Sorry you can’t make it
A few years ago a very close friend got engaged and wanted to throw a conventional engagement party for around 40-50 people. I was her bridesmaid and had a nice party room in my condo that I kindly offered to her for the party, plus all my help in decorating the place and paying the deposit fees.
While we were planning the date she said she wanted it in April. I told her that any day in April would be fine, except for one Saturday of the month that I would be away for work.
And all that she said was “yeah, it’s such a shame that you can’t go to my party.” This happened in the very early stages of organizing the party, so it’s not like she had hired caterers or any other services.
At the time I was shocked with her answer but didn’t say anything.
I thought that she was going to at least consider moving the party to the next weekend to have me there since it was happening at my home and there was literally no reason for her to choose that date.
Yet she was willing to throw the party without her only bridesmaid there.
When I was paying for the $300 non refundable rental deposit fee for the party room they walked me through my responsibility as a host and I realized that I couldn’t just have 50 unsupervised strangers using my party room without my presence there.
I told her and after throwing a tantrum she moved the date one weekend up.
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