Wedding?
February 15, 2008 - 3pmI received a wedding invitation in the mail yesterday from a girl I used to fuck in college.
A little background is necessary here: she and I were never romantically involved. When I say we fucked in college, that’s exactly–and entirely–what it was. Outside of our periodic mediocre drunken sex, we barely even talked to each other. For that matter, we really didn’t even like each other. To this day, she’s the only person I’ve ever engaged in a public screaming match.
I haven’t seen her in at least three years, we don’t talk or IM, and we have no mutual friends.
So why did she invite me to her wedding? Better yet, why do I even care about how I respond? It’s not like she and I were ever close. Other than physically.
Mike’s suggestion was to send my RSVP with a Polaroid of my anus and never speak to her again. I like this idea, but I don’t have a Polaroid camera.
I called another invitee to find out if he’ll be there–it looks like there will be two or three other people I’ll know at the reception. At least one of them hates me for reasons we won’t get into here.
Yeah… I don’t think I’ll be attending.
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Reading this again brings up my continuing confusion on how some people choose who to invite to their wedding.
I myself have received several strange invites from people I cared little about.
My thoughts on this are:
a) She’s having a huge wedding and can invite the known universe if she so chooses
b) She has no “real’ friends.
I’ve been to several “big production” weddings, and if and/or when I do get married, I will not be having one.
Comment by Karyn — February 15, 2008
Some women like to invite their exes to the wedding, to kind of shove it in their face. I know you said you were never close, but perhaps the relationship meant more to her than to you?
Comment by Christine — February 15, 2008
@Karyn: I’m with you. If/when I get married, I’d like it to be a justice of the peace job followed by a modest reception. However, we’ll see what my currently-hypothetical fiancée has to say about that.
@ Christine: This, from an ex who invited me to her wedding? (Kidding, of course. I know that’s not why you invited me. You invited me because I told you I’d get you a new wifi router as your gift.)
Comment by marc — February 15, 2008
Also, because I know how much you like eating mediocre food while surrounded by people you barely know.
Comment by Christine — February 17, 2008
And wouldn’t you know, they’ve stopped making polaroid film… I guess maybe a digital pic that you print out…
Comment by Robguy — February 21, 2008