What? Me cynical?
Pfftttt! You would be too if you were me!
Anyway ...
Other than my own ceremony 7 years ago, I haven't been to a wedding in 13 (?) years. It seems things have changed quite a bit on the wedding front.
First, I was sent a wedding POSTCARD. Sure, it was in an envelope (hand addressed in all lower case printing - WTF?), but it was most definitely a postcard. It had the very basics of information - time, date, and location of the wedding, then referred me to a website for additional details,
A wedding website ...
Hosted by TheKnot.com
That's right! I can click on a tab and learn all about his proposal to her (in the penguin encounter at the aquarium), I can find out where the reception is, I can learn about their wedding party (she has a MAN of honor and a MAID of honor), and I can RSVP for the wedding, even selecting my meal choice!
Just seems a little odd ... maybe because all sense of tradition has been tossed out the window.
On the "our registries" page (Why does no one use uppercase letters? Is this supposed to be cute??) I can link to their two registries (Target and Macy's), and learn that they "would also appreciate gift cards to Ikea and World Market. =)."
Not only that, but I also learned, "We're protecting the environment and prefer gifts without gift wrap or box."
Wait just a minute ...
Isn't half the fun of getting gifts unwrapping them? Now you just want me to put that set of towels out on the gift table NAKED??
We'll see how the evening goes. "Husband" will be there, but will be sitting with his other ex (Tyler's mom) ... THANK GOODNESS!
Cam is coming along as my date - seems Step-son didn't consider +1-ing my invitation.
*shrugs*
Mike did offer to come crash the wedding.
I seriously considered encouraging him to do just that!
2 comments:
I think it's nice that your stepson invited you and Cam. It would have been better to get a +1 for you don't date your son! I think that's polite but I'm sure the budget comes into it.
We recently got the same kind of invitation. The couple is the grandson of a coworker. Never met the couple, their parents and have never socialized with the coworker.
In lieu of gifts (to save the environment from the packing materials), they asked for Paypal donations for their honeymoon in Aruba. We didn't attend or send a gift. It felt so rude but honestly it would have felt worse logging into Paypal for that!
My cousin's son got married over the summer and I have to say I would have appreciated the whole website thing. I couldn't go, but I'm terribly nosy and would have loved to get the lowdown on everything. Although that whole "without gift rap or box" thing seems odd - maybe they just should have said, "Gift cards or cash only, please".
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