voss749 wrote:
These people actually LIKE you enough to invite you to one of their most important events in their life...
If you REALLY dont want to go...respond promptly and say you are unable to attend but buy them a NICE gift card.
People who set up weddings spend money for people who accept the invitation even if they dont show up.
Well to me spending 3-4 hours at a wedding making small talk with people is not my idea of fun. But part of the problem is it sounds good, but I always cancel at the last minute. Not just with weddings, but other big social things. parties, ect. But in this last case , it was small (for a wedding) and everyone at the ceremony was just going to a resturant. They would not know how many would be there until they got there. So no big deal.