Another one:

First, props for covering how stupid this issue is.

My 14 year old was in another section from my wife and I one time in Target, when a creep decided to push up on her (while she was clearly wearing a middle school tshirt). She came to me immediately, and I patrolled the aisles seeing ABSOLUTE RED. In hindsight, I'm glad I didn't find him, as nobody would have been…

Good lord, who were this woman's lawyers? They should be disbarred.

Ah, the perfect face for expressing a wide range of feelings, including:

I'm leaving the only home I've ever known to join a quasi-monastic order of knights;

I'm on your side. Personally, I always try and act with (and I hate this word) "Class" when doing things. Perhaps grace or respect would be a better word? If I invite someone to a bachelor party I'd likely invite them to the wedding. Though these days I could see myself attending a casual acquaintances or co-worker's…

That's just bizarre and really hurtful of them! I'd be offended too. I don't think just because a wedding is "your day" you get to be shitty to people who (up until that point) consider you their friend. Take the wedding part out of it: I can't imagine having a friend help me make a reservation for a birthday dinner,…

I can see not sending out blanket +1 invitations, but as the LW met her boyfriend through the bride five years ago, is donating a $600 cake to the wedding, and her boyfriend is expected to host or at least cohost the bachelor party- he needs an invite and the bride and groom should really apologize for the 'oversight.'

I've been in this situation before! My boyfriend (of now 10 years) was a groomsman for his very good friend when they got married 6 years ago. I've know the couple for as long as I've been dating my boyfriend, who lived with them until they got married! So, doing the math, I'd been friends with them for 4 years at…

Yeah, that's insanely rude and while I don't think she should back out this late in the game I can't believe she hasn't already said something just in confusion- "Wait, you asked Dave to throw the bachelor party? So he's invited to the wedding now?" Or something along those lines.

Yeah, if that's the case, then maybe LW1's boyfriend is also LW3's BFF's racist husband.

which is fine. but you still have to realise that even if you don't like the boyfriend, the fact that the girlfriend is not only invited, she's making you your motherfucking cake for free, you suck it up and put whatever issues you have with the bf aside and invite him. that's just good manners, which clearly this…

Etiquette 101: any adult invited to an event is given a plus one.

Wedding Invite Etiquette 101:

My suspicion is that there's something else going on, either the bride/groom don't like the bf, they don't take the relationship seriously, don't think the relationship is going to last, etc because after 5 years, it's either a solid relationship or a rut relationship.

It is rude, but it's also rude to not invite someone's long-term SO. Not that that is the chouce @brittabot made, but, ugh. Brides like this. "Come celebrate MY relationship - alone - your relationship doesn't count. Oh, and make me a cake too!"

I mean this as nicely as possible, but what a shitty policy. In 2014, there are a lot of us who aren't jumping right into marriage— I've got plenty of friends who have been with their partners for 5 or 10 years, own homes together, have families (pet, children, and otherwise), and everything else.

I realize that…

SO MANY PEOPLE DID IT. I'd say like 8-10. Thereby putting us in the situation of having to say, sorry, actually, no. I felt like a monster.

"But then she invited another friend AND that friend's boyfriend after only knowing them a few weeks."

Re: Question 3 - I don't know, IMHO, it's pretty rude to invite one half of a married couple and not the other half to a party that's not explicitely confined to a small subset of people (Girls' Nights, Junior Varsity Rugby Team Reunions, whatever.) I'd be friendship-ending pissed if I received an invitation to a…