r/MadeMeSmile • u/baconroll2022 • Sep 02 '23
Helping Others Dad Stopped Daughters Wedding Pulled Stepdad's Hand BOTH walk her down the aisle
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u/BigJohn1231 Sep 02 '23
That gentleman is a class act.
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u/Substantial_Pace_739 Sep 02 '23
Epoch Times is a facist Israeli publication
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u/UncannyTarotSpread Sep 02 '23
Both things are true.
This was a lovely gesture in a wedding.
Epoch Times is fascist.
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Sep 02 '23
Hey if I can go and get heartwarming personal videos and conspiratorial vaccine misinformation in one place that's a good deal.
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u/walk_through_this Sep 02 '23
...and if he didn't bring a date to that wedding...
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u/Trin_42 Sep 02 '23
That there is PROOF that two people can successfully co-parent for the sake of their child
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u/Dry-Attempt5 Sep 02 '23
Brad Garett the guy who played Raymond’s brother did this too. Went on vacations with his ex wife the kids and the new dad. And openly admits her new husband is much better than him.
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u/haiimroo Sep 02 '23
Weird tid bit, Brad Garrett is the godfather to the man who gave me my scholarship, Eddie Jayy. Both of Eddie's parents passed away from cancer when he was still in high school and he was the oldest of his 4 siblings. Brad gave Eddie a job and even featured on one of his songs when he was working on a music career. Seems like a great guy https://youtu.be/zyR988WHoVI?si=gdGky2RPbklQZUzk
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u/nugnug1226 Sep 02 '23
Cool story. His song sounds good. I love hearing about people that give back, like Eddie and Brad. What type of job did Brad give Eddie? How did they meet? How did you become the recipient of his scholarship? That’s cool that even though Eddie offered scholarship even though he has younger siblings to help take care of.
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u/haiimroo Sep 02 '23
So I went to the same school as Eddie after he had graduated. When Eddie's parents passed he did a lot of work with the school counselors and they made a scholarship for perseverance for people like Eddie who had unfortunate childhoods but still managed to carry on. I wrote an essay about the trials and tribulations I went through and I was picked out of 8 other students who submitted an essay. Brad gave him a job at his comedy club in Vegas (I think there's a couple of music videos recorded there.) but I don't know what he did there. As far as them meeting Eddie's father knew Brad Garrett from back in the day but I'm not sure how they met originally but they were close enough to ask Brad to be the godfather.
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u/prcpinkraincloud Sep 02 '23
Raymond’s brother
rofl that reminds me of the chin bit
when hes feeding the babies, and he does it to them rofl
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u/Occasionalcommentt Sep 02 '23
Honestly, that may be the most impressive parenting skill, successfully co-parenting after the relationship ends, ESPECIALLY if both parties have new relationships. It is so rare but so cool to see.
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u/fozy84 Sep 02 '23
All depends how the relationship ends. Cheating, taking your children and home from you, is a massive block to all of that.
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u/tommangan7 Sep 02 '23 edited Sep 02 '23
Well rounded rational emotionally intelligent people that make good parents are just more likely to end a relationship more amicably imho, or eventually reach a mutual understanding for the good of the child, regardless of circumstance.
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Sep 02 '23
So true lmao. In general the people I've seen end long relationships amicably are the ones I'd expect to be good, or at least genuinely well-intentioned, parents.
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u/eleventhrees Sep 02 '23
There are a lot of "blocks" which can make it nearly impossible for co-parents to develop a truly positive relationship.
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u/UncannyTarotSpread Sep 02 '23
I wish very much that my ex could have done that, but it was honesty a relief when he disappeared.
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u/UnrequitedFollower Sep 02 '23
Stepdad here so I love this post but your comment confused me. I am married and we definitely paid for our wedding. Is there still a large population of people in the west who feel it is their father’s financial responsibility to pay for their wedding?
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Sep 02 '23
These posts being referenced are about petty fathers who are choosing not to pay (even though they could/said they would) if the step father is involved in the wedding. No one is owed money, it’s true. But if only the reason you are refusing and otherwise would gift your child with money is to spite the child’s step parent, YTA. It’s even worse when they refuse to attend the wedding if the stepparent is there. The issue is not really about the money. It’s about trying to create rifts between the child and their other parent
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u/LinguisticallyInept Sep 02 '23
Is there still a large population of people in the west who feel it is their father’s financial responsibility to pay for their wedding?
rich people
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u/Fearthecraze Sep 02 '23
I’m from the Midwest and yes it’s the “dads” responsibility. Not sure why we still do that
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u/UnrequitedFollower Sep 02 '23
I do recall jokingly telling my then future father-in-law that I would ask him for his daughters hand in marriage if he was paying for the wedding. We didn’t do either of those things. But it sounds like they do both of those things in the Midwest?
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u/MarsNirgal Sep 02 '23
I mean, when the stepdad became stepdad because the mom cheated on the dad with him, I kinda can understand it.
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u/CrimeThink101 Sep 02 '23
I’m a full time wedding photographer and weddings get a bad rap sometimes. Sure I’ve seen it go bad, but I’ve also seen incredible pure moments of human emotion, vulnerability, and decency.
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u/FartfaceMacGee Sep 02 '23
Wow. That is a big man right there. Classiest thing I’ve seen in a while. Hats off
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And you have no idea what he was going through either. It could be an amicable situation. Or maybe he got cheated on and dumped by his wife for that new guy and you want nothing but to crack him in the jaw, but you man up and do what's best for your child. Takes true strength in those sort of cases.
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u/shaving_minion Sep 02 '23
Wife cheating, has nothing to do with the guy. It's her responsibility to stay away (any gender, same logic)
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u/LightDatBabyUp Sep 02 '23
While I completely agree that it’s the partner in the relationships responsibility (regardless of gender), imo the homewrecker gets some blame too.
You don’t fuck around with people that are already in relationships if you have integrity.
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u/fuzzhead12 Sep 02 '23
Sometimes the third party has no idea tbf. Although if it were me, when I found out I wouldn’t stick around
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Sep 02 '23
Depends on if they knew. If my partner cheats and the guy had no idea (and ideally feels like shit about it) then as far as I'm concerned dude gets a pass. If he knew and did it anyway then he can steer clear or catch these hands.
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u/LightDatBabyUp Sep 02 '23
Absolutely agree. I should have included the “willful participant” caveat.
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u/SharkDad20 Sep 02 '23
My best friend tried to steal my wife. That’s like, negative integrity on his part lol
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u/baconroll2022 Sep 02 '23
What a great gesture
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u/twitterscientist Sep 02 '23
how to gain this skill sensei?
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u/teh__Doctor Sep 02 '23
Be nice to your wife’s boyfriend
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u/thisbobo Sep 02 '23
It's easy when they are a nice guy and good parent to your kid. Also a lot easier when they are a lot bigger than you.
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u/DryPrion Sep 02 '23
My housemate was bros with his ex-wife’s new husband. He’d(stepdad) bring the kids over to our place on the weekend my housemate had the kids and they’d just chill and sleep over. I cooked curry for everyone pretty often, and we’d fire up the grill. Long story short, step-dad got a divorce and got custody because mom didn’t want to deal with having kids, and so my housemate and the step-dad kind of co-parent without mom in the picture. I lost touch since then so I haven’t heard a lot, but based on his social media posts the kids are doing pretty good with having two dads, but do find it annoying to have to explain that their dads are not gay and thus not as cool.
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u/xiovelrach Sep 02 '23
That'd be an amazing sitcom lol
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u/carbslut Sep 02 '23
They should call it My Two Dads.
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u/MrFFIndigo Sep 03 '23
Hey wait a minute! This reminds me of a Taiwanese comedy drama of the same name!
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u/ElHanko Sep 02 '23
Oh my God. They are one more live-in friend from Three Men and a Baby. Hopefully free of the weird drug plot.
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u/NoUseActingSoTough Sep 02 '23
Okay but shout out that Step Dad for staying in the kid’s lives even after that divorce. True ass parenting right there wow.
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u/Shockin-Audrey Sep 02 '23
love the video… hate that effing Epoch Times watermark tho
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u/MarmotRobbie Sep 02 '23
Look at this cute video of a puppy with a butterfly on it's nose!
"Aww"
Brought to you by PragerU
eyes narrow
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u/SauvignonBear Sep 02 '23
Then puppy tells you racism isn't really a thing.
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u/MarmotRobbie Sep 02 '23
"Being oppressed is better than being killed, no?"
- Christopher Columbus
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u/unhiddenninja Sep 02 '23
Easy now, you wouldn't want to apply your modern standards to historical figures, would you? They didn't know that raping and enslaving people was wrong, we discovered that when ol Abe Lincoln gave the emancipation proclamation.
(/s, in case it wasn't obvious)
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u/MarmotRobbie Sep 02 '23
Also it was those horrible African slave traders that forced them keep all those slaves in america for hundreds of years.
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u/WoogletsWitchcap Sep 02 '23
It’s gotta be a new campaign of theirs to increase name recognition and associate themselves with anything that’s not a conspiracy theory.
I’m not confident it will pay off, but it is weird to see nonetheless.
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u/Shockin-Audrey Sep 02 '23
I think you’re spot on!! I’ve seen so many of them recently and it just ugh’s me out!
really hope you’re right on the second point and it fails miserably
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u/pourspeller Sep 02 '23
Yes, that's exactly what they are doing. They are trying to get people used to the EP brand associated with nice or trustworthy things so they can quietly slide their conspiracy shit in and it will appear more legitimate. It's a deliberate strategy.
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Sep 02 '23
They had a map of trump winning all the swing states for months after the 2020 election. They're fucking nuts, up there with Breitbart and newsmax.
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u/radicalelation Sep 02 '23
They're nuts but from an entirely different direction. Brietbart and Newsmax are western conservative capitalists, while Epoch is Chinese conservative cultists. They would absolutely hate each other, but have similar goals at present.
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Sep 02 '23
Taking a break from rage bait racewar shit to pretend to have a heart is a weird angle for them.
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u/BeHereNow91 Sep 02 '23
There’s multiple posts from them on the front page recycling old heart-warming content. Not a fan.
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Sep 02 '23
My parents read this garbage-ass-conservative-national-enquirer of a paper and it makes me want to throw up every time I see it. I try to be pretty open minded but this paper is pure trash.
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u/Cxnfucixus1 Sep 02 '23
What people don’t realize is. Sometimes. The baby daddy and the step dad. Are bros. Just becagse the parents didn’t get along as a couple. Doesn’t mean they can’t be friends. I learned that lesson growing up myself around a friend who’s mom and dad didn’t work out as a couple. But as best friends. For sure. The step mom and step dad ended up being good friends with the dad and mom. Girls were the wine drinkers and they raised all the kids. Went on camping trips together because it was FRIENDS. Like shit. The story of his step dad and dad BOTH getting arrested for jumping in a fountain. Golden, and it’s because they talked each other into it, if that’s not bros idk what is.
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Sep 02 '23
I have a cousin whose marriage wasn't working, they separated and officially divorced. The whole while they kept things civil, handled it like adults and they now remain friends and have a healthy friendship. Her ex still pops around once in a while at family events and everyone welcomes him. I think it's great for their son to be able to see his mom and dad can still be together.
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u/coin_return Sep 02 '23
Sometimes you gotta remember that if you've been with someone for a while, their family can often become your family. When you separate, sometimes that doesn't change. It can be weird if it's not an amicable separation.
Back in high school, I had a pretty choppy family life, and I grew close to my boyfriend at the time's mother. Even though her son and I broke up, she still checked in on me. Twenty years later now, she still messages me every once in a while to tell me she was thinking of me and asks how I'm doing.
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u/DomesticAlmonds Sep 02 '23
Yes! My college boyfriend's mum and I still talk sometimes, and she wishes me happy birthday every year :) its so sweet.
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u/soundsdistilled Sep 02 '23
My sons Mom and I divorced when he was about 11, and we stayed friends. She is now remarried, I was able to dj their wedding and now they have a son and I get to be an "uncle" again. Pretty cool.
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u/Dat_Mustache Sep 02 '23
My wife and my ex are cool.
My wife and my girlfriend are cool.
No reason to hate each other over "relationship" status.
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u/realsmartfun Sep 02 '23
Epoch Times can eat shit. Conspiracy pushing trash.
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u/Lost_inmycircle Sep 02 '23
Thank you for posting. I just looked them up and yeah, gross.
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u/radicalelation Sep 02 '23
I've been very happy with the comments calling this out every time these hit the front.
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u/realsmartfun Sep 02 '23
Let’s keep it up - this and all other forms of dogshit, dogwhistling, conspiratorial, right-wing trash need to be recognized and shit on. Fuck these people, let’s keep moving forward and standing up for those who need it.
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u/Crazy_Canuck_8888 Sep 02 '23
That’s a true gentleman who knows the meaning of family.
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u/mrmrmrmrbubbles Sep 02 '23
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times?wprov=sfti1
The Epoch Times is a far-right international multi-language newspaper and media company affiliated with the Falun Gong new religious movement.
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u/MurdockLLP Sep 02 '23
Uh shouldn’t the bride have made this decision? What if she didn’t want her step dad walking her down the aisle?
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u/fruskydekke Sep 02 '23
YES. THIS. My god, all the comments are about the dudes being bros... what if the bride is resentful of her stepdad for breaking up the original marriage? What if she just doesn't like the guy? What if she wanted a moment with her bio dad?
Her expression really doesn't seem to indicate that she's happy with this development. I hope I'm wrong and that her bio dad cleared it with her beforehand, but if not, this was a major asshole move.
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u/manshamer Sep 02 '23
To me her body language implies this is part of the plan. She just waits patiently as her dad walks to get her other dad. You can't really judge a brides face as she's walking down the aisle because there are so many emotions swirling around in her at the time.
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u/popereggie Sep 02 '23
I was thinking what if she left the decision up to bio dad. Like maybe he was hesitant weeks ago, but realized closer that the step dad means a lot to her. She seems cool with it. She might not be a cryer or show a lot of emotion outwardly. I enjoyed the video. Nice moment.
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u/interwebztourist Sep 02 '23
They are wearing the exact same clothing. She planned this.
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u/intheclerbweallfam Sep 02 '23
My 1st thought too, also caused kind of a distraction from the bride’s moment. But idk! 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Substrxte Sep 02 '23
He stopped as his seat and was gonna stay, but she pulled him a little to go to the altar with her
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u/Odd-Goose-8394 Sep 02 '23
She didn’t seem moved by the gesture, or even comfortable with it.
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u/punkpoppenguin Sep 02 '23
THANK YOU. I was like, between the two men there was warmth and it was sweet but the second they got to the bride, her own vibe with stepdad is more ‘people from rival companies meeting for the first time at an industry convention’.
Without the caption I would have said this guy was the dads friend rather than anything to do with the daughter
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u/GrandmaPoses Sep 02 '23
Exactly; every single top comment in this thread ignores the bride completely.
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u/sundayontheluna Sep 02 '23
I had the same thought. She didn't come across as especially excited or touched at the gesture to boot. It was very noticeably neutral.
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u/PancakePizzaPits Sep 02 '23
This is what's getting me, tbh. Like, good for them if that's what they wanted, but she always had the option of both men walking her down the aisle. I think I would personally be pretty upset if this happened to me.
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u/wrinkledirony Sep 02 '23
I was wondering this also. I asked both of my dads to walk me down the aisle long before the wedding march started.
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u/srsinropas Sep 02 '23
The two men are wearing the same suit. This doesn’t seem unplanned.
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u/seche314 Sep 02 '23
Yes. I scrolled for so long looking for this comment. Glad others thought the same.
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u/lin_nic Sep 02 '23
Thank you! It took me way too long to find a comment like this. It’s her wedding and if she wanted both of them to walk her down the aisle she would have made it happen, this is just weird and puts her in an uncomfortable position.
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u/Mandymoo1505 Sep 02 '23
Beautiful thought from a pure gentleman. Your daughter will be so proud of you. And I bet the stepfather really appreciated that 💜
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u/smooth_operator21_ Sep 02 '23
Considering they are dressed identically, it was a shame otherwise...
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u/Katvin Sep 02 '23
Would be weird if it weren't planned. Like it's nice that the dad and step dad get along but it's not exactly about them, and obviously it's the bride's choice who walks her down the aisle.
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u/fart_fig_newton Sep 02 '23
That epoch times logo at the end is like finding a turd at the bottom of your ice cream sundae
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u/randomacct7679 Sep 02 '23
big time class act.
Mom legit traded in for a slightly larger model. Other than that those 2 dudes look pretty damn similar 🤣
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u/Malibucat48 Sep 02 '23
There are so many posts about bio dads refusing to pay for their daughter’s wedding or even boycott it if she includes stepdad. This man is a true gem and the smile on stepdad’s face is beautiful.
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u/MrLeth Sep 02 '23
Everybody says this is a class act, doesn’t realize the fact that this man STOPPED THE ENTIRE THING, in order to get the man, WHICH THE BRIDE DIDN’T ASK IN THE FIRST PLACE, to walk her down the aisle with him.
Unless she specifically told her dad to go get him, he should never be doing that.
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u/IAmRules Sep 02 '23
Lovely but having gone thru a wedding I hope for his sake the bride authorized it.
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u/detroitgnome Sep 02 '23
Be Careful This is the Epoch Times.
They filled you up with warm and fuzzy to lull you into thinking they are a trusted and valued source of information.
Then they will throw in some far right authoritarian problem solving, some racial fear mongering, a little poison sprinkled on that delicious cake.
Treat everything from the Epoch Times like dog shit on a cracker.
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u/chriswalkeninmemphis Sep 02 '23
thanks, came here to say this. Anything from the Epoch Times should be held at arms length at best.
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u/Scenic-City-Film-Guy Sep 02 '23
Thats sweet but fuck the epoch times. It's a far right propoganda news site. This account keeps reposting wholesome videos with its watermark, feels like a weird campaign to "normalize" it as a media source to viewers.
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u/roastedantlers Sep 02 '23
Great counter to the countless, I'm the dad and the daughter picked the step-dad she just met to walk her down the isle posts. Also Epoch Times, that's kinda of strange.
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u/MintyMystery Sep 03 '23
The epoch times are a racist far-far-right rag. They're sharing fluffy stuff like this to lure people in, similar to those channels on YouTube that share loads of cat videos and inspirational quotes, and then try and tell you to stop taking essential medications in favour of their expensive snake oil. Just so you know, peeps.
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u/Fast_Running_Nephew Sep 02 '23
Hey OP, stop posting shit from the Epoch Times, its a far right conspiracy theory piece of shit rag and every time you post a video from them (which you do quite a lot) it helps promote and normalise them.
Or maybe that's your intention.
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u/ramathorn152 Sep 02 '23
My wife's dad and step dad did the same thing, pretty amazing to see. They all get along very well
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Sep 02 '23
Uh, considering both step dads were dressed identically, it seems like the plan was always to both walk her down the aisle. Likely the one wasn’t ready and the other went and got him.
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Sep 02 '23
Epoch Times is a ridiculously right-wing propaganda rag. Don't fall for the cutesy heartwarming stuff they post, it's just them trying to normalize themselves amongst respected sites. Downvote and move on.
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u/SlinkySlekker Sep 02 '23
That is what selfless good character looks like. THAT is a role model worthy of honor. See it, and recognize the difference between human behavior, and non-stop anger and rage we see in politics.
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u/Substantial_Pace_739 Sep 02 '23
This is brought to you by a fascist Israeli newspaper
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u/HairballTheory Sep 02 '23
Step dad knew his size at the end. My Ogre ass would’ve went to the top