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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":

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

The aftermath of the wedding.

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Shaming the guest list
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She wanted to do a "black cat adoption toss" instead of a bouquet toss. She had a black cat plush in her car and wanted to toss that to the guests, and whoever caught it either had to fully adopt a black cat, or donate to an adoption center or some shit.
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Apparently her dad is her whiteknight so he apparently "saved" the wedding, despite the fact that everything else went wrong anyway.
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Remember too by the way, the majority of the no-shows were COWORKERS. They already fucked up by doing that in the first place! Most coworkers do not give a shit about you, and are not going to show up at your fucking wedding. No matter how small, or large.

"I got deadnamed at my wedding"

Kill yourself faggot.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

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.

I was thinking the exact same thing, that venue looks like a KofC Hall or Masonic Lodge rented out for a 50/50 raffle, Bingo Night or church fish fry, not a wedding. To say nothing of the AA meeting chairs, plastic folding tables and fake plastic "tablecloths" or the complete lack of decorations anywhere and everywhere. If this "wedding" cost $2,700 I'd be shocked.

I'm also curious how it would cost them this $27,000 if people don't show up given the catering. alcohol and entertainment were paid for in advance. That was presumably the total cost of the wedding, which makes me question their choice of venue and fiscal prudence given the decidedly underwhelming images.

Troons using histrionic BPD/NPD behavior to scam gullible idiots, what else is new.

 

[Iron Hamster]

So wait...27,000 dollars? And less than 40 people showed up?

This wedding was fucking $675 a plate?

I don't see 2 fags getting 88 to show up to a wedding in the Village.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

Can one of our esteemed doxers find out this faggot's dead name and what their actual sex is?

I can't tell if this is two dudes buttfucking each other in drag or some fat dude marrying a bpd enby.

Paging
@Coach Kreeton Of All That
@Larry David's Crypto Fund

 

[Ravana]

Heheheheheh what a couple of losers

 

[Fomo Hoire]

That’s the point?

They spent a bunch paying for people that said they would show and didn’t. They wasted money because they paid for a bunch of stuff that is going to waste that they wouldn’t of spent money on if the guests did not say they would come.

I can see how they wasted money, as in they didn't get their money's worth. I don't see how they lost it, as in they would still have the money if everything had gone right.

RSVPing more accurately so they can buy less shit wouldn't give them the $27k back, and if I had to guess they'd rather have all those people attend even if it cost them more. Keeping the $27k was not a serious option considered.

FYI this is the closest thing I saw to itemized expenses

In total, Narvaez-Dragion said, they lost about $2,500 of the $3,000 they'd paid toward the food, a DJ, and gifts for their guests. They were left with a ton of food, including a massive charcuterie table and most of the wedding cake.

If about 30/90 people attended, that would be 1/3. How do 1/3 of the guests comprise of 1/6 of the expenses? The first guests should be the most expensive as they have to cover fixed costs that don't scale, while the last guests should be the cheapest because those fixed costs are distributed across more people.

I would believe that 1/3 the guests require 2/3 the expenses, but having 1/3 the guests require 1/6 the expenses defies economics.

E: To clarify, I chose 30/90 assuming that they want to look as pitiable as possible and if they could swing it as less than 1/3 attendance, they would have. It was also done to make the numbers more convenient (1/6 goes into 1/3 nicely). Even if it was 40/80 or 1/2 in attendance, my confusion is identical. The cost of adding each additional guest should shrink, they should have wasted about half the value at most.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

I love how the body and facial expressions of the people in the back make it clear they'd rather be anywhere else than this fiasco.

 

[MirrorNoir]

I wonder if the RVSP process was just clicking a button on Facebook or something.

I also wonder if some drama happened between when people RVSP'd and the wedding, which they certainly would not bring up for their pity-party tabloid article. Like one or both of them ranted against family members or something. I dunno. This one just strikes me as not having the full story. I can see be disappointed when a few people that said they'd come, didn't come. If more than half of your wedding party didn't come.... I mean....

"Coworkers who said they'd come and then had no intention of coming" is a good guess.

From my own experience, no one really invites the entire office/coworkers to one's wedding due to a bunch of reasons.

Weddings are private affairs and you only invite close friends you know from work to the ceremony and not EVERYONE at the office. For reasons ranging from "you don't like a lot of your coworkers", to "you don't have the money/resources for a big wedding", to "you don't want your coworkers to have to put their lives on hold for someone they might only see/interact very rarely at work and never outside work, to come to your wedding; especially since they are going to most likely be passive-aggressive as fuck at being forced to give up shit they had planned to watch someone they might not even like let alone know, get married and actively troll you the entire time to ruin the day as payback for you ruining their day".

I have to wonder if the tranny works for her dad and the invites were sent out via company e-mail and there being some sort of unspoken "you have to RSVP you are going" soft threat being issued by the dad demanding his employees/tranny kids coworkers go to the kid's wedding or else be fired. Because usually, in situations like this were the person invites ALL of their coworkers, the invitation "request" is one huge power flex by the boss and their kid to show domination over their underlings: IE everyone I employee, no exception, has to attend my kids wedding solely so I can make them realize how utterly I control their lives, that I can make a demand and give my freakshow kid a big wedding with a ton of guests who in fact are virtual hostages who have the economic equivalent of a gun pointed at their head the entire time they are at the ceremony.

Maybe that's why the mom behaved the way she did. She might have countermanded the order that everyone had to attend because she had self-awareness of how beyond the pale it was to forced her husbands employees to attend the wedding "or else" and why she treated the kid like she did, in so far as refusing to even speak to her child at the wedding until her husband basically forced her to. IE she knows she spawned a spoiled, selfish brat from hell and refused to go along with the farce.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

If you are marrying in current year, there's like 80% chance of divorce in the first 5 years. People have better shit to do.

40 people more than accounts for both sides of the family and close friends so these is more like the faggots though they were e-celebs or something.

 

[Norbert the Tiger]

What IS that thing on her nose?

Why are young people spending many tens of thousands of dollars on a wedding? That kind of money could be s large down payment on a house.

Why is unspeakable, freakish ugliness somehow a trend?

Why is this happening?

Why won't this stop?

Why won't somebody or some people MAKE this shit stop?

 

[MirrorNoir]

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

Spoken like someone who's never had to deal with or see in person the reality that you can get fucked in the ass with no Vaseline if you don't have that piece of legally binding paper that says you are legally married.

I've had gay friends who've had to feud with hospital staff because without the legal certificate, hospitals can ban gay men from hospital rooms of their partners and force them to jump through hoops just to get visitation rights. And straight friends who had to deal with in-laws trying to fuck them over when one member of the couple died and the family played the "everything was in the dead common-law wife's name so it goes to her next of kin not the guy who she was shacked up with".

You would be shocked at how much of a Kafka-esque nightmare you can fall into without the legal protections a marriage certificate bestows upon you.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Weddings are private affairs and you only invite close friends you know from work to the ceremony and not EVERYONE at the office. For reasons ranging from "you don't like a lot of your coworkers", to "you don't have the money/resources for a big wedding", to "you don't want your coworkers to have to put their lives on hold for someone they might only see/interact very rarely at work and never outside work, to come to your wedding; especially since they are going to most likely be passive-aggressive as fuck at being forced to give up shit they had planned to watch someone they might not even like let alone know, get married and actively troll you the entire time to ruin the day as payback for you ruining their day".

In my experience it's 100% departmental. Nobody on our side invites tax people to their weddings, and nobody on the tax side invites us to theirs. It'd be weird as hell going to the wedding of some rando I didn't even knew existed, let alone them wasting money on catering and booze for my presence.

I guarantee you these troons used daddy's email list to send out the requests and people RSVP'd to cover their asses at work.

In general though, I've never seen a more miserable group of people at a wedding than this one. They obviously don't want to be there while you two indulge in heckin' valid troonshines.

 

[Dalkgalbi]

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I love how the body and facial expressions of the people in the back make it clear they'd rather be anywhere else than this fiasco.

oh my god, why does everyone look miserable? (yeah yeah I know) but the weddings I have been to (including my own) people have the decency to look happy for the couple at least (if not actually be happy of course)

 

[stupid frog]

Can't wait for them to get rich on GoScamMe and then divorce. Assuming they're really married (I'm too lazy to check, but I assume that part isn't a lie).

 

[R00T]

regardless of their poor gender decisions you don't rsvp for something you aren't going to show up for. that's just really shitty and the rsvp is there so that proper planning can take place.


the 27k does seem a bit odd tho. i'd have to ask some friends of mine how much they spent on theirs since it was smaller like this one.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

oh my god, why does everyone look miserable? (yeah yeah I know) but the weddings I have been to (including my own) people have the decency to look happy for the couple at least (if not actually be happy of course)

They look like a bunch of hotel staff waiting for these idiots to clear out so they can break down the tables for the next event.

I went to a wedding for a coworker of mine last year and it was wild. Good food, good venue, everyone going apeshit cheering the newlyweds, getting drunk as fuck and dancing the night away. Dudes fucking up the groom with shots and the ladies doing the same for the bride. I'm pretty sure when those two were hauled to the bridal suite they were in no condition to "consummate" the marriage.

Goddamn good time IMO.

 

[indigoisviolet]

I was thinking the exact same thing, that venue looks like a KofC Hall or Masonic Lodge rented out for a 50/50 raffle, Bingo Night or church fish fry, not a wedding. To say nothing of the AA meeting chairs, plastic folding tables and fake plastic "tablecloths" or the complete lack of decorations anywhere and everywhere. If this "wedding" cost $2,700 I'd be shocked.

The odd lack of windows on such high walls suggests Masonic hall, maybe?

Nothing wrong with a $30/head wedding bash, nice buffet table, two free drink tickets at the bar, DJ playing cheese to get everyone dancing, friends and family having a nice afternoon. Been to loads of those, they're great. 88 people would be close to $2700, and if half wisely chose to stay far away, then they'd be left with about half the buffet left, in keeping with the full plate of sliced sausage mentioned.

These look more like prom photos, and someone managed to fit the sports mascott into a suit for a laugh. That ?nose tiara is amusing, too. Shame it's on someone so apparently humourless, really. She's woven a sorry, tall tale of victimisation on her wedding day for little digital heartbombs on tiktok, and presumably the inevitable gofundme grift targeting idiots who have never been to a wedding before, or voluntarily left their room for six months most likely. She's not even a tranny, she's just given herself a silly name, so freakin cute and valid...

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

The odd lack of windows on such high walls suggests Masonic hall, maybe?

Nothing wrong with a $30/head wedding bash, nice buffet table, two free drink tickets at the bar, DJ playing cheese to get everyone dancing, friends and family having a nice afternoon. Been to loads of those, they're great. 88 people would be close to $2700, and if half wisely chose to stay far away, then they'd be left with about half the buffet left, in keeping with the full plate of sliced sausage mentioned.

Thinking about it, they're 18....they probably got scammed to fuck and back on this wedding fiasco. There are no pictures of the food or drink but I suspect they are equally as underwhelming.

 

[KittyGremlin]

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

Forget having, why would you spend this much on a wedding in the first place? You can buy a decent small new car for that.

 

[Banquet Meal]

havent read everything, but i would bet you that this whole thing was a plot to set up a tranny gofundme to get more free bullshit.