No bridesmaid SOs invited to Rehearsal Dinner?

mrsfrusci

If they allow the bridal party to bring guests at all, then fiancés and husbands (and wives) alike should be able to attend. The exception, I would think would be if members of the bridal party are from out of town and their significant others would have to make arrangements to eat alone. Usually it's the bridal party and out of town guests go to the dinner. Either way, it sucks that you were slighted. Still go since it's a bridal event and you're in the bridal party but you have every right to be offended/hurt about it.

JCbride2015

mrsfrusci said:

If they allow the bridal party to bring guests at all, then fiancés and husbands (and wives) alike should be able to attend. The exception, I would think would be if members of the bridal party are from out of town and their significant others would have to make arrangements to eat alone. Usually it's the bridal party and out of town guests go to the dinner. Either way, it sucks that you were slighted. Still go since it's a bridal event and you're in the bridal party but you have every right to be offended/hurt about it.

This doesn't make sense at all.  The bridal party SO's (anybody who identifies as a couple) must be invited to the RD, period.  It's not about whether the bridal party gets a "guest."  Your exception also doesn't make sense-- so the exception to bringing SO's is.... bringing SO's?

The bolded: what?  No.  If she is slighted, offended, and hurt, she does not have to go because it's a bridal event.  Her friend refused to recognize her relationship and wound up ruining the friendship, all for the cost of a dinner plate.

PrettyGirlLost

Who the hell Blists people for a rehearsal dinner?!

Yeah that right there. . .it tells me your "friend" was lying, and badly, when she claimed she had no control over the rehearsal dinner guest list. This bitch is absolutely in control of everything.

This bride is the worst.

JellyBean52513

OP, @MobKaz said it perfectly. Your friend had choices to make, too, and she made them with little to no regard with how you would feel. When you spoke up and expressed yourself, she reacted horribly. You had EVERY RIGHT to speak up for yourself. I don't get what it is about weddings that makes brides think they're suddenly invincible to criticism. Like, "this is my wedding so nobody is allowed to express any dissent to anything I do/say, and if anybody does then that makes them wrong because they're bitches who don't support me and my special day."