Just Ask Georgia: 5/8/2024

Georgia, I have a question,

My best friend (we are both 23) asked me to be her maid of honor and to plan her bachelorette party. I asked her what her ideal party was. She said it was a nice dinner with friends and some female family members, then having just the friends go to a bar since her mom and aunties probably wouldn’t be up for that. Can we say BORING? Anyway, I asked her for a list of people, and she gave me ten family members she wanted to have dinner with and about 20 friends to invite to the bar.

I was not comfortable with the list because one of the friends she wanted to invite dated my husband when they were in high school. She and this other girl rekindled a friendship in college; at one point, the other girl tried reaching out to me to be friends, but, yeah... no way.

So I decided on a dinner at a nice restaurant with just the other bridesmaids, the bride, and me, and then I invited everyone else to the bar after, but not my husband’s ex. The bride didn’t think anything of her not being there, but the girl texted the bride and asked why she wasn’t invited. Now my friend is “hurt.” She’s also “hurt” that I didn’t include her mom and aunties at the dinner before, as she had asked, but who wants a mom and aunties at a bachelorette party? My friend is very forgiving, so I know she will get over it. But why is she mad in the first place? I thought I got a little leeway with the planning since I’m the MOH!?!

Planning MOH

Dear MOH,

Wow. I hope you are never asked to be the maid of honor to any of your unlucky friends again. There are so many things I want to say.

Are you a complete jerk for making your feelings more important than that of the bride? 100%.

It was not your party, not your guest list - you should have sucked it up for the night.

This was her day, and you made it about yourself. She said she wanted her family there, but you didn’t invite them. She is the BRIDE; you are NOT. Grow up! Seriously. Wow.

With love, Georgia

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