“I’d been asked by a friend to organize her bachelorette party, and after getting all of it underway, was not asked to be in the wedding party or have a role in the ceremony,” she wrote.
Bride excludes friend from wedding party after she organized her bachelorette do ‘It was really not cool to use me as a free party planner‘.
Columnist Carolyn Hax empathized with the friend, calling the situation “wow-worthy” and offering potential explanations.
The friend added that she had “assumed” she would play a significant part in the wedding, considering it is “a norm.”.
What made the exclusion sting more was the fact that the wedding party wasn’t restricted to family members.