A woman’s enthusiasm for attending her maiden wedding celebration was crushed after she journeyed 16 hours to Scotland for a colleague’s ceremony, only to be told to depart following the service. Weddings frequently provide the pleasure of discovering new destinations, but one attendee was left stunned when her dedication to a workmate’s special day led to an unforeseen removal.
With soaring expenses and restricted capacity at venues, determining the wedding guest list can be merciless. The unnamed woman was thrilled with anticipation for the Scottish celebration, which would mark her debut wedding experience. It comes after a woman claimed ‘I regret marrying an older man, one part of our history has given me the ick’, reports the Mirror.
Nevertheless, her joy transformed into embarrassment when she was bluntly instructed to depart after the ceremony concluded. “I was absolutely mortified,” she admitted to Reddit users.
She had enjoyed the stunning ceremony alongside another colleague, enthusiastically anticipating the opportunity to capture photographs with the bride and settle down for the wedding breakfast. However, upon reaching the reception, she encountered confusion as her name was notably missing from the seating arrangement. It comes after news that an abandoned UK Butlin’s site is now seaside town’s ‘hell hole’ hotel.
‘My friend is naming her baby after a fish – she can’t see how ugly it is’. Posting on Reddit, the perplexed guest revealed: “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.”
A wedding guest shared a cringe-worthy experience when the Master of Ceremonies asked to see their invitation and bluntly informed them that they were only invited to the church service and evening drinks, not the meal. The attendee recounted the embarrassing moment: “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.”
After the awkward encounter, the guest and her friend discreetly left the venue. She explained the confusion: “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 lamented.
Dressed up with nowhere to go, the pair sought refuge in a local café in the Scottish Highlands, spending five hours there as the other guests enjoyed the wedding festivities.
The Reddit user detailed their interim activities: “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.”
Upon returning to the celebration, they discovered that they were the only ‘evening guests’ and everyone else was already quite inebriated after hours of drinking.
The duo tried to enjoy themselves but left the wedding at 10pm, feeling isolated as the only sober ones and tired of warding off “very handsy” men. The frustrated guests commented: “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 learned a valuable lesson from the experience, stating: “I now scrutinise wedding invites and if I’m only invited to the evening part that’s cool but at least I’m informed.”
Yet, she managed to have the last laugh. She explained: “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 mishap ignited a flurry of comments from Reddit users. One user expressed their annoyance: “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 added their voice: “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 remarked: “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 pointed out.