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[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That’s a nice way to ask if I’m a bastard. No, not the insult. Literally, someone born out of wedlock.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm a bastard in both senses.

[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago

I was 3 when I attended my parents' wedding. I guess I should note not my dad and birth mom.

I met my birth mom many years later. She stressed how she and my dad were briefly married when I was born, so I wasn't a bastard, and that she gave birth in FL, not MI — the only home I remembered — so I wasn't a damn Yankee. Like she did me some kindness in both those cases.

That was the attitude that led me to be quite happy with my circumstances — acting like I was in her debt over things I had no care over. So yeah, I attended the wedding of my dad and the only woman I'll ever call mom.

[–] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was around 20 years too late.

They didn't attend mine either, as it happens, on the grounds that they too were "late" by then.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Hey, this almost exactly matches my situation. Neat.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

I would love to, but I wasn't born yet.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Am I a bastard?

Yes.

[–] AsslessChaps@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The first wedding I ever attended was my father’s. The second ever was my mother’s. The third was mine.

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Congratulations!

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

If you don't attend your wedding, then it's not your wedding!

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In China where my parents are from, people aren't supposed to have sex before marriage, so I couldn't possibly have been conceived before the marriage/wedding. Typical conservatism lol

(Btw porn is illegal in like many area of the world, westerners are lucky to be able to enjoy... content... 🤭)

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That's right, it's an issue in Catholicism too. That's why my sister wasn't conceived before marriage, she was just born a few months early 😉😉

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My dad got remarried but I didn't attend that. Didn't see any point in honoring a ceremony that he already proved is meaningless.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did he cheat on his first wife?

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Cheated, secret other kid. The works!

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

They married ages before we were born. I attended my mother's second marriage. I wasn't invited to my father's second marriage because his mistress was and is a fucking asshat.

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

No, my parents married 5 years before I was born.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I was the 3-year-old ring bearer.

[–] Soku@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never saw my parents together so for embarrassingly long I believed they didn't know each other at all.

I was a flower girl in my father's wedding at the age of 7. Bet his missis wasn't delighted but her crotch goblins were not out of the nappies yet. The party was fab tho, proper village long table with prolly about hundred people in the middle of nowhere with a lot of live music, food and vodka.

I was in my teens (living with my grandma the whole life) when my mother asked if I want to come to the nearest town for family photos on Saturday and I said yeah no, it's sauna day you know. Turned out I missed my mother's wedding because I had to wash my hair. Still joined them in the afternoon for my mom's birthday and as it turned out the afterparty. So yeah, technically I have attended both my parents' weddings.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Obviously this is a highly created summary and you know the details of your life better than me, but from this is seems like more that you missed your mother's wedding because she didn't communicate properly, not because you had to wash your hair.

[–] dunz@feddit.nu 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes, I'm the firstborn, but I was oneish when they got married, so I'm a bastard 😃

Also attended my mum's second wedding, about 7 years after her divorce from my dad. My mum and stepdad are still married 🥰

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

As a younger sibling.. nah :3

I wasn't a reason for my parents misery, just a consequence of it

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No, they married only once, and it was before my time.

But later, they attended my wedding.

[–] remon@ani.social 3 points 2 days ago

They never married.

[–] megane_kun@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

No...? But I did the math correctly, and for a certain interpretation of "attend", I am a day too late.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

no, my mother got remarried while I was out of the state

[–] dwemthy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Not their marriage to each other, but I went to my dad's second wedding, when I was in my twenties. Nice guerrilla ceremony at an art museum

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Both of their second....

[–] Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Yes. I was almost three years old. I don't remember much, but I do remember that I started to sing during the wedding ceremony when my parents knelt at the altar. Of course no one else sung.

I also remember that the priest scared the shit out of me and that my godfather "fell asleep" in the toilet and had to be carried to a car. I learned years later that he had severe social anxiety which he treated with liquor.

[–] isyasad@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

My dad didn't have a wedding when he got remarried, but he invited me to be there when the papers were signed. Then he did it without telling me 🤷‍♀️ so "no" I guess. One day he was just like "oh yeah we got married yesterday"...

[–] konalt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Not yet. My dad's wedding is next year.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 17 hours ago

I did the math as a teenager, and yep, I travelled down the aisle.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

No but I did when my mom got remarried

My biological parents relationship was transactional.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Our son was 14 at our wedding, his bio-dad died when he was 3.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago

Nope, that was 18 years before I was born.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

My parents did one of those vow renewal weddings and I was at that. I was not at their original wedding. I wasn't born yet.

The only other wedding I attended was my own. And I kinda wish I hadn't.

[–] ladytaters@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Same, at least for the parents. I've been at a couple of friends' weddings and they were pretty delightful.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

That would have been quite the logistical challenge

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

my parents were never married

[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Sure a few times, but not all of them.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'm not a bastard, but I'm a bandaid. My sister and I like to debate which is worse (:

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

i wasn't born yet. I don't even think half of me was in my dad's balls yet

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Technically, unless adoption or donated eggs come to play, 50% of all of us attended the parents wedding, as an ovule inside our mothers ovary.

Then again, some couples never marry. So, there's another exception.

To answer your question: 50% of me was there at the occasion.