My brother is in the National Guard and he is a groomsman in our wedding. He asked his sergeant if he could have the weekend off to come out to Colorado for the wedding and his sergeant said it would be fine.
Well, my mom calls me this morning and says she talked to brother last night and apparently my wedding weekend is a BIG DEAL drill weekend, someone really important is flying in and blah blah blah... So, brother reminded his sergeant about the wedding and he said something like, "oh yeah..... i do remember that... let me ask so-and-so and see if it'll still be ok". but, it's not looking good. They're apparently not letting anyone miss it because it's some big deal.
I'm just super bummed that he might not be able to come because I already don't have many family members coming to my wedding (I can count them on one hand), and that was already a sore spot for me, and this just makes it that much worse. Plus, part of the reason we moved the wedding to May was because my brother was scheduled to be deployed in September and we wanted him to be at the wedding.
My FI is leaving on a flight this morning so I can't talk to him about it, but I felt like there might be someone here that would understand. Thanks for listening (or reading ha).