My son recently got married to a woman I don’t know very well. They live in another state, so I only met her a couple of days before the wedding. She seemed nice, but it was rather shocking for me to have my DIL mock me for being a vegan.

There was some tension between us right off the bat, but I attended the wedding for my son. He’s my pride and joy and I wanted to see him happy. When I got to the reception, I saw that there was no assigned seating, so I sat at a table that had a sign for a ’vegan option.’

The meal arrived, and I was horrified when I saw the veggies. They looked rotten. So I asked the waitress for a salad, and she said that I would need to pay extra as there was only one vegetarian meal reserved. The salad would come from their usual menu.

I stood up to leave, feeling that I wasn’t a welcomed guest at my own son’s wedding. But my son came over and said, “You will regret this, mom. If you leave now, just forget us.” I was shocked that he would say something like that to me. I thought I raised him better.
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I replied honestly, saying, “I came for you, but I won’t sit at a table where I’m mocked and then told to pay extra for a meal because the food I was served was expired.” With that, I turned around and left. I haven’t heard from my son since.

But a few days later, my DIL called me. She said I was being selfish for hurting my son and ruining the reception. She claimed that most of my family left after I did because they agreed with me. I kept quiet and let her rant. But the worst part was that she even waited for an apology.

I told her that she was the one who has been disrespecting me since the day we met. I don’t want to lose my son, but I’m not going to lose my pride either. If my son wanted to make things right, he could contact me himself.

It’s been two weeks and I still haven’t heard anything. So Bright Side, was it wrong of me to walk out of my son’s wedding reception and possibly ruin our relationship over a meal?