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Just Said Yes May 2021

Help! Wedding supposed to be in 3 days! May not happen!

Kaylee, on April 28, 2021 at 8:08 AM Posted in Family and Relationships 0 11
Hi! My fiancée and I have been together for 4 years. We are supposed to get married on this Saturday. Shes the one who asked me to marry her 3 years ago. She’s been having really cold feet, like very badly, for about a month, we’ve almost ended the relationship twice. Last night she decided that she still loves me, still wants to stay together, but doesn’t want to get married on Saturday. I personally believe so whole-heartedly in getting married this weekend, I’ve never felt so sure about something working in my life! I’m trying to convince her it’s a good idea, we can go to couples counseling twice a week afterwards and discuss every day if the other has done anything to hurt the other. She says she wants to get married someday, but not Saturday. I say if we are going to get married anyway, let’s do it now and focus on working through everything together as a married couple. Worse comes to worse, down the line if it doesn’t work it doesn’t work, but we’ve had bad days before and always work through it. My question is, what would you do?

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Latest activity by Samantha, on April 29, 2021 at 9:34 AM
  • MK
    Expert September 2021
    MK ·
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    Oh I am so sorry. This is so sticky and I know it sucks days before your wedding.

    If I were you, I would listen to your SO. It sounds like the wedding may should be on the back burner for now, although that is a tough pill to swallow - I think you and your fiancé's priority should be fixing whatever is broken in your relationship. The wedding can wait. Make yours and her happiness priority first, and everything else will fall into place. You both deserve to go into a marriage without having to convince the other that it's the right thing to do.

    So sorry gal. Good luck - it will all work out in the end.

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  • MK
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    I also will add, the idea of planning a wedding and having to call it off can be excruciating and, in a way, humiliating. You are so valid in feeling the way you do about having to call it off. I know it's the last thing you want to have to explain to people, and that in itself can be a major factor of wanting to push the idea of going through with the wedding. But I would take a step back and get to the bottom of the issues in the relationship, or why it is that your fiancé all of a sudden isn't interested in the marriage. I wish I had better advice!

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  • E
    Super July 2023
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    What would I do? Call it off.

    You should never try to "convince" someone it's a good idea to get married.

    Calling off the wedding is daunting. Calling everyone to tell them that it isn't happening will probably be a little embarrassing. But it would be far more embarrassing to have everyone present and... she just doesn't show up. Which she still could do.

    You don't get married then fix the relationship with counseling. You fix the relationship then get married.

    From the outside, it seems you two have very different ideas about what "marriage" means. To her, it is a life-changing event deeply entwined with the relationship - that is, the relationship should be good before you get married. To you, it seems like it's just a piece of paper you sign and the relationship exists outside of it - sign the paper now regardless of the state of the relationship and fix it later. I'm not saying one is right or wrong, but you should both definitely be on the same page about what getting married is and what marriage means for your relationship.

    I'm on your FW's side on this one. Get married someday, but not Saturday. Go to counseling. You both want to make it work, but you need to get on the same page first.

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  • J
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    You won't have a happy wedding day if she isn't excited about it or worse, doesn't show up. It is an awful situation but convincing her to get married when she has clearly expressed she doesn't want to is awful. It won't make either of you happy, and it will probably cause tension on an already stretched relationship. Focus on the relationship and get married at a later date.
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    Dedicated June 2021
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    So sorry this is happening, as devastating as it may seem, I would not want to convince my fiancée to marry me
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  • Catherine
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    My first marriage was like this. My fiancée and I got married thinking we could fix out issues afterwards. It didn’t work out. I’m not saying that would happen to you. But I remember sitting in my room in my wedding day and sobbing wishing I had called off the wedding before people had traveled to see us get married. If your fiancée doesn’t want to get married this weekend, listen to her. She said no. That’s her revoking her consent. I know it’s hard. I know it’s humiliating. I know it hurts. But she said no. Call it off. Get pizza or Chinese food and watch a movie instead.
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  • Christy
    Devoted April 2022
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    Assuming you went forward with the wedding, will you feel on Saturday knowing your FW does not want to be there? I am devastated for you, but agree with everyone else. Please don’t try to convince her to marry you. You will both regret it.


    So so sorry that you’re going through this.
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  • Sarah
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    As someone who has been married and divorced, it’s a lot easier to not get married than it is to hope your problems go away after marriage and then have to pay for a divorce. I wouldn’t try and force the wedding.
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  • Elizabeth
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    I would never get married and work the problems out after. But I also can't get a divorce in my faith so "til death do us part" means literally death.


    For you though, it's still a bad idea. Marriage doesn't solve relationship issues, it brings up more. You need to be rock solid to get married. And you can't make someone marry you who just isn't in it. You deserve someone who is as all-in as you are.
    I definitely wouldn't get married Saturday and I would consider maybe evaluating if the relationship has run its course. I'm sorry, I know how painful this is, but moving forward with the wedding won't make it better
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  • K
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    Update: thank you everyone who responded. The wedding is postponed and we do not have a new date. This hurts terribly, but I understand. At least we are still together and have each other.
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  • Samantha
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    As much as it hurts, it is far better to happen now than after the wedding. Dealing with heartbreak is bad enough, but dealing with the legal issues of a divorce just multiply the pain.
    Be well.
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