It reads:
Together with our friends and family, Alex and Alyssa, would like to invite you to suck it and bask in our happiness, your bitterness and our mutual irritation at each other’s existence… As we completely ignore yours and celebrate our marriage without you.
There will be a lovely ceremony, followed by cake, food and general merriment.And you’re not invited to any of it. Because f*** you that’s why.
Pearce,
who is a PhD student, ran away from home at age 16, after a bad family
fall-out due to a difficult relationship with her father. She hadn’t had
a relationship with them in 7 years, and was surprised to hear that
they wanted to come to her wedding.
“It’s been seven years since I ran away and I’ve reluctantly met up with them maybe half a dozen times,” she said.
She also stated that her parents never tried to speak with her
directly, and that they would always send messages through her
grandparents.
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After months of considering whether to invite them, she “snapped.”
“I
went home and wrote my parents the de-invitation. I opened up a word
document, found the nicest calligraphy font I could, loaded up the
printer with some of the lovely parchment paper left over from the other
invitations, and wrote,’ she said.
I
then found a nice matching envelope, addressed it with a fancy gold
pen, and posted it. I mean, if you’re going to send someone a memorable
“stuff you”, you may as well go all-out.
Writing
and sending that letter made me feel so much better about all the
stress I’d been under. Not only had I refused to allow myself to be
bullied into something I didn’t want, but I also took a stand.
While it may have been childish and immature, it made me feel as if I’d taken back power from them,” she said.
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