We all know that the bride is always right, but maybe sometimes there's room for debate?
In a now-deleted AITA (“Am I the a-hole”) post on Reddit, a pregnant guest wrote about a recent three-day wedding she attended that served mostly vegetarian and vegan dishes.
The guest described herself as a "meat eater” and wasn’t very fond of the plant-based menu. She said that she’s not typically someone who would make a fuss about food, but that her pregnancy has caused her to experience "horrible bursts of really intense hunger."
“I want mostly carbs, and there weren't really any on the menu. There were some cheeses but the staff couldn't say if they were pasteurized or not, so I couldn't have them,” she wrote in the post.
Her solution was to bring her own food. She took a small mini fridge with her and put it in her hotel room, and would sneak off to eat when she got hungry. However, other guests noticed her disappearances, causing some tension between the guest and the bride, who called her “rude” and said that her actions were “implying the catering wasn’t good enough.”
This post comes less than a week after a similar post was made in WIBTA (“would I be the a-hole”), where a couple was considering whether or not to have an all-vegetarian menu at their wedding.
While the WIBTA post had Reddit users pretty split down in the middle, this guest’s commenters took a clear side. The majority of the comments believed that the guest was not in the wrong, given that she ate privately and is expecting a child.
“You are pregnant. Eat what you want to eat!” wrote one user. “You didn't bring out a full meal at the table and ignore what was presented to you, you brought extra food that you knew you'd enjoy and you ate it at the hotel room."
Another commenter echoed this sentiment and went even further to say: “You kept it in your room. You didn’t bring a giant hoagie sandwich into the reception. It’s rude to try to force people to only eat the food they’ve provided. You're growing a new human and have different nutritional needs and WANTS. You didn't draw attention to yourself when you went. I think you handled this correctly, and the friend who ratted to the bride and groom as well as the bride are the ones who were rude and escalated the situation.”
“If the bride feels like by doing that you were implying something then that’s on her,” said another user. “I wonder if she got upset because other people actually complained."
