anita@drux3.UUCP (HornAI) (07/17/84)
-- My first thought about this situation was for you to tell the bride where to stuff it. However, I think that future brides should be thought of as senile, or harmlessly mentally deranged. The closer the wedding gets, the more anxiety they feel, especially if it is a formal wedding. If I were you, and I could manage to take my own advice and not take anything she said personally, I'd just tell her it was impossible/unreasonble/not convenient to be in the wedding on her terms, and I'd state that in as sorry a tone as I could muster. If she doesn't fly off the handle totally, I'd go to the wedding anyway and have a good time. Then in about a month or two I'd tell her how hurt I was that a stupid cast in a picture was more important than a friendship. Anita