My Family Chose My Sister’s Baby Shower Over My Wedding and the Next Morning They Wouldn’t Stop Calling Me

Aunt Patricia that Colette had sent the shower invitations two weeks before I mailed my save-the-dates. She had known my wedding date for months. She had chosen it deliberately.

The thing that Colette said next was the sentence I would hear in my head for a long time afterward, the one that settled in my stomach with a finality I did not want to acknowledge.continue reading …