The woman on Reddit says she engaged during a vacation with her partner after the destination wedding. A woman has been defended for getting engaged only a few days after her brother’s wedding. “My now fiancé and I extended our trip after everyone went home and spent a couple of days exploring the Grand Canyon, a couple hours north of the wedding, where he proposed,” she added.
However, she explained that when she told her brother and now sister-in-law about the engagement, they accused her of “competing” with them. The woman then apologized to the couple individually. “I realized that [my brother] was advocating for my SIL and that she felt hurt (although I’m truly failing to understand why). I also texted her a separate apology and explained that it was not our intent to encroach and just wanted to share the news with family and that it’s my belief that there’s room for happiness for everyone,” she wrote.
According to the Reddit user, her sister-in-law didn’t respond to her text. However, her brother did respond and he was still unhappy. “My brother doubled down and said the timing and location were hurtful and that we shouldn’t have planned around the wedding,” she concluded.
The post has quickly gone viral, with more than 10,000 upvotes. In the comments, multiple people came to the newly engaged couple’s defense, saying they didn’t take attention away from someone else’s wedding day. “While doing this at his wedding/reception would be wrong, your brother does NOT own the month or even the week AFTER the wedding! Your timing was fine,” one wrote.
