September 2010 Weddings
LauraT25
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Tell me what's wrong with this picture
So I'm home sick today (flu? pregnant? whoTF knows). I just got an e-mail that boggled my mind five ways to Sunday.
I needed to make some changes in Paint (no Adobe on the home laptop) but it's worth it. Please look at this picture and I will tell you even more about it.
Edited to cover my e-mail address. Thankfully I forwarded it to my junk account, but still...I didn't like the idea of it being 'out there' for everyone to see 
Edited AGAIN because Jenn pointed out my e-mail was still on there. This thread is dead anyway, so I'm not going to bother changing the pic and re-posting. I think we all agree it was tacky.
Re: Tell me what's wrong with this picture
Tacky.
So additional things about this invitation:
1. I don't know the person who sent it. I was shocked when it showed up in my work inbox, but then I saw my mom on the list of recipients. I called her, and it turns out it's her friend/coworker's daughter that's getting married.
2. 'Fred Meyer', one of the places she registered, is a grocery store. I'm thinking she meant Meier & Frank, a department store in the area - I used to mix them up all of the time.
3. I would go to her website, but it's not there. I didn't white it out, it's just not there.
4. My mom told me that her friend/co-worker is upset I didn't invite her to my wedding. Wow.
5. No freaking way am I flying all the way across the country to attend just the dancing part of a wedding, especially for a stranger.
I think I'm done. When I opened it, I figured there must be images/formatting (like a real invitation) that just weren't showing up on my crappy work e-mail, but no, that's the whole thing.
wowza. I understand budget issues, but seriously?
Not only is it an e-mail, but they also tell you that you are only invited for drinks and dancing, and they'd like you to bring a gift....
The thing is, people post crap like this on the E board sometimes, and I always thought it was made up. Like, no one is really THAT bad. I almost choked when I opened this thing.
I do understand budget issues, I really do. But if you are planning a wedding on a budget, don't invite your mom's friend's daughter, that you've never met. Additionally, I don't even know if H is invited or not??
And you can do a nicer e-mail invitation than THAT, and still have it be free.
my biggest concern is why you were invited to a random strangers wedding. do you think they meant to invite you?
put this up on the E board and see what you can stir up...
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Also, my mom asked me if I was going to send them a gift. I'm not one to not send a gift just because someone is rude, but I don't KNOW this person! I don't know how my mom doesn't seem to be bothered by it.
She got a real invitation, though, in the mail. She's invited to the whole thing, I guess. I'm tempted to ask her to take a picture of the real invitation and send it to me, but I don't know how that would come across.
My thoughts exactly! The ladies there would shred this in minutes.
I know. I don't even know this girl's mom. But my mom said that the girl's mom (her friend) asked for my e-mail, so I'm assuming it was intentional.
I was sort of angry she gave her my work e-mail. That's private. If this girl starts sending forwards to that address I will be very angry.
Meh, I'm sure they'll think it's fake. I always think they're fake on E, so I can't really blame them. It's not like they know me over there.
Plus I feel like some of them are computer geniuses, and somehow there might be some sort of code I'm not seeing on the screen that would lead them to my identity. I'm paranoid.
Nuh uh. That's some sh!t. Looks like somebody's fishing for gifts and not really wanting people to show up. I mean, at least send me a frickin' evite or something. That's just...bizarre.
That's what I was thinking. There were only a handful of people (maybe 15?) that also got sent the e-mail, so I'm wondering if they just have a group of people they're pretty sure won't come, but will send gifts. I mean, I'm pretty certain they KNOW I won't come.
Thats my thought. They figure oh shes not going to come so why send her a real invitation. Lets send and e-mail and see if she sends a gift anyway.
In my business law class my professor told us that an economist invited 150 people from the east coast to his nieces wedding on the west coast. He did his research and sent them to people in a wealthy town and non of them knew the bride or groom or anyone associated with the wedding/family. A majority (I want to say 75%+) sent a wedding gift to people they didn't even know... crazy!
That is some BS. I will send a gift if I don't go to a wedding, but only if I would go to the wedding under other circumstances (like it was free to travel and I had unlimited time off, etc). I don't send gifts to strangers.