Jenny Slate demonstrated why it’s always important to double-check your work, especially when that work involves people’s addresses and your wedding day.
In an interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show, the actress revealed that she came perilously close to having a complete stranger attend her wedding to Ben Shattuck in June. “We were supposed to get married on the Solstice and that did not happen because it was not safe or happy to do it then,” the actress explained.
But it turns out, it’s actually probably for the best that first ceremony didn’t pan out, as it saved Slate from having to revoke an invitation from one of her guests. “We were like, we just want to send out an email invitation rather than one that has fifty pieces of paper and confetti and stuff and you probably just throw it away. So we sent out an email and there’s one of my friends, who’s a good friend of mine, and I was like, ‘Oh, it’s just this name at Gmail, put her on the list.’ I sent the email and then I didn’t hear back from my friend. I was like, ‘Hey, can you guys come to the wedding?’ And she was like, ‘Oh, we just thought maybe it was small and we weren’t invited.’ And I was like ‘No, you’re invited! Oh gosh, check your spam.’ She was like, ‘Not in the spam,’ and when I looked back I had messed up the name on the email by one letter.”
Slate added that, worse than simply inviting a stranger, “Not only was it like, ‘Jenny and Ben June 2020. Save the date!’ It was a picture of me and Ben being like, ‘We are Jenny Slate and Ben Shattuck and we live here. This is our home address.’ I’m not trying to assume this lady is a fan or knows who I am, but if she does she knows where I live.”
So when they ultimately decided to postpone the ceremony, Slate sent out a second email announcement, but couldn’t bring herself to email this stranger again because “I just felt so awkward about it.” But the comedian did wind up Googling her unintended guest and apparently “she likes to wear top hats, like a lot.” Sounds like a woman never not ready for an impromptu wedding invite.
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