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I feel bad... BM related. vent/need advice (long.. sorry)

hannahshim Posted:

I feel bad... BM related. vent/need advice (long.. sorry)

I wonder how many girls would actually read this since its so long..
TIA for reading if you do~

I have 4BMs My sister(grace), my friends since middle school(Allison), and 2 of my close friends(Julie & Jess). Ok heres what happened.. I did alot of thinking before choosing my BMs.. 3 of them were definite (Grace, Allison, & Jess) I had 1 BM spot left and there are 3 girls I always hang hang out with(Jess-one of the definites, a girl name Julie & Jenny) So I was debating if I should put julie as my last BM or none of them... I am close to Julie.. i am not that close with Jenny but, since the 4 of us always hang out I was afraid Jenny would feel left out(if I picked Julie).. So I called Jess to see what her opinions were and she told me that Jenny told Julie that she wasnt sure if she would even come to my wedding because its her friends 21st birthday!!! Julie being a good friend told her that that is very wrong and that people only get married once then Jenny told her that people only turn 21once... I told Jenny about my wedding date the day I booked the hall! people only turn 21 once but they turn 22 and 23!! why is 21 so important? dont you girls agree that your friends wedding day is soo much more important??? ..o.O After hearing that I didnt care what Jenny thought and I asked Julie to be my BM. We went out to dinner and I gave them each a card, a BM book, and a cookie in a shape of a wedding dress. They absolutely LOVED it and we took pictures together.. I posted the pictures on facebook yesterday and Jenny commented 'when did you guys take this, why wasn't I invited??'
after reading that I feel bad.. but why should I? she should have not said that! anyways, I dont know what to tell her because I am not supposed to know.. because then everyone will be mad at eachother because Jenny is going to think Julie told me but Julie is going to tell her that she didnt tell me.. Then Julie is going to be mad at Jess for telling me

what should I tell her?? should I ignore her?? have her find out on her own??
mrspalomino148 Posted:

Re: I feel bad... BM related. vent/need advise (long sorry)

I probably wouldn't answer her on facebook, but if she were to ask me in person or something I would just tell her that we went out for lunch when I asked them to be in my bridal party. Honestly I think you did the right thing, if she doesn't think a wedding is more important than a 21st birthday she doesn't deserve to be in your wedding party. So you defiantly shouldn't feel bad! Hope everything works out!

davenjess Posted:

Re: I feel bad... BM related. vent/need advise (long sorry)

I have to agree with the posting above....

You didn't do anything wrong. The simple answer is to tell her that you took that pic when you asked those girls to be in your bridal party.... That's it plain & simple. If she asks about why she wasn't chosen - then that makes it more difficult - though you could always say - you have so much going on - i didn't want my wedding to have to be a major priority for you....or something like that!

Good luck!!!
lkdrnw Posted:

Re: I feel bad... BM related. vent/need advise (long sorry)

I agree---don't say anything until she asks in person and then tell her you asked them to be BM's, she doesn't really need an explanation of why she wasn't asked and if she does, then tell her you chose the girls that you felt very close to and couldn't imagaine being up at the altar without them. If she want's to go to a party let her go

dream426 Posted:

Re: I feel bad... BM related. vent/need advise (long sorry)

I agree with the girls. You didn't do anything wrong. You were asking the girls to be in your bridal party so no reason for her to be there. She has to understand that since she doesn't want to go anyway. Don't worry you did the right thing.

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