Bride discovers mystery woman in wedding pictures, then runs into her months later learning a guest quietly expanded their RSVP to their mom: 'I truly don't understand what goes on in people's heads'

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  • "I saw a woman I didn't know in our wedding photos months after the wedding"

    someday-or-one-day https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingshaming/comments/1p029k0/i_saw_a_woman_i_didnt_know_in_our_wedding_photos/ - Hi everyone! My husband and I had 100 guests for our wedding. Everyone invited were people dear to us and we really had to think of the guest list to be able to stick to the 100 headcount.
  • someday-or-one-day https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingshaming/comments/1p029k0/i_saw_a_woman_i_didnt_know_in_our_wedding_photos/ - The invitations were also very clear on how many seats were reserved for you. So imagine my surprise when, two months later, we got our photos back and I saw a woman we both didn't know.
  • someday-or-one-day https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingshaming/comments/1p029k0/i_saw_a_woman_i_didnt_know_in_our_wedding_photos/ - I figured maybe a relative randomly brought someone else (wouldn't be surprising as they've done it to previous events) but my parents had no idea either.
  • someday-or-one-day https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingshaming/comments/1p029k0/i_saw_a_woman_i_didnt_know_in_our_wedding_photos/ - I brought up my confusion with a bridesmaid later on and she knew who it was.
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  • someday-or-one-day https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingshaming/comments/1p029k0/i_saw_a_woman_i_didnt_know_in_our_wedding_photos/ - Turns out one of our high school friends brought her mom! I truly don't understand what goes on in people's head when they decide things like this.
  • someday-or-one-day https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingshaming/comments/1p029k0/i_saw_a_woman_i_didnt_know_in_our_wedding_photos/ - Our catering and the seats were only for 100 people. Do they not realize food won't just magically appear to feed the extra person?
  • someday-or-one-day https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingshaming/comments/1p029k0/i_saw_a_woman_i_didnt_know_in_our_wedding_photos/ - That an extra chair won't just turn up out of nowhere? Someone wasn't able to go at the last minute because he got a fever the night before so there was thankfully one extra seat, but it was literally just that one person that couldn't make it.
  • someday-or-one-day https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingshaming/comments/1p029k0/i_saw_a_woman_i_didnt_know_in_our_wedding_photos/ - Imagine if he was able to. Where would the mom go?
  • Pale_Row1166 As a caterer, I can tell you that the food and chair will magically appear. I always order about 2-3% more chairs/rentals than I need and there's always plenty of food, or, at least one extra potion.
  • OP someday-or-one-day Yeah in the end there were extras so people were able to go for seconds but no one, except of course people in the business, can know that 100% of the time.
  • mouldymolly13 How weird she would even want to go to a wedding of someone she didn't even know.
  • OP someday-or-one-day True! She must know me by name as her daughter's old friend but other than that?
  • jbarinsd I had no idea who the person was that caught my bouquet. Later she was ID'd as the date of a friend of my husband's who wasn't given a plus one. Not even his girlfriend, just a date. Of course she was all over the pictures too.
  • OP someday-or-one-day I know how you feel entirely. I had a big event a few years ago where one guest and her plus one brought their siblings and niblings. 8 extra people in entirety! What's worse was they let the kids run around so all the photos of the stage had a bunch of kids just standing next to it.
  • Badger_Echo_Zeus This happened at my sister's wedding! The mum in question didn't want her thirty year old daughter (groom's uni friend) to travel down alone and said she'd just stay in the hotel room all day, but we saw her turning up in random spots throughout the wedding! Honestly everyone found it so bizarre but in a funny way because she was trying to keep hidden for the most part, so we'd see her head slowly rising from behind a window, or try to melt into the wall near large plants. My si
  • OP someday-or-one-day Lol hiding behind windows and large plants is funny! The mom in our wedding was smack in the middle of anything so I saw her pretty quickly in pictures don't remember her being particularly strict or whatever with my friend when we were back in high school though I
  • RevenueOriginal 9777 People don't think that's the issue. At my daughter's wedding my daughter invited some coworkers she hadn't work with long. Beautiful June day so they decided to go to Bush Gardens instead. I was a single mom and had saved to afford the wedding, hundreds of dollars wasted
  • OP someday-or-one-day Yeah unfortunately :( I'm really sorry to hear about what happened. People can be so rude and entitled. I hope you and your daughter had a wonderful time despite her old coworkers.
  • vonthepon I invited a bunch of strangers from the hotel bar into my wedding reception! It was in the UK, so we have a different format for a wedding day. This was just the evening part, after the ceremony and sit down meal and the open bar had ended , soit was a pay bar, but there was a cold fork buffet and cake, so I just invited everyone from the bar to come in. It was a country hotel, and it was mainly locals, there were about 18 people. Some were actual crazy people. They had some interestin
  • OP someday-or-one-day Sounds fun! I'm in Asia so it's really interesting to see how different weddings are in other cultures. Bars in weddings aren't common here, but I think it's starting to get popular? I'm glad you all had fun!
  • Live_Angle4621 She probably travelled to the wedding location with her daughter as a holiday. And then didn't want to wait around in the hotel for her
  • OP someday-or-one-day Nope, the wedding was in our city. We've lived here our whole lives. It isn't a big city either, we have literally nothing for tourists except maybe one old church >> They live probably around 3km away from the venue.
  • Important_Fishing_15 I mean, I would accompany a friend to a wedding for someone I didn't know so they didn't have to go by themselves. What if she only knew the bride and wanted to have someone else there to talk to.
  • OP someday-or-one-day She was seated with our whole friend group. Some she's now closer to than me. She knew everyone in the next table too since we went to the same school as well. We had one guest who didn't know anyone besides me and she got a plus one.
  • Going NutCracken I had my wedding at the house | grew up in now occupied by my brother, his wife and two children. My husband and I cleaned up the yard, we rented porta potties, put up a tent, set up chairs, etc, everything for an outdoor wedding. SIL didn't want ANYONE in the house. My invites had gone out six weeks before. I didn't know any of the neighbors anymore so they never got an invite. Imagine my surprise when three families from down the road showed up for the free beer and food witho
  • OP someday-or-one-day Ooof I get what you mean! I hope they were at least not outright rude about it to you and your husband, and that there were still food for the actual guests.
  • nahsonnn Is it possible the friend told mom that they got a +1? Maybe mom is innocent in all this
  • OP someday-or-one-day Ooh we didn't think about that but it is possible

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