FI and I went to dinner last night with 3 other couples - to celebrate one couple's 1 year anniversary. Since 2 of the couples are newley married (within the last year a half), and the other couple is recently engaged, we talked a lot about wedding plans and marital advice. The discussion turned to me telling the other engaged couple about how hard it is to make the guest list and the troubles of RSVPs, when I mentioned that someone FI's mother wanted to invite is bringing 3 extra guests - the grandmother, their son that is FI's age, and his FI. FI had been out of town for two weeks, so wasn't here when his mom okayed the situation with me. He was completely shocked. He said he hadn't talked to the son since FI moved to AR, which was when he was in middle school. I think FI will enjoy seeing him, but is completely shocked that he would want to come to the wedding. It was kind of fun to see FI so surprised about something.
Did anyone else have a surprise guest like that, or someone you were really surprised/excited when you got their "will be attending" RSVP?