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Wedding disaster advice wanted please.

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Poodlelove · 05/07/2025 11:31

Our son got married yesterday.
A big wedding in a stately home, son and daughter in law paid for own wedding.
My Dad was invited but he is difficult, he is 80 but is active and well, but my sister and him do not speak and haven't done for 20 years.
Her children who are teenagers have never met him.
He was invited to the wedding on the condition that my dad did not approach my sister or her children.
Dad arrives with his wife and I greet them and introduce them to people and then I see him watching my sister.
I remind him of what was agreed previously and what I had said when the invitation went out and his wife also asks him to respect our wishes.
He then asks what time the food is coming.
This was at 11.45 am but the ceremony was at 1pm .
Around 30 minutes later my sister goes out onto the terrace to speak to other guests.
My Dad gets up and strides across the room and heads straight out there and corners her .
The best man steps in and asks him to move away and is warned to keep away.
He sulks on a sofa in the bar area and everytime my sister is escorted to the toilet by one of the ushers my Dad leans over and tries to wave.
He is given a final warning and then he strides up to our son and daughter in law during the couple only photo session in the grounds and says they feel out of place and unwanted.
Best man and ushers say just go or have your meal then go.
He decides to eat , nobody sees him leave but I am glad to see that he is nowhere to be seen.
I told everyone including my new daughter in law my other son's partner and nephew's that he had promised to behave and he was only there to see his Grandson get married.
I am waiting for an operation so was not at my best , my Dad knew this and was concerned , biopsies being taken etc ,but I feel he has let everyone down and he has spoilt what was a very special day for all of us .Why did I just not let him come ?
Please advise me.
TIA

OP posts:
Lactofull · 13/07/2025 09:20

Poodlelove · 05/07/2025 20:30

Yes a good father in the last 30 years but emotional and some physical abuse which I suffered in his hands previously , I decided to give him a second chance as I was an adult and I kept some distance

Our children were never left alone with him because I was protecting them.

Emotional abuse
physical abuse
you don’t trust him enough to have ever left him alone with your children

and yet “yes a good father for the last 30 years”

weird

LALady23 · 20/07/2025 18:08

This whole thing is just sad. I have to question why he is estranged in the first place. Thinking he ruined a wedding because he waved or tried to talk to family members he hadn’t seen in years tells me maybe this family makes drama out of small things. I feel bad for dad. How sad to tell him he is invited but can’t talk to people he probably loves. Has anyone ever heard of forgiveness - even if someone is sometimes difficult?

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