E (2:21)

I think so.

F (2:22)

But she says it's a bridesmaid that she was covering for, so. So it's not that she blamed the bridesmaid for her indiscretion. She made everybody believe that it was the bridesmaid that had done it.

B (2:32)

All right. So how was your weekend?

D (2:37)

Oh, it was interesting. It was good. It was good.

E (2:42)

Did you go to the wedding?

D (2:46)

Well, okay. So I flew out to Chicago where the wedding was going to be.

E (2:53)

Okay.

D (2:54)

And right away we decided to meet up. There were six bridesmaids scheduled to be in the wedding, but four of us met up and got together to decide what we were gonna do, because two of them, one was the bride sister, and one was the groom sister. So we talked about it. We were like, should we include them in this discussion? And unanimously, we decided it's just not appropriate to include them. So four of us got together and we decided that we didn't want to be, like, completely vindictive and go to the rehearsal dinner and then just not show up. So we basically decided that we just were not going to show up for anything.

F (3:41)

Okay, so not even the rehearsal either? Okay, no.

D (3:45)

So not rehearsal dinner, nothing. So, like, and during the rehearsal dinner, the bride called us over a million times, like, on each of our phones, and none of us picked up. We were all together and we just were like, we're not gonna pick up. We're just not going to, because we don't want to have to get into this and have. Have like a big thing with her at this moment.

E (4:08)

Now, what about the sister and sister in law? Did they call you too from the rehearsal dinner?

D (4:14)

Well, yeah, they called, but we just, like, we were not picking up the phone for anyone at that point. And so that's what we decided to do.

B (4:27)

So I would assume that the entire rehearsal dinner is obviously consumed with the story of what's happening, why you guys aren't there.

E (4:35)

Yeah.

B (4:38)

And then obviously a very stressful night for the bride, and she goes on with the wedding on Saturday. What feedback have you gotten since then? Obviously, you're not answering your phone before the event.

D (4:48)

Right. So a friend of mine who was just a guest at the wedding, she was never supposed to be in the wedding party, and she decided she went as a guest. And she told me that basically the wedding kind of went off without a hitch.

F (5:06)

Okay.

D (5:07)

And so.

B (5:08)

With only two people standing up for her.

D (5:10)

Yep, yep, exactly like they. They pulled all the programs. So you weren't gonna see that there were supposed to be six women, but there were only two. So they just made sure there were no programs out there for people. And she had two bridesmaids, and, you know, there were six men left over. So instead of having the six men and the two women, they only had two of the men stand up in the wedding party, and then the other four men, they just asked them to be ushers so that it looked as if this is how they had planned it to be.

F (5:44)

So, I mean. Yeah, but do you think. Did you get what you wanted to accomplish?

D (5:51)

I mean, I think we did because we didn't. You know, people were calling in and they were saying, like, really, you don't. You don't want to hurt the grandmother and the aunt and the uncle and all that. And so we didn't do that. You know, they weren't necessarily the wiser. And at the end of the day, the people that really we needed to make a point to, I think, heard the point and knew that her closest friends of so many years weren't going to be there. She knew that her husband saw that, you know, the husband of our friend who. The marriage was falling apart, like, saw how the women banded together in support of her. I think the right people were hearing the message.

F (6:35)

So did the husband of the wrongly accused, did he understand now and is their marriage better?

D (6:43)

Well, I mean, I think a little bit. Like, he saw how the rest of us stood by her. And she told me that he was starting to kind of believe her story a little bit more. And, I mean, I don't think it made him turn. Do a 180 and turn right around. But she said that it was getting better and he was listening to her and he was going, like, well, you know, the girls aren't going to just stand behind you if you're lying like this. I mean, if they're going to make this kind of a big, bold statement. So I think that they're on the road to him believing her, but I don't know if it's totally there.

F (7:19)

Well, the reason I ask is because if you're gonna make a big protest, you know, at least you want people to know why you're protesting. And I just wondered if everybody understood why you guys weren't there.

B (7:27)

Well, the people who. She said. I think what she said was the people who needed to know why.

F (7:31)

Including the new husband.

D (7:32)

Yeah, I mean, he knew. He knew whether or not he was 100% going to believe the story. I'm not in his head, but it sounds like he's starting to come around.

B (7:42)

I think you guys handled it perfect. To be 100% honest with you. I think that was actually a perfect, perfectly way to play it.

E (7:50)

Well played.

B (7:51)

Yes.

E (7:51)

Yeah, yeah.

F (7:52)

Indeed.

D (7:54)

Indeed.

E (7:55)

My question is, do you think that you and the other three women will ever talk to the Bride again.

D (8:01)

I mean, in this moment, I can't even imagine. I don't know why she would want to talk to us, that we basically stood her up at her wedding. But it just is so messy right now and so many people have been hurt in this process that, like, I can't even think about talking to her right now.

B (8:18)

But women can't not talk it out, like, at some point in the next.

E (8:22)

Not always.

B (8:23)

Really.

E (8:24)

Yeah. Sometimes if it's something that big and you just cut it off, you just cut it off, you know, let it go. Yeah. And I think too, that, like,

F (8:33)

I'm

E (8:33)

curious about the groom that she married. You know what I mean? The bride in question, not the other couple that was blamed, not the accused, but the one that just tied the knot. I'm wondering. The groom has to know something's up if four people don't show up.

F (8:47)

Well, that's what I was asking the new husband.

E (8:49)

I don't think she understood which guy you were asking about.

B (8:53)

Did the groom. Did the guy getting married know why the four of you bailed on the wedding?

D (8:57)

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize that's who you were talking about. Well, yeah, I mean, he. I think he probably. I don't know, like, exactly what he was told because the only person that was going to be telling him was the bride to be.

E (9:13)

I'm sure she came up with something.

D (9:15)

You know, they still got married, so I don't know if she told him the truth.

F (9:19)

Oh, doubt that.

D (9:21)

But obviously he knows something's up because, you know, it was a big deal and he has known us for a long time too.

B (9:29)

You know who this is going to get worked out through is the groom and the other husband. Like, he's gonna be like, what's up with your girlfriend or wife? Why didn't she participate? Blah, blah, blah. And it's gonna go, and then it's gonna have to come out and go, I don't wanna tell you this, but this is what's going on.

D (9:42)

Yeah. And I think it's good. It needs to come out. It needs to come out.

B (9:47)

Is a part of you still upset that they went ahead and got married? Like, do you think that was.

D (9:51)

I feel really bad for him. I really do. Yeah. I mean, whether or not I'm upset about it kinda doesn't matter. I just feel like it's really too bad that they did get married because, you know, it started off on a horrible foot that she lied and she cheated and all of these things. So, you know.

E (10:11)

Well, you guys did the right thing at least to not support something.

F (10:16)

Oh, yeah.

E (10:16)

You know, and then at the same time, not make it a dramatic thing at the church where the entire family would be embarrassed. You know what I mean? I think like Jeff said, well played.

B (10:26)

It was very. I mean, the people who need to know know. Yeah. And that's it. So I guess. Congratulations. Well played.

E (10:34)

Well played.

D (10:35)

Yeah.

E (10:36)

Indeed.

B (10:37)

Indeed.

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