{"id":85865,"date":"2019-03-28T13:39:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T17:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85865"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:54","slug":"bride-kicks-guests-out-of-wedding-for-marines-uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85865","title":{"rendered":"Bride kicks guests out of wedding for Marines uniform"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marines… you can’t take them anywhere.<\/p>\n

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A\u00a0bride<\/a>\u00a0admitted over the weekend that she recently asked a guest to leave her\u00a0wedding<\/a>\u00a0for arriving in his Marines uniform and all his military medals, claiming the man did it just to upstage her.<\/p>\n

The bride described the scenario in\u00a0a post on the Reddit forum \u201cAm I the A******,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in which users ask other users whether they acted inappropriately in a given situation or another party did.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have nothing against anyone in the military but this was a black-tie-optional wedding and frankly it felt very out of place and it seemed like he was just trying to show off,\u201d she wrote. \u201cMy wedding had over 300 guests and nobody else felt the need to wear something to make them stand out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man was the son of one her husband\u2019s family friends, and other than allegedly hijacking her big day, he acted like a perfect gentleman \u201cas one might expect from a member of the armed forces,\u201d she wrote. But she also implied he was making a spectacle of himself, enticing \u201ca few excited teenage girls\u201d to ask him to take pictures with them, \u201cto which he graciously agreed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, many other guests were approaching the military man and thanking him for his service, but to the bride, it was too big of a faux pas.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrankly it just felt like the only reason he wore that was to be in the spotlight and make it about him, which I don\u2019t think you are supposed to do at someone else\u2019s wedding,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he wants to wear that to his own wedding then fine, but the whole point of having a dress code at a wedding is so that no one guest will stand out too much. I felt that he should have known this, since the whole point of uniforms in the military is so that you don\u2019t stand out from everyone else!\u201d<\/p>\n

The anonymous bride closed the letter by saying she \u201cfelt bad\u201d about asking the man in the Marine formal uniform to leave, \u201cbut it just didn\u2019t feel right for him to be there like that.\u201d When she asked if she was being the a******, commenters answered \u2014 many also members of the military \u2014 but their responses may come as a surprise.<\/p>\n

\u201cArmy here. Look, I wouldn\u2019t want to wear my ASUs (much less my mess dress) to someone\u2019s wedding. Even if they asked me,\u201d one person wrote. \u201cBut that\u2019s because my ASUs feel significantly less formal and awesome than the Marines formal uniform. Theirs actually looks classy and black tie. If I had that as an option, I might be like \u2018I should definitely wear this to this fancy wedding.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Another member of the military wrote, \u201cWearing formal military wear at formal civilian events is allowed per regulations (Army is AR 670-1, no clue for Marines), but\u00a0you have to be a special kind of a****** to wear it to a non-military wedding without specific permission of the couple. The reason for this is the same as wearing white to a wedding \u2014 this puts you in competition with the bride. He should have dressed in civilian wear, or at very least, checked with the couple getting married.\u201d<\/p>\n

That person did suggest, however, that the bride went a little too far.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was rude. No question, but kicking him out of the wedding was a bit much,\u201d the user wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s your special day, but you shouldn\u2019t forget that you play dual roles \u2014\u00a0you are both the host and the one f\u00eated. Don\u2019t forget that former role. You probably should have grimaced and just gone with it along with other faux pas such as Uncle Larry puking in the bushes and cousin Jenny making out with the DJ. With 300 guests, one person in uniform isn\u2019t going to kill your day.\u201d<\/p>\n

A third person put it simply: \u201cFull on medals, man? To a civilian wedding? Come on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others came to the Marine\u2019s defense. One wrote, \u201cHe probably wore the d**n thing because it\u2019s the formal thing that makes him feel the most awesome \u2014 not to steal the spotlight.\u201d Another commented, \u201cIf he is young and right out of boot, money isn\u2019t flowing yet for him to rent a tux. But he definitely should have checked with the couple first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another commenter put it a little more bluntly, writing, \u201cOver 300 people. Guy is in military formal wear and was very well-mannered. No question you\u2019re an A. An over-dramatic, self-centered A.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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