We got our invitation to his wedding in the mail yesterday, and I am not amused.
1 - One invitation, addressed to the FILs and to us. It was nice of them to include us, but we're adults and should get our own invitation.
2 - It looks like a hipster graphic designer threw up on a baroque-inspired pre-cut card. Ew. Hard to read, way too much going on, and just ew.
3 - They are asking for cash. Not even on an insert, right there on the freaking invitation.
4 - Cash bar. Which, by the way, only takes cards not actual cash.
5 - "Regret, no children." Need I say more? I get that the venue they've chosen is a little weird on the kiddie thing, but yuck, yuck, yuck.
I am so annoyed right now, I don't even know what to do with myself. This is a black tie event, at a venue that is pretty much the pinnacle of SA weddings. It books out years in advance, so either they booked the venue before they got engaged - in which case they had plenty of time to save up and host us properly, or they somehow got themselves bumped up the wait-list - in which case they have plenty of money to host us properly and should just have picked another venue.
From what FI has told me of the family, they are pretentious as, so I guess it's kinda to be expected.
I'm not going, mainly because I'm saving for my own damn wedding, where I intend to host my guests properly, and I can't justify spending money on a dress that I'll never wear again, to travel 5 hours (with all the associated costs) to go to the wedding of two people I have never met and will probably never see again, to fork out more cash as a wedding present, and yet more so I can not die of thirst at their wedding. /rant
You may also have gathered that I'm more than a little grumpy this morning. I could not fall asleep last night. When I eventually did, I was woken up by stomach cramps that would fell an elephant - too late in the night to get back to sleep properly, and too early to just get up and get started on the day. So I lay in bed imagining all kinds of horrible things, because that's what I do in the dark. I eventually drifted off again, and Peanut pulled over a pile of stuff of one of the chairs next to the bed - including all our personal electronics. So I got up and put everything back in its place, got back into bed, and hadn't even closed my eyes yet when the FILs alarm went off and they started getting up and dressed for work, which they do loudly. FI got up shortly after that, and I attempted to go back to sleep, but Peanut decided to attack my tape measure loudly. So I'm currently operating on about 3 hours sleep in total, and I do not have energy for this day.
