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My friend and I tried to look like locals on vacation… accidentally joined a wedding

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Last summer my best friend and I went on a short trip to the coast. It was one of those spontaneous “we need to escape our lives” weekends. We rented this tiny Airbnb, and on the second night we decided to explore the town square it looked alive, music playing, people dancing, lights everywhere.

We thought, wow, what a vibe, and decided to blend in. No phones, no maps, just two chill travelers living the moment. Everyone was super friendly, and there was a big buffet table full of food. We figured it was some kind of town festival.

So we grab some plates, eat, dance a bit my friend even does a little spin move with a random auntie. Everyone’s smiling, clapping, offering us drinks. We were living our best lives.

Then this older guy walks up and says, “You’re friends of the bride or the groom?”

My friend goes confidently, “Both!”

The man nods slowly and points to the stage. “Then you should be up there they’re taking photos.”

That’s when we realized we’d crashed an actual wedding.

The bride looked stunning and very confused. We apologized about twenty times and tried to sneak away, but the DJ yelled “Let’s hear it for the tourists!” into the mic. Everyone laughed, cheered, and started chanting “Dance! Dance!”

We ended up doing the most awkward two-person shuffle in front of 200 strangers. The groom gave us a glass of Lemonade afterward and said, “You’re officially part of the family now.”

We still get tagged in the wedding photos sometimes. Two random idiots in the corner, holding plates of food, living their accidental dream.

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