(Closed) Last Minute Tears

posted 6 years ago in Emotional
Post # 1
Member
57 posts
Worker bee
  • Wedding: October 2012

I haven’t been on this site in months, but wanted to log in today because I got really sad news and needed some extra love.

I am getting married in Mexico in three weeks and I am so excited!  

When we first decided on the wedding, I knew that my older brother Josh would not make it.  He was MIA at the time and I hadn’t seen or heard from him in years.  A year ago, he had a baby and all of a sudden he was back!  He wants to come to the wedding with his new family, but they can’t afford it and I can’t afford to pay for them, as much as I want to.  

My younger brother Drew joined the Marines shortly after we got engaged and we thought it was a possibility that he wouldn’t be able to go.  Then we found out that all he had to do was fill out some paperwork and take a couple classes.  He did it all and bought the ticket, paid for the room and everything.  Then, even though he was already signed off to go, someone higher up decided that since he didn’t have a Humvee liscense, he wasn’t allowed to leave the country.  We found this out last week.

Today, I got a call saying that my youngest brother Keith can’t go.  He joined the Navy and was set to leave on Halloween, a few days after the wedding.  They called him today and said that he is leaving two days before the wedding.  He could’ve left in June, but set it for Halloweern so he could go to my wedding.

I am devestated.  There is nothing we can do.  We have 50 people that have already paid to go to our wedding and we already signed the contract.  How am I going to not be miserable on that day?  I am so excited to get married and so in love, but this is heartbreaking.  It’s not fair and I’m starting to despise the military.

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Post # 4
Member
286 posts
Helper bee
  • Wedding: October 2012

I’m sorry to read this, but don’t let it get you too down.  You know what would be cool? If you could set up a skype date with your brothers – it would just take a few different phones with front-facing cameras and they could watch in real time.  Is that possible?

 

I dont know how Mexico’s cell phone reception works, but this would be over the internet. 

Post # 5
Member
6745 posts
Bee Keeper
  • Wedding: June 2014

@futureMrsDonnelly:  I’m so sorry *hugs* I know the military works this way and nothing is ever definite or set in stone.  I’m sorry your brothers are going to be missing your wedding.  But, I highly doubt you’re going to be miserable that day.  You’re going to be marrying the love of your life!  You’re going to have a wonderful wedding with everyone else who is able to make it and you will come back and share these wonderful memories with them (once they return, etc).  You can also incorporate them by asking them to write a speech and have someone else read it to you at the wedding, so it will be like they are there.  And, make them an album of wedding pictures.  A lot of them also get email, so you can send them an email with some teaser pics throughout the night (from people’s cell phones maybe?  or upload to their FB?).  I’m sorry, but I’m sure you can find a way to incorporate them somehow!

Post # 6
Member
450 posts
Helper bee
  • Wedding: May 2013

Im so sorry. it isn’t fair… it just isn’t.

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