Groomzilla Gave Me An Ultimatum - His Wedding Or My Job Opportunity | r/AITA
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
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OP explains that they accepted a job that unfortunately conflicted with their best friend's wedding, but only after their friend refused to compromise on demands OP felt were completely unreasonable. Now the friend is furious and OP is questioning whether they're the AITA for choosing a stable opportunity over trying to meet expectations that don't take OP's life or schedule into account.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Waffle Gang, I do hope you are well. My name is Mark and today we're checking out some more Reddit stories. |
| 0:09.5 | And if you do love a Reddit story, why not consider, then I like, subscribe, maybe that notification bell too. |
| 0:15.1 | Let's crack on with today's first story. Much love, guys. Now, today's first story comes from Working Telephone |
| 0:22.3 | 498 from the Am I the Asshole subreddit. And it says, am I the asshole for taking a job |
| 0:28.5 | that conflicted with my best friend's wedding after he refused to compromise on unreasonable |
| 0:33.9 | demands? Using a throwaway, obviously. So my best friend got engaged about a year ago |
| 0:40.6 | and asked me to be a groomsman. I said yes immediately because that's what you do. We've known |
| 0:47.1 | each other since like middle school and I was genuinely excited. But then planning started and it got |
| 0:53.5 | weird. His fiance, who I've never been super close with, started making all these demands about what groomsmen needed to do. Custom shirts, specific haircuts, mandatory bachelor party at her chosen location. Contributions to things I never agreed to. It was getting expensive and honestly, kind of controlling. |
| 1:14.1 | I mentioned to my friend that some of the stuff seemed excessive. |
| 1:17.8 | Like, I get wanting your wedding to look nice, but requiring specific haircuts felt over the line. |
| 1:23.3 | He just said it's not that big of a deal, come on, and shut down that conversation. |
| 1:28.6 | That's when I kind of started pulling back emotionally from the whole thing. |
| 1:32.5 | Fast forward to about three months before the wedding, and I got a new job offer that required me |
| 1:36.8 | to relocate for like two weeks of training right before the wedding. |
| 1:40.7 | I told him immediately and said, I tried to reschedule it or work something out. He lost it, |
| 1:46.6 | started saying I was abandoning him and that real friends would just turn down the job. I reminded |
| 1:52.2 | him that I need to actually have a career and I was still trying to be there for the wedding. |
| 1:57.5 | Here's the thing, though. I could have tried harder to reschedule. |
| 2:05.3 | I didn't really push back with my new employer because honestly I was kind of over the whole wedding stress at this point. |
| 2:07.2 | I think subconsciously I wanted an out. |
| 2:11.3 | His fiancé apparently told him it was suspicious timing and that I was being selfish. |
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