She Declined To Go To A Wedding After Her Best Friend Wouldn’t Allow Her Boyfriend To Participate In Any Of The Activities With Them
For some reason, some of the biggest arguments that can occur throughout planning a wedding are related to plus-ones.
One woman recently got into an argument with her best friend because she planned on bringing her boyfriend as a plus-one to their mutual friend’s wedding.
Her name is Mariah, and she’s still super close with her college friend, Hannah. Hannah has a boyfriend named Doug, who has a close group of friends.
Since Hannah started dating Doug, she and Mariah have become a part of Doug’s friend group. They’re all in a group chat and hang out as often as possible.
One member of the friend group, Sam, is getting married to his fiancée, Mary. When they first got engaged last January, Mariah was talking to a guy, so Mary told her she could bring a plus-one to their wedding.
A year has passed, and the wedding is coming up in April. A few things have changed. For instance, Mariah has a new boyfriend, a guy different from the one she had been talking to in January. She received Sam and Mary’s wedding invitation and was still asked if she’d like to bring a plus-one.
She said yes, and made plans to bring her new boyfriend. It’s especially exciting for her because he lives in the same state where the wedding will be.
She was texting in a group chat with her friend group, minus Sam and Mary. They began planning to rent a bus they could all take to the wedding together.
She mentioned how excited she was to bring her boyfriend when both Hannah and Doug told her that she “couldn’t” bring him. None of her friends have even met her boyfriend yet, nor do they know anything about him.
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She called out Hannah and Sam, reminding them that they have no control over who her plus-one is. All of their other friends had no issue with her boyfriend going.
Hannah used a lot of strange reasons to support her opinion, saying things like “It’s a wedding, not a vacation,” telling her it would be inappropriate for Mariah’s boyfriend to be there and that she should see him in her “free time” instead.
Two weeks after the initial conflict, Hannah asked Mariah if she was still attending the wedding. She told her she’d only go if her boyfriend would be welcome. Then, Hannah told her she could bring her boyfriend but that he would have to be excluded from all of the activities.
Her boyfriend wouldn’t be able to ride in the van with them, join them for dinners, go on the beach with them, etc.
“He would only be allowed to attend the wedding, nothing more,” she explained. “So I canceled. I contacted the bride and told her something came up.”
She eventually told Mary what had happened, and she was shocked. She hasn’t heard from Hannah since the wedding.
Do you think she should still go to the wedding? If she does, should she still bring her boyfriend?
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