Bride refuses to invite stepmother to wedding because of father

Those are the wedding bells from hell.

A bride hesitates over whether to invite her stepmother and her father’s new wife to her wedding – all because they destroyed her biological parents’ family and led to their divorce.

The bride said in a since-deleted Reddit post that it “still feels weird” to refer to the woman, who was a foreign language teacher at her high school, as her stepmother.

At the time, her father — who she “had not originally planned to ask” to walk her down the aisle — had an “unapologetic” “emotional entanglement” with her teacher, which ultimately led to her divorce.

“Fast forward to this week, my fiancé and I sent out save-the-dates for our small wedding,” the bride wrote, noting that the 25-person event was stressful for her because of her father’s situation.

“Ultimately, I decided this was my choice and ideally I wanted [to celebrate] With him. He asked if the invitation [was] I later raised the issue with my step-mother. I said ‘no’ and only stayed with him. To be honest, I was shocked he would even ask the question,” she added.

The decision even angered her fiancé, with her father sending his daughter a lengthy message about how heartbroken his stepmother was.

“He said he wanted to talk after the wedding about my unresolved feelings about the divorce and how to continue communicating with her.”

“My fiancé and I had a lot of hard decisions to make when finalizing our wedding checklist. We heard repeated advice to do what we wanted and what was best for us since it was our big day,” the bride wrote.

Some online called for her father to be disinvited, with the internet quickly defending the bride’s stance.

The bride was shocked by the request.

“Please don’t call her stepmom. She is not your mother in any sense of the word. She is your dad’s wife and you didn’t invite her to your wedding,” added another.