Woman Un-Invites Her Parents From Wedding

Publish Date
Thursday, 26 February 2015, 6:10PM

A photo of the wedding “un-invite” was posted to social media site Reddit about six months ago, but the author has only recently been identified as Adelaide woman Alyssa Pearce, 23.

Ms Pearce, a PhD student at UniSA, married her husband Alex, 28, in a garden ceremony in late September last year — without her parents present — a decision she told The Advertiser today she does not regret.

“It was the best, it really was,” she said of her wedding day.

“I do not regret going no contact with my parents, my life has been so much happier without the hassle.”

She wrote the “un-invite” on her home computer and printed it on left over parchment paper from her actual wedding invitations and popped it in the post.

It read: “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.”

 

Ms Pearce said her relationship with her parents had broken down and culminated in her running away from home as a teenager.

She said her parents had tried to be invited to the wedding, via her grandparents, prompting the “un-invite”.

“I thought, if it gives people a bit of a smile, then why not,” she said from her suburban Adelaide home today.

She said she had never expected the post would go viral.

“I always hoped that if I was ever in the news it would be for some amazing linguistics paper I wrote,” she said.

She said it was just unfortunate her parents still yielded influence over her grandparents who attended the wedding ceremony but felt unable to stay and enjoy her wedding reception.

“It was just sad that my grandparents didn’t really feel safe there,” she said.

She said her relationship with her husband, who she met through mutual friends online three and a half years ago, and her cat and friends meant “things were really good” for her now.

 

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