Woman Refuses to Cancel Her Vacation for Her Best Friend's Wedding

• A woman refuses to cancel her vacation because of her best friend’s wedding
• In a post on Reddit, the woman explained that the wedding date was not set when she booked her non-refundable flights
• In response, commentators say it was unreasonable for a bride to expect people to stop planning for months. Others claim that the poster tricked users into siding with her when she only provided the length of her vacation in the comment, not her original post

A woman who was supposed to be her best friend’s godmother cancels her wedding because she has non-refundable vacation tickets.

In a Reddit post “Am I A——?” forum, a 25-year-old woman wonders if she’s wrong after refusing to cancel her three-week vacation for her childhood best friend’s wedding.

The poster, who was asked to be best man six months ago, explained that the couple’s families had conflicting schedules and limited availability, so initially an official wedding date was not set. The bride, 26, told the woman to keep an open mind but thought her wedding would probably take place in December or January, or even New Year’s Eve.

“That was the date she would refer to when she talked about the wedding. I mentally noted it as a ‘date’, but nothing was set yet,” the woman explained. “She also mentioned that it might not be until April, but since nothing has been confirmed, I’ve kind of settled on the idea of ​​New Years.”

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Meanwhile, the woman booked a vacation in January for her and her husband to celebrate his birthday. But the wedding date that ended up being the best for everyone, of course, fell on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend. that month.

“I spent a lot on this vacation (about $5,000) and the flights are non-refundable, with cancellation fees. Since the vacation includes an international flight and multiple domestic flights (all non-refundable with cancellation fees), I would have lost over $7,000 to cancel of this trip,” rationalized the woman. “I admit, it completely slipped my mind that her wedding could fall within these dates in January when I was making these plans and was supposed to be running my vacation through her.”

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The bride thought she had given her friend “enough information” not to book anything in January. However, the poster says what’s done is done and she won’t be canceling the trip.

“She is mad at me and thinks I should cancel the trip, saying that my vacation is a priority over her wedding,” the woman wrote of the bride. “The wedding is very small and intimate, with only immediate family and three main friends that she would like to be (one of whom is me). And I get it – I feel terrible.”

She continued: “I know it’s her wedding, and I want to be there for her. She’s done so much for my wedding. But on the other hand, it’s not a small financial blow, and the wedding date isn’t technically confirmed yet.”

Reddit users were divided in the comments section, with some saying it was unreasonable to expect someone to put off planning their life for months, and others writing that the woman should have known she was leading a three-week vacation at her friend’s house.

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“She left you in the lurch. She asked you to put your life on hold until she came on the day. She literally said it could be anytime from December to April. It’s just not fair,” one person wrote. “She won’t see it, of course, but you can’t cancel at this point. It doesn’t make financial sense.”

They continued: “It could very well mean the end of your friendship because it’s very likely that she’ll still be unreasonable. Yes, it might have been a good idea to check if she had a wedding that day, but at the same time she didn’t I don’t know and I’d probably say that you should stop for five whole months for her sake, but I hope you have fun on your trip.”

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A few commenters went so far as to say that the woman had “tricked” people into siding with her because she only included details about the length of her vacation in a follow-up comment rather than in her original post.

“I was on your side until I read your comment that the trip you booked was 3 WEEKS long. You intentionally misled us in your post by saying ‘over MLK weekend,'” wrote one user. “You really didn’t think it was important enough to tell your friend that three weeks had passed when she asked you to save December and January? You agreed to it.”

The commenter continued: “You would have been within your rights to say ‘No, that’s too much time blocked’ when she first asked. But you agreed to block those two months and then booked almost a full month of that time. You should have called her sooner than you booked, you don’t have to cancel, but I don’t blame your friend.

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