TikTok user Kalina Marie went viral for all the wrong reasons last week, as she shared the video of her walking out at her masquerade-themed wedding.
Only three people could be seen in the venue, a far cry from the expected turnout.
The venue was almost empty (TikTok/kalina_marie_23)
However, in January this year, they finally set a date for October and started dishing out invites.
She explained that she had invited 75 people online, and sent 25 physical invites out to elders and those without social media,
In the end, Kalina said that she received 40 RSVPs, meaning that she expected that many people at her ceremony – but it wasn’t to be, as just five made it.
Voicing her frustration in the caption of the original video, which has over six and a half million views, she wrote: “FIVE PEOPLE SHOWED UP!!!!!!! Like, are you kidding me!?!? As you see in the video, we enter the venue. And no one is there.”
To add insult to injury, they delayed the event by an hour to see if anyone else would show up, but sadly, after she ‘dreamed’ of walking out to a full room, she was ultimately let down.
However, she finished off saying: “Did we still make the most of it?? You bet your SWEET a** we did…
“But all I know is, I have my man. My baby. And family that shows up when I need them. And for that, I will be thankful.”
After questioning why nobody turned up, Kalina eventually made a full response video, four days after the infamous wedding, answering a comment that said: “So what was the reasoning behind it, all those people just didn’t show, no explanation?”
She first spoke about the process she went through with invitations, revealing that she created a Facebook event, and explained that her mother made food for 40 people, that would now go to waste.
She had no idea why so many people didn’t show up (TikTok/kalina_marie_23)
“I checked in with everyone the week of, and at least 20 people had gotten back to me saying that they had an outfit and that they were coming,” she admitted.
Kalina went on: “And the biggest question is why? And I don’t know if I could answer that.
“I would tell you, but no, I haven’t really received a lot of messages explaining why people weren’t there or giving me excuses. And I’m kind of thankful for that,” she claimed.
Concluding, the newly-wed said: “For the most part, we’ve done a lot of deleting and re-evaluating our lives and just spending a lot of time appreciating what We have and what we had.”
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Kalina Marie took to TikTok to explain that she had digitally invited 75 people, and sent physical invites to 25 more, to attend her masquerade-themed wedding.
Sadly, they didn’t turn up, as the couple had to walk out with their son as three other people could be seen celebrating with them in the venue.
The social media user explained that they have been together for nine years, engaged for four, and that their wedding was delayed by the pandemic.
She walked down the aisle with her husband and son (TikTok/kalina_marie_23)
However, the turnout was not quite what they expected and Kalina posted the viral video with a lengthy caption.
With over six and a half million views at the time of writing, the caption accompanying the video read: “This is our entrance to our Masqurade [sic] ball. The Masqurade ball that I have talked EXCESSIVELY about for the last 10 months.
“The same ball that I not only digitally invited over 75 people to. But ALSO spent money to send 25 beautiful invitations out to,” she began.
“FIVE PEOPLE SHOWED UP!!!!!!! Like, are you kidding me!?!? As you see in the video, we enter the venue. And no one is there,” Kalina revealed.
Adding that she started the event an hour later than planned to see if more people would show up, the bride revealed that they ‘made their entrance at 2pm to five people’.
Saying that she ‘dreamed’ of walking in to a full room of people in celebration, she instead was ‘a woman trying to hold herself together’ as she didn’t know how to deal with the venue being near empty.
Annoyed about the ‘wasted food and drinks’ along with ’empty tables and chairs’, the group partied on, as she wrote: “Did we still make the most of it?? You bet your SWEET a** we did.
“But did this video just take all the good moments and shoot them out of the water for a second, f**k yeah it did,” she also admitted.
Kalina questioned if she was a bad person, if they didn’t matter enough for people to come through for them, and if they had the right ‘friends’ around them, as many never congratulated her or told her that they couldn’t make it.
The happy couple made the most of the situation (TikTok/kalina_marie_23)
The content creator concluded: “But all I know is, I have my man. My baby. And family that shows up when I need them. And for that, I will be thankful.”
In an explanation video uploaded days after the original, Kalina clarified details of the situation and answered questions from people about it all.
She said that they set an October wedding date in January this year, and that she has been ‘blabbing’ about it all on Facebook, as she made a Facebook event, adding that 25 invitations went out to elders and those without social media.
One user wanted to know what explanations they received from people that didn’t show up, and she replied saying that she didn’t know why so many people had bailed.
“I haven’t really received a lot of messages explaining why people weren’t there
or giving me excuses, and I’m kind of thankful for that,” she admitted.
“For the most part, we’ve done a lot of deleting and re-evaluating our lives and just spending a lot of time appreciating what we have and what we had,” Kalina summed up.
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A bride and groom ended up getting called out for the incredibly long and demanding list of rules they gave to guests at their wedding.
While it’s supposed to be the happiest day of your life and you’d love everything to be perfect, there’s got to be a point where you realise you’re becoming a dictator.
One couple’s 15 point list found its way onto Reddit, where people immediately started picking it apart for some of the things it was asking of wedding guests.
The rules ranged from enforcing a strict dress code to telling guests to ‘simply go home’ if they didn’t like the music.
Plenty of people thought the bride and groom’s list was a series of ‘red flags’. (Getty Stock Photo)
People said the list was choc full of ‘red flags’ and pointed towards ‘bridezilla/groomzilla s**t’ being afoot.
The rules are thus:
- This is the bride and groom’s big day, not yours.
- Do not get in the photographer’s way.
- The attire is BLACK and/or GOLD, not red, blue, green and definitely NO WHITE!
- Do not rearrange seats, we have a seating chart for a reason.
- If you didn’t put out any money for the wedding, keep your should’ve, could’ve, would’ve to yourself. Your opinion is irrelavent (sic).
- Pace yourself when drinking.
- No big announcements or proposals.
- If you can’t handle or dislike the music being played, simply go home. This is a celebration, not a funeral.
- This is a ‘Taking over for the 99’ & 2000s type of event, so there will be twerking.
- Use the bride and groom’s hashtag when posting pics.
- Do not sit down all night.
- No outside liquor. If caught, you will be escorted out.
- Refer back to rule #1.
- The bride and groom said what they said!
- Turn ALLLL the way up!
Sounds like a fun event, doesn’t it?
In fairness, some of these rules are actually pretty reasonable, especially since it is meant to be the happy couple’s big day and anything you can do to make the photographer’s job easier is just good manners.
Pacing yourself while drinking is also some wise advice, and it is up to the bride and groom on how to plan their day.
Still, as one Redditor put it, the requests might sound more reasonable if they were ‘rewritten to not sound like an asshole’.
Another wondered whether some of these more specific rules were ‘targeted at specific family members’, but someone else told them those family members would definitely be ‘the ones who won’t actually read it’.
Sometimes a rule is there for a reason.
“Grandma needs to get her 90 year old geriatric ass up out of the seat and move around damnit!” said one person poking fun at the rule which commanded guests not to be sat down for the entire night.
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The newlywed was opening wedding presents when she came across a gift from one of her husband’s groomsmen, which left her feeling very grossed out.
So much so, in fact, that she felt the need to share the experience to a public Facebook group to seek help, after which the story was re-shared on Reddit.
The thread on the latter site, titled ‘Wedding Shaming’, details mishaps that happen before, during, or after people’s special days, but this one got quite a bit of attention.
A screenshot of the original post was shared along with the caption: “If I had to see this, you all do too.”
The bride was appalled by what she saw when she unwrapped the gift. (Getty Stock Image)
The US-based bride began: “Posting anonymously because I am literally sitting next to a brown paper bag typing this.
“I just got married over the past weekend and I’m still opening gifts.
“One of my husband’s groomsmen – let’s call him Fred – has always given me creepy vibes. I just opened the gift he gave to us and literally am besides myself.”
‘Fred’ wrote a message to the happy couple, revealing a bit about the groom’s past that the bride didn’t really need to know about.
It read: “‘To my favourite couple, (husband) was such a gross dude in college. He always left his clipped nails all over the dorm.
“Guess who has been collecting them for eight years, almost as long as you two have been dating?'”
A pretty disgusting thought, but he wouldn’t actually send it to them, right? Worse.
She said Fred has always given her ‘creepy vibes’. (Getty Stock Image)
He continued, revealing that he added his own toe nails into the mix, and explained that he made a brick out of the collection, with the help of ‘concrete glue’.
Fred wrote: “Now, (husband) won’t be able to forget the (school name) days with Fred! And (wife’s name) will be the only bride in the US that has a fingernail paperweight.
“Hope you guys enjoy the laugh. Happy for you. Congrats.”
The bride said that she wished it was a joke, calling it the ‘grossest wedding gift’ ever, as a single yellow nail fell onto her floor.
She added: “It’s not funny, and I honestly don’t know what my husband will say.
“Please comfort me? Someone?”
But she wasn’t alone, as the comments section of the Reddit post was full of people finding the ‘gift’ equally as grim.
One user joked: “Not to choose the violent option, but… heave it through Fred’s front window?”
Another commented: “This actually made me vomit. That’s just nasty.”
A third said: “Oh god what a day to have eyes. That’s beyond disgusting.”
But a different user oddly stated: “I’m disgusted yet want to see more.”
That might be up there with one of the most disturbing wedding gifts out there, on some level you may have to respect it.
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It turns out that there are several design elements to public restrooms that go over our heads, from why it says ‘WC’ on the door or why some toilet seats are shaped in a U, there really are some mysteries surrounding them.
But we’re here to address one in particular – that being why public bathrooms don’t actually touch the ground, and we can (of course) thank social media for the answer.
There’s a reason behind the length of those doors (Getty Stock Photo)
TikTok content creator @mattypStories decided to take on the responsibility of explaining exactly why public restrooms are designed in this way, giving a range of reasons, which unsurprisingly boil down to practicality, hygiene and cost.
Speaking in an old viral video, he explained: “Here’s why public bathroom doors don’t touch the floor.”
The influencer said most people have ‘probably wondered at one point or another’ as to why this is, and said that the explanations behind it are ‘logical. I would hope so.
“First off, if there’s ever an emergency, it’d be pretty easy to see what happened and get the person some help.
“Secondly, it makes it way easier to clean. Public bathrooms are used quite often, meaning that they need to be cleaned many times throughout the day, and having the space under the door makes it a lot easier.
“And finally, it’s a lot cheaper to buy a door that has part of it cut off than the full door itself.”
Indeed, many of these reasons are echoed on the website of WC Portables, an Essex-based portable toilet hire company, which also lists shorter doors being ‘ideal in cases of emergency’, ‘easier’ to clean and overall much ‘cheaper’.
It all makes sense now (Getty Stock Photo)
But the company also believes there are a few other handy benefits, too – like the ‘faster escape of bad odour’. Urgh.
“Toilet is a natural environment for the release of bad odour,” the website says, adding: “The gap between the door and the floor provides a quick escape of the foul smell that was generated by previous users.
“It helps your toilet experience to become bearable. Without the gap, the odour is sustained in a stall and becomes unbearable to subsequent users.”
What’s more, gaps at the bottom of the doors make it easier to ‘determine availability’, with WC Portables saying: “Nothing beats the eyes test of glancing through the gap for any sign of occupancy.”
Of course, a little discretion is required here, as peeking into a toilet stall doesn’t usually go down too well if it’s occupied… Maybe look for shadows cast outside the cubicle, rather than into the space itself, eh?
The gaps also allow you to hand toilet paper to someone in need (Getty Stock Photo)
Another point is that the shorter doors help ensure ‘the toilet queue flows’.
“Toilets with doors of this nature could negatively impact people’s privacy,” the portable toilet hire firm explains.
“When individuals sense others can listen to their business that easily, they are prone to wrap up quickly.”
And finally, there’s the belief that they reduce bad toilet habits or behaviours – in a similar vein to the previous point, people might ‘refrain from exhibiting poor behaviour’ as the ‘embarrassment of being spotted acting inappropriately will ensure people err on the side of caution