Addressed wedding invitation to employee and left off separated spouse
Help! I appear to have unintentionally hurt a friend's feelings without meaning to. I have had a long term employee who has been separated from their spouse for several months. When we sent out invitations I called to ask my employee how they would like me to address the invitation. They said to just address it to the employee and the child. I was trying to protect their feelings by not having the spouse's name on the envelope if that was what they wanted. Now, thankfully the couple are trying hard to work out their differences and the spouse has hurt feelings because their name was not listed on the invitation. By trying to protect my long term employee's feelings, I have hurt the spouse. What is the correct etiquette in situations like this?
Please answer as quickly as possible. I don't know if my apology will be accepted if I indeed did this wrong.
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Re: [romeo] Addressed wedding invitation to employee and left off separated spouse
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Dear Romeo,
You did everything correctly. It is just a difficult time for them.
Perhaps you could just call and verbally invite her, stating that it was an unfortunate mistake (even though you did nothing wrong). Hopefully, this will heal those wounds.
Addressed wedding invitation to employee and left off separated spouse
