Kalina Marie and her husband Shane were expecting a beautiful wedding, with friends and family cheering them on as they headed to their reception, but what they got instead was every newlywed’s nightmare .
sad hearted mary was taken away tiktok To share the devastating reality of doors opening into almost nothing.
Walking hand in hand with expressionless expressions, the bride and groom walked inside the lavishly decorated hall with their son and tried to accept what had happened as a handful of people were seen celebrating with them. Could.
A somber cover of Miley Cyrus’s “When I Look at You” was her entrance song, with the lyrics “When my world is falling apart” reflecting her situation as she kept brave faces.
“This is the entrance to our masquerade ball,” Oregon resident Marie captioned her clip, which has received over seven million views so far.
“The masquerade ball I’ve been talking about so much for the last 10 months. The same ball to which I not only invited people over 75 digitally. But also spent money to send 25 beautiful invitations.
“Five people came!!!!!!! Like, are you kidding me!?!? As you can see in the video, we enter the venue. And there is no one there. The invitation said 1 p.m. My mother messaged me at 1:15 pm that there was no one there. My husband and I finally arrived at the venue planned for 40 people at 2 o’clock in front of five people.
She said she “dreamed” that she would walk into a group of people who were “hooting and hollering” for her.
However, in the end she had to “get herself together” because she “didn’t know” how to deal with her venue being almost completely empty.
Mary added, “All the food and drink was wasted.” “All empty tables and chairs. Every moment of my welcome turned into adaptation.
Despite the disappointing appearance, Mary said she wouldn’t let her non-show guests ruin her special day.
She explained that she still made the most of it, sharing clips from the dancefloor with some of the people who came and the moment she and her husband had their first dance.
“It just makes me think, like, why? what did we do? Am I such a bad person? “What did my husband ever do to deserve this?” He asked the question.
“Why couldn’t we put enough importance on it to get in front of people?”
She revealed that it makes her “sick” that she still has “friends” who didn’t even message her to congratulate her or tell her why they didn’t come.
“Honestly, I still can’t wrap my head around it.”
Hundreds of thousands of TikTokers commented on the clip, confused as to how something like this could happen.
Some people also questioned whether there was another side to the story.
“It hurts my heart for you,” read one comment with 15,000 likes.
“How can people RSVP ‘yes’ and then not show up?”. another surprised user asked.
“Was he only invited to the reception and not the ceremony?” someone else asked, and said guests might have thought the move was a “cash grab.”
Thousands of others tried to lighten the mood, complimenting Mary on how beautiful she looked and vowing to attend a prosperous wedding.
“No, do it again. We are all looking up,” read one top comment.
“Let’s get this over with. Invite me and the rest of us this time. We will come and show. I love you beautiful and congratulations!! Someone else wrote.
Mary and her husband got engaged on Christmas Day in 2019, just before the COVID pandemic “shut everything down.”
As a result, wedding plans were delayed until this year.
The couple, who have been together for nine years, announced their wedding date in January and have been eagerly awaiting their long-awaited special day.
She shared an update in another clip a week ago and admitted that she and her husband are “still a little embarrassed and still going through the grieving process,” as well as “still dealing with the anger.” “
“I wouldn’t wish that even on my worst enemy,” she said.
