My fiance and I were invited to a surprise birthday party for a co-worker after work today. His fiance arranged it. She said that it's BYOB and BYOC. Confused about BYOC I asked her and it's bring your own chair since apparently they don't have enough for everyone they invited. Ok it's a birthday party sure I'll bring a couple folding chairs, it's weird but no big deal.
She says in her e-mail that she's making dinner we don't need to bring food but if we want to let her know to coordinate. I'm a vegetarian so I try to reply as politely as possible to please let me know what she's planning and I'll come up with a vegetarian dish to go with it. She says that a lot of people are vegetarians so she's making fish. I don't eat fish but I'm not going to be rude so I tell her I'll still bring a dish. I really don't get why people assume vegetarian's eat fish... I mean some do but to me it's still a living breathing creature so it counts as meat. Anyways a little annoying but again birthday party nbd i'll have my dish and she said she's making peas and rice cool it will be fun.
Well fast-forward to today. Our co-worker shows up in a suit and turns out he's going to city hall half way through the day to get married and the surprise birthday party is actually their reception tonight. To make it worse we find out that some of our other co-workers knew and are going to be witnesses. Also he's having his bachelor party tomorrow and my fiance is the only one of co-workers not invited.
We aren't really close to these people so if they just didn't include us in their wedding celebrations I wouldn't have thought anything. Now that I've found out we're only invited to poorly hosted reception that we were invited under the disguise that it's a birthday party I'm completely disgusted and offended. I've told my fiance I'm not going.