--- title: Man Going to Bachelor Party for Groom He Never Met description: He raised money on crowd-funding websites and is going canonical: https://time.com/3752388/bachelor-party-stranger-email-going-anyway/ author: Olivia B. 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Waxman Staff Writer Mar 20, 2015 3:24 PM UTC  popping champagne cork popping champagne cork Getty Images  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 20, 2015 3:24 PM UTC A Seattle man who was accidentally copied on an email chain about a Philadelphia bachelor party is going anyway. Joey DiJulio of Seattle got the first email from these people he didn’t know on Feb. 11\. After a few weeks of messages about Jeff Minetti’s bachelor party in Philadelphia at the end of the month, he replied, explaining that they mixed him up with someone else. That started a whole new email chain, with Minetti’s friends saying he should totally come anyway, and the groom confirming, adding that DiJulio should come to the wedding, too. [According to Q13 FOX’s play-by-play](http://q13fox.com/2015/03/19/seattle-man-gets-invited-to-strangers-east-coast-bachelor-party-by-mistake-but-hes-still-going/) of this saga, DiJulio set up a GoFundMe page “Random Bachelor Party” earlier this week to raise $1276 to fund the trip and surpassed the goal within 24 hours. Now he is raising money to go toward the couple’s honeymoon. This comment on DiJulio’s crowd-funding site seems to sum up the overwhelming turnout for this unusual cause: “Strangers really are just friends we haven’t met yet.” _Read next:_ [_This 104-Year-Old Woman Says Dr Pepper Is What’s Keeping Her Alive_](http://time.com/3752352/104-year-old-woman-dr-pepper/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3752388/bachelor-party-stranger-email-going-anyway/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3752388/bachelor-party-stranger-email-going-anyway/"},"headline":"Man Who Was Mistakenly Invited to Bachelor Party Definitely Going Anyway","datePublished":"2015-03-20T15:24:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:32.614Z","description":"He raised money on crowd-funding websites and is going","url":"https://time.com/3752388/bachelor-party-stranger-email-going-anyway/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9aa88d436543ec72/69878484cd684825ea09a3f7/157403282.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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