Bride Speechless After Friend Tells ‘Funny Story’ About Experience After Wedding

A just-married woman has been encouraged online to tell her wedding-planner friend what one of her assistants did after her ceremony—even if doing so could potentially get him fired.

The 27-year-old woman and original poster (OP), Reddit user weddingplannerdrama, married about a month ago and used one of her good friends’ wedding planning company to handle the coordinating, she explained in a post on Jan. 23.

What Happened on the Big Day

According to the OP, this particular friend attended as a guest while other employees—including a man around her age—worked with her and her now-husband. The entire wedding went “perfectly,” the OP noted.

Lately, however, this user hung out with another one of her besties, 25-year-old Clara, who told her a “funny story” about what had happened since the big day.

The OP didn’t find much humor in it.

“She said a few days after my wedding she received an Instagram follow and message from someone she didn’t know,” the OP wrote in a post that’s drawn 8,200 upvotes and more than 600 replies.

“The gist of the message was that it was from the assistant coordinator at my wedding.

“He pretty much said that he was working and couldn’t say anything, but he noticed her at the wedding and thought she was really beautiful and he wanted to ask her on a date.

“She asked how he found her and he ‘proudly’ said that he noticed her, looked up the seating chart of the table she was seated at for dinner, and looked up every girl at the table until he found her.

“She said she wasn’t comfortable with that and blocked him.”

The OP added that Clara, in hindsight, found this “funny” and didn’t think it was a big deal. But it didn’t “sit right” with the OP that she, “Paid a guy to do a job and he ended up stalking and [direct messaging] my friend.”

So, she asked the internet if she would be going too far by bringing all this to the attention of her wedding-planner friend—who will, “Most likely report him to the head of the company and maybe he will or maybe he won’t be fired”—since Clara assured her that she didn’t need to say anything.

The consensus reached in the Reddit thread? Certainly not.

‘Dangerous individual’

In fact, many Redditors encouraged the OP to do so, including one who wrote: “Tell her! I’m sure in no way does she want to employ someone who does this. That is a huge [breach] of trust.”

Another user argued that the assistant coordinator needs to be reported.

“What if he was a dangerous individual and he did that? This was a serious breach of trust and privacy, and your guests expected to feel safe, not chatted up by some creepy guy after the wedding.”

A user said the coordinator, “At the very least needs to be told this isn’t acceptable to do. Who knows if the company has already had other problems with him.

“If this is the first [issue], they may just give him a reprimand… but if not the first, it’s good info for them to have.”

A fellow critic described the behavior as, “Very inappropriate. He should be reprimanded.”

In other wedding-related drama to hit the internet—of which there is plenty—Newsweek just covered a couple that was slammed online for using their friends’ celebration as an opportunity for their own wedding tasting.

‘Whatever she wants to do’

Earlier this month, Newsweek also highlighted when a bride-to-be was backed by readers for rejecting her stepfather’s plans to be part of her wedding.

Amid the flurry of replies, the OP mentioned that Clara has said she does not want any involvement.

“I am thinking of just telling my friend who works there and whatever she wants to do, she can do,” the OP added.

Newsweek has contacted weddingplannerdrama for comment via Reddit.

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