Bride and Groom Won't Allow Friend to Bring His Wife to Wedding Because They Can't Afford +1's: 'Unbearably Broke'

A couple set a strict, no plus ones rule for their wedding telling the groom's best friend that his wife wasn't invited to the celebration

A couple is igniting viral conversation after setting a strict, no plus ones rule for their wedding — a regulation they say even extends to the groom's best friend's wife.

In an anonymous post shared to Reddit, a 34-year-old man says he got married to his wife last year, inviting his best friend of 17 years, and his friend's fiancé — even paying for them to have their own room in a group accommodation.

Three days before the wedding, however, the friend and his fiancé backed out last minute and said they wouldn't be making it.

"They didn’t give us anywhere near enough notice to cancel their meals, so we still had to pay the full amount for both of them, plus they never paid their share of the accommodation for the night before," the man writes in the post.

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Fast forward to a year later, and the poster writes that he received a wedding invite from his longtime friend — but his wife was not included in the invitation.

"I type my name, my invite showed up. My wife wasn’t on it, so I tried again with her name - “'uest not found.' Weird," the man writes of the invitation, which was sent virtually.

Later, the man asked his friend about what he assumed was a mix-up, only to be told that the oversight was intentional.

"He says '…we’re not doing plus ones during the day cos of how unbearably broke we are,' " he writes.

The friend added that, while his wife wasn't invited to the wedding, she could come over for a casual group hangout, "to come smash pizzas and many many beverages with us for the evening."

"I’m not sure how to process this; you and your (then) gf were both invited to our [wedding], both dropped out and didn’t even cover the accommodation we had paid for, never mind the meal etc, and then tell me I can’t bring my wife to your wedding, but she’s welcome to have a free pizza and buy her own drinks that evening? LOL," the man writes in the Reddit post.

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He added that the friend lives in "a different country, so this is not a case of jump in the car and swing in for the evening party. This is flights, hire cars, hotels. Insane."

Other Reddit users are weighing in, with one writing that the couple getting married doesn't seem to understand what a "plus one" is meant for.

"The entire point of 'plus one' is you don’t know their dating situation well enough to extend a formal invitation," the commenter wrote. "It’s wild to consider inviting just one partner of a married couple. So rude!"

Another added: "Your wife is a guest, not a plus one. Weird to not include her for the wedding but invite her to smash pizza? Awkward."

Others advised the poster to simply RSVP "no," and one took its a step further: "RSVP 'Yes.' Then delete their number."

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