When You Miss Your Best Friend’s Wedding…

This happened to me some years back. I have a very good friend and we met in college. She is from a different city but we studied in the same college in my city and we were like two bodies with one single mind. We are so good friends even now that back in college, people used to think that were would get married.

It generally happens around you that when a girl and a boy are too close, people start spreading rumors about relationships between them. However, both of us knew that were just friends and even though were very close, we maintained our limits. And some years later, those mutual friends of ours were surprised to know that my friend was marrying someone else.

She sent me the wedding invitation a few months in advance and made me promise that I would be with her for the most special day of her life. And I arranged everything to reach her place a few days in advance so that I could help her out in everything. However, it was my bad luck that I got some very urgent work right on the day she was getting married and since the wedding was about to take place in a different city, I could not reach the place.

I kept telling her that I will reach her wedding on time but unfortunately, my work forced me to stay I could not reach the place.

Can you guess what happened next? Generally, people stop talking to their friends or try to act angry. Well, I already knew she was different and while she was not free a few days after her marriage, I called her one day and she picked up the phone.

I was expecting her to be angry at me but honestly, she started crying. The girl who never ever shed even a single tear at least since we were friends was crying like a baby and I kept her asking if there was anything wrong.

After crying a bit, she pulled herself together and said that she waited for me the entire day. She asked at least 100 people if I arrived and I was not there. Even when they were getting married, she was less focused on getting married and more on if I arrived. But I was not there.

And that was the moment when even I felt like crying because I felt so bad about missing something that meant so much to someone so close to me. But then, she also said that she understood that work is something important and if it was not that important, I would have never missed it.

That was the moment when I actually found the real her. People who understand your situation at such a critical period are your real friends and they would not get angry or blackmail you for doing something that you did not do knowingly.

So I got away very cheaply after missing my best friend’s wedding but I have a very understanding friend who would stay my friend my entire life.