{"id":23315,"date":"2025-12-10T00:05:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=23315"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:05:42","slug":"i-refuse-to-let-my-brother-turn-my-baby-shower-into-his-engagement-party-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=23315","title":{"rendered":"I Refuse to Let My Brother Turn My Baby Shower Into His Engagement Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A mom-to-be shared how her brother tried to hijack her baby shower by proposing during the event, even after she told him \u201cno\u201d multiple times. On the day of the shower, he began kneeling during a toast, so she calmly stopped him, reminding everyone the celebration was for the baby. His girlfriend fled in embarrassment, he stormed out, and the family argued afterward\u2014with some praising her boundary and others blaming her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When her brother insisted she had ruined his \u201conly chance,\u201d she sent him a bill for half the event costs since he tried to make it \u201chis day, too.\u201d He refused, but his girlfriend privately apologized and admitted she never wanted a proposal at the shower. Commenters overwhelmingly agreed the brother was wrong and that proposals at someone else\u2019s event are tacky. Family drama aside, the mom-to-be just wants her \u201cno\u201d to actually mean something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mom-to-be shared how her brother tried to hijack her baby shower by proposing during the event, even after she told him \u201cno\u201d multiple times. On the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":176,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23317,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23315\/revisions\/23317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}