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Sound the etiquette alarm

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Re: Sound the etiquette alarm

  • I'm not friends with any of my cousins on Facebook Crying  (making that face because I guarantee some of them would make for great stories on here. not because I'm not FB friends with them. LOL.) 
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  • imagetartaruga:
    I am dying for someone to invite (or rather "invite") me to one of these so I can send them a photo of a gift.

    Damnit, why didn't I solicit advice here 3 years ago when DH's cousin invited us to a "virtual shower".  


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  • speaking of etiquette snafus, remember the hillbilly wedding i attended last summer?

    I just finally got a thankyou note. the wedding was in august! I've nearly gestated a human in that amount of time. 

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  • imagemissusbee:

    speaking of etiquette snafus, remember the hillbilly wedding i attended last summer?

    I just finally got a thankyou note. the wedding was in august! I've nearly gestated a human in that amount of time. 

    I *think* the rule is that you get a year, though.  So they were a bit slow, but it's technically OK.  I think.

  • I don't have a problem with the registry being posted online either. But I would have a problem if it was sent in a mass email to everyone on the list. I'm not sure why I make that distinction in my head but I do.

    In any case, I held off on forever with making a registry, much less mentioning it. But my church ladies were adamant. It's practically expected so maybe etiquette needs to evolve on this. IDK.



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  • imageLittleMoxie:
    imagemissusbee:

    speaking of etiquette snafus, remember the hillbilly wedding i attended last summer?

    I just finally got a thankyou note. the wedding was in august! I've nearly gestated a human in that amount of time. 

    I *think* the rule is that you get a year, though.  So they were a bit slow, but it's technically OK.  I think.

    Emily Post says that's a myth. The current guideline is 3 months. 

    Also we gave them a hundred bucks, which, by my estimation, covered around 50% of the cost of the reception. AND we were asked to bring side dishes. A timely thankyou (or apology for the Confederate flags flown over the outhouses, whatever) would have been nice, eh? 

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    imagecaden:

    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.

    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.  

    That's another one of my favorite excuses. "Well, this is my FIRST WEDDING and so I DON'T KNOW about etiquette because I've never done it before!" And yet, I would imagine the majority of people somehow make it through wedding planning without offending their friends and family. Funny how that works. Kind of like when my mom taught me the rule about not mentioning a registry in your invitations when I was around 7.

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  • Didn't someone's (I want to say SBP) have a sister that tried to pull the FB shower nonsense? 
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  • imagemissusbee:
    imageLittleMoxie:
    imagemissusbee:

    speaking of etiquette snafus, remember the hillbilly wedding i attended last summer?

    I just finally got a thankyou note. the wedding was in august! I've nearly gestated a human in that amount of time. 

    I *think* the rule is that you get a year, though.  So they were a bit slow, but it's technically OK.  I think.

    Emily Post says that's a myth. The current guideline is 3 months. 

    Also we gave them a hundred bucks, which, by my estimation, covered around 50% of the cost of the reception. AND we were asked to bring side dishes. A timely thankyou (or apology for the Confederate flags flown over the outhouses, whatever) would have been nice, eh? 

    Huh, didn't know that.

    As to the rest of it, whoa.  That is horrible.

  • imagemissusbee:
    imageLittleMoxie:
    imagemissusbee:

    speaking of etiquette snafus, remember the hillbilly wedding i attended last summer?

    I just finally got a thankyou note. the wedding was in august! I've nearly gestated a human in that amount of time. 

    I *think* the rule is that you get a year, though.  So they were a bit slow, but it's technically OK.  I think.

    Emily Post says that's a myth. The current guideline is 3 months. 

    Also we gave them a hundred bucks, which, by my estimation, covered around 50% of the cost of the reception. AND we were asked to bring side dishes. A timely thankyou (or apology for the Confederate flags flown over the outhouses, whatever) would have been nice, eh? 

    Sigh. I was a bridesmaid in a wedding 4+ months ago and have not received a TY note. Crying 

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  • imageLittleMoxie:

    Huh, didn't know that.

    As to the rest of it, whoa.  That is horrible.

    you shouldve seen pics Devil

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