When it comes to arranging a wedding, it's impossible to keep everyone happy - with some would-be guests having to be cut from the invite list as costs begin to mount.
However, one woman was left furious after her friend didn't invite her to her daughter's wedding despite her being a regular attendee of their family events.
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In fact, she was so offended that she now feels she cannot meet up with her friend normally due to being denied an invite.
She took to Mumsnet's AIBU (Am I Being Unreasonable?) forum to vent, writing: "I haven’t seen my friend for a while due to Covid but knew her daughter’s wedding was to take place this April.
"I was never told the date or the venue and assumed that perhaps the pandemic had altered their plans. I recently had a phone call during which she revealed that the wedding was in four days’ time, explaining away the fact I obviously hadn’t been invited by saying that she didn’t think I would want to come as I didn’t like that sort of thing.
"True in part, that I feel awkward at such events but I have met a lot of her family socially over the years who have always been welcoming and I would have liked to attend.
"We have been friends for over 30 years and I feel hurt that I was never on the guest list – and by this I mean for the evening reception not the ceremony or the wedding breakfast. As the wedding was to be held at a country house hotel some miles away there wasn’t even the opportunity to see the bride as she set off from home in her dress or arrived at the register office.
"I know that as my friend is the one paying for everything on the big day she will have invited other friends to the evening reception. AIBU and should I just suck it up? At the moment I don’t feel I can meet up with this friend again, especially if it is to see photos of an event I wasn’t ever going to be a part of."
However, fellow Mumsnet users were less than impressed with the 'dramatic' mother.
One wrote: "I think you're being very dramatic. It's not your friend's wedding it's her daughters. She'll be inviting her own friends not her mother's.
"I'm close to a few of my mums friends but wouldn't invite them to my wedding."
"It's not your friend's wedding, it's her daughter's," another agreed - "it should be up to her and her fiancé to decide on the guest list."
Another added: "Gosh. That’s so over the top. You’re never going to meet your friend again because her daughter didn’t invite you to her wedding?
"That’s unbelievable. It’s her daughters choice, and it’s not about you - but if you are willing to bin off a friendship due to this then you were never her friend in the first place."
What do you think? Is the snubbed friend of the mother-of-the-bride being unreasonable? Let us know in the comments.
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