A woman has admitted her upset online that her partner's best friend isn't letting her attend their upcoming wedding in picturesque Scotland. Once she didn't receive the initial invite, she thought that it was a simple mistake.
However, the woman was stumped when the official invitations were sent out and she was excluded. Taking to popular forum Reddit, the woman admitted that she feels 'hurt' that the wife-to-be is refusing to let her attend.
The woman explained: "Basically, My partner and I have been together 4 years, and are probably one of the few long-term couples in our friend groups.
She went on: "In his original friend group, he introduced me to another couple and we've all spent a decent amount together, especially because we lived 10 minutes apart for two years.
"During Covid the other couple got engaged and I was at their house a lot when they would be talking about the engagement and the upcoming wedding which they would be having in summer 2023.
"My partner is technically in the bridal party (despite being a guy), and he was even invited to the Hen Do although he couldn’t take the time off work.
"An initial email (the real invites will be sent later) was sent about the wedding last summer that mostly ended up in people's spam, so my partner fwd the invite to me.
"I asked him to double-check whether I was invited but he seemed pretty convinced I obviously was and forgot to formally check."
While the woman believed that it was a simple mistake, the bride-to-be had intentionally not included the woman from the invite list.
The woman explained: "Cut to this week, the bride has sent out another email that my partner got about the accommodation for the wedding (which will be in Scotland, while we live in London).
"He has been invited to stay at this house with the main couple and their close friends/family for the wedding weekend.
"He texted her to check whether I could stay in his room, but she said that there were no plus ones because it is a small building and he'd be sharing his room with two other friends.
"My partner didn't want me to be alone so we immediately looked into getting an Airbnb nearby, and booked this instead.
"When he then went to let the bride know, he found out that I'm actually not even invited to the wedding at all."
"Honestly, I'm so shocked and hurt by this because although I'm not best friends with the couple, we are on great terms and have only ever had good times together. My partner is also one of the bride's best friends, and yet she isn’t allowing him to bring a plus one."
"It's just so weird. I spent like two years thinking I'm going to this fun Scotland wedding with a ton of friends and my partner, only to find out this was never the case."
Flocking to the comment section, people sympathised for the woman, admitting that the whole situation was 'bizarre'
One person wrote: "I would love to know if everyone else in the bridal party are being required to leave their partners at home??"
Someone else agreed: "Same here. It's a bizarre situation, though, isn't it. I've been invited to a wedding along with the kids as my husband's plus one where I'd never met the bride and groom! (We're great friends now)."
Meanwhile, a third said: "They went on: I couldn't imagine not only not inviting a long-term partner of someone in the wedding party, but someone who's actually a friend too?"
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