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Originally Posted by KTrain
If you don't have even a little bit of guilt about missing one of your friends/family member's wedding or event, I question if you actually consider them friends at all.
I bailed on a destination wedding to Regina this summer. Love the guy but dropping nearly a grand for 3-4 days in Regina (+14 hours of driving there and back) is not how I want to be spending my free time in the summer.
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No, I don’t really feel any tremendous feeling of guilt by not going to a wedding. For one thing, the couple are going to be immensely busy, second their families are there and are going to be highest priority for any available face to face with your friend. Why would I feel guilty about not going to an event where my presence or absence would be basically unnoticed. A friend moved out to Edmonton and I see him a lot anyway when he would come back to visit family in Kelowna. I wasn’t going to make a trip out to Edmonton in November for a wedding. I am not a sociopath or anything, but I don’t feel terrible about that and didn’t get any awkward comments the next time I saw him.