How to Get Out of Attending a Wedding

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It's that time of year again, when it seems like all your old, long-lost friends decide to get married. Here are some ideas of how to avoid yet another wedding.

To complete this How-To you will need:

An unwanted wedding invitation
A good excuse
The ability to lie

Step 1: Express excitement over the invitation

When your invitation first arrives, be sure to express your excitement. RSVP yes.

Tip: Trying to get out of the wedding too early could lead to suggestions about how you could get out of your alleged "conflict."

Step 2: Decline a few weeks prior

Act as if you can't wait to attend—until a few weeks prior, when you suddenly announce the terrible news that you can't make it. Be crestfallen.

Step 3: Blame work

Consider saying you've been called away on an urgent business trip. While this is a fairly common excuse, you will need to keep track of the lie in future conversations with friends and friends of friends.

Step 4: Fake a family reunion

If a business trip isn't plausible, say you're suddenly being forced to attend a last-minute family reunion. Just make sure no relatives are going to the wedding!

Step 5: Play sick

If you need to cancel at the very last minute, claim you've contracted a contagious disease. Make it serious but not deadly, like a rare strain of conjunctivitis.

Tip: Waiting until the last minute means the couple will be stuck paying for your meal, making them very unsympathetic to your fictional illness.

Step 6: Send a gift

Whatever excuse you give, be sure to send a gift and an apology note to further pretend like you care. Unless, of course, you want to end the friendship—in which case, ditch the polite routine and blow the whole thing off. You won't hear from them ever again!

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[casanegra]

swine flu

[triFeral]

SORRY CANT GO

CAT DIED

[blueberrycakecz]

0:14 that's my birthday

[gothbabii188]

well, my polka-dot goldfish has the flu, i have to care for him :(

[Primakarlia]

This video is made for all ex husbands,ex boyfriend and vice versa.

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[AlexaLuvs]

or you could just say no to start with? 

[TheReggaetonMami]

lol loving the invitation