Gray Narvaez-Dragion was excited for their special day. The 18-year-old transgender person who uses the pronouns they and them claimed that they were so excited to get married that they invited everyone they knew to join them on their big day. Dozens of individuals RSVPed, assuring the couple that they would attend to celebrate the union of their families and their love on their big day.
However, Gray Narvaez-Dragion and their partner were astonished and “heartbroken” when more than half of their guests failed to attend the wedding on the day of the celebration, effectively ghosting the transgender person and their spouse.
Gray Narvaez-Dragion decided to tell the world about their disastrous wedding by exhibiting all of the empty seats in a TikTok video that has since gone viral, with over five million views and climbing.
The newlywed captioned the clip, “88 people said yes… not even 40 showed up.”
Because so few guests showed up, the newlyweds ended up losing out on more than $27,000 of hard-earned money that they had invested in their wedding with the thought that they would be hosting eight-eight guests on their special day. Instead, they were surrounded by fewer than half of the people who had promised to come after RSVPing to their invitation.
TikTok users responded to the viral video with comments and emotions. Most individuals agreed that the guests who did not show up were quite impolite.
“If you can’t make it to a wedding, tell the hosts it’s okay! They will save money on their caterer if you give them notice! “Do not lie!”
Gray is stationed in the United States and worked hard to save enough money for the wedding. Unfortunately, more than half of the money were incurred for nothing because people did not show up to enjoy the meal or other costly items such as décor or music.
One person shared how this same unfortunate situation happened to their sister.
“Happened to my sister. We set the room for eighty, and not even thirty came. We made the best of it but damn. I would never do that to someone.”
Gray explained that they had to cancel some of the events due to poor attendance. For example, they did not do the “sparkler send off, private dance, [the] dinner [and] cut the entire reception short.”
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.”
While the wedding was cut short, Gray and their new husband, Nyx, gathered together and hugged each other “in the empty ceremony room together and cried.”
Gray added, “‘I can’t afford our own food after I got fired and not even half attended. I’m devastated.”
