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    redherring    September 11, 2010   Pittsburgh, PA

    My husband and I invited a non-local friend of mine to our wedding. She never sent her RSVP, which is "normal" - a bunch of our guests just didn't respond, doing the whole, "Sure, I'm coming" when we made our post-deadline phone calls. For this friend - I sent her a private message on facebook. I emailed her. I left voice mails on both her home number and her work number. She just never answered any of my inquiries, but we still communicate online as though nothing happened. I'm not going to bother bringing it up with her, since she's made it abundantly clear that she doesn't want to talk about it. I just find it rather weird, and I'm wondering if anyone had a similar experience.

     
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    ejs4y8    June 20, 2009  

    I had a few. Drove me nuts.

     
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    PumpkinSpiceChai    September 2009  

    Did she attend your wedding?

     
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    That's very rude of her to attend your wedding without RSVPing.

    EDIT:  Did she attend?

     
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    redherring    September 11, 2010   Pittsburgh, PA

    She didn't attend. She just failed to react in any way to the fact that she'd been invited.

     
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    @redherring:  That's quite strange.  I'd be upset to not even have any sort of acknowledgment.  I mean I could understand if she didn't get an invitation in the mail (it got lost) but you attempted contact numerous times!  or do you think she didn't get the paper invite, and felt upset that you were trying to invite her via phone/e-mail (meaning, she wasn't aware that you sent the invite)?

     
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    redherring    September 11, 2010   Pittsburgh, PA

    @beekiss2: I assume that if she didn't get the paper invite, she would have said something. In fact, we actually had this happen with one of our guests. We invited a couple whose wedding we attended last summer. We sent out STDs with our holiday cards, which they received. In the interim between holiday cards and invitations, they moved and we didn't know. After the invites were sent, we kept waiting on their RSVP, and I was kind of miffed - they'd just gone though it, so clearly they knew how annoying the not-RSVPing guest was! After the deadline, we called them and found out that they'd never gotten the invitation - there was a mail forwarding failure. So, the whole time I was getting irritated at their lack of RSVP, they were thinking that we'd sent them an STD and not an invite! Wedding faux pas all around!

     

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