Although it varies across each family unit, traditionally, the father of the bride is the one tasked with paying for his daughter’s wedding. In one family, however, the bride’s stepfather refused to fund her destination nuptials in Hawaii, even though he paid for her stepsister’s destination wedding in Mexico. Due to the double standard, the woman wrote to Slate’s parenting advice column, Care and Feeding, on October 28, 2024, looking for validation and asking for advice on how to proceed.