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sleepingbeauty825
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I'm so glad I didn't play on The Knot boards.
sleepingbeauty825
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I would have been mortified at how "tacky" our wedding was. I really hope none of my friends know common etiquette.
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Re: I'm so glad I didn't play on The Knot boards.
Dont worry, we live in sin as well. AND we're having a backyard wedding. We're BEYOND tacky!!!
Wait wait for it... We went out to dinner at a restaurant with family and wait, wait, for it they paid for their own dinner!
Instead DH and I spent 3k on our cruise yep I am a selfish biitch!
Yep. We got married in our church on a Thursday and didn't invite anyone but our immediate families.
Then, we had a BBQ on Saturday (2 days later) that we invited people to through a FB and MySpace invite. It was a pool party and my mom and MIL made all the food.
We specifically asked for no gifts but people gave us gifts (cash and gift cards) anyway. We did send thank you cards....to most people...
I
you! We were meant to be friends!
Also if I had to do it over I would have had the captain marry on my cruise and spent the 3k I did on the wedding for a Caribbean instead of Mexico cruise.
::grabs ana in fear and looks around::
actually they would have loved that. That is polite....to give your BMs options ;D
and, pizza for the RD was a common suggestion to save money.
I think you guys are misunderstanding what etiquette is and what people on the knot found "ok"
An example of a nice, fun wedding I went to = ceremony and reception in the park. I think the decorations included white streamers, balloons, and some twinkle lights - who knows. People danced on the grass and ate BBQ. Lots of fun.
Tacky = having your ceremony be a four hour drive for EVERYONE (not near anyones' family, or near a place of significance for the couple, or even a very pretty place where people would want to visit). Asking people to bring food to this far-away place, including sternos. Not assisting people with finding hotels (there were NONE within 20 miles). Having a cash bar even for soft drinks and water - I think parents were having their kids run outside (it was at a VFW, which I still don't get since they could've chosen a VFW much closer to where everyone lived) to find a water fountain instead of paying for water. Not coming around and greeting guests at all (a simple "hi" and "thank you for coming" to each table would've been nice). Then, never sending out thank you cards, and using the excuse that you refuse to kill more trees just to thank people. Well, I wish I knew that earlier, I wouldn't have wasted a check on their gift, or even attended - I mean, plane tickets are printed out.
This! Although, making people for their own dinners would have gotten you burned at the stake over there!!
I had a very normal wedding, in knot terms. But I did not have a full open bar because my friends are boozehounds and I didn't want the headache! We did open bar for 2 hours right after the ceremony and during the cocktail hour. And the bridal party had open bar all night. lol.
no. Backyard weddings were not considered tacky over there.
Thank you. I was trying to figure out where people got this idea. I had a garden wedding in my parents' backyard and it was not tacky.
We had a destination wedding. I let the bridesmaids pick out whatever they wanted to wear. The resort took care of everything. I barely lifted a finger except to point to a few stock photos the day before the ceremony.
Orange flowers preeeetty.
Cake? Yeah sure.
The Knot boards would have been like a foreign language to me.
Baby Boy #1 born 1/15/2010
Babies #2 & #3 arriving Spring 2014 (EDD June 18)