Woman travels 8 hours for wedding only to be told to leave for not reading invite 'small print'

Daily Mirror

2 days ago

A woman has been left fuming after dedicating 16 hours of travel for a colleague's wedding, only to be told to leave after the ceremony as she wasn't invited to the meal
A woman's excitement to attend her first wedding turned sour after she travelled 16 hours to Scotland for a colleague's nuptials, only to be asked to leave post-ceremony.
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Weddings often offer the joy of exploring new places, but one guest was left gobsmacked when her commitment to a workmate's big day resulted in an unexpected ejection.
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With sky-high costs and limited space at venues, deciding on the wedding guest list can be ruthless. The anonymous lady was buzzing with anticipation for the Scottish wedding, which would be her first. It comes after a woman claimed 'I regret marrying an older man, one part of our history has given me the ick'.
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However, her elation turned to humiliation when she was unceremoniously told to exit following the ceremony. "I was absolutely mortified," she confessed to Reddit users.
She had relished the beautiful ceremony alongside another colleague, eagerly awaiting the chance to snap photos with the bride and settle in for the wedding breakfast. But upon arrival at the reception, she was met with bewilderment as her name was conspicuously absent from the seating plan.
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Taking to Reddit, the bewildered guest recounted: "We get to the venue and like everyone else are checking the table plan for our seats, and still checking, but can't find our names.
"The Master of Ceremonies comes over and asks to see our invites. He flatly states we were only invited to the church and evening drinks and that we need to leave. It was in tiny small print that our invite wasn't for the meal."
Following this mortifying mix-up, the wedding attendee and her mate promptly "slipped away". She continued: "Neither my colleague nor I had realised we weren't included in the whole event and the bride later let it slip she only invited people from the office because our boss had told her it was the polite thing to do. We had thought we were friends with her," the woman added.
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Still dressed to the nines, the duo opted to hunt down a nearby café in the Scottish Highlands and kill some time for the following five hours, whilst the remaining guests celebrated.
The Reddit poster continued: "We found a local greasy spoon and have a bacon roll and tea, then decide to go back to the bed and breakfast to freshen up. The lady was furious and tried to feed us up bless her. She then drove us back to the evening ceremony at 7pm.
"By this point everyone at the venue was sloppy drunk as they'd been drinking for five hours, and we find out we were the only 'evening guests'."
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The pair attempted to have a good time but departed the wedding at 10pm after feeling like the sole sober attendees and growing fed up with having to fend off "very handsy" men. The disgruntled guests remarked: "We got a lift from a kind local and went to a local bar where we were entertained by more locals who had heard of our fate from the BandB owner.
"We had the breakfast of gods the next morning and were told if we ever go back to be assured that is not how the local people treat their guests. We had ended up having a fun night because of the locals. They really did save the day in more ways than one."
The guest said she now gleaned a lesson from her ordeal, adding: "I now scrutinise wedding invites and if I'm only invited to the evening part that's cool but at least I'm informed."
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However, she did get her own back. She elaborated: "We had put £50 each in the card envelope and chipped in for a beautiful bedding set on her registry at Debenhams so our gifts were worth £100 each. We took the money out of the card and just gave her the bedding."
The wedding blunder sparked hundreds of comments from Reddit users. One person opined: "It is just rude to invite a person to the morning and the evening part but not the eating part. Either you invite them to all or only evening. This grinds my gears!".
Another chimed in: "My cousin did that. We still talk about how inconsiderate it was years later, so much that when my fiancé and I decided on an afternoon ceremony, that was one of the reasons."
A third commented: "I honestly have never heard of anyone doing that in this country! It's either all day or evening only. I wouldn't have returned for the evening.
"Well that is really rude," another highlighted.