KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A Kalamazoo mom is upset because she was turned away from a father-daughter dance after she was initially told she could attend.
The dance was held at the Bernhard Center on Western Michigan University’s campus over the weekend. The organization sponsoring the event says it never agreed to allowing moms.
Caitlin Sumey says her daughter Isabella’s father left them six months after Isabella was born. So when Isabella got a flyer for the daddy-daughter Valentine’s Day dance, she asked her mom to go with her.
“She was just excited she asked if I could take her. We did see that it was a father-daughter dance and my stepdad offered to take her and my boyfriend offered to take her and she said no, she wanted her mom to take her because it’s just been us two. She knows I’ve played both roles, so she said, ‘If you can’t go, I don’t want to go.’ So I said, ‘OK. I’ll call and I’ll see,'” Sumey said.
She said she called both the Bernhard Center and Miller Auditorium, where the tickets were sold; both said it was OK. So she bought two $25 tickets.
“I had one guy actually say how awesome it was for taking my daughter to a father-daughter Valentine’s dance,” said Sumey.
When the day of the dance came, Sumey and Isabella got dressed up.
“I did her hair and I did my hair,” Sumey said.
But when they got to the venue, they were turned away at the door.
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