Today was a hugely intense day!
Today we FINALLY received our first proofs for the wedding invitations! They were not quite right so we made some changes and hopefully will be able to send them out into the world by the 15th!
Today I also kicked my Best Friend (BF), my maid of honor, out of the wedding! She has been a terrible friend in the last year. Ever since she got a boyfriend. Her first boyfriend ever, in fact. Her secret boyfriend she couldn’t tell me about because he was married. Also ever since that fight we had about illegal immigration she hasn’t been the same. Basically, she’s stopped talking to me since I’ve been engaged and that was almost a year ago. We’ve talked -maybe- once a month. We used to have standing Tuesday phone dates since we live across the country from each other and we would also text throughout the week. I literally have not heard from her since January when I asked her to buy the specific bridesmaids dress my Maid of Awesome and I picked out. All of my wedding planning books say to make sure the bridesmaids dresses have been purchaed by 3 months to the big day.
I’ve been more and more anxious and stressed about stupid BF and her dumb dress and breaking our friendship then I have been stressed by my mom or future mother in law! I finally realized that I literally cannot deal with this much stress. Not physically, mentally, or emotionally. So I called her, texted her, and Facebooked her. NO ANSWER! I left messages with each form of communication that I tried asking if she had bought her dress yet. So since the last form of communication I had from her was a text message, I tested her again today asking her if she got my messages, and also her dress.
She FINALLY responded via text by saying, “No. I’ve been meaning to talk to you about that. I’m at the doctor’s office now but will try to call you later.”
It made me incredibly angry all over again. Now she’s seeing a doctor and didn’t even tell me she was sick? Now I even feel guilty because OMG my BF is sick. Then I remembered that I’ve been reaching out a few times a week since JANUARY so it’s not like she’s been too sick to respond even once. Not. even. once. We have been friends since we were freshmen in high school. We have been friends for 10 years. We made a high school promise to be there for each other on our wedding days and I honored that promise and asked her to be my maid of honor. She was so excited in that initial conversation and then everything just fell further and further apart.
She doesn’t want to be in my wedding and it doesn’t feel like she even wants to be my friend either. So I gave it until after 5pm and called her again. STILL NO ANSWER!
So I texted her, “Hi. I know you are incredibly busy and have a lot going on. Maybe it was unfair of me to put so much pressure on you about the wedding. Don’t worry about getting a dress. I hope you can still come as a guest. We;re still friends and I know if you could do it, you would.”
She called me two hours later and we talked for the first time in months. She said she really can’t afford the dress and I said I knew and that it was ok and that I hoped she could still come to the wedding anyway as a guest. (It wasn’t ok and she could afford it. She makes more then I did an hour at my last job and I made bank! Also, I had already offered to pay for the dress five months ago and again three months ago, so that was a bullsh!t excuse!) We talked for an hour and a half. It was actually nice because I miss her! I miss our friendship!I hope we will still be able to be friends and that she’ll stop being so selfish!
Also, exciting job prospect in the wings! But I’m tired and going to sleep for the moment! I think I may actually sleep tonight because as awful as this day was… at least now I know. At least a decision has been made so I can move forward without something that should be so positive instead weighing me down all the time.
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