'My boss was a no-show at my wedding when I turned down his strange request'
The couple decided to hold the line and sent a conciliatory message apologizing for any misunderstanding, even though they never agreed to use the child as a flower girl."Never showed at the wedding," the poster wrote. "Never gave any courtesy of changing the RSVP, so their table was half empty with the food sitting there at empty chairs.""I definitely was replaying what happened thinking I did something wrong," the poster admitted. But that mindset didn't last.
"My wife set me straight and pretty much said 'I don’t want to hear it, friends like that aren’t worth having.' And she’s right," they wrote."I thought it was going to be a relative pushing their kid to be flower girl...not a former boss with no relation," one Reddit user wrote. "Sounds like he's placed his kid up on a high pedestal."
"You can't volunteer your own family to serve in the wedding party!" said another commenter, aghast at the audacity. And even though it's rude to no-show at a wedding, one person pointed out that the rude family's absence may have been a blessing. "I think the fact that they didn't show up was a whole lot better than had they shown up and caused a scene when they found you had chosen a different flower girl than their daughter," they wrote."Lesson learned: don’t be afraid to tell people N.O. on your wedding," they said. "I didn’t shut it down immediately which is good to remember."