Q. My wife and I were disappointed not to be
invited to our friends' wedding, as we had spent a lot of quality time with them over the past 18 months or so: holiday, shooting, meals out, golf, etc. Also, the bride had rung up to check our address, and had, on at least one occasion, told us that we were invited. After prompting from the best man, who is one of our mutual friends, the groom rang me two days before the wedding and explained that it was a tiny wedding of 150 (1) but they had had some late dropouts and suggested that we should come along. How should we react?
T.N., London W11 A. You should swallow your pride and accept their invitation. In the grand span of history it will be more important that you attended the wedding of these friends than that you temporarily gained some queeny advantage with a snubbing reprisal for their failure to treat you more respectfully,
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