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Bridesmaid sleeps through alarm and shows up two hours late to her entitled best friend's 4:00 AM "sunrise" wedding: 'I know I messed up!'

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  • A woman sleeps through her alarm despite needing to get up early for her best friend's wedding.
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  • [Today I messed up] by oversleeping and almost ruining my best friend’s 4AM wedding

    So my best friend was having a 4AM destination wedding. Yes. FOUR. IN. THE. MORNING.
  • Makeup for me, the bride's mom, and the groom's mom was scheduled for 9:30PM the night before. The bride asked if I could drive them since I had rented a car. Bride's mom was staying at the bride's sister's house, and groom's mom was at a hotel about 5 minutes from mine. Easy. Simple. I got this.
  • Except... I did not got this. For some mysterious, cursed reason, my iPhone alarm decided to be silent. This has happened to me before (and no, my phone was NOT on silent). So instead of
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  • waking up at 9PM like a responsible adult and supportive best friend, I woke up at 11PM because my husband got up to use the bathroom.
  • Two. Hours. Late. Meanwhile, both moms had been waiting for me for an hour. They eventually panicked and woke up the bride to figure out what to do.
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  • So now it's the middle of the night before her wedding and instead of peacefully preparing to get married, she's stress- spiraling because I vanished from existence.
  • The bride adjusts her earring while getting ready in front of a mirror.
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  • They ended up starting their makeup around 10:30PM without me. Mine didn't start until 11:30PM.
  • When I finally saw my best friend, she was upset (rightfully so). I felt like absolute garbage. Full anxiety attack. Apologized approximately one thousand times. I was convinced I had permanently damaged our friendship and possibly the entire institution of marriage.
  • She eventually calmed down and the wedding was beautiful, but I still feel sick thinking about it.
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  • I know I messed up by not waking up. That part is on me. But a tiny irrational part of my brain keeps wondering... couldn't they have woken up the bride's sister? Or called an Uber? Or literally anything other than waking up the bride at 10PM to tell her her bridesmaid disappeared?
  • Anyway. TI by trusting my iPhone and almost becoming the villain in my best friend's wedding story forever.
  • TL;DR: I overslept and didn't pick up the bride and groom's moms for wedding makeup, they woke up the bride in a panic, and I almost ruined my best friend's 4AM wedding before it even. started.
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  • ValueReads What is a 4am wedding Why can't these people use phone calls
  • foxywatson The bride was still sleeping while everyone else was supposed to be running around getting ready? Please just uninvite me
  • LadyMystery It's like... I'd rather a midnight wedding than a 4am wedding. nobody's up at that hour!

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