Amber Roof posted a photo of herself with her fiancé Michael Tyo under the headline “A Fresh Start For Michael and Amber.” The page shows a goal of raising $5,000.
“As many of you know Michael and I had to abruptly cancel our wedding day, due to the tragedy that occurred in Charleston,” she writes in a message on the page, referring to the day her brother gunned down nine people in their Charleston, S.C., church.
“June 21st was suppose to be the happiest day of our lives. It is the day every girl dreams of, it was the day we dreamed of. We had each other, we have the perfect venue, and we had our vows ready to be read. We were ready! We had planned out every detail for months and months. It was going to be the PERFECT day!” she wrote.
“Our day was the exact opposite. Our wedding day was full of sorrow, pain, and shame, tainted by the actions of one man,” Roof, 27, notes, saying her sibling’s sick actions were responsible for “destroying the first day of Michael and my life together.”
Gee, how sad for her.
Here she is trying to start a life with her soon to be husband and her brother goes and slaughters nine people in a church in an effort to start a race war.
I can only imagine how much she has suffered.
Now if you will excuse me I have to step outside and do a little primal screaming.
Unless I am very much mistaken, she has taken this down.
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Even so, the fact that she put it up to begin with is horrifying, and that bell cannot be unrung. Her true colors have been shown.
DeleteWHY in Gods name would you need public funds to set your ALREADY planned marriage back a few weeks????
DeleteWell, the shit stream certainly runs deep in that family. Unbelievable.
ReplyDeleteThe entitlement just drips from her, doesn't it? What a poor, sad princess that the shooting just "occurred" all by itself, like lightning or sinkholes and ruined her special, special day. Why, i bet nobody else in the world is suffering as much as she is right now!
ReplyDeleteYes, she does. Personally, I've never understood the whole wedding fantasy all women supposedly have (not me), about being a princess, and a perfect day, and "starting our life together", blah, blah, blah, ugh.
DeleteMy husband and I got married in a courthouse by a justice of the peace. Just the two of us, with office workers as witnesses. No special clothes. Our after party was a drink at the pub together. Our 30th anniversary is next month and he's still my soul mate. I think our 30th anniversary is much more significant than our wedding day could have ever been
agree with 6:22, I keep hearing stories about how perfect weddings were ruined by a cake mishap, or catering, or photographer--is it really all about the party? Or is it about the commitment between two people?
DeleteI've one it both ways - HUGE wedding marriage lasted 3 years.
DeleteOff the rack day dress, 40 people planned in ten days - JP and two teeens later it's been 20 years.
Same here 7.38. My first was 18 months...then I realised I should have married the maid of honor.
DeleteSoooo...I left her and did just that. (I'm bad, I know). 35 years now...she still makes me laugh.
The bride to be has some balls! Misplaced priorities for sure. GoFundMe has gotten out of hand. Has Bristol set one up yet, so she doesn't have to go back to work at the doctors office? Cause, you know, no mother to be has ever had to work up until delivery day...
ReplyDeleteBut, but, Sarah worked the DAY she got/"gave birth" to Trig and as a matter of her dad's facts she took two flights from Texas to Mat Su hospital with a two-hour layover in Seattle and then drove an hour to the hospital to be induced (because, you know, her water broke back in Texas and she was leaking amniotic fluid all over the plane and all the stewardesses just ignored her and all) and then out popped 8 pound Trig who was two months early and then it was Willow who broke the news to all the family that Trig was Tri -G or Down Syndrome cuz you know none of the doctors or nurses at the delivery noticed. This was on a Saturday and by golly Sarah got right up and showed up to work on Monday, bright and early and even brought Trig with her to show everybody at the office (even though he was a DS, two-month preemie) because you know, she was breast feeding and all. I wonder if she filed an insurance claim to help pay the expenses of childbirth at the hospital because those deliveries are quite expensive and that's why most people have insurance, you know? Now if any of you IMers out there know the wild ride story please correct any of my misinformation. After 7 years my memory of it all is starting to get fuzzy.
DeleteWhat the hell does that have to do with this post?? Definately a c4pee level of infatuation.
DeleteProbably the . . . no mother to be has ever had to work up until delivery day.
DeleteCalm down, dgm.
DeleteIt's been pulled, Gofundme realized how slammed they were getting, and how poor taste it was. They should have just gone to a courthouse and gotten married, or a small chapel, or at least just waited til next year and had the "wedding of their dreams". Disgusting people.
ReplyDeleteThe BBC says GoFundMe claims Amber Roof took the page down herself. Maybe she was shamed on Twitter badly enough to realize how tasteless and tone-deaf it was. Sorry you didn't get the day of your dreams, chickie, but at least you have the rest of your life with the man you love. Thanks to your brother, nine other families are not so fortunate.
DeleteBig deal! What's up with the big July 3rd announcement we've been reading so much about?
ReplyDeleteSarahPAC announces the winner of the contest they were having: Pick Sarah to be on the 20 dollar bill! Woopee!!! That was the BIG July 3rd news everybody was buzzing about but that was BEFORE Bristol layed an egg and killed the buzz.
Delete"...laid an egg..." funny.
DeleteYesterday's news. Literally.
ReplyDeleteYeah, because a mass murder last week is ANCIENT history...move on people! (eyeroll). You sound as callous and clueless as the sister.
DeleteNo Asshole @6:24, try some decaf and maybe you won't have such a knee jerk reaction. I was referring to the post itself, NOT the heinous massacre of nine great people simply attending church. Just because a person sets up a crowd begging site doesn't mean anyone is forced to donate. For your fucking information, one of the victims was a distant cousin of my stepmother, whom I adore and who has been very shaken by this. I didn't know the victim, but my family and I have rallied to support the affected folks as best we can. This broke the news 2 days ago but it is a drop in the bucket compared to what the victims and their families has been going thru. Have I been succinct enough for you??!!
DeleteI do feel bad for her. I think the money grab is in very poor taste and that a ruined wedding is a drop in the bucket compared to loss of life, but it legitimately sucks for her that her POS brother did this when she was getting married.
ReplyDeleteYeah, sis is getting too much attention lately. What to do? What to do? Hey, I know! Mass murder! smdh
DeleteI hadn't appreciated that part of the story before G's post. The timing can't have been a coincidence. Sounds like either baby brother was a complete and total sh*t, or baby brother was sick to death of living with a princess sister. Or both.
DeleteI don't feel bad about her stupid wedding, at all.
Delete6:12 a.m., my thought, too! Why couldn't he have waited another week to start his race war? Something is going on there.
DeleteI have a different take on this. I don't begrudge her trying to get people to help her pay to have another wedding. There is an element of tragedy-exploiting in it, that's true, and what she has lost with the cancellation of a wedding is nothing compared to the loss of her brother's murder victims by the people who loved them. I'm in no way suggesting there is any equivalence. That would be obscene. And yes, this money grab does also seem obscene in light of those murders. Still... I can't begrudge this girl trying to have her wedding. In the overall scheme of things, there is just so much else to get outraged and disheartened about that I can't work up much outrage over this. No, I'm not contributing, but I have contributed to fundraisers for the victims and the church.
ReplyDeleteI would have hoped that all the businesses involved in the wedding would have, to the best of their ability, either refunded deposits or just fufllled their end of the bargain on the new day, as this clearly was one of those things that was not the couple's fault.
DeleteI can only guess they asked for money for a honeymoon because they had to use the allotted honeymoon money to re-engage florists, caterer, band, hall rental, etc. I would actually like to know more details about that but asking for honeymoon money is pretty tacky and Uber-tacky in this situation, IMO.
Agreed, MarvinM.
DeleteNo sympathy here. Weddings have become like Christmas, a hugely overblown waste of money, overpowering the actual meaning of the day.
Delete6:28 my sentiments exactly. My brother spent 20,000 for my spoiled rotten niece's wedding. Guess how long it lasted before she filed for divorce? Four months!
DeleteOK, let's see if I can put together what everyone's thinking here:
ReplyDeleteWHat an immature, self-centered, whiny, egotistical, spoiled, selfish, bridezilla brat.
Sounds about right.
DeleteANyone who uses go fund me for their own wedding should be banned. Essentially askign others to pay for a party to celebrate THEM! If you don't have a lot of money, go to Goodwill fr your dress and celbrate at a pizza place. If you are destitute, just buy a license and a JP.
ReplyDeleteJust don't celebrate at Memories Pizza in Indiana! :)
DeleteI think Sarah and Bbristol were green with envy that they hadn't thought to work this scam after Bristol's aborted wedding.
ReplyDeleteWhat a horrifying glimpse into her sociopathic soul, empty of all humanity.
ReplyDeleteAnd if she raises the money and has her perfect, perfect day that her mean old brother ruined, well then, tra-la, tra-la, everything is fine after all?
{shudder}
Yes, then she and Michael can start their life together because they can't do that if she doesn't get to be a princess and have a perfect day.
DeleteMichael - you've now seen the entitlement - want to spend you life supporting her heinousness? Run, Michael, run like the wind.
Delete7:46: How do you know it was her idea? He may have come up with the genius plan. In either case, they should take some time off, reflect and then regroup. They are NOT a charity and they should be IGNORED.
DeleteI rummaged around go fund me and couldn't find her campaign. Maybe I didn't search correctly or maybe they took it down?
ReplyDeleteMichael and Amber
ReplyDeleteHere's five bucks for gas money to the courthouse.
Next gofundme from this tasteless family will be for new nipple rings for Dad.
She made it sound as if her brother's murderous rampage was a storm, or flood, an act of God without human agency. She also blamed "the media" for ruining her special day.
ReplyDeleteTalk about tone deaf, self-centered, with a complete lack of any sense of how this attempted money grab would be seen by the larger community. Her offer of a dime on the dollar collected to be donated to the church where her brother went on his killing spree only made matters worse. It was as if she was assessing the damages as ninety percent to her and ten percent to her brother's nine victims and their families.
How very "white" of her.
DeleteWhite folks new cash cow, GoFundme, it's good to be white.
DeleteAnd somewhere in Alaska, a woman and her daughter are smacking their foreheads and saying, "Damn! Why didn't we think of that!"
ReplyDeleteWhat a selfish bitch.
ReplyDeleteMiss Manners has been on going on for years about the attitudes and greed of perspective brides, demanding subservience and underwriting of the indulgence they believe their 'special day' guarantees. This though, this I hope she hasn't read because I don't want to read her obituary. Nevertheless, don't bet substantially that even this bridezilla case won't one day be topped.
ReplyDeleteThe indulgence and entitlement are insane! I actually had a "friend" tell me I should postpone a job search because I would be too busy with HER wedding to go through a major life transition myself. She also had a meltdown because her fiance's cousin scheduled her wedding for the same summer, and "this was supposed to be MY year!" My sister called me a week before her wedding with a list of errands she wanted me to run because "my therapist says I'm too stressed and I need to learn to delegate."
DeleteSMDH.
You just can't make this stuff up. I have a feeling they all share at best what is a very shallow gene pool, But she did agree to give a whopping 10% to Mother Emmanuel, before they took it down.
ReplyDeleteHey, she beats SarahPAC's 3%!
DeleteGiver her a medal for generosity. (eye roll)
Valid point
Delete20 years ago my wife and I were married at city hall with no honeymoon. Maybe I should start a GoFundMe $10,000 account so we can have a fresh start and go to Hawaii?
ReplyDeleteThe horror! You obviously have not been able to start your life together yet!!
DeleteYea, I read that Amber was begging for money so that she and her new husband could go on their dream honeymoon. I thought that was what jobs and savings accounts were for. My bad.
DeleteI got 50 cent burnin a hole in me pocket, just do it
DeleteWhat about me?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately it is about her. A common theme with our society.
It's about things. Maybe, this is what she wanted to say?
I am sorry for my evil brother , he was wrong in what he inflicted on so many. Innocent people , their families and our nation's people. Please donate to the victims families.Thank you.
Since Bristol The Runaway Bride canceled her wedding, maybe Amber Roof should ask Sarah and SarahPAC if they would fund her marriage?
ReplyDeleteAmber Roof how about starting an AmberRoofPAC and hire Tim Crawford from SarahPac to run it for you?
ReplyDeleteJULY, 2 2015
ReplyDelete"This campaign has been removed by the Campaign Organizer. Organizers have the ability to remove their campaigns whenever they choose. "
I looked up the account and the murderer's sister removed her Beg-A-Thon account. I guess she canceled her wedding just like Bristol.
@Amber Roof (aka Selfish Bitch) -- Shit happens, dear, so get used to it. Life is just like that sometimes and if you get married you're going to see that many times over in the real world.
ReplyDeleteHeck yeah! Nothing better in marriage than an entitled wife for eternal bliss! Snort.
DeleteI have no sympathy for this greedy woman, trying to make money out of a tragedy caused by her brother. Maybe if she and her parents had intervened a couple of years ago and gotten her brother the mental health care he desperately needed and if someone had persuaded her father not to give her brother a gun for his birthday, she could have had the wedding/honeymoon of her dreams. She should be ashamed of herself.
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I agree Beaglemom. I am so tired of these people thinking that everyone else is just waiting to give them money.
ReplyDeleteIf they can't afford a honeymoon, stay home. A marriage is so much more than a wedding and honeymoon. If I was that groom to be, I would look seriously at what the future holds, being married to such a self centered genetically flawed person.
SQUEAL!!!
ReplyDeleteThat is sooooooooooo romantic!!!
Oh.
Wait.
No, it isn't romantic at all.
Never mind.
"It is SO inconvenient for me that my brother is an evil bastard and a murderer ...so send me money."
ReplyDeleteThis Go Fund Me page was definitely in poor taste and extremely insensitive to the people her brother killed. Dumb, selfish move on her part.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I do see Dylann Roof's family as another sort of victim. I doubt they knew that he was capable of something so evil, and now they've pretty much lost him forever. And what's worse, is that they have to deal with the notoriety of having a racist murderer for a family member.
I am NOT trying to say that this girl has suffered more than her brother's victims, but I am saying that the Roof family does have my sympathy as well. Their situation sucks, too.
Remember though that the gun was a birthday gift from the father.
DeleteBeaglemom
Bull$h!t. This racist stuff doesn't just come from nowhere. And his sister is just another example of the entitled, non-empathetic, non-accountability of some of these people in the white racist culture. That fact that his parents must have known about his attitude and still gave him a gun says it all.
DeleteSo very classy of this couple... I mean, what is the slaughter of nine innocent and pious people next to some wedding of two nobodies? Are they not grown ups? Were they just weeping for themselves and the $$$ that was being wasted? Were they crying for that pathetic Dylan whose problems are massive? Did they even she a tear for the nine dead and the families left behind? I am sick to my stomach.
ReplyDeleteMerriam Webster now has a new definition for the word "CRASS"
ReplyDeleteThey have the rest of their lives to take a honeymoon. Those 9 innocent people are dead. This extremely selfish couple should just be happy that her brother didn't shoot his family first and count every day since as a gift. Frankly, the this whole begging for money trend has gotten way out of control. What ever happened to living within your means. If you can't afford it, you don't do it.
ReplyDeleteIt reminded me of Hamlet; "Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats
ReplyDeleteDid coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Seems that sick self interest runs in that family
ReplyDeleteToo bad Amber Roof had to postpone her wedding. But before she took down the GOFUNDME page, the grifter made about $1600. She could use a nose job but I don't think $1600 will cover it. I know that was bitchy but she and her fiance really asked for it. Just go away, get married, have children and we'll forget you in a moment or two. I hope you think about this with regret for a very long time. And I hope you pray for the victims and their grieving families. They are the ones who need your prayers.
ReplyDeleteI saw the link earlier in the comments, and it really kicked me in the gut. What kind of chutzpah has this delusional. self centered, bitch displayed? She was being charitable, though, by donating ten percent to the Church her brother turned into a crime scene.
ReplyDeleteDid she, or did she not, plan this wedding already, and know it takes money for her perfect day and dream honeymoon? What stopped them from having the wedding? Her brother is in good hands, and she could have well NOT broke her contracts.
Nine people, and the families and people's lives they touched over the years can't set up a "Go Fund Me" site, because they're dead.
Sorry, Miss Roof and your "beloved", a simple civil ceremony costs next to nothing by comparison. Your lack of tact, taste, and sensitivity are sadly misplaced. The tragedy wasn't YOURS. And no one's blaming you for the actions of your brother, but what possessed you to even THINK of begging for money?
She doesn't need $5,000 and a perfect wedding to start her new life. All she needs is a license and a magistrate or court clerk or whatever they have at city hall.
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