If there’s one place you shouldn’t have the awkward ‘sorry but you’re not actually invited to my wedding’ conversation with a friend, it’s surely on a nationwide radio show.
But that’s exactly what radio host Jackie O experienced on Thursday morning when her co-worker and pal Olivia revealed live on air that Jackie had not made the cut for her upcoming Fiji wedding.
“One of the big reasons is if I invite you, I feel I need to throw it out to Kyle and everybody else,” Olivia began telling Jackie before delivering the TKO of reasons.
“And also to be completely honest, I don’t want the attention to be on you on my wedding day.”
Jackie, understandably taken aback by the comment, pointed out that for months, she has been helping her friend with major decisions surrounding the big day, and as such, their friendship goes far beyond the average friendly co-worker relationship.
"We socialise and we talk on the phone," Jackie told her radio show co-host Kyle Sandilands.
"And here's the thing — I have been helping Liv pick her dress, pick her ring, pick the location."
Jackie continued, "I would never want to push my way onto someone's wedding invite list, but you said you have got a 100 people going, why am I not in the top 100?" to which Olivia replied, "I've got a lot of close family and friends ... friends are probably about half."
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Realising what her friend was implicitly saying, Jackie asked, "So I don't rank in the top 60?"
"No," Olivia replied.
"Wow," Jackie said. "I'm blown away."
Sheesh, talk about a Mean Girls moment.
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I know the feeling. The friend and I were working together for a wedding decorating/styling business of all places, we saw each other outside of work, went for coffee, saw movies, had dog play-dates, went to parties together, etc. We spent hours at work styling her wedding and ceremony. I was invited to the engagement party, the hens party...but when it came to the wedding, no invitation. I brushed it off thinking it was a small wedding and never said anything, but was pretty upset seeing photos on Facebook. I counted over 200 people there. I figured I didn't know her as well as I thought and she was just one of those people who like having a lot of friends and I was at least 201 down the list. I always declined her invitations to hang out after that :(
I also wonder if Olivia may have also being using Jackie, she would have known she would have a lot of influence and I wonder if the dress and ring (s) shopping, etc might have been a bit more "special" considering Jackie's celebratory status, whether Olivia may have seen the opportunity and been conniving enough to think, if I let Jackie take me to all the best bridal places, I might get a better deal, seeing she's a star and all that. I wonder how many discounts were given because Jackie was her "friend". Just a thought.