Mine is similar-ish to this. My best friend told me when he proposed, talked to me about his wedding and that I was invited…we talked all about how it was gonna be on Halloween and people could dress spooky, etc. Then as the date neared and I never got a wedding invitation, I asked where he and his lady were registered so I could give them a gift. That’s when it came out that they decided the wedding should be “family only” for financial reasons. BUT then the night of the wedding I saw other people from high school upload photos of his wedding. They were all there.

I waited a few days and then called him out. He was all, “they are people who don’t like you and it would have caused issues.” These were people I hadn’t seen in 7ish years at that point and moved far, far past giving a fuck if they like me or not. And I would hope that they would never cause issues with me at someone’s fucking wedding. It eventually turned out that it was really a deflection for the fact his now-wife just doesn’t like me. She feels threatened by me and made him cut off any friendship at all with me. So that was all lovely.