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Bride wants guest to take out trash.

Have you seen this one yet?

Receiving an e-mail stating that we and another married couple have been ?signed up? for the clean-up committee?  Wow.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ask-amy-bride-wants-guests-to-take-out-the-trash/2012/04/13/gIQAxamEfT_story.html

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Re: Bride wants guest to take out trash.

  • What?!  No!!  No no no no no!  No.  You just dont do that.  Not of wedding guests.  Wow.
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    "sure, consider it my wedding gift to you", would be my response.
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  • Oh for heavens sakes. How tacky. 

    DH and I once got an invite that asked everyone to bring a dish to the wedding as they were trying to keep costs down (I kid you not, that's what the invite said) and then it said 'As we will be moving to another state right after the wedding and will need to travel light, we're asking for gift cards only. Stores that are around the XX area are: and then they listed the stores.

    I about died. And we didn't go. Or give them a gift. 

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     That bride has a lot of gall.

    I've only helped clean up after my sisters' weddings. For family friends & friends I've done minor clean up after being asked politely and well in advance.

     

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    Oh for heavens sakes. How tacky. 

    DH and I once got an invite that asked everyone to bring a dish to the wedding as they were trying to keep costs down (I kid you not, that's what the invite said) and then it said 'As we will be moving to another state right after the wedding and will need to travel light, we're asking for gift cards only. Stores that are around the XX area are: and then they listed the stores.

    I about died. And we didn't go. Or give them a gift. 

    You totally should have sent them a gift.

    A set of used 50 pound hand weights. 

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    imageutahlove13:

    Oh for heavens sakes. How tacky. 

    DH and I once got an invite that asked everyone to bring a dish to the wedding as they were trying to keep costs down (I kid you not, that's what the invite said) and then it said 'As we will be moving to another state right after the wedding and will need to travel light, we're asking for gift cards only. Stores that are around the XX area are: and then they listed the stores.

    I about died. And we didn't go. Or give them a gift. 

    You totally should have sent them a gift.

    A set of used 50 pound hand weights. 

    I wanted to but H used to work with the groom, so he vetoed that. H is so no fun sometimes.

    I mean, things here in Utah are generally really relaxed when it comes to weddings. And by relaxed, I mean tacky but this one was outrageous.  

  • My cousin's wedding was AWFUL. We freaking broke down the tables after the wedding. My brothers moved the ceremony chairs to the reception area. My side of the family has never stopped talking about how tacky, tacky, TACKY it was!
  • I wont lie, my first thought was - WHAT?  Elle wants their guests to take out the trash?  Why, she has a housecleaner that irons her sheets!
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  • I wouldn't be attending the wedding.  That is beyond tacky. I helped my BFF's family clean up her reception but that was by choice.  One of my other friends had everyone clean up after theirs and I thought it was pretty odd.
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  • I absolutely help whenever I see people cleaning up at weddings. It's not expected, and I don't mind doing it. I wouldn't even be upset if I was asked to help clean up, honestly. But the "assigning" is the part that gets me!
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    I absolutely help whenever I see people cleaning up at weddings. It's not expected, and I don't mind doing it. I wouldn't even be upset if I was asked to help clean up, honestly. But the "assigning" is the part that gets me!

    That's kind of where I am.  If I know they're on a low budget and doing the best they can, and the family is pitching in by choice, I don't mind lending a hand.  I'm a neat freak anyway.  But to be assigned a job?  Hell no.

    If I did go to the wedding, I'd put my trash in the trash can.  But am I going to bus the room and drag the trash to the dumpster?  No way.  I'm supposed to be a guest.  That bride needs to hire some local high school kids to do the cleaning.

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