An extremely difficult to watch video has gone viral, showing a bride walk into an empty wedding venue.
Kalina Marie took to TikTok to share her disgust that none of her ‘friends’ showed up to their reception, despite inviting 100 people to join them in celebration.
The newly-weds were heartbroken to discover none of their ‘friends’ showed up to their wedding (TikTok/@kalina_marie_23)
If you’re planning a wedding, you’ll know it takes months, if not years, of preparation. And while not everyone goes to the actual marriage ceremony, you expect your reception to be booming with familiar faces.
She wrote over the video: “POV: you planned the most beautiful entrance. Just to open the doors to an empty venue.”
In the caption, she explained exactly what had happened.
It read: “This is our entrance to our Masquerade ball. The Masquerade ball that I have talked EXCESSIVELY about for the last 10 months. The same ball that I not only digitally invited over 75 people to. But ALSO spent money to send 25 beautiful invitations out to.
“FIVE PEOPLE SHOWED UP!!!!!!! Like, are you kidding me!?!? As you see in the video, we enter the venue. And no one is there. The invite said 1pm. My mom messaged me at 1:15 that no one was there. My husband and I finally showed up at 2oclock, to 5 people. In a venue planned for 40.
“I dreamed that I would walk in to a bunch of people cheering us on. Hooting and hollering for us in celebration…..but all you see is a woman trying to hold herself together because she had NO idea how to deal with her venue being almost completely empty.”
It continued: “All the wasted food and drinks. All the empty tables and chairs. Every moment of my reception changed to adapt. Did we still make the most of it?? You bet your SWEET @$$ we did. But did this video just take all the good moments and shoot them out of the water for a second, F$&K yea it did.
Marie and her husband still enjoyed the night but have had to re-evaluate their friendships (TikTok/@kalina_marie_23)
“It just makes me think, like, why? What did we do? Am I that bad of a person? What did my husband ever do to deserve any of this? Why couldn’t we matter enough for people to show up? I still have ‘friends’ that haven’t even messaged me to congratulate me or tell me why they didn’t come.
“It truly makes me sick. I honestly can’t wrap my head around this yet. But all I know is, I have my man. My baby. And family that shows up when I need them. And for that, I will be thankful & #FAIL #fyp.”
Now, hundreds of people have been calling for Marie to host another reception to witness the power of the internet – and I think she should!
