My Brother’s Wedding Invitation Was a Rejection. So I Booked a One-Way Ticket and Chose Myself.

to help with wedding planning—I could design invitations, research vendors, whatever they needed. There’d been an awkward pause before he’d said, “That’s really sweet, but Stephanie’s mother is handling most of it, and they’ve hired a wedding planner for everything else.”

Still, I’d clung to hope that the wedding itself would bring us closer, that somehow continue reading …