She Won’t Go to Her Sister’s Wedding Because It Requires an “Application Essay.” Is She Wrong?

Well, that’s a new one…

An application essay to attend your own sister’s wedding?

What is this world coming to?!?!

Sounds pretty insane if you ask me…

But let’s get all the details before we make up our minds, shall we?

Read on and see what you think!

AITA for refusing to RSVP to my sister’s wedding because I’m required to write an “application essay” just to attend?

“Yeah I know this sounds insane but I’m living in it.

So my sister is getting married next February, destination wedding no less. I have doubts whether this wedding is actually going to happen with the pandemic and everything but she is totally set on moving forward.

Anyways because of the pandemic, her original venue has made her cut down on guests because they’re cutting capacity by half. As a result she’s sending out “re-invites” that asks everyone to RSVP again.

But in order to figure out who to invite and who to cut, she’s asking all confirmed guests to submit two 250-word “essays” to two questions. The gist is that they’ll use these essays to choose who can come or not, based on people’s enthusiasm. People who don’t write the essays at all will be automatically disqualified.

I just feel really insulted by all of this. The questions aren’t even pandemic-related, its broad topics like ”why do you still want to celebrate this day with us?” And “what will attending our wedding mean to you specifically?” So she’s blatantly looking for people to kiss *ss and tell her why they REALLY want to go.

Anyways I told her in advance I’m not writing 500 words on why I NEED to attend her wedding, spend my own money on plane tickets/hotels, and buy her a present. This has really rubbed her and my parents the wrong way. She’s said that to keep things fair if I don’t fill out the RSVP correctly I won’t be saved a spot. I said fine with me. Then my parents said if I don’t show up I’m going to be in big f*cking trouble with all our relatives so just write the essays.

AITA if I stay stubborn on this? I’m already annoyed at the thought of spending thousands and coming home to quarantine. But I will not belt out 500 words on how this is totally my choice.

AITA?”

Here’s how Reddit users responded to this person’s story.

This person said this is totally ridiculous.

Another individual said that they think they know how this will play out.

And another person said she’s NTA and said this is legit crazy.

If anybody ever asks you to write an application essay for a wedding… run screaming.