No, it wasn't my ex. It was his brother and his brother's wife. We were in California and they were in Florida. They expressly told my ex that I would not be allowed to attend. As I recall my ex was afraid to tell me...like I would go crazy over it. Well, I was upset. But so my my ex. His brother and his wife very explicitly said I could not attend because I wasn't Jewish. At the time they were extremely Orthodox. So if they just made that up...how bizarre! They told my ex that everything was being done very orthodox...and my ex was like, whatever. He was really just upset about his Mom passing away very suddenly. We both were.


No, my ex really had nothing to do with it. He wasn't religious at all. Anyway...we already had been through a lot because when we decided to get married BOTH SIDES of our families refused to attend any kind of wedding. We ended up getting married by a Unitarian minister with a handful of friends. So we were already "warriors" about this kind of thing.
Neither of our families were happy about us getting married for cultural and religious reasons. I really want to add we had a very happy marriage until the very end and the divorce was amiable. He was and is a great father.