Why Would You Insist on Taking Your Child to a Child-Free Wedding?
Your kid isn’t welcome; deal with it
And there it was, the question I dreaded so much.
“So, why did you cancel the wedding?”
Saying the truth out loud felt humiliating. Every time I had to say that my fiancé had been living a double life for five years, my heart tried to lunge out of my chest. So I just stammered something about infidelity without getting into specifics.
She shrugged. “I hope you guys work it out; many relationships have to deal with this. And maybe you can set a new date quickly; we were all looking forward to the big event. Especially considering it would be Noah’s first wedding.”
When she mentioned her seven-year-old son, I inadvertently frowned. “Uhm,” I creaked, “the invitation clearly said it was adults only.”
Suzanna smiled. “Oh yes, we saw that. But the three of us are a package deal. And you know how easy he is; you wouldn’t have noticed he was there. But it doesn’t matter since, well, there is no wedding.”
Because I had no idea how to react, I changed the subject. But I couldn’t let it go. On the drive home, all I could think about was how I would have reacted to a kid showing up at my wedding after all the effort it had taken to…
