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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":

 

[Dysnomia]

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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.

They're all thinking "These freaks can't call us transphobic now, right? We're safe?".

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

They're all thinking "These freaks can't call us transphobic now, right? We're safe?".

Imagine a situation where there isn't enough of a crowd but enough BPD/NPD nutjobs to make safely pulling an "Irish Goodbye" dangerous.

This has been my preferred tactic for every party, wedding and other social event. I just leave when I'm ready to go home.

 

[Rozzy]

You know it's going to be dumb when it involves TikTok.

 

[Space Lazer Shark]

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.

Aren't there legal alternatives to marriage? civil unions i think they're called but don't quote me on that.
Big lavish weddings probably aren't all they're made up to be, wouldn't it be just nicer to have a small event in the comfort of your own home with some close friends and family, have some food and drinks and don't make the whole ordeal more then it has to be.
Less is more a lot of the time!

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

Who could possibly pass up the chance to go to the Juggalo wedding of the year?

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

I'm still just shocked that this EIGHTEEN year old not only had the money to do this sort of wedding, but the fact that they got married at eighteen in general is just bonkers to me. The life I was living between the ages of 18-21 I do not take that seriously, and I'm grateful that I didn't personally do something significantly stupid enough to affect the rest of my young years negatively.

No fucking way they had $30,000 in their possession. They had to have that loaned to them. They can’t have $30k if they manage money this poorly.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

The comments on the Daily Mail article are absolute gold...

I would like Emily1848 to be my lawfully wedded beard.

 

[Kel1 shi1]

Lavish wedding? They did nothing. Looks like a tiny room with one set table, no food, drinks or anything anywhere. It's all BS for some kind of attention because nobody wanted to go to the wedding or support them having one. They gifting nothing more.

They saw the kids pizza party that nobody turned up for going viral, and the copies of that grift. So they upgraded it to a wedding grift that nobody come too. There's probably a GFM making bank right now. Tech bros love throwing cash at troon sob stories.

 

[Clotso Coof]

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.

I'm sure these troons are lying about their expenses, but they probably overpaid in any case. Unless they're in Manhattan, they blew money and still looked like trashy methheads.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

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

Forget that-- when did Wolverine get a sex change?

 

[stupid frog]

She's not even a tranny, she's just given herself a silly name, so freakin cute and valid...

Nonbinarys are technically trannys, not that it really matters.

 

[Kheapathic]

I like weddings, but mainly because it's a fancy party. Everyone gets the same gift, I give a waffle iron, because waffles are fucking awesome. Depending on how much I like you is what makes me spring for the Wal-Mart or gourmand version. I'd show up for some food, cake, and just have it be a "Well, I had an interesting weekend" story at work.

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.'

I'm failing to understand how these two things are connected. First of all, regardless of what current years think, the male leads; I understand one is possibly a troon, so they're a little confused, but the male/man/dominant should be the leader... or y'all just need to play DDR and learn some coordination. Second of all... ... ... dad should've kept his mouth shut.

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

I'm not gonna get too hard into mythos or anything; but Nyx was female, if you want to keep your hokum naming convention than fucking go with Thanatos for a husband.

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".

Precisely this; family, distant family, and close friends, anything else is a waste. And for distant family, even if you know they won't show up, they're family, you send an invite, it's theirs to decline, but they at least have the "Hey, cousin X, you know Y's kid is getting married." But I also think this is part of the current generations idea of what friends are. One of my last jobs, one with a huge department of nothing but women; one said something about how the guys in my department are all friends. I tell them, no we're not; and they try to press this issue of spending so much time together and all this shit, and I had to explain 8 hours of being in the same office space and doing nothing outside of work isn't friendship, we work together because we have to and it's better to be on good terms with those people, but we're not friends. You could see the gears in her brain locking up, like I made some huge paradoxical claim. Then she finally gets both of us together and asks the other guy if we're friends, and he gives her a no, and again, she's in shock like her whole world is being upended.

And it wasn't that bad other times, but there's a lot of millenial shit where everyone is a friend, everyone is loved, we should all love and support, and blah blah hippie shit... and when it's not shown or reciprocated, their fucking brain breaks. And not gonna get into it, but this is also why we see a lot of parasocial relationships online with Twitch and YouTube; not saying it's the only reason, but people trick themselves into building these fake connections and end up hurting when it's not what they think.

 

[Mothra1988]

The wedding industry is a scam anyways.

 

[Pokemon Conquistador]

And it wasn't that bad other times, but there's a lot of millenial shit where everyone is a friend, everyone is loved, we should all love and support, and blah blah hippie shit... and when it's not shown or reciprocated, their fucking brain breaks.

These are the same people who claim that online friendships are as valid as real life friendships. I say if you don't live close enough to someone to have them help you out if your car breaks down, then it's a parasocial relationship at best. Parasocial relationships can be fine and dandy, but the amount of work and effort you put into a relationship is a definite mark of its quality. There's just something to being in the same room with someone that makes it worthier than interacting through an interface.

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

Damn. Those hands look like they belong to La Pascualita. Creepy.

 

[Cuckoman]

(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?)

My money is on that this was the kind of reception where the guests pay a fee at the door.
Wonder why faggots workmates did not show up, first he invites them to a tranny wedding then he expects them to pay at the door for the "privilege"

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

Looks like the biggest transgender L since Hogwarts Legacy.

 

[William Tyndale]

“Don’t worry honey, we will make sure to spend less on your next wedding.”

 

[Quiet Guy]

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

This wedding was fucking $675 a plate?

I'm reminded of that bit where Brian Regan talks about a charity event where the plates cost $1000 dollars, and he said that he would go back and ask for something to be added on principle, or something along those lines, but I can't find the clip. Fire up your tasers...

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I have to say, I expecting a typical "white person" wedding where they overspend on shit, maybe book a venue at some vineyard somewhere. But on those cases, it's very rare to underperform because usually the bride/bride's parents/in-laws/bridesmaids have some all-hands-on-deck plan to make sure everything goes on without a hitch, and usually the issue comes in making sure the marriage stays together at least a few years.

It's not that hard to imagine these clowns spending $27k, there a lot of components where you can overspend easily and a lot of other components you can cut costs on without compromising the vision...plus the fact that they lack an extensive friend network and family willing to help them out. Most of their guests were probably just Discord ghouls they've never met in person who got invited to the wedding on social media and just clicked "yes" on anything.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

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

She's just a female "enby" not actually trooned out. Birth name is Grace Sicard. She went by Gray Sicard for a while, and now whatever the hell the current appellation is.

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