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Wedding Party Drama!!
We chose our wedding party a few weeks ago. All of which are Family and only 2 Close Friends. Well our "close" friends, are no longer our friends. Turns out, they've been running around calling me and my FI "white trash". All because we got engaged a few months after they got married. Very Childish. Needless to say, we don't want them in our wedding party any longer. We no longer talk to them. Should we assume they realize they're out? Or should we make it clear they are no longer apart of it?
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Re: Wedding Party Drama!!
Posted by Charlinichole[/QUOTE]
This part, although I'm assuming here that the friendship has been ended and that they're aware of this.
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Did you hear it straight from them that they've been calling you names? Or is it something you heard from other people?
If you heard it straight from them, and if you've just been ignoring them since then (rather than actually telling them that you will no longer be speaking to them), tell them that you don't want to be friends anymore and that they are not welcome at your wedding as bridal party members or guests.
If you heard it from somenoe else, talk to these friends face-to-face and get the story straight before making any rash decisions. When things make their way through the grapevine, sometimes rumors get started and words can get twisted. Don't end a friendship over a potential rumor ... find out if it's true and then act.
[QUOTE]The only thing we worry about is them finding out details of the wedding and showing up for them. They've done this before with other friends. Rented a tux bought a dress whole nine yards. Simply because they could. If we make it clear they are to be no part in it, maybe this will stop them in their tracks? Sorry i forgot to mention this detail.
Posted by Charlinichole[/QUOTE]
Uhhh, what? I didn't know people actually crashed weddings...call me ignorant.
Essentially, OP, I think if you've established that you are no longer friends and don't wish to be present in each other's lives, then there's nothing else you can do. If they show up like total d-bags to your weddings after not being invited, they're the ones who will look terrible.
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It's a girl!
But, like pp have stated, if the friendship is "over", then I think no further communication is warranted.
And all of this drama happened in the span of a couple of weeks? Frankly, I think there's back story here that you're not telling us.
But since that ship has left the dock, you have two choices here that I see: either tell your friends that you no longer want them in the WP and probably be done with them forever.
OR let this go and see what happens. You have a long, long time until your wedding. There is nothing that a WP needs to do now anyway. See where the friendship goes.
If you do decide to kick your friends to the curb, please learn from this mistake and wait until at least June, 2011 before choosing a WP.
[QUOTE]We actually walked into a friends house, they didn't realize we were there and made the statement "Guess you haven't heard, the white trash couple is engaged now, guess they're tryin to keep up with 'jones'." <strong>Oh, and the whole reason we've had any issues with them, was the batchelor party (the Friends BP) , they lied to my FI (BF at the time) and told him they wern't goin to a strip club and they ended the night there.</strong> He wanted no part in it if they were goin to one. He's completely against them, and the knew this. And, thats where all this stemmed down from.
Posted by Charlinichole[/QUOTE]
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't that happen before you asked them to be in your wedding party? I'm confused.
But regardless - you did the right thing waiting until after their wedding to get engaged. I've seen people get engaged AT someone else's wedding - so tacky and not fair to the couple getting married!
I would talk to them directly, tell them based on what happened that you no longer want to be friends, and because of that they are no longer welcome at your wedding.
Does the place you're having your wedding at have security? Or do you have some friends/family who could do the job of bouncers in this particular case? Or do you have it in your budget to hire security? If any of the above, do it and make sure they're aware not to let this couple in. Preferably not the family members option, though, because that can get messy if a fight breaks out. Only as a last resort.
But if you're not friends with them anymore, I would think they'd realize they're out of the wedding party.
What have you all actually said to each other since they called you white trash? If you've ended the friendship and they are aware of this, then as a result they're not in your WP. If you're worried about them crashing the wedding, all you can do is ask the venue for some kind of security, just as they would hopefully offer for anyone trying to crash a private event.
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[QUOTE]Wow, this sounds like there's probably a more interesting story hidden somewhere in here.
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He left the strip club, thats it. He didn't wanna be apart of it. Nothing more happend. He told the guy, I really wish you would have just told me yall were goin instead of lying to get me to go.
Oh, and they made up fake facebook pages so they could "be freinds" with us. That makes it a little more interesting i guess. We no longer have facebook, thats one problem solved.
Your wedding isn't until 2012, so there's really nothing for them to do for a very long time even if they are in the wedding. I'd leave this alone for a while and address it again, say, in about a year. By then you'll have either patched things up or completely cut each other off, and either way the WP issue will have resolved itself.
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Sometimes I feel like people think that brides are delicate little flower princesses who get all dressed up and pretty for one special moment of their dreams, when really they're just normal people who just happen to be getting married. Things shouldn't have to be sugar-coated for grown-ass women. -mstar284
WE didn't "freak out" about anything. They OVER REACTED to him leaving.
Since all this, we have made it clear that they aren't welcome at our house. And that we would prefer to just not have anything to do with them.
But, they have told other people they WILL be at our wedding. Whether they are invited or not.
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[QUOTE]WE didn't "freak out" about anything. They OVER REACTED to him leaving. Since all this, we have made it clear that they aren't welcome at our house. And that we would prefer to just not have anything to do with them. But, they have told other people they WILL be at our wedding. Whether they are invited or not.
Posted by Charlinichole[/QUOTE]
Ok then please see my previous post re: OP. You could also hire security. Or you could call the cops to stop them coming in.
I do think that by doing any of the things I mentioned will probably result in MORE drama. Ignoring them and letting your relationship fade away is really the best thing that you can do.
These people sound totally BSC. Not necessarily because what they said was SO horrible that you could never repair the friendship, but just everything all together is weird to me.
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Wedding Party Drama!! : He left the strip club, thats it. He didn't wanna be apart of it. Nothing more happend. He told the guy, I really wish you would have just told me yall were goin instead of lying to get me to go. <strong>Oh, and they made up fake facebook pages so they could "be freinds" with us. That makes it a little more interesting i guess. We no longer have facebook, thats one problem solved.</strong>
Posted by Charlinichole[/QUOTE]
Facebook is a hateful mistress...can we hear more of this? Why did they need fake facebooks to be your friends? (i before e, love)
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emilyinchile - What they said WASN'T so bad, but when we asked them why they started ranting on and on about the Bachelor party. It made the whole situation worse. Then they proceeded to make us out to be the bad people.
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Wedding Party Drama!! : Facebook is a hateful mistress...can we hear more of this? Why did they need fake facebooks to be your friends? (i before e, love)
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We deleted them from our fr<strong>ie</strong>nds, to end the drama and redicules posts they would put on our pages. So they had no way of finding out what we were doing. So Fake Facebook pages were made, they attempted adding us. But they used their email addresses so we noticed something was up immediately.