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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Holy Tackiness...
I had to share this somewhere. I got a bridal shower invite for one of my PA friends. The shower invite was all the norm...until I found the little sheet tucked inside that explained the "wishing well". The instructions are to bring a bill ("$1, $5 or any amount you choose") with a sticky note attached to it with a note to the bride and groom. So, they're essentially asking for a bucket 'o cash. I cringed so hard when I read it. I have no idea if the bride is aware or not and I feel bad bringing up that it's tacky to my friends (many of whom are bms and are hosting said shower) but wow I would be embarrassed if it were my shower and the hosts were asking for money (on top of gifts since it mentions where they're registered).
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Re: Holy Tackiness...
Wishing well's are really common where my family is from in South Jersey. Usually it is for small items that get used up, like bottle of gas drops, breast pad, orajel those types of things. Once I did get a request that you bring a book for the wishing well, but I have NEVER gotten a request for cash!
I think they are taking a custom that can be fun and twisting it into a money grab. That would really annoy me too!
Wow...I've heard of wishing wells for kitchen gadgets and even little tools for the groom to be. I've never heard of straight up cash. That's very cringe-worthy...
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I totally agree that it's tacky. It's also basically telling the bride "hey, I'm cheap" if you affix your note to a dollar bill or you're saying "I'm better than others" if you affix it to a fifty. I don't know what's more embarrassing...asking as a BM for people to do this or being the bride-to-be and having to open this. I'm really modest when it comes to this kind of stuff though and I probably would really have to fake my way through it sound appreciative.
We had a shower at work once that was during lunch. One of the girls organizing must have had a connection to the caterer and got the food cheap for the luncheon portion of it because they asked us all to chip in xx dollars. We were under the impression that it was going to cover lunch and decorations and a cake. So, like most people, picked up small gift for the bride-to-be coworker as a nice gesture. We're all sitting around eating lunch and while she's opening our gifts, the next thing we see are the two girls that organized the shower bring in a gift covered by a sheet. They took all of the money that we paid and affixed it to a fake Christmas tree and said it was a money tree. Supposedly because they were having a lot of trouble paying for their wedding and they thought it was such a great idea. Um, I know you through work. We don't hang out and we barely speak in the office. So in the end I put out cash and bought a gift. I. Was. Pissed. Namely because this was a work colleague who in the end I ended up putting out way more money than I normally would have for an aquaintance. Don't even get me started on the status of their relationship.