Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He was not invited and forced out of the kids lives.

Or he was not invited because he abandoned or abused his kid.

You don’t get to show up for photo ops on someone else’s dime to play pretend dad 25 years later. good riddance

+100

That “dad” chose to not attend the wedding when he voluntarily stayed away from his child.

He has no relationship w the adult child.

Anonymous wrote:He was not invited and forced out of the kids lives.

Or he was not invited because he abandoned or abused his kid.

You don’t get to show up for photo ops on someone else’s dime to play pretend dad 25 years later. good riddance

My parents split when I was 5, I saw my father again one time when he came to my 6th birthday party. I got engaged when I was 39 and never even considered inviting him to my wedding.

He was not invited and forced out of the kids lives.

Are you the bride, OP? If so I am sorry for the hurt. If you are just an observer, he may not have been invited at all.

It happened to me, my stepmother was in the midst of one of her freezeouts and my father went along with her. It hurt me deeply.

Because he doesn’t care.

Because he has no relationship with his children. This isn't that hard to figure out.

My friend who I supported as the Maid of Honor didn't have her bio dad at her wedding.

He was child support only, and not involved in her young life. I believe she only knew his mother of all the paternal relatives. She did keep his last name until marriage.

She was close to her step-dad and he walked her down the aisle.

Nobody missed bio dad.

MYOB

He's not connected to the child getting married.

There is no relationship. Why would the person getting married want him there? Move on.

Divorced parents. Mom raised kids alone with dad not in the picture. Dad always lived out of state or in a different country.

How can a dad not come to his child’s own wedding?