I may have posted before that I love perusing “Weddit”
(wedding planning sub on Reddit) for the messy casserole of etiquette fails I
usually find on there. Here are a few highlights from this past week:
1 – Bride who is planning to do a honeyfund asking if it’s
okay if her and her FI don’t go on their “dream honeymoon” until a year after
their wedding. So it’s a fucking vacation. That their guests are paying for.
2 – Groom complaining about the USPS because he and his FI didn’t
know that his invitations required more postage and they had just dropped
everything in the mailbox with a regular stamp. So everything was delayed, and
now people are just receiving the invitations even though the respond by date is days away. But it’s
the government’s fault, apparently.
3 – Bride whining about the fact that it’s been three months
and she still doesn’t want to write her thank you cards. Many posters (me
included) give her the “DO THEM NOW” advice, but many, way too many, are saying
she still has 9 months left and that within a year is still okay. One poster
even gave the sound advice to “just type up a generic message and create a mail
merge in Microsoft Word.” Many comments underneath hers (again, me included)
say that’s not good advice and she defends herself saying “If I were to hand
write out a thank you to each one of my guests, I would be annoyed about it.”
Nice.
4 – Bride and Groom having a courthouse wedding now, then a “real wedding” later. They are having another ceremony at their PPD and don’t want the hassle of
hiring an officiant, so they want to know how their ceremony should proceed
based on the knowledge that they a) are already married and b) won’t have an officiant. I have this image in my head of the B&G and wedding party all standing around in front of everyone with no one being sure what to do or say.
5 – Someone (maybe a Knottie, haha) asked a question to the
group about what wedding trends are outdated (similar to our pinterest snark thread) and of course there were tons of comments saying things like barn
weddings, signs, mason jars, etc. were all outdated. The brides who are
obviously using these things in their weddings were so offended that they went
to the mods that some posters were “bashing them” so now it’s illegal on Weddit
to have those kinds of threads. Guys, I wish I was making this up.
Many more posts regarding PPDs, BYOB weddings, and our
favorite: brides who want to find a polite way to kick out their bridesmaid who
just isn't helping with the planning. Stay tuned for more!