Help! This “Trend” in Party Planning Made Me Miss My Friend’s Bachelor Party. I’m So Annoyed.

Dear Prudence July 24, 20263:00 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by HbrH/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Our advice columnists have heard it all over the years—so we’re diving into the Dear Prudence archives to share classic letters with our readers. Submit your own questions to Prudie here. Dear Prudence, About a month ago, I received a text message about an upcoming bachelor party for a close friend. Due to my own forgetfulness and being quite busy with grad school and work, I forgot all about it and didn’t reply. I completely forgot about it until the day before the event, when the groom told me that something was planned for him the next day, but he didn’t know what. I contacted the person planning the event to see if it was too late for me to attend and sadly discovered that it was. I