"He Decided To Get Drunk Instead": 23 Loved Ones Who Blew Off Weddings For Absolutely Ridiculous, Bizarre, And Even Selfish Reasons

We precocious covered this Reddit thread wherever radical shared the astir bizarre reasons their friends and household members bailed connected their weddings. BuzzFeed Community members past chimed successful with their ain stories filled with anemic excuses and lazy loved ones. Here's what they revealed:

1. "We had a 15-person wedding, and my husband's member conscionable didn't amusement up. Weeks later, helium told america helium had a seizure that morning, which his woman level retired told america was a lie, and helium was good and conscionable didn't privation to go."

—starwarsbride1212

2. "We had a 2021 wedding wherever astir Covid rules were lifted, but we asked radical to instrumentality a Covid trial if imaginable beforehand. But we ne'er asked for impervious of tests oregon for them to beryllium done there, truthful radical could easy conscionable not fuss oregon adjacent lie. But galore of my husband's household didn't travel due to the fact that they didn't privation to bash the Covid tests. Clearly, they really didn't privation to come."

—helenc8

3. "After agreeing to beryllium successful my wedding party, my (former) person got engaged and scheduled their wedding for the nonstop aforesaid time successful a antithetic state, past asked idiosyncratic other successful my wedding enactment to beryllium successful their wedding party. The 3 of america utilized to bent retired together, but the 2 of them were besties. I lone recovered retired erstwhile the 2nd idiosyncratic told maine they had to driblet retired and why."

—Anonymous

4. "We got joined connected the archetypal time of the month. A bully household person missed the wedding due to the fact that she didn't power her calendar implicit and forgot astir it!"

—Female, 50, California

5. "My ex-stepfather, whom I person a half-brother from and who raised maine astir of my young childhood, fto his caller woman (whose wedding I attended aft they had known each different little than a year) constitute maine a full-page effect included with their declined RSVP due to the fact that her sanction wasn't written connected the invitation envelope. She besides went connected a rant astir each the things she didn't similar astir me. So bizarre. Also, my in-laws helped maine nonstop the invites from an code database that I knew had each the guests, but not needfully spouse names (especially newer ones), truthful it wasn't similar an intentional barb. And it perfectly allowed for a guest."

"I cried for similar 2 days, past said 'good riddance.' We didn't talk for years, and they divorced aft astir 2 years. I've been joined for 18 years. We are besides backmost to non-speaking terms, truthful helium conscionable isn't who I thought helium was arsenic a begetter fig anyway. Just gotta cognize erstwhile to chopped your losses connected these things. It's usually a motion that the narration isn't steadfast oregon worthy the energy."

—Female, 43, Pennsylvania 

6. "When my oldest girl was getting married, I sent an invitation to my biologic begetter (her grandfather). I addressed the envelope 'John Smith + one.' He was progressive with a pistillate who called herself his fiancé, but they were not engaged. He called maine 1 nighttime to inquire maine to reissue the invitation with her existent sanction connected it. I could perceive her, successful the background, belligerently telling him what to say. I heard her archer him that if I didn't bash it, helium wasn't attending the wedding. I told him that helium was invited to be with her arsenic his plus-one, and that I hoped helium wouldn't disappoint his granddaughter by not attending the wedding."

"The greeting of the wedding, my girl (the bride) came up to maine crying. She had gotten an email from the woman saying her gramps wasn't attending due to the fact that helium was 'sick.' She was precise obnoxious, and helium was a mouse. He did what she wanted and wounded his granddaughter due to the fact that her NAME wasn't connected the invitation envelope. He ne'er joined her!"

—Female, 72, Florida

7. "We had fto our friends and household cognize months successful beforehand to prevention the day for my wedding. I had gone to their wedding, which progressive traveling retired of town. I got a enactment saying they couldn't travel to my wedding due to the fact that 'the timing was off.'"

—Anonymous

8. "My relative blew disconnected my wedding due to the fact that helium won performance tickets connected the vigor for the aforesaid day."

—Female, 57

9. "My dad's champion friend's woman declined each lawsuit for years due to the fact that they hadn't been invited to my 3 sisters' weddings. My archetypal sister had a tiny wedding: household and adjacent friends only. My 2nd sister had a wedding the play of their anniversary, and my dada talked to his person astir it earlier the invites were sent; they already had plans. My 3rd sister was getting joined successful the Bahamas and ONLY had household there. By the clip my 3rd sister got married, the friend's woman was steaming mad. Recognizing the accidental to mend the relationship, I invited the 2 of them. They were the archetypal RSVP I received. They didn't conscionable cheque 'no.' She wrote 'NO!!!' successful Sharpie connected the instrumentality card. My dad's person had nary thought they had adjacent been invited until a fewer months aft the wedding, erstwhile I ran into him."

—Male, 34, Connecticut

10. "My grandparents didn't travel to my wedding due to the fact that they said they would person to halt to usage the bath during the four-hour thrust from their authorities to mine. They had made that thrust for other, little important things galore times, and adjacent stopped to usage bathrooms without thing catastrophic happening. That was the extremity of immoderate effort to support a narration with them."

—Anonymous

11. "My relative dropped retired arsenic a bridesmaid connected a whim due to the fact that she decided to determination for a job. She was backmost successful our archetypal authorities 2 weeks later."

—originalasteroid6432

12. "A fewer friends decided that since our wedding was connected Derby Day, they would not beryllium coming. Yes, an important time for america was overshadowed by a time that comes each year. The champion portion was that our wedding happened hours aft the Derby was over."

—Male, 46, Kentucky

13. "My ma insisted I invitation this couple, wherever the feline was the lad of my stepdad's erstwhile caput and built their location (some adjacent person of theirs). The hubby and woman RSVPed 'yes,' but lone the woman showed up. That was due to the fact that the hubby decided to spell connected a sportfishing travel instead."

"Also, my dada has 2 older sisters who bash not get along. Sister #1 RSVPed aboriginal and got a hotel. Sister #2 RSVPed precocious and couldn't find a hotel, truthful my dada offered for sister #2 to enactment astatine his house. This besides resulted successful sister #2 being invited by my dada to the rehearsal meal since she was sleeping astatine my dad's house, and it was a constricted attendance. Sister #1 heard that sister #2 was astatine the rehearsal meal and got pissed, truthful she checked retired of her edifice and started her six-hour thrust home, lone to crook astir astir an hr into the travel to effort to cheque backmost in, but the edifice had fixed her country away. So she past went home. I didn't get the afloat communicative until MUCH later."

—ladedah

14. "I had notified our household and friends months earlier the wedding of our date. I went retired of my mode to be my friend's wedding, which progressive extended travel. My person RSVPed, adjacent my wedding, that they couldn't travel due to the fact that they were taking an day travel astatine that time."

—Anonymous

15. "My hubby had been adjacent friends with this mates for years. On the time of our wedding, the woman came, but helium didn't, and the excuse was 'he had to work.' The antheral was a car salesperson astatine the time."

—Anonymous

16. "When I told my dada I was getting joined successful Vegas, helium said helium couldn't spell due to the fact that helium was going to spell to Hawaii with my uncle the aforesaid twelvemonth (not astatine the aforesaid time). I ne'er understood that logic, and it wounded deeply. He passed distant successful an mishap a fewer months later."

—born_with_no_bones

17. "This was my daughter's best friend. Her parents were divorced, but her begetter said helium would beryllium determination to locomotion her down the aisle. On the time of the wedding, helium was a no-show. He decided to get drunk instead. That was astir 15 years ago. She hasn't talked to him since."

—Anonymous

18. "An acquaintance (through a communal friend) invited herself to our wedding, and RSVPed yes. She was a no-show. We saw her a fewer weeks later, and erstwhile asked wherefore she didn't attend, she answered, 'Who gets joined connected a Sunday?' I did, and it stated that intelligibly connected the invitation she replied to."

—Female, 48, Canada

19. "My uncle had good implicit six months' notice, had nary occupation getting to the venue...but 3 days before, helium up and decided to spot a footy lucifer instead. Found retired from my dad. The full household gave it to my uncle for his actions."

—Female, 30, Australia

20. "A longtime person since precocious schoolhouse texted maine the nighttime earlier my wedding that helium couldn't be due to the fact that helium had to determination the adjacent day."

—Male, 30, Pennsylvania 

21. "My hubby and I eloped. We got joined portion connected vacation, past threw a large enactment successful our backyard afterwards. Two of my 'closest friends' since precocious schoolhouse did not attend. They did archer america they weren't coming, truthful it's not similar they bailed aft RSVPing. But still... One, who lived astir 2 hours distant and for whom I'd been a bridesmaid, said, 'I'm not coming each the mode retired determination for that.' The different expected maine to prime her up astatine the train, fto her enactment for the play astatine our house, and marque the play each astir her visit. I told her that I truly couldn't prime her up and entertain her, due to the fact that determination was a just magnitude of enactment progressive successful mounting up and throwing the party. (We enactment up the rented structure ourselves and enactment retired the rented chairs, decorated, and we 'catered' it ourselves, truthful determination was nutrient to hole and enactment out.)"

"Another mates was coming from the aforesaid vicinity wherever this person lived, but she didn't privation to thrust with them; if I wasn't going to prime her up astatine the bid and person her enactment arsenic a houseguest with america each weekend, she wasn't going to attend. So she didn't. Sometimes radical are conscionable weird."

—Female, 69, New Jersey

22. "My relative didn't RSVP, truthful we called months earlier to marque definite helium got the invite. He said helium didn't get the invite, but that helium would come. And past helium was a no-show. His uncle asked him why, and helium said, 'No 1 reminded him.' He is successful his mid-30s."

—Female, 29, New York City

23. And: "It wasn't ridiculous arsenic overmuch arsenic weird. Long-time household friends/my champion person who lived successful the aforesaid municipality arsenic I did were invited to my wedding, and determination was zero effect from them until the past infinitesimal erstwhile the ma wrote that their lad was getting joined connected the aforesaid day, truthful they couldn't attend. I was successful a semipermanent relationship, and my wedding was planned for implicit a year; their lad was azygous each during this time, arsenic acold arsenic I knew. When I asked why, I was told that his bride, a formation attendant, had to docket their ceremonial connected the aforesaid play owed to work. We shared an extended person group, truthful much than fractional of my attendees besides attended his work that day, and it was an awkward benignant of back-and-forth betwixt each the events."

"Life went on, past I yet met his bride a twelvemonth aboriginal and joked astir the 'sharing a wedding date' thing, and she had nary thought what I was talking about. She didn't prime the date; his household did. I'm inactive friends with them each to this day, and nary 1 talks astir it. It's similar it ne'er happened. They got divorced a twelvemonth oregon 2 aft this, and helium ne'er remarried. So weird."

—Female, 58, USA

What the heck is incorrect with people!!?? Did anyone bail connected your wedding astatine the past minute? What was their crappy excuse? Tell america successful the comments oregon stock anonymously utilizing this form.

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