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I am really upset by this!

111 replies

namechangeneedopinions · 04/11/2010 09:36

OK so I am getting wed next year. My friend is also getting wed, we live a long way apart but still.
Anyway we have both chosen and booked same date and now she thinks i should change mine.

WWYD?

OP posts:
curlymama · 04/11/2010 11:06

She sounds lovely Hmm

I would do what ohforfoxsake says and be the bigger person.

Maybe even send a congratulations telegram old fashioned stylee to the reception venue and ask the staff there to present it to the best man to be read out as a lovely surprise for the bride and groom. Grin

FluffyDonkey · 04/11/2010 11:07

Wow I am Shock (speechless).

She sounds a wee bit controlling.

If I were you, I wouldn't change my date. I wouldn't give her the satisfaction! I would stick to the date chosen by me and my future husband.

Anyway, if you change the date she probably won't come - do it before her wedding and she'll be "too busy" organising her own wedding. Do it after her wedding and she'll be on honeymoon (or otherwise engaged writing thank you notes or something).

It's a power game.

I'm assuming you're not in the wedding party if you only found out her date so late?
We were hesitating between 2 dates, then asked our family and witnesses. One witness couldn't do the first weekend so we chose the second. Simple.

On the day we chose, 20 couples were getting married at the same town hall and it was lovely seeing other wedding parties before and after their ceremonies. Gave the whole experience a real party air, and it didn't detract from our wedding ceremony. We still managed to have a very private and intimate ceremony and managed to have photos without a load of strangers.

FluffyDonkey · 04/11/2010 11:09

Ok I went slightly off topic. Can you tell I loved my wedding day? Wish I could do it again...

Wink
nannynobnobs · 04/11/2010 11:12

If a supposed friend treated me with such disdain and bad grace you wouldn't see me for dust. You were being sensible about it (sorry we can't change but let's get together after) she was being an insane harpy (you bitch!! we are THROUGH!!!)
Enjoy your day, send her a card, forget her.

DanceInTheDark · 04/11/2010 11:15

eh? I don't get this thread.

You won't change your date, she won't change hers. You have no mutual friends and no relatives that are 'shared' so no one has to choose which wedding to go to.

What is the issue again?

QuintessentialShadows · 04/11/2010 11:16

Well, she has said not to contact her, so dont even reply to her. Let her stew. She sounds extremely childish and silly.

Better off without a "friend" like that methinks.

Next thing you know she will demand you still send her a wedding present. Wink

Lotofdamnationandhellfire · 04/11/2010 11:16

If there's no other reason than her being a little put out over the dates then there really is really nothing you can do. Leave yours as it is. If she wants to change her date then she can.

Think she is control freak, agree with someone else above send a card saying sorry she feels like this but want this date so hope she has wonderful day etc.

emptyshell · 04/11/2010 11:19

If you want to be the bigger person you could arrange a telegram or flowers the day before the wedding or similar as a gesture of "being there" on the lead-up to the day.

Sounds like neither of you are suited to each other though. Cut losses and move on.

LittleMissHissingFirecracker · 04/11/2010 11:20

Honey, you have booked and paid for your wedding. I'm guessing she has not.

You have reasons for picking that day, you did, it is arranged.

You have no mutual friends, so this is only about YOUR attendance at HER day.

She seems to have been the one that has made a mistake by booking the same date after you did.

If you can calmly ring her and say,

If the date were not important to me, because of XY and Z, I'd consider moving it.

If I'd not actually confirmed and paid for everything to happen on that date, I'd possibly be able to move it.

BUT

The date IS significant to me, and I HAVE confirmed everything, ages ago, it IS all paid for, if I move it I will lose out.

I can't move it, even if I DID want to.

You could ask her to listen to herself, put herself in someone else's shoes for a second and recognise that you have not done this to spite her.

If she can't be reasoned with, frankly you have to say that this is beyond bridezilla that you are sorry you can't be at her day and that she is unwilling to laugh about it, and arrange a 'do' for both happy couples on the other side..

Tell her that if she really feels this way that there is nothing you can do and tbh she is not the kind of person you would be proud to call a friend. Wish her good luck and hang up.

warthog · 04/11/2010 11:20

no great loss then eh?

LittleMissHissingFirecracker · 04/11/2010 11:20

fecking loon

LoveBeingAMummy · 04/11/2010 11:22

If it were me, I would defo not change now.

2Eliza2 · 04/11/2010 11:26

You are very patronizing, chill1234.

Don't change your date, OP.

namechangeneedopinions · 04/11/2010 16:57

well I am not changing my plans am very happy that on the 4th June 2011 I will be a married woman Grin

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HellAtWork · 04/11/2010 17:04

As other posters have said, looks like your 'friend' has made her choice. I would however (and very meanly, just to show her up) send a lovely telegram/card/flowers etc for the day and say you are thinking of her and sorry that she feels you can't be friends any more but that you accept her decision.

How close were you? Old school friends or recent? Am just puzzling over who would get themselves into such a nasty frenzy over this as she obviously has?

And congratulations OP - enjoy your day!

taintedpaint · 04/11/2010 17:08

This sounds bloody ridiculous. Basically, since you have no mutual friends (ie people who will be having to decide which wedding to attend), she is tantruming because you won't attend her wedding? Either that, or she thinks she is the most important person in the world and no one else must get married on her day?

I'm sorry, but she sounds like a child. And frankly, if things are as childish as you have described, used your special day to rid yourself of friend-deadweight. She is the one who has caused this problem and if she is stupid enough to chuck a paddy over it, then you're better off without her.

TheLadyEvenstar · 04/11/2010 17:42

hahahahahahaha sorry have gone back to my name and am laughing because NOW she wants me to call and sort it out hahahahaha

am going to hide under my duvet so the neighbours don't think I am mad laughing so much!!!

QuintessentialShadows · 04/11/2010 17:44

huh?

nickelbangBANGbang · 04/11/2010 17:47

is it all sorted then TLES?

Confused

maybe she's a MNer...

TheLadyEvenstar · 04/11/2010 17:52

well its sorted in as much as I am not bothering to talk to her or change my date because at the end of the day the day was chosen for a reason.

IamSoStupid · 04/11/2010 17:52

wierd

RumourOfAHurricane · 04/11/2010 21:14

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Hedgeblunder · 04/11/2010 21:18

OP-pleeeeease tell me youveseen bride wars the film??. Trust me you will love it!

TheLadyEvenstar · 04/11/2010 21:30

nooo I haven't seen it!!

but I have had a barrage of text messages from her.

I am so glad today brought what she was really like out!!!

Hedgeblunder · 04/11/2010 21:33

Lady- promise me you will go and rent it tomorrow promise!!!! Honestly it's fab and will give you some eeevil ideas- it's about two friends who's weddings are booked for the same day!
What did the texts say??