Dad Refuses To Attend Daughter's Queer Wedding, So Brothers Step Up
TikTok video since it was posted on February 16.Instead of the traditional father-daughter dance, Chavez's brothers, Guillermo and Diego, offered to do a sibling dance with her instead."When her brothers stepped up, we felt very loved and supported by their meaningful gesture," Wang told Newsweek.Wang said both of her parents attended the wedding, along with Chavez's mother and all of their siblings on both sides.
Chavez's father, however, decided not to attend his daughter's lesbian wedding because of his religious views."He did not inform us he wasn't coming; he simply did not respond to our wedding invitation," Wang said. "Naturally, Tessa was devastated.
She held out some hope he would surprise her and change his mind or show up at the last minute...Sadly, he did not."Chavez's father's absence was especially notable because of the wedding's location in Mexico City, Chavez's hometown, where both of her parents still live.The couple's wedding guests came from all over the world, including siblings from Germany, Australia and New York City, Wang said.
Diego, Chavez's younger brother, came all the way from Melbourne to eventually give Chavez her sibling dance."Her brothers Guillermo and Diego offered to do a sibling dance with Tessa ...
