We Had an Arranged Wedding
I haven’t seen one from an arranged marriage set up, so here goes. I backed out a week before the wedding. We were engaged in February and the wedding was to be four months later.
He had to leave the South Asian country where I lived, so our interactions were strictly over the phone. I am pretty sure I was a bit of a jerk in this situation.
I talked to him very irregularly until the end of February, and then I just couldn’t. This should have been a huge red flag to him that his fiancée hadn’t talked in three months.
I didn’t have the courage to tell my folks, so I just waited to see if he would back out. He didn’t. And well, that’s when I told him that I wouldn’t be marrying him. This was after the invites had gone out.
And preparations were in full swing. Ugh. I can’t tell what exactly turned me off about him. I do know the fake American accent absolutely ruined it for me.
But the people I talked to about this tell me it isn’t reason enough. Maybe arranged weddings are just not meant for some people. I am glad I didn’t go through with it, though I could have handled it better. Permalink