This is a bit of a rant inspired by a few other threads on AIBU recently.
What is this new selfish attitude towards wedding/parties that seems to evolving the last few years? E.g. Excluding one half of married couple, excluding certain children and not others e.g. step children, wild dress codes, wild gift lists. I even read an absolutely awful thread about excluding a disabled child who was a close relative of the bride/groom.
I have read so many times "it's their day, their choice" but this just seems to be code for treating others really shitty, expecting others to accept the shitty behaviour and then expecting no consequences.
It makes me so sad that people seem to be so self absorbed that they cannot see/do not care that their actions may have made another person feel absolutely awful?
Do the people getting married/throwing parties, etc. really expect their loved ones to take this on the chin with no hard feelings?
Is it really worth causing irreparable damage to relationships for the sake of one day?
It blows my mind how many other posters on here agree with the callous behavior. It's like everyone has lost their manners and we don't know how to function as a polite society anymore.
Maybe I'm just getting old and grumpy!
Rant over lol.