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A bride who says she spent 10 months planning her dream wedding was devastated that only five people showed up.
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The bride, Kalina, took to TikTok to share footage of herself, her husband Shane and their son walking through the doors of their wedding venue, which was practically empty.
In the lengthy caption, Kalina explained that she had been talking about the masquerade ball-themed wedding for the past 10 months.
But despite sending out 75 digital invitations and 25 printed invitations, only five of the 40 who RSVP’d were in attendance.
“FIVE PEOPLE SHOWED UP!!!!!!! Like, are you kidding me!?!?,” she wrote.
Kalina detailed how her mom had warned her in a message 45 minutes before their arrival that “no one was there.”
When they showed up, only five people were in the space “planned for 40.”
“I dreamed that I would walk in to a bunch of people cheering us on. Hooting and hollering for us in celebration,” she wrote.
“But all you see is a woman trying to hold herself together because she had NO idea how to deal with her venue being almost completely empty.”
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After lamenting on the wasted food and drinks, Kalina was still at a loss and questioning how people could do this to them.
“It just makes me think, like, why? What did we do? Am I that bad of a person? What did my husband ever do to deserve any of this? Why couldn’t we matter enough for people to show up?”
She continued: “I still have ‘friends’ that haven’t even messaged me to congratulate me or tell me why they didn’t come. It truly makes me sick. I honestly can’t wrap my head around this yet.”
But despite the lack of guests, Kalina refused to let it ruin their special day.
“My little group is really all I need,” Kalina wrote. “And now I truly know who is there for me and who is not. I will just be forever grateful that so many people got to see the entrance I dreamed about for so long.”
In a video of the couple’s first and only wedding dance, she said that they told each other “we were all we needed and it was us against the world.”
Kalina shared an update in another video a week after the wedding that she and her husband are “still a little embarrassed and still moving through the stages of grief,” and admitted they were “still dealing with anger.”
She added, “I wouldn’t even wish this on my worst enemy.”