don't fit in, all their friends are glamorous and we are homely and overweight.
They have invited family of parents, step parents, full siblings and their partners and about 40 friends according to my mum but we haven't made the cut.
I know the usual mn attitude is people can invite who they want to their wedding but Aibu to feel sad and angry at not being invited?

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rubyslippers · 29/06/2024 15:42

YANBU
its really shitty behaviour

Longdueachange · 29/06/2024 15:41

I know its not the point, but for me going to an overseas childfree wedding would have been a logistical nightmare, so whilst I would have declined I would still have been obliged to send a gift. Send a card wishing them well and spend any money you would have wasted on the wedding on a lovely weekend for your family.

LuckysDadsHat · 29/06/2024 15:40

Just ignore them from now on. Shown their true colours. And be relieved after the hurt has settled a bit that yoy haven't got to pay out ££££ to give abroad and be celebrating a wedding of someone who is a bitch. Don't send them a present either. No invite, no present.

Ozanj · 29/06/2024 15:40

You know how she feels about you. No point making a fuss over her for anything any more.

TheOriginalEmu · 29/06/2024 15:39

YANBU. I was and still am hurt that I wasn’t invited to my stepsisters 50th birthday party. We aren’t super close but we’ve always got on. It really changed my opinion of her tbh.

wizzywig · 29/06/2024 15:37

I'd be upset too and would find it hard to forget that

gamerchick · 29/06/2024 15:34

Well at least you know how they really feel about you. They don't need much of effort making in future.

LeopardPrintIsNeutral · 29/06/2024 15:32

Yanbu. That’s a low blow tbh