2007 is the year of the weddings.

At least five of my friends are getting married this year. Two of those weddings involve compulsory attendance. One, I was not invited to, but would not likely have flown to Italy for anyway. A fourth is a tossup. What concerns me here is the fifth. A friend of mine is getting married, and knows I think it's a bad idea. I wasn't necessarily expecting an invite because we've become less close over the past year, in large part due to this relationship. Now I'm aware that there's an invitation on the way.

Never having met the other half of the couple or most of their friends, aware that this will be a heavily religious crowd, and with no real inclination to spend the extra money on airfare, I'm not certain how I feel about going. This person is after all my friend, and we may very well become close again. It would be a shame to further the rift by skipping their wedding. I'm torn and will have to wait to receive the invitation, find out when and where it is, and do some cost benefit analysis. Is that a terribly cold thing to say about a friend's wedding? I would never consider skipping most friends' weddings, but this one has me torn. Does that make me a bad person?