How to deal After someone rejects your facebook friend request?

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You deal with it by ignoring it. Declining friend requests is pretty common and does not indicate that the person who declined your request doesn't like you. Some people intentionally limit their friend lists to a very small circle of only thier closest friends and family. Not everyone likes having 200+ friends and everyone they're ever known on their list.

And as you said yourself, the person is a friend of your husband. You did not say that the person was your friend. That's one step removed in the ranks of friendship circles and can be a big deal. You may be friendly to each other and good aquantances or even loosely friends yourself, but you are not a part of his closest inner circle and you should not resent him for denying the request.

People are different about what they feel comfortable sharing on their facebook pages as well as who they feel comfortable seeing those pages. If he didn't approve your request, it doesn't mean he dislikes you, it just means he either 1) has things on his page he doesn't want you to see, 2) doesn't want to get "spam"-like updates from "friends" that he isn't very close to, 3) wants to keep his friends list shorter and more intimate, 4) he denied the request by accident or 5) never saw the request in the first place and it expired or something like that.

In the end, his reasons don't matter anyway. Accept the denial with grace. Don't assume anything negative about it. Don't mention it at dinner. Just move on.