Bride Heartbroken After Entering Empty Wedding Venue When Guests Don’t Show Up

A heartbreaking video has captured attention across social media, showing a bride stepping into an almost empty wedding venue.

Kalina Marie took to TikTok to express her frustration and sadness that hardly any of her “friends” showed up for her wedding reception, even though she had invited 100 people to join in the celebration.

The newly-weds were heartbroken to discover none of their 'friends' showed up to their wedding TikTok/@kalina_marie_23

Anyone who’s planned a wedding knows it involves months – sometimes even years – of planning and anticipation.

While some guests might skip the actual ceremony, most brides and grooms expect a full turnout at the reception to celebrate together.

The video, which has now been watched more than seven million times, shows the newlyweds entering their wedding venue, only to be greeted by just their closest family members.

Over the video, she wrote: "POV: you planned the most beautiful entrance. Just to open the doors to an empty venue."

In the video caption, Kalina shared a detailed explanation of what really happened.

Her caption read: "This is our entrance to our Masquerade ball. The Masquerade ball that I have talked EXCESSIVELY about for the last 10 months. The same ball that I not only digitally invited over 75 people to. But ALSO spent money to send 25 beautiful invitations out to."

"FIVE PEOPLE SHOWED UP!!!!!!! Like, are you kidding me!?!? As you see in the video, we enter the venue. And no one is there. The invite said 1pm. My mom messaged me at 1:15 that no one was there. My husband and I finally showed up at 2oclock, to 5 people. In a venue planned for 40."

"I dreamed that I would walk in to a bunch of people cheering us on. Hooting and hollering for us in celebration.....but all you see is a woman trying to hold herself together because she had NO idea how to deal with her venue being almost completely empty."

She went on, explaining: "All the wasted food and drinks. All the empty tables and chairs. Every moment of my reception changed to adapt. Did we still make the most of it?? You bet your SWEET @$$ we did. But did this video just take all the good moments and shoot them out of the water for a second, F$&K yea it did."

Marie and her husband still enjoyed the night but have had to re-evaluate their friendships TikTok/@kalina_marie_23

"It just makes me think, like, why? What did we do? Am I that bad of a person? What did my husband ever do to deserve any of this? Why couldn't we matter enough for people to show up? I still have 'friends' that haven't even messaged me to congratulate me or tell me why they didn't come."

"It truly makes me sick. I honestly can't wrap my head around this yet. But all I know is, I have my man. My baby. And family that shows up when I need them. And for that, I will be thankful & #FAIL #fyp."

Since the video went viral, hundreds of people have encouraged Kalina to host another reception, believing in the supportive power of the internet – and it sounds like a fantastic idea!