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AIBU?

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Wedding- wth?

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AutumnColour89 · 08/10/2022 15:03

Just looking for some advice here;
One of my husband's best friends is getting married in mid-November, he was in Portugal for the stag do last weekend. However, as yet, we have still received no invite. AIBU to think this is incredibly rude?
Apparently several people brought it up on the stag so it seems they just generally haven't bothered sending invitations. The only snips of information we've had a from their stag WhatsApp chat.
Most people (us included) will need to travel and book a hotel for two nights. As there's no accommodation at the place the wedding is (apparently) being held so we'd also have to book taxis, so we need to know what time they want us seated for the ceremony and what time the evening do finishes.
We've also been told it's (again apparently) 'black tie' dress code, which neither of us are familiar with particularly not for a wedding, so we would need to hire a tux for him and a dress for me.
I am reluctant to invest money in dresses, hotel rooms, gifts etc until we know the details for sure, but by then it could be too late to arrange anything.

OP posts:
AutumnColour89 · 09/10/2022 13:24

Sorry I haven't been back, it's been a busy 24 hours.
The wedding is in this country (UK) but the vast majority of the guests don't live locally to the venue so there's a lot of travel involved. And no we never received a save the date.

I persuaded my husband to message the groom this morning asking for the information we need and he has responded.

As a PP suggested, it wouldn't have been hard to send a bulk message or create a website or something like that. We're now having trouble booking a hotel at reasonable price.
I'm with PPs- we gave plenty of notice for our wedding to allow people time to make arrangements because we recognised that a lot is expected of wedding guests in terms of time, expense etc. And that's been the same for every other wedding we've ever attended (we received a save the date last summer for a wedding in March 2023, and the formal invite came through this week!) So I suppose it just seemed very odd.

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ThanksItHasPockets · 09/10/2022 13:31

fruitbrewhaha · 09/10/2022 11:31

I'm not sure why everyone is reeling out the rules of what to wear, but it sounds as if your DH will be ok in his clergy attire.

Just tell you DH to telephone the groom to say you all need to details or you are not coming. And then forget about it. It sounds like it will be a shit wedding anyway if they can't even organise the invites.

I went to an incredible wedding the other day. Save the dates where are good year in advance, invites 6 months in advance, I RSVPed straight away because I'm not rude, and it was an amazing day.

Someone asked fairly early on and a few posters responded to her question.

Where does OP say her DH is clergy?

Pipsquiggle · 09/10/2022 15:36

Sorry @AutumnColour89 sounds like the groom's disorganization will mean you're paying more - how bloody annoying.

Do you want to go?

BronwenFrideswide · 09/10/2022 17:16

If they are this disorganised at this stage I guarantee the entire wedding will be a disorganised car crash.

Honestly, I wouldn't bother going - their lack of organisation is going to cost you more and they clearly don't care about that so why should you care about their wedding?

Testina · 09/10/2022 20:14

Maybe other friends actually talk regularly to someone they’re going to the wedding of. Maybe they didn’t leave it until they were at the point of complaining on a random website 🤷🏻‍♀️

Why did your husband need to be “persuaded” to message his friend? He’s not a child.

You could have booked hotels months ago on a refundable rate if you were concerned.

So much angst that just needed one phone call to a friend!

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