{"id":83065,"date":"2024-10-01T13:53:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T06:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=83065"},"modified":"2024-10-01T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T07:00:11","slug":"i-refused-to-cancel-my-wedding-due-to-a-family-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/i-refused-to-cancel-my-wedding-due-to-a-family-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"I refused to cancel my wedding due to a family tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Leah\u2019s wedding day approached, tragedy struck: her sister\u2019s husband and son died only days before the ceremony. Despite her tremendous pain, Leah\u2019s sister begged her to cancel the wedding, but she chose to go forward. What transpired next was a fascinating and heartbreaking experience. Here, Leah tells her story.\n</p><p><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/wl-brightside.cf.tsp.li%5C/resize%5C/728x%5C/jpg%5C/495%5C/108%5C/09426d5114a7d7d8edb2f3fadc.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' title='\"\"'>\n</p><p>My sister lost her husband and 8-year-old son in a crash six days before my wedding. She wanted me to cancel, but I said, \u201cI cannot sacrifice my day. We have already paid for everything.\u201d She was silent. On the big day, as we were all dancing, my sister appeared in the crowd, laughing hysterically. Then all of a sudden, we hear a massive sound as all the lights in the party venue switched off at once, and the music abruptly stopped. Horrified, I saw her son and husband\u2019s images appear on the large projection wall where our wedding photos were displayed. In that moment, I realized she had orchestrated a plan to ruin my special day.\n</p><p><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/wl-brightside.cf.tsp.li%5C/resize%5C/728x%5C/jpg%5C/a34%5C/96d%5C/e12ac05db5b135310e01f5c113.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' title='\"\"'>\n</p><p>My sister then got up on stage and took the microphone, addressing me by saying, \u201cYou\u2019re up here dancing and partying while your little nephew died less than a week ago. Shame on you!\u201d Before leaving the stage, she added, \u201cWhen you have kids of your own, I will treat them with the same indifference you treated mine!\u201d Everyone was silent after that, and the guests started leaving shortly after. My day was totally ruined. Was I to blame?Leah\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>As Leah\u2019s wedding day approached, tragedy struck: her sister\u2019s husband and son died only days before the ceremony. Despite her tremendous pain, Leah\u2019s sister begged her to cancel the wedding, but she chose to go forward. What transpired next was a fascinating and heartbreaking experience. Here, Leah tells her story. My sister lost her husband &hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":83066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[657],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-and-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83067,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83065\/revisions\/83067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p>