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Sound the etiquette alarm
I just saw on facebook someone posted links to all three of their baby registries in case people wanted to help them welcome their new bundle of joy.
Re: Sound the etiquette alarm
{clutches chest and staggers backward}
ETA: Can I also say this sounds exactly like something my cousin would have done if she'd been on Facebook back then? She is a doll but she broke every freaking etiquette rule out there when she got married and then again when she had a baby.
ETA2: Is it me or does it seem like a lot of us have cousins who are not right? LOL
WAT?! So no guests were actually invited?
ETA: That's hilarious, cookie. I don't even know how I'd respond if I saw that on FB.
What now....?
I just got a cousin's wedding invite in the mail that had registry info in it. *GASP*! I'm throwing the couple a shower soon and they gave me a guest list of almost 150 people. The wedding guest list is 120. When I explained shower guests need to be invited to your wedding they were all put out. But the shower list is now down to 30 so I'm happy.
I am dying that they expected you to host more people for their shower than they were even willing to pay for to attend their wedding.
You guys can't be serious?! What the WHAT!
Oscar Mike Golf. A Facebook shower just might win forever. I can't even imagine the nerve that takes.
Oh, I love that. Like I've been sitting around just DYING for someone to post their registries so I can spend money on them. Because if I was interested, I wouldn't just ask or google or anything.
Speaking of baby showers, some girl who was supposed to get married the same month I did (so a year and a half ago) threw herself a baby shower for 300 people. Then eventually decided that she only needed to invite 150 to her wedding. Weddings being expensive and all. Seems a little backwards.
But over 3 years since her engagement and she still isn't married because she got distracted by her daughter's first birthday party, and then trying to find them a new apartment (since they were in a 1 bedroom). I guess scouting craigslist is a full time job and one can't possibly plan a wedding at the same time. I don't even know.
*not necessarily an etiquette nightmare, just kind of a hot mess*
40/112
For a good time, read that shower and parties board on TB. Nothing like this will surprise you ever again.
I read one a few weeks ago where a girl wanted to throw her own baby shower because she was a "control freak," so that should excuse it. Annnnd the kicker was that she was already having 2 showers thrown for her.
40/112
This is a FB status I saw earlier today from someone I went to HS with:
"here is my wish list as i will be buying off it for the next 6 weeks to get ready since some of you asked.... some things i can not find online there for i will go and register for at target im sure and post the link
" *link to amazon wish list*
Her other recent statuses:
"Prego symtoms sucks" *crappy camera phone picture of Fred Flintstone foot*
"ANYONE HAVE ANY DRESSERS THEY NEED TO GET RID OF.. i am in need of two at least possibly four gonna try some garage sales this weekend when did dressers get so expensive!"
FTW!!
I can barely understand that.
I'm fascinated by her FB now. She entered a contest to win a year's bacon supply and solicited people to vote for her to win. She was totally seriously.
I'm laughing but only to keep from crying tears of regret that I didn't enter this contest. Bacon, y'all.
I have a friend like that- I keep her around only to read her poorly structured, rambling, yet fascinating status reports.
My aunt (my dad's sister-in-law) invited me to a bridal shower for a girl that she calls her daughter (the girl was a friend of her son's; she went to live with my aunt/uncle/cousins when her mom threw her out). I wasn't invited to the wedding. My dad called my aunt about it and she said that she didn't know about that rule because she had never planned a wedding before and she was stressed out.
now I'm wondering, how much is a Year's supply of bacon anyway? Is that like, 2 strips a day or what? Do you get to choose between a lump sum prize of like 50 pounds of bacon or weekly installments of bacon delivery?
Right there with you.
You know what one of the few foods I can eat without getting an upset stomach? BACON.
Hmm, this is tough. I would much rather mail a gift than have to suffer a bridal or baby shower, but if that came across my Facebook I would eye-roll and ignore.
Question about bridal showers, my co-workers threw me a surprise shower, but only about 1/3 who showed up were invited to the wedding, was this a faux pas? The invitations had already been sent at that point, so obviously I didn't know who was invited...
I think a work shower is an exception to the etiquette rule (so are destination weddings). My co-workers threw me a bridal shower when I got married, even though none of them were invited to the wedding.
Exactly. When will this contest be held next?
Well, of course. If you live out of state, then obviously you ~*have*~ to throw a FB shower.
WTF didn't anyone tell me this when I was KU? Neither DH nor I have any family in our state either.
My sister posted her registry to her facebook.
The thing is, our family is huge and so is her H's family. This was slightly easier than making a closed group or getting on the phone and chatting with everyone just to tell them where she registered.
She figured people it matters to will take note, people it does not matter to will just ignore it. Call me trashy but I don't think it's a big etiquette violation unless she expects all her facebook friends to buy her ***.