GOOD excuses for not drinking hen night!!!

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Hey, I have been invited to a hen night this weekend, for my partners cousin.
So all of his female family will be there. His sister and his brother fiance know as I am close to them, and they said they wont say anything its my decision obviously.
I am not close to the others, and don't really want to say I'm pregnant if I can help it.
My 12 week scan isn't until the friday after when I will actually be 14 weeks with twins and be telling everyone if all is well.
I wouldn't usually mind telling them as I had a scan at 10 weeks and all was well, but I am a worrier, and also me and my partner aren't getting on amazingly at the moment, and I don't want to be having to gush about babies and all the questions, pretending to be happy when I'm feeling down about my partner etc.
Antibiotics? What for? I literally am rubbish at lying. Xx

Everyone guessed when I said antibiotics. Is there anyway you can drive to the hen do? You could say you have something first thing the next day so would rather drive a d have a clear head?

Oh and congrats on twins! X

Antibiotics - there's one in particular you can't drink at all with, they even tell you to avoid using mouthwash! (Most you can drink, or it's not the end of the world if you do so you'll get a lot of 'one won't hurt' type pressure, but with these it really is absolutely no way). Metronidazole google tells me is the name and it was prescribed to me by a dentist for a badly infected tooth, so you can go with that story :)

You have an infected tooth and are taking metronidazole. You absolutely cannot drink on these, the side effects are so bad they can be prescribed to alcoholics to turn them off drink !! Congrats and have fun

Congratulations!

Can you claim to have something important to do early in the morning the next day? Have to drive somewhere? Been feeling under the weather and have been trying some detoxing?

It doesn't sound like you are mega close to the bride to be so opting out of the boozing shouldn't raise too many eye brows

If there are going to be two people there who know, then you need to rope them in to drink alcoholic stuff for you, or order your drinks for you. People will guess if you just don't drink.

I've got a hen night in a couple of weeks. Fortunately it's at someone's house, so we'll be making our own drinks. I'm planning on carrying around a half full glass of prosecco and then switching to lemonade with a slice of lime. No idea if it'll work, but last time round the antibiotics thing was a dead giveaway!

pretend to already be hungover and the thought of alcohol makes you feel ill. X

My go to is UTI since that both requires antibiotics and is exacerbated by drinking/dehydration.
Or (and probably the easiest) order a small glass of wine or some sort of mixer served like an alcoholic drink, and just pretend to drink. Then everyone will have "seen you drinking", and you can swap glasses with your partner's sister and brother's fiancée when theirs are nearly empty. To be honest I found that as long as there wasn't an "I'll just have a coke" moment to draw attention to the fact you are not even ordering booze, people rarely ask.

I successfully used the Metronidazole excuse for my own hen weekend. The bonus being that I've had it before (and so has my sister) for Bacterial Vaginosis so I used that same excuse. Once you say those words to people they don't often want to talk about it again haha!!

You've been prescribed metronidazole for bacterial vaginosis (causes a terrible fishy smell). No one would possibly think you'd make that up

Haha. I second metronidazole for bacterial vaginosis. I've been prescribed it for that and it is the most horrendous antibiotic. I couldn't even keep food down let alone alcohol, so should be a good excuse

Unfortunately I found that people saw through every excuse I made. I went for 'fake drinking'. Buying a soda and lime and saying it was vodka etc, buying a wine that I pretended to sip and then just pour away when no one was looking. That worked much better for me.

Haha! Thank you all for the excuses!
I actually used to be a dental nurse - it is metronidazole for tooth ache and that's no drinking so I could try that! Yeah none of them know me that well so I don't think they would question me, but then again they are quite a raucous bunch!
If not that I can certainly get my 2x sister in laws to maybe cover my drinks! But they've seen me drunk and I don't know how good my acting skills are, I'm normally very quiet lol.
Hate the lies! But definitely don't need to be center of attention pretending to be happy! Haha, pregnancy is crazy. Xx

I had a hen doo when I was 10weeks pregnant and I actually bought a couple of bottles of non alcoholic wine and poured them into normal bottles and drank out of them. Nobody suspected a thing.... to the point where I actually got accused of drinking when I was pregnant when I told them all at 12 weeks!! The look on their faces when I told them what lengths I'd gone to! Haha

Fake it. If you say antibiotics you might as well have a sign over your head saying 'I'm pregnant'.

I've used the antibiotics excuse before. It was very believable but then I'm always unwell. Say you have an abscess or something 😊

I always think its better to pretend to drink if possible! Just buy diet coke when no one else is at the bar and ask for lemon or lime in it, everyone will assume its alcoholic!

Either pretend to drink or say you are doing a dry June for charity. Hit them for some donations and they'll soon change the subject.

I never ever pay attention to the contents of other people's glasses and nobody ever makes a song or dance about their drinks. Unless they're female, fertile and suddenly telling the world and his brother aaaalll about the precise reasons why they're not drinking. You may as well wear an "I'm pregnant" t-shirt.

Just order non-alcoholic drinks and nobody will even notice.

I had a flare up of IBS two days before a wedding when I was 8 weeks, and my friends know if I have an IBS episode then I can't drink, so that could work?

Work Christmas do at 10 weeks, I had a UTI, everyone gets embarrassed and changes the subject at that.

I have a hen do weekend starting tomorrow and I'm not telling anyone yet. Only by best friend who will be there knows so we're planning on putting shloer or something in a champagne glass and faking it although I'm not a big drinker anyway and it's not going to be a massively boozy weekend