She Faked A Work Emergency To Get Out Of A Wedding After The Bride Began Sobbing Because She Didn’t Have A Seat Or Food For Her
At least once in our lives, we’ve all pretended to have a fake emergency when we wanted to get out of a certain situation.
But have you ever faked an emergency to get out of a wedding?
One woman did this recently and pretended she had to deal with a work emergency so she could leave her boyfriend’s friend’s wedding.
She’s 28 and has been with her 29-year-old boyfriend for eight months. They live in the south of England, but her boyfriend is from Scotland and has friends and family who still live there. She hasn’t met any of them yet, until now. Unfortunately, it didn’t go so well.
Two of his friends in Scotland got engaged and were supposed to get married in 2020 but had to cancel due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
When her boyfriend was first invited to the wedding, he was dating someone else and received a plus-one for her.
The wedding was rescheduled to last weekend, and instead of sending new invites in the mail, the bride and groom sent out emails and texts. Her boyfriend asked her to go with him because he figured his plus-one invite was still valid.
“When my boyfriend asked me to attend, I foolishly didn’t think to ask if the bride knew I was coming because he assured me he had a plus-one,” she said.
“On Friday, we get to the pre-wedding reception, and when we get to the bride and groom, I immediately realize the issue.”
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The bride was shocked that her boyfriend had brought someone. She and her fiancé must have assumed that because he broke up with the girlfriend, he was with when they first got engaged, he wasn’t bringing a plus-one anymore.
As they walked away from the bride and groom, she heard the bride panic and talk about how they didn’t prepare a seat or food for her at the reception.
The bride got so stressed about her being there and not being prepared that she started crying.
The bride cried for about two hours and sat in a corner, getting consoled by her maid of honor. The groom tried to reassure her and her boyfriend that everything was fine, but it clearly wasn’t, and she felt extremely uncomfortable.
She decided she needed to get out of there, so she pretended to take a serious phone call and told everyone she had a work-related emergency back at home she had to attend to immediately.
“I apologized to the groom and bride, who stopped crying enough to say it was lovely to meet me,” she recalled. “I then got a taxi and a train home.”
When her boyfriend got home after the wedding the following Monday, he became livid once he found out she had lied about having a work emergency.
Although she said she simply wanted to stop stressing out the bride, he was upset that she left him on his own.
He also said that her leaving made a terrible first impression on his friends, as they all thought she prioritized work over meeting everybody at the wedding.
“I thought I was helping the situation by not being there and stressing out the wedding party,” she added.
“I said work emergency because, for a family emergency, my boyfriend would have felt obligated to come with me, and I wanted him to stay and enjoy the wedding.”
Was she rude for leaving the wedding, or did she end up doing the bride a favor?
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