IT’S meant to be the one day in your life where the attention can be fully, entirely on you.
So it’s understandable that one bride was left fuming after her wedding day turned into her sister’s pregnancy announcement.
She explained that over the years she’s become used to her now-husband’s “narcissistic” family, and has even managed to stay “gracious”.
But things were taken to a new level at her wedding, which she’d hoped would “maybe be” about her and her other half.
However, her sister-in-law and her husband pulled the newlyweds aside “five minutes after our ceremony ended” to tell them something.
“I should have known it was gonna be some bulls**t because their father came over too and was recording I believe,” the woman wrote in the post on the Wedding Shaming group on Reddit.
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“She tells us that she is pregnant, we hug her and I say oh congratulations wow etc.
“She then says ‘we just wanted to tell you since we never get to see each other in person, but it’s your day’ and kind of finally goes away.”
For the next hour, the newly-pregnant woman announces her happy news to everyone “individually”, with the news “spreading like wildfire”.
“(My husband) is trying to not get sucked in and keeps saying ‘wtf’ to me everyone it comes up but, somehow this is pretty much a main point in the night,” she sighed.
Despite telling virtually all the wedding guests at the reception, the woman’s sister-in-law avoided informing the bride’s maid of hours and best friend until the end of the night, knowing that they were likely to be “openly appalled”.
“Upon telling them at the end of the night assuming they knew, my sisters bf said ‘I’m a man and even I know that’s f**ked up”,” she added.
She concluded by sharing a few details that she called the “cherry on top”, including the fact that her sister-in-law had only just found out she was expecting.
“This b**ch is 5/6 weeks pregnant?” she wrote.
“So she really shouldn’t be telling ANYONE, especially since she has some potential issues in this area already.”
And when it came to opening their wedding presents at home, they found that their presents from her were a matching mug set saying “promoted to uncle/aunt est. 2026”, meaning the announcement was “very premeditated”.
“Not to mention we have three nieces, and have been an aunt and uncle for nearly a decade,” she said.
People were quick to weigh in on the shocking situation in the comments section of the Reddit post, with one writing: “She did this like the DAY she found out she was pregnant?? That’s wild.
What is miscarriage and why do pregnancies fail?
MISCARRIAGE is generally the death of an unborn baby in the first 24 weeks – approximately six months – of pregnancy.
Miscarriages may not be spoken about a lot but they are very common. Baby loss charity Tommy’s estimates there are at least 250,000 per year in the UK and that one in every five pregnancies ends in miscarriage.
It may not be clear why a miscarriage happens but they are rarely caused by anything done by the mother or father. Usually the embryo has a random genetic defect that means it cannot develop properly.
Most women can go on to successfully have healthy babies in the future.
The NHS says most miscarriages cannot be prevented but avoiding smoking, alcohol and drugs while pregnant can reduce the risk.
Some of the other most common reasons for a pregnancy to fail in the first 24 weeks are ectopic pregnancy and molar pregnancy.
Ectopic pregnancy is where a fertilised egg implants somewhere outside of the womb, usually in a fallopian tube. It cannot survive and grow there so either dies naturally or must be terminated.
Molar pregnancy is rarer but happens when a fertilised egg and/or placenta does not develop properly at the start of a pregnancy. There is no single reason why it happens and cannot be prevented, though it may be more common in very young or old mothers.
A baby who dies after 24 weeks is considered a stillbirth.
Source: NHS
“My cousin was a bridesmaid at my sister’s wedding this summer and waited until the week after to privately tell us that she’s TWENTY weeks pregnant.”
“I feel like 5 weeks is about the earliest I’ve tested positive,” another added.
“She’s insane. It’s all so unsure still at that point!”
“This is ridiculous!” a third insisted.
“We actually held off on posting on Facebook/sharing publicly about our pregnancy for a week (I was through my first trimester) because we were going to a friend’s wedding and didn’t want to risk all our mutual friends asking about it/congratulating us when it wasn’t our day.
“And this was a friend! For family? How wretched!”
