A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited.
You think death is any better an excuse for desertion than any other?
You don't want to look too chic at a Washington party or people will think you don't have a job worth losing.
Everybody's an art critic.
everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.
Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.