My husband is the boss of 40 employees and has been invited to a wedding and the reception on a Saturday. Somehow I'm not invited. My husband says work people don't bring partners. I would never go to a party without my husband. Who is right?
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How is anyone supposed to answer that here? There are a thousand different scenarios here. Maybe it is just a "employee's only" wedding. Maybe it's not. Maybe he should take you, maybe it's prohibited. The world isn't "right and wrong", talk it out with your partner instead of asking an internet forum.
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A wedding is ABOUT partners. And I have never heard of one where partners were excluded. Your husband should take you or refuse to attend. This sounds fishy!
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As you said, you would never go to a party without your husband, then do not go to the party and respect your husband's decision.
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It sounds weird to me that you weren't invited. You are right, usually spouses are invited to weddings. Perhaps they are on a really tight budget and can't afford to have extra people.
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The people getting married get to choose whom to invite. Crashing such a party would be incredibly rude. So would attending a party where your spouse is not invited. :o) Inviting work people, unless you are really close to them, seems a little tacky to me. And excluding their spouses/partners is very rude.
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He is right. I have been to MANY weddings where there are coworkers invited, but not their spouses. Since they likely don't know you, why would they want to add the cost of serving another person. Weddings can get expensive enough as it is, especially with reception hall costs!
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Of course work people bring partners! I have never heard of a wedding where invitations are only for single people who aren't allowed to bring a companion or date. Wedding planners always allow for someone to bring someone with them, to the wedding for sure and usually if someone is invited to the reception, too. It's a rare wedding that the bride and groom know everyone's spouse or S/O so you can't use the excuse, they don't know you. This sounds either unacceptable or fishy. I would not attend a function that deliberately didn't include any partner of mine unless it was a single sex type thing, like girl's night or boy's night out.
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The only people who know who is right are the people who gave the invitations - if they didn't specifically invite you, probably because they don't know you, you have no right to attend and you would be extremely rude if you did. Weddings and receptions can be very expensive - it's probable that they simply can't afford to invite you.
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If he goes to a wedding party without you DUMP HIM!
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Where I work, spouses/significant others are not invited to the one work-related "social" event they have each year, the annual awards banquet. I disagree with doing this but I understand that some people/companies are just "like that."
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