For not attending a friends wedding

[OonaghBhuna]

An old friend of mine is getting married tomorrow.On Wednesday night I went over to their house with my present for them. Almost as soon as I had got home they phoned to say that they thought the present was awful and could i come back to collect it because they didnt like it at all.
They said ' we dont do ornaments and did you not know that we want vouchers'
So like a mug I went around and felt utterly humiliated and upset.
They were so rude and disrespectful to us that I cant bring myself to go.I am angry aswell as upset. I dont want to celebrate their maariage as I feel our friendship is over, I am shocked that I dont really know them at all......

oooohhhh am on a revenge attack now - you need to smash up ornament and mosaic a lovely little treasure box with it fir all of their wedding stuff!

MI's post of 17.53; just what i was thinking ! A passive aggressive whispering campaign - excellent !

why do that, Twinkie? take the ornament back and buy something for yourself. take a photo of it.

send them a thank you note.

after you've gone to their reception and eaten and drunk your fill on their dime.

were they drunk?

Make a pass at the groom's father. Then at the bride's mother.

Slip a bottle of tar into your clutch bag and spill it on the bride.

Take your needlework case and put some fine holes in the cake. Drizzle in some cod liver oil.

Take your pets along with you.

Before you go, visit the pet shop. You never know when they'll be a sale on - small yappy type dogs and rats make ideal companions.

On no account bathe or wash your hair between now and tomorrow. In fact, go for a 10 mile run right now, in the outfit you're planning on wearing. Make it a muddy run, and have a nosebleed if you can.

Black out some of your teeth.

Do you know Pete Doherty? He is the ideal plus one.

Make sure that crack ho is male, too.

Gosh, I'm terribly vindictive, aren't i?

Oh I'd get them a voucher allright.

An Oxfam one. Like say, for latrines.

IPTF - LOL @ all your suggestions

Mrs Mattie had it spot on. Just what I was thinking.

i am lol aswell!

Oh yes - this is the perfect opportunity to buy somebody a goat.

Loving the revenge ideas. Although I suspect you won't do them - you sound too nice.

I would be seriously tempted, however, to phone someone else who's going to be there and tell them exactly why you won't be going. Magnanimously, of course, as someone else said.
All the better if it's the most gossipy, bitchy person you know.

Then your story will be the talk of the wedding and that's all everyone will remember it for.

A voucher for Lidl or Primark is a dirty, torn, scruffy fiver, with some mysterious numbers scrawled across it in biro. (who tf does that?)

Ask for £4 change.

Wow. S/he is an OLD friend and you've never noticed such selfish, rude behaviour before? Is it the person they are marrying?

I love all these suggestions. Personally I'd be tempted to tip itching powder on their chairs at the reception.

Hire the ho! Hire the ho!

Don't go - you wouldn't enjoy it, and you wouldn't want to spoil their wedding.

But your story is just too too good not to be shared.... with all your mutual friends.
Seriously, you'll be cancelling at short notice so you will need to justify yourself.

Wow, that story is so funny it's given me strength to enjoy bedtime. You'll be dining out on it for years!

I absolutely guarantee that with a maximum of three carefully placed phone calls you can completely alter their Very Special Day.

Btw, didn't they realise it wasn't vouchers when you handed it over?

don't go
don't tell them you're not going (that'll be a bugger if it's seated)
don't talk to them again
whispering campaign is beautiful

god, what kind of people are they?

Don't go! How bloody rude.

on the sensible side I'd vote for writing them a note cordially endingyour friendship due to their extreme hurtful rudeness

on the vengeful side I would avail myself of many of the options listed in this thread.

unbelievable! Send them tons of gifts - a dumpster to be delivered early in the morning, inappropriate magazine subscriptions, etc. Someone did that to a rude friend of mine and he kept getting billed for these things. And he just couldn't figure out WHY anyone would do that to him????
Your friend sounds horrid, and you shouldn't go to the wedding. Don't put yourself in a place where you will be upset/uncomfortable.

Good grief, I do hope that they've just gone temporarily insane with the stress of the wedding. If they're that rude normally, that is completely unforgivable. Even if they'd put it to one side and given it to a charity shop in a few weeks it would be less hurtful and better manners than actually having the nerve to tell you to come and pick it up because it's not good enough. I wouldn't want to go either.

Imagine what they'll be like with their PFB