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'I was so heartbroken... I was in tears for hours': Newlyweds lose more than $27,000 on their wedding after more than HALF of the RSVP'd guests didn't show up​

• Gray Narvaez-Dragion, 18, uploaded a TikTok showing tables with no guests
• The newlywed explained: '88 people said yes... not even 40 showed up'
• Commenters have expressed their sympathy and started sending funds

By SADIE WHITELOCKS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 15:02 EST, 3 March 2023 | UPDATED: 15:15 EST, 3 March 2023


A newlywed has told of how they lost upwards of $27,000 and were left 'heartbroken' after more than half of their guests who RSVP'd didn't show up for their big day.

Gray Narvaez-Dragion, an 18-year-old who is transgender and uses they/them pronouns, uploaded a video to TikTok showing multiple tables with no guests sitting at them.

An overlaid caption on the clip, which had more than 5.2 million views at the time of writing, explains: '88 people said yes... not even 40 showed up.'

The video quickly gained traction online, with thousands of commenters expressing their disbelief at Gray's empty wedding scene.

Many viewers slammed the guests for being rude, with one person writing: 'If you can't make it to a wedding TELL THE HOSTS - it's ok! They will save money with their caterer if you give notice! Don't lie!'

Other commenters sympathized with Gray, from the US, and shared similar horror stories from their big days.

Another person said the same thing happened to him and after estimating 100 people would show up for his wedding day, only about 30 were in attendance.

While a third social media user revealed: 'Happened to my sister. We set the room for 80 and not even 30 came. We made the best of it but damn. I would never do that to someone.'

Gray explained in the comment section that because so few people showed up for their nuptials, they were forced to cancel their 'sparkler send off, private dance, [the] dinner [and] cut the entire reception short.'

The DJ also 'felt so bad [that] he made us use the photobooth I hadn't touched and took pics together.'

Gray added: 'Our ceremony made me so happy, but when I looked into the chairs we had set up I realized they were empty. I didn't realize until after... Been in tears for hours over this... I was so heartbroken.'

To make matters worse, they said they fell over during the first dance and their mom 'didn't say a single word until my dad made her.'

After their wedding was cut short, Gray said they sat with their new husband, Nyx, 'in the empty ceremony room together and cried.'

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"Just Fuck my shit up Fam":

 

[Daniel Wallace]

What are Credit Cards?

There's no way that they have that much credit between the two of them. If mom isn't talking to her daughter until forced to and deadnaming her, I doubt mom payed for any/all of it. I could see Dad paying for the wedding, but does a dude with a dangerhair 18 year old nonbinary troon daughter have $27k to spend either? I'd be surprised if the entire family isn't white trash.

Yes. Yes it is. Scarily easy.

There's absolutely no way 18 year olds have that much credit between them. Maybe they have a couple of thousands of dollars each, but I absolutely refuse to believe that these two in particular have enough lines of credit to spend $27,000. Whatever limit she does have is probably used up on her shitty nails and hair dye.

 

[Absolutego]

There's absolutely no way 18 year olds have that much credit between them. Maybe they have a couple of thousands of dollars each, but I absolutely refuse to believe that these two in particular have enough lines of credit to spend $27,000. Whatever limit she does have is probably used up on her shitty nails and hair dye.

They let kids inherit their parents' credit scores now. I had a friend whose parents had a 700+ score immediately get approved for a $30k line of credit. Chalk up yet another reason why the mom wasn't willing to talk to the couple, I'm sure her score is now potentially fucked alongside her money.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

These people are fucking mentally ill garbage so no one wanted to be seen at that fucking freak show.

Also getting married is fucking Boomer shit. No one does it anymore. Just go fucking live together or "shack up" as Boomers would say. What are they going to do next? Go out and buy fucking Harleys and ride around on them when the weather is nice in the Spring. LOL

Honestly, unless it's a sacramental marriage it's just a glorified civil union. You could have saved the money and just gone down to the local courthouse.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Is it really so hard to rent a nice pavilion in a national or state park with exquisite views, have grandpa joe do a whole hog bbq, and the grandmas bring the fixins', and then spend the most amount of money on copious amounts of beer and liquor? That whole thing could entertain a 50 people for like, 2,000 bucks. And nobody would care! The entire point of going to a wedding is to eat some food and get completely shit faced on another persons dime. That shit doesn't cost 27,000 dollars. Jesus.

 

[Duke Nukem]

It could be worse, the whole wedding could have been called off due to a cheating bride getting found out. Happens more often than you'd think.

 

[Dalkgalbi]

27,000 dollars spent none of it went for a stylist? Weddings are shows, you should look good for them.

 

[CuzinEd]

Honestly, unless it's a sacramental marriage it's just a glorified civil union. You could have saved the money and just gone down to the local courthouse.

You have to do that anyway from what I understand. That marriage in the church or however they do it is all for show. You still have to go the courthouse.

 

[Chongqing]

Good lord what a fucking shitshow. Bit of a dickmove to RSVP but I wonder how many guests even knew what was going on when they got the invite and only realized the insanity later. Given how much trannies lie and fish for pity I wouldn`t even put it past them to have lied about RSVPs.

I bet you it was a Google Calendar / Outlook Calendar invite. People probably clicked yes thinking they would await the real invitation in the mail. The invitations never came, and they were still expected to show up.

Out of 88, I bet 40 were the type of person to actually reach out to the couple and ask if their invite had been lost in the mail, and then they probably learned of the date and location.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

There's absolutely no way 18 year olds have that much credit between them.

That’s the horrifying kicker there absolutely are ways. Credit companies will happy give out boat loads to people with no way to pay back.

That being said, parents definately paid for it all.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Who the hell wastes that kind of money on a wedding anyway?

Plus, they didn't "lose" that money. It was a price they agreed to, and they took their chances on guests actually showing up.

Fuckin' trannies.

@xXx: State of the Union
Over/Under on the dad molesting him?

I hope he molests him now.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

The guy’s first mistake was getting with someone that has a septum piercing and danger hair. His next mistake was marrying her. The wedding is just karma

The article says it's a troon.

I can't tell if this is a natal woman or not, someone help me.

 

[Die Dunkle Maus]

I made an error in judgment and watched a video with the bride talking.

I want to die, if I had to spend 5 minutes in a room with her I'd tie my belt around the doorknob and FUCKING END IT

 

[Trout P]

First thought, this has to be satire.
Second thought, these dudes looks busted for being that young.

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They really should have spent some money on some moisturizing hand cream and fucking drank some water got damn

Fucking troons are the filthiest and unhealthiest people on Earth. I'm surprised there wasn't literal shit all over their fingers.

Going to be an interesting return to office since all those no shows were co workers. Also weird to invite them to your wedding in the first place.

 

[A-Stump]

These Cyberpunk 2077 NPC looking motherfuckers should have saved the money for the marriage counseling I know they're going to need.

 

[Plumber's Kokoro Wish]

Don't worry, they'll get that 27k back real fast. They have four dozen charms of fortune that they didn't give all the no-shows.



(How do you lose money from a no show though? Wouldn't you still have to pay for their food / seat even if they had been there?)

This is what I wonder, when my wife and I got married we paid in advance you're not losing it if people don't show they still could have done all the events that they cancelled but were probably just moping. Also, the amount of no shows is astonishing setting up our guest list was the very first thing we did, we made sure those invited were reliable in the first place and everyone showed up, sounds like family is partially alienated already, and randomly inviting old acquaintances is a shit idea. Also, way too young. Almost seems like a grift to get donations.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

You can save a looot of money on a wedding if you think outside the box a little more than you did with your gender.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Going to be an interesting return to office since all those no shows were co workers. Also weird to invite them to your wedding in the first place.

This really isn't weird in professional fields.

I've been invited to coworkers' weddings numerous times at different firms and have had a lot of fun each time. I think in my work where you're spending so much time with your coworkers, putting in so many hours and under so much stress during busy season these workplace acquaintances develop into genuine friendships.

A bunch of 18-year olds aren't exactly on the same level. I can't imagine rustling up the clowns I used to work with in college for a wedding, let alone the jackasses at Steak-n-Shake back when I was in HS.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

since the invites apears to have been a google spread sheet my thoughts are that they might have sent them out very early, and it being a google spread sheet so it is easy for people to click accept/yes without thinking, and since it isnt a physical copy you can magnet to your fridge im willing to bet a number of them just plain forgot since they were just coworkers who wouldnt be emotionally invested in the first place..

 

[indigoisviolet]

Fucking Hell, no wonder nobody showed up to this histrionic control-freak's bash. 40 people is still a crowd, so I'm not entirely sure what they are complaining about? Who invites random people to their wedding? It's more usual to cross people off the list than inflate it artificially. And she's a tranny... by dying her hair purple and screaming at people who don't address her as "them" or "they"... yeah, why anyone would bail on socialising with this person is a complete mystery. Still, marrying a bigfoot will help the species gain more protection, I suppose, so that's one good thing.

That doesn't nearly look like a $27000 room, either, far more likely a misspoken $2700. SWIM has been to a posho wedding with swan shit on the lawn and all that, it didn't look like a rec room without table cloths, let me tell you. I can still taste the wine in my memory, it was like sunshine in a glass, the old man broke out the good stuff from the family cellar. It's not like that dress made up the difference, either, and they've been nowhere near a beauty salon the pair of them. Magic soap my ass.

What a depressing snapshot of an annoyingly loud mentally ill person and their groomer grifting social media for spare change on "the happiest day of their lives". According to them they were already broke, and now unemployed, but ploughed ahead regardless for no better reason than to piss off the mother, it seems.

 

[Dysnomia]

18? Honey, you'll be divorced in two years. You should have saved that money for something useful. Like a house.

But since it's an enby/troon pairing hopefully someone is missing enough genitalia to not be able to bring kids into this mess.

This is two stupid barely adults who probably were groomed for years into thinking they could change their gender.

No way those two ugly freaks had 27,000 to spend on a wedding

It was either online grifting or somebody's daddy has money.

Also, WTF is a Gray Narvaez-Dragion? Is that its fursona?