“My Fiancé Died Three Weeks Before Our Wedding — Months Later, I Followed His Mother and Discovered She Was Attending Someone Else’s Wedding Wearing the Dress I Never Got to Wear”

the kitchen while everyone else argued over football.

I won’t lie — it hurt a little that he hadn’t invited me.

But after Adrian’s death, I’d barely spoken to his family.

Maybe they thought a wedding would be too painful for me.

Maybe Julian had decided that seeing him stand at an altar would remind me too much of everything I’d lost.

I tried not to take it personally.

Then I noticed the corsage on her wrist.

I’d made it myself that morning.

It was for the groom’s mother.

Colleen glanced at me, then quickly followed the coordinator away.

I watched her leave.

Something still felt wrong.

I told myself that explained her strange behavior.

Maybe she’d simply felt awkward seeing me here.

Maybe she thought I would be upset.

Maybe she felt guilty that Julian was getting married only three months after Adrian’s funeral.

I forced myself back to work.