Submitted 1 day ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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I was uninvited from my sister’s wedding. But I was told it was at a public venue, so I could come watch the ceremony from a distance and I could still send a wedding gift.
I didn’t care about being uninvited. I was only upset that they made Dad call me. If you’re going to be like that at least have the balls to make the call yourself.
Anthrax letter incoming!
I wouldn’t have done this, but I do kinda get it.
We had a 100 person wedding. Friends, close family, and Aunts/Uncles (no cousins, extended relatives). There definitely were people interested in giving us gifts even though they weren’t invited. I told them basically the same thing as this card. It was annoying having to field those requests at the same time as prepping for the wedding, so I could see why someone would send this card preemptively.
I feel like it would only be trashy if you were really expecting money from these people.
Makes me wonder what we did wrong. We had a 20 person wedding. Immediate relatives only, parents grandparents and siblings plus their partners.
I paid for everything, including an open bar. We got 1 gift from my wife’s grandparents and that was it.
You didn’t do anything wrong. We did a small wedding too and it was infinitely better than anything I could’ve hoped for with more people and that’s what really matters
Usually, if someone requests something that annoys me and I’m in a position to refuse, I just go ahead and refuse or outright disregard the request.
Well, my wedding gifts are usually proportional to what I imagine the couple have already spent for me to be there.
Someone who throws a wedding with accommodation and everything else all taken care of is going to get a bigger gift than one where I’m just invited to the evening do.
I guess the invite cost something to send so I suppose their gift would probably be about 50p max, if I could even bring myself to send anything.
Funnily if I wasn’t invited to a wedding of a friend for whatever reason and they didn’t send a card like this, I’d probably be more inclined to get a token gift as a congratulations anyway.
i went to a wedding once where the pastor took the whole hour-long ceremony to bash gayness
then the ‘reception’ was breakfast lol
followed by some lame “dating game” between the bride & groom vs the oldest couple in attendance
no booze, no dancing
any future invitations are going in the trash if any of the above elements are going to be involved
Wowza. I thought the last wedding I attended was bad, but yours takes the cake. The wedding ceremony was an hour long sermon, but thankfully the worst actual explicit content was a reference to the wife “submitting” to the husband. Which really grossed out me and my entire side of the family & friends (who are largely atheist or non-practising). And then the reception was dry, but at least did have dancing and really good food.
And also I and a few others on my side of the family snuck in hip flasks of booze, which was sorely needed to get through the painfully preachy speeches from the groomsmen. Not one sentence went by without reference to how great god is or how much they and the groom love their sku daddy. The best man’s speech in particular was about ten minutes of saying how much he and the groom loved to go for runs together and then get on their knees and pray together. No, that summary doesn’t overstate the homoerotic undertones.
I mean, if you knew the couple at all there should have been warning signs?
I’m more offended by their misspelling of “accommodate” and lack of punctuation in the second sentence. What a terrible way to start their life together.
Whip out the red pen, make corrections, and send it back with points taken off.
6/20 would not bet on your success
Praps teyr Amrcan. Tey mis letrs ot al te tym.
They meant “commode” , where their sense of entitlement is from.
Honestly, I’d probably prefer getting this to a wedding invitation for most of the people I know. Of course I want to be at my brother’s wedding. But he’s already married, and I hope not to attend another until (ha!) my own
As much as we would like to congratulate the bride and groom, but we are too busy being kept in your hearts.
I wouldn’t send money. I would buy beer and play a video game instead.
Instead of sending them money, I made a fake donation in their honor to The Human Fund, with its slogan “Money for People”.
My wife and I sent something similar to this when we got married during COVID and could only have 19 total people there (including us), but was about meeting us after for the reception
There were 2 sent out that said the gift thing instead, both rich assholes who weren’t related to us that would feel guilty and obligated to send us expensive shit or a decent chunk of change, and it worked so that’s a win for us lol
Doing this to normal people would be an absolute dick move
Why would you send an invitation to the unrelated “rich assholes” at all? Asking for a gift from people you don’t like just to somehow guilt them into “sending us expensive shit or a decent chunk of change” proves you’re just an asshole yourself, just not a rich one. It’s a “dick move” no matter who you send it to.
Why would you send an invitation to the unrelated “rich assholes” at all?
Free shit, duh?
It’s a “dick move” no matter who you send it to.
Nope. Did I not already say rich? By default making those who don’t work for their wealth share it is never a dick move, and that’s before you count the specific bullshit those people pulled against my wife and I to screw us over with their wealth
I would send this reply - “As much as we would love to send you a wedding gift, we have been overwellmed in the upcoming months with wedding receptions that we have to attend and of course provide the happy couples gifts”
Just don’t send them anything
I keep reading that not as the venue doesn’t have enough space for everyone, but as the venue has banned certain people. I’m really hoping I’m wrong and it is a space issue.
“unfortunately the AI that trump tower uses to match paint swatches to skin color has determined you may not attend our wedding. Please enclose a 250 dollar money order for the bride and groom to use for their honeymoon in Moscow.
… ICE has been alerted to your location
Love and peace
Kevin and Marsha”
Either A) the couple couldn’t afford a bigger venue or B) they had a special venue in mind that has a low capacity
That’s why recycling bins were invented. Everyone saying they’d send a 50p gift, or correct the spelling and send it back… It’s not even worth that much effort
mouserat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Would just send this to popular, rich people in hope they cannot remember if they know me or not
dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 1 day ago
In much the same vain, some guy sent Google invoices/bills and they paid without question, just in case. That was a nice headline.
nepenthes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Vain is vanity.
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
He went to prison.