My boyfriend of 3 years' best friend is getting married. I have always been really nice to his best friends soon to be wife. Tonight my boyfriend went to a bachelor party and I asked him if the bride was going to have a bachlorette party, he said yes and that they are just doing an at home movie watching thing...tonight. I never got an invite and I know a few girls that are going that are not in their wedding line. Do I have the right to be upset? I feel really excluded and it hurt my feelings.
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Whilst you are completely entitled to your feelings, you also need to understand that no one is owed an invitation. It's fine to be hurt and upset, but don't feel that this is a slight against you. Bachelor and bachelorette parties are generally a way for a bride and groom to celebrate with their friends - very rarely will everyone invited to the wedding be invited to the bachelor or bachelorette. It's important to also remember that the bride will not have planned the party - her Maid of Honour or perhaps another friend, who likely doesn't know you, most likely will have. Look at it this way - you are only being invited to the wedding as your boyfriend's date. You are not friends with the groom or the bride. If you weren't dating your boyfriend or you broke up, you wouldn't be invited.
I'm always nice to several hundred coworkers every day. That doesn't mean I would ever expect any sort of invite to any function of theirs whatsoever. 7 Billion people on the planet. Not everyone who connects with you is going to want to be your friend. Not being mean or rude. It's not personal, just like not everyone who has met you- no matter how nice you are- will want to be friends. It doesn't have anything to do with you necessarily. It's just part of life.
Someone in the bride's wedding party plans the party, either she already knew who to invite, or she got a list of the bride's friends and family.
Your feelings are your feelings and no one should judge those. But you also have to do some introspecting and ask yourself where those feelings are coming from. Feeling upset because your boyfriend yelled at your son is different than being upset because a veritable stranger didn't invite you to an event. One is centered around/stems from concern for your child, the other is your ego talking. She was never obligated to invite you, or tell her wedding party to invite you. Even another example, just because you like someone, doesn't automatically mean they are going to like you back. It's nothing to get upset over, like I said 7 billion people on the planet. Not everyone is going to share the same feelings for each other. You like a guy, he doesn't like you back, or he's not interested. Shrugs. It's ok.
If you're not in the bridal party, or actual friends with the bride, the bachelorette party invite list is none of your concern. Just an opportunity for you to know yourself and understand where your feelings in life stem from.
You can be upset if you like, but it will accomplish nothing. The bride does not throw her own bachelorette party, it is thrown for her. While she may have given a list of people to invite, she has NO actual control on who actually receives invites.
Sorry you were not invited and you are entitled to your feelings about it. The bride is not the one who sets up the party - so maybe they didn't know you wanted to go. Leave it be, don't say anything and go to the wedding/reception and have a good time.
Unless you're close friends with the bride, there's no reason to be upset or hurt. Whoever put the movie night together chose who to invite, probably girls in the wedding party, her close friends, sisters maybe. Just because it's his best friend getting married doesn't make his fiancee' your best friend.
You have absolutely no right to be upset. She had her reasoning for not inviting you (maybe she wanted to keep it on the smaller side etc), or it could have simply been an oversight. Do not, and I mean do NOT bring this up to the bride. You will come off like a petulant brat
No you don't. Being nice to her isn't being friends with her, even then this is her party & shes allowed to invite or not invite who she wants.
You're not a close friend of the bride. You're not entitled to an invitation to what is apparently just close friends. No, you don't have the right to be upset.
no. it is not okay to be upset about this. being nice to her is not the same as being a close friend. most women only invite really close friends to the bachelorette party. if you are invited to the wedding, all is well.
You can feel however you want to feel, but nobody owed you an invitation. Feel however you want to feel, but there's nothing you can say or do about it without being a total brat.