Woman’s Husband Tasked With Sending Wedding Invites, but There’s a Problem

A TikTok clip capturing a common wedding-planning struggle has gone viral.

The video, which has received over 711,000 views, revealed how a woman’s groom-to-be gathered guest addresses for wedding invitations: through a deep dive into Google Maps. The footage highlights a modern, but apparently relatable, reliance on navigation over traditional address-remembering.

“When my husband doesn’t [know] anybody’s address to send wedding invites, but he knows how to get there,” the woman captioned the video. It shows a laptop screen displaying what appears to be an online form for collecting wedding guest details, including postal addresses. It then cuts to her partner using Google Maps on another laptop where he pinpoints locations rather than typing street numbers and names.

While her partner may have an impressive internal map, this knowledge is predictably useless when it comes to the actual addresses required for sending invitations through the mail. Still, his situation resonated with many viewers who shared similar experiences in the comments section.

“This is me,” one person wrote. “I know exactly how to get there, but don’t ask me where it is. Except my besties house. Got that address memorized and I could recite it drunk.”

Another related to the map-based strategy: “Me in my childhood town where no one has moved, so I was just dropping into street view to figure out what number,” they wrote.

However, the potential, and sometimes hilarious, pitfalls of not having the correct address were also pointed out.

“I did this once and ended up sending birthday and Christmas cards to my friend’s neighbor for two years,” one commenter wrote.

Viewers didn’t just relate; they also offered practical solutions and advice for the couple and others facing the same hurdle. Recognizing this isn’t a one-time task, one user suggested: “Save their addresses in your contacts for them or somewhere or you’ll be doing this all over again for baby shower invites if you plan on having kids later, ask me how I know.”

More technical solutions were proposed, like using public records: “For future brides, your county usually has a GIS [geographic information system] platform that is free to use and you can search using last name and it’ll give you all of their property info,” another added.

One also offered an example of modern etiquette and proactive planning: “Every wedding I’ve been invited to lately had a ‘pre-save-the-date’ text/email asking for: proper name spelling, mailing address, phone number and email addresses,” they wrote. “I think it’s super thoughtful.”

While GPS can get us almost anywhere, traditional tasks such as mailing wedding invitations still require the old-fashioned street number, name, city, state and ZIP code—information the husband, despite knowing the way, ultimately lacked—but hopefully not anymore.

Newsweek reached out to @kyal.gaby for comment via TikTok.