Apology Letter - missed attendance at the birthday celebration (Ielts Task 1)

One of your friends recently had a birthday celebration, but you missed it and you forgot to tell your friend that you couldn't attend.

Write a letter to your friend. In your letter
=Apologies for missing the birthday celebration
=explain why you missed it and why you didn't tell your friend
=and say what you would like to do to show that you are sorry

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Dear Mike,

I hope you are well and you had a fantastic time on your birthday.

I am sorry that I could not attend your birthday celebration party and for letting you know beforehand that i wouldn't be able to come. I feel terrible that I could not contact you during these period.

The truth is I had a very important meeting to attend along with my boss with one of our valued customers, and i could not tell this to anyone because as my boss strictly instruct everyone to keep this meeting secret and it should not be leaked until we complete the task.

Therefore, despite of all of these, still I want to celebrate your birthday with you. So I would like to propose you to have a dinner with me along with your family and friend circle. Let's celebrate your birthday party once again. There is no harm to celebrate birthday twice in a year.

Hope you might like this idea and accept my sincere apologies.

Your friend
pdeep
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Please comments your view.

Thanks

Good work Pradeep. You were able to deliver the letter requirements in a straightforward manner. Now, there are times when being straight to the point is good. However, when you are writing a friendly letter (to a friend), it is nice to become a more relaxed with your writing style. After all, you need not be so formal among friends right? I hope you won't mind if I show you how to write a more relaxed version of your letter below :-)

Hey Mike,

I heard that you had a really great party for your birthday. I heard from our friends that your party was fantastic and that the food and drinks were overflowing. I am really so miffed that I was not able to be there with the others to help you celebrate that day. I would have really wanted to participate in your party activities that, our friends tell me, could have gone on all night if the venue had not closed up on you guys.

I wasn't able to tell you beforehand that I would not be able to come to your party because my boss made me attend a super secret meeting with a client. He made me promise to not tell even my mother about what we were going to do. I don't know why he was so paranoid but he's the boss right? I really felt terrible that I had to keep it a secret from you, which is why I could not even tell you beforehand that I could not come to your party.

What do you say to a late dinner birthday celebration with the gang on me? I'll pay for everything. All you have to do is show up with our friends and your family. Let me make up my absence to you. After all, there are no rules that say we can only celebrate your birthday once a year right? I'm sure this is going to be fun!

Let me know when you are available for dinner and I'll take care of the rest.

Your friend
pdeep

I hope you can use this as a reference point the next time you need to write a friendly letter. Good work with your version though. You seem to have a gift for writing.

Thanks vangiespen, I will try to incorporate your ideas in next letter. Your ideas really help me a lot to improve my English writing.