I just wanted to chime in here - we had TWO groomsmen not show up to our wedding, and it wasn't even a destination wedding. We got married 40 minutes from our hometown. When my husband called them the morning of, they were like "ah, yeah, man, couldn't get off work." I had suspected the evening before they wouldn't be there, though, because they didn't show up to the rehearsal dinner, and after the dinner I called the tux shop to find they'd never picked up their tuxes, either. But they did not actually tell us until the day of.
I will say that one of them, we never talked to again. To be honest, nearly twelve years later, I had to think very hard to even remember his name. The other we didn't see or hear from for many, many years after, and now, the only time we do see him is in passing at conventions every once in a while. Clearly, we didn't really need either of them.
I will say that one of them, we never talked to again. To be honest, nearly twelve years later, I had to think very hard to even remember his name. The other we didn't see or hear from for many, many years after, and now, the only time we do see him is in passing at conventions every once in a while. Clearly, we didn't really need either of them.