NWR: I need this board to be more active

sofakingmad

Because I'm tired and a wee bit hungover.  

Where are all the crazy newbie brides????

sofakingmad

;;crickets::

Emmy1493

I agree. Work goes by faster with the crazies!!!

pinkshorts27

Oh, just for your entertainment, I'll post what my friend has been posting about her wedding.  Nothing big, still got a huge eye roll. Give me a few moments to black out names. 

ETA: @shrekspeare  No, since you really don't like her you don't have to invite her. Especially since he is in the WP, so he will understand completely *sarcasm*

sofakingmad

shrekspeare said:

Pick me! Pick me!

I still have to invite God AWFUL FSIL to the wedding, even though she is downright rude and may end up skewered with the cake knife before the end of the day, because she is engaged to Fi's stupid brother and he's in the WP. Yes?

ETA: Obviously invitations were sent out a while ago. FSIL and FBIL were not engaged at the time, and were split up. They have reconciled to the sheer horror of the family and are still planning on getting married.

You are not crazy and you are not a newbie!  

sofakingmad

I also just realized that I only have one wedding this year.  

That. Is. Awesome.

The one I am going to is in May in South Beach.  It's going to be a rocking time.

sofakingmad

shrekspeare said:

Jealous! I would love to go to South Beach. You're lucky.

Yeah, the bride&groom rented out a club for the reception.  It's going to be so much fun!

Inkdancer

DragonBlood13 said:

shrekspeare said:

Jealous! I would love to go to South Beach. You're lucky.

Yeah, the bride&groom rented out a club for the reception.  It's going to be so much fun!

I'm going to a wedding at a club this weekend... but it's apps only. Hope the bride likes watching her friends and family get stumbling drunk because they're drinking on empty stomachs....

short+sassy

For your entertainment, DragonBlood13...

So, NWR, but one of the craziest breaches of ettiquette I have ever experienced was at a convention a number of years ago.  We were all indpendent contractors in the same industry, so it wasn't quite as bad as if it had been clients/colleagues.

But the last day of the convention had ended and everyone was introducing each other and schmoozing before heading back home.  A middle-aged woman came up to me with her business card in her hand...and I was expecting the normal introduction to occur.  But, instead, she leans over and tells me that I am not wearing the correct sized bra, puts her card in my hand, and then hustles off.

I was a bit shocked to say the least and, at first, I thought one of my "girls" had maybe popped a bit out of my bra and was making a weird lump and she was just being helpful.  Which horrified me, because I had just been given an award not 10 minutes earlier.  I hurried to the bathroom, but everything was fine (phew!).  I then finally look at her card and apparently she owns a website for creating custom bras!!! (Not at all related to the convention).  I was LIVID!!  I mean, seriously?  Is that how she recruits new customers?  By walking up to total strangers and commenting on their undergarments?  Holy s**tballs!

And then turn around to leave the bathroom and she is there again!  She apologizes to me and said she saw the look on my face and thought she had made a "boo boo" (her words).  She said she didn't mean to make me uncomfortable.  Through out her apology, I just keep giving her that polite smile...that doesn't quite meet the eyes...and saying, "It's fine. It's fine."  But in a tone that says its not...as I'm trying to end the conversation and leave.  I think (and hope) that I clearly portrayed my true unspoken feeling of, "It's not okay, but I think you're a whack-a-doo and just want to get away from you.  And I'm not saying anything that will draw this conversation out further."  

sofakingmad

Inkdancer said:

DragonBlood13 said:

shrekspeare said:

Jealous! I would love to go to South Beach. You're lucky.

Yeah, the bride&groom rented out a club for the reception.  It's going to be so much fun!

I'm going to a wedding at a club this weekend... but it's apps only. Hope the bride likes watching her friends and family get stumbling drunk because they're drinking on empty stomachs....

Yeah, that sucks.  My friends did that at their wedding and it was bad news.  They actually did a ton of things that were against etiquette and it was so hard not to tell them.

They had a HM fund

They didn't have enough seating for the ceremony.  And they kept us waiting for 45 minutes.

They only had about 5 small tables at the reception.

Not enough food at all.  Appetizer stations which would give you ONE piece of sushi at a time.  You felt like such a fool getting one piece of food at a time and we were all starving.

The wedding itself was a lot of fun, but the seating thing was really bad.  It was an evening wedding in the city, so everyone was dressed up with heels on and we were stuck standing the entire time.  

pinkshorts27

One of my FB friends... classy. And I can't find the comment on it where her MOH was threatening to beat up some bitches for her.

pinkshorts27

DragonBlood13 said:

Inkdancer said:

DragonBlood13 said:

shrekspeare said:

Jealous! I would love to go to South Beach. You're lucky.

Yeah, the bride&groom rented out a club for the reception.  It's going to be so much fun!

I'm going to a wedding at a club this weekend... but it's apps only. Hope the bride likes watching her friends and family get stumbling drunk because they're drinking on empty stomachs....

Yeah, that sucks.  My friends did that at their wedding and it was bad news.  They actually did a ton of things that were against etiquette and it was so hard not to tell them.

They had a HM fund

They didn't have enough seating for the ceremony.  And they kept us waiting for 45 minutes.

They only had about 5 small tables at the reception.

Not enough food at all.  Appetizer stations which would give you ONE piece of sushi at a time.  You felt like such a fool getting one piece of food at a time and we were all starving.

The wedding itself was a lot of fun, but the seating thing was really bad.  It was an evening wedding in the city, so everyone was dressed up with heels on and we were stuck standing the entire time.  

Fuck no. I would have been gone.

JellyBean52513

Not sure if this constitutes as entertainment, but apparently someone at my job told my boss that I wasn't going to her wedding because my SO wasn't invited. Her way of responding? Going to my co-worker...the same one who told me what she said before....and asking her if this was true. The co-worker told me and finally threw up her hands, saying "I don't care if you go talk to her directly at this point. It's ridiculous that she keeps gossiping about you to me and I can't stand being stuck in the middle."

I went straight to the office and confronted her, telling her that yes, I knew back when she was running around work telling everyone how annoyed she was with her BM that asked if her boyfriend was invited, that I would be declining. I told her that not only is it very likely that my SO will be busy that weekend, but the idea of attending a wedding without him is not my favorite cup of tea. She said she understood, that excluding SOs was the tough choice her and her FI had to make in order to keep the guest list at the size they wanted, and she just didn't like the thought that I told her one thing and might have been saying something else to other people (FTR, she called me from home the day she got my RSVP and asked why I declined, and I told her that I knew I wasn't going to be available that weekend because SO may have an event and I would be going with him to it if that ended up being the case). She said she wasn't planning to bug me about it again after she heard the gossip, but she asked my co-worker for confirmation because she "just doesn't like hearing things." I said "Yeah, I hate hearing things about me, too." I don't think she got that hint.

If nothing else was accomplished, I hope she now knows that anything she says to this co-worker about me will get back to me, and hopefully she will stop talking to her about me. I also know exactly who told her about me planning to decline, and this person has been going around making comments like "I would love to go to a wedding without my husband. Besides, it's not about me, it's about supporting the bride. Its such a SLAP IN THE FACE to decline her wedding for such a stupid reason." I've known my boss for a year, I hardly constitute declining an invite to a social event to be THAT offensive. Sad part is, I've always really loved this person and always thought we had a great work relationship. I guess grown woman can't act like adults in the workplace, and I just have to watch my mouth at all times.

melbenso

blueeyes90 said:

How old is she?  12?  "Sorry, not sorry" should not be said by anyone who isn't on a TV show about high school.

Also, what is a tip of advice?  (Edit)

sofakingmad

blueeyes90 said:

One of my FB friends... classy. And I can't find the comment on it where her MOH was threatening to beat up some bitches for her.

Sometimes I think that these speshul brides have never ever entertained before.  

VulgarGirl

I'm a newbie bride but don't have any of my own crazy to share yet. Will third party crazy work?

So this girl, June, got pregnant sometime last summer I think, I dunno the kid is already here. Yay! So before the kid arrived June and her baby daddy decided to go down to the courthouse and get hitched. They made no big deal about it at all, just got married then updated their Facebook statuses. 

June's friend Kelly is loosing her shit over this. Still. Kelly is friends with my best friend so is still bitching about this. It happened several months ago (Feburary I think), but Kelly is "hurt" that her friend didn't even tell her she was getting married. But well, June didn't tell anyone. According to June it was a spur of the moment lets just do this and get it over with thing! And afterwards they called their parents and then updated Facebook. June did apologize and said that she should have called Kelly post-wedding to let her know rather then just let her find out on Facebook. This is not good enough for Kelly, she should have been informed pre-wedding so she could be there.

Oh, I know you think that's all the crazy I got but no it is not. Now that June's baby has arrived safely and healthy Kelly wants June to start planning a wedding. June can't see the point as she's already married. Kelly had a civil ceramony when she lived in England to make the whole living/working paperwork stuff easier. And her and her husband just had their other wedding in the states (after 7 years of marriage) in her church. Kelly feels June should do the same so that she is really married. 

Apparently June has told Kelly that the money spent on a PPD would be better spent on a down payment for a house for her family. Kelly told June without a wedding she isn't really married (at this point I wanted to bitch slap her) and is now trying to get my best friend to back her up. 

Kelly's got a lot of opinions about what does/doesn't make you married. I disagree with all of them. I manage to not throat punch her every time I see her, and I'm proud of that. June's been known to be crazy as well but right now I'm a big fan of her's. She seems fantastic.

VulgarGirl

blueeyes90 said:

One of my FB friends... classy. And I can't find the comment on it where her MOH was threatening to beat up some bitches for her.

Why is she messing up a Dr. Seuss quote? What'd he do to her?

sofakingmad

@magicink,  wtf would a friend care that much about a PPD?  LOL

pinkshorts27

MagicInk said:

blueeyes90 said:

One of my FB friends... classy. And I can't find the comment on it where her MOH was threatening to beat up some bitches for her.

Why is she messing up a Dr. Seuss quote? What'd he do to her?

Yea, don't know. She is 23 to the person who asked (my age) and I haven't posted anything this passive-aggressive on social media since I was 14 or so. 

priceisright07

Funny post. I do come here to look for ettiquite advice, but mostly I just search for my question and find the answer without having to ask. But I always check this board for entertainment.

Couggal12

Speshul brides need to come out and play.

jalyndani

How about some Mother of the Bride crazy shit to liven up your day?

A friend planning her wedding for later in the summer just told me about this argument she is having with her mother. Their wedding is fairly small with just family and close friends, and is on a pretty tight budget. MOB told Bride that she needed to pick her "house party" members so they would have someone to cut and serve their cake- the cake designer just delivers it, the caterer is on-site and doesn't offer the service, and a coordinator/planner isn't affordable. The bride is very uncomfortable with the idea of assigning any friends or cousins to do this task- she believes that it's rude to saddle your guests with such a ridiculous job when they're dressed up and supposed to be having a good time. She has adamantly refused to do this and told her mother that she would hire someone independently for the task without dipping into the wedding budget. MOB, however, has taken this refusal to mean that my friend is hateful, stubborn, mean, and ungrateful for all the work she has put into the wedding thus far. I've seen this poor girl's text messages from MOB- the woman is cray cray.  She has asked her cousins and several friends - including me, which is how I know about this- about their opinions on such an "honor" and they've all said the same thing- that if they weren't asked to be a bridesmaid, they would be insulted and view it as a job. She tried to relay this info to MOB, who then got all defensive and slammed those friends/family, saying "well since they're such wedding experts let's just do EVERYTHING they did at their weddings! I'm doing what's right and what's traditional, whether you like it or not!"

(For the record, this bride and her family are from the South, where house parties used to be a bigger thing than they are now. Most people really don't do them anymore...)

Ah, drama. Thoughts?  

sofakingmad

Parents tend to go a little BSC when it comes to weddings.

sassyfrass2014

I'm getting some entertainment watching my cousin plan her wedding. We have very different tastes, and hers include classy "Tiffany blue" as her wedding color, lace + burlap, mason jars, Honeyfund, no vegetarian option, and hay bales as seating. 

Several people in the family are allergic to hay. All things considered, I'm really looking forward to the Big Day. 

sofakingmad

sassyfrass2014 said:

I'm getting some entertainment watching my cousin plan her wedding. We have very different tastes, and hers include classy "Tiffany blue" as her wedding color, lace + burlap, mason jars, Honeyfund, no vegetarian option, and hay bales as seating. 

Several people in the family are allergic to hay. All things considered, I'm really looking forward to the Big Day. 

Hay bales?  Ugh.  Fucking Pinterest

sassyfrass2014

DragonBlood13 said:

sassyfrass2014 said:

I'm getting some entertainment watching my cousin plan her wedding. We have very different tastes, and hers include classy "Tiffany blue" as her wedding color, lace + burlap, mason jars, Honeyfund, no vegetarian option, and hay bales as seating. 

Several people in the family are allergic to hay. All things considered, I'm really looking forward to the Big Day. 

Hay bales?  Ugh.  Fucking Pinterest

At our grandmother's B&B, which has no hay bales. It is not a farm. She's bringing in hay bales.

VulgarGirl

DragonBlood13 said:

@magicink,  wtf would a friend care that much about a PPD?  LOL

That's basically my ongoing question. I could see her mom caring but her friend? Yeah, they're close but...come on? Really? I'd take my friend and her husband out to dinner to celebrate or maybe throw a party to celebrate for them, but I wouldn't care about doing a PPD. I'd just want to say congratulations and eat cake. I always want to eat cake. But like I said, Kelly's got a lot of rules and regulations for what counts as being married. Apparently it must be in a church, even if you aren't religious or it doesn't count. Which means for 7 years she wasn't really married. Oh next time she brings up how wrong it is to live together or have sex before marriage I'm throwing that card down.

beachyone15

Hay and burlap?! Just.....no.

VulgarGirl

Sitting on hay bales sounds very uncomfortable. And stupid. If they aren't already there...why bring them? Just cover a chair with some burlap. Just as itchy with better back support!

huskypuppy14

short+sassy said:

For your entertainment, DragonBlood13...

So, NWR, but one of the craziest breaches of ettiquette I have ever experienced was at a convention a number of years ago.  We were all indpendent contractors in the same industry, so it wasn't quite as bad as if it had been clients/colleagues.

But the last day of the convention had ended and everyone was introducing each other and schmoozing before heading back home.  A middle-aged woman came up to me with her business card in her hand...and I was expecting the normal introduction to occur.  But, instead, she leans over and tells me that I am not wearing the correct sized bra, puts her card in my hand, and then hustles off.

I was a bit shocked to say the least and, at first, I thought one of my "girls" had maybe popped a bit out of my bra and was making a weird lump and she was just being helpful.  Which horrified me, because I had just been given an award not 10 minutes earlier.  I hurried to the bathroom, but everything was fine (phew!).  I then finally look at her card and apparently she owns a website for creating custom bras!!! (Not at all related to the convention).  I was LIVID!!  I mean, seriously?  Is that how she recruits new customers?  By walking up to total strangers and commenting on their undergarments?  Holy s**tballs!

And then turn around to leave the bathroom and she is there again!  She apologizes to me and said she saw the look on my face and thought she had made a "boo boo" (her words).  She said she didn't mean to make me uncomfortable.  Through out her apology, I just keep giving her that polite smile...that doesn't quite meet the eyes...and saying, "It's fine. It's fine."  But in a tone that says its not...as I'm trying to end the conversation and leave.  I think (and hope) that I clearly portrayed my true unspoken feeling of, "It's not okay, but I think you're a whack-a-doo and just want to get away from you.  And I'm not saying anything that will draw this conversation out further."  

I think we need to talk about this! WTF is that woman thinking? No one should be talking about your bra unless it's your seamstress, a woman at a lingerie store, and you asked her opinion, or maybe your best friend or sister or someone close to you. 

In what world is it appropriate to go up to someone at a professional event and do that. OMG people are crazy. If she works for a company I would post a negative review.

LadyMillil

I'm getting some entertainment watching my cousin plan her wedding. We have very different tastes, and hers include classy "Tiffany blue" as her wedding color, lace + burlap, mason jars, Honeyfund, no vegetarian option, and hay bales as seating. 

Several people in the family are allergic to hay. All things considered, I'm really looking forward to the Big Day. 

I'm one of those pesky people that is allergic to hay. I have a family member that is planning a wedding with hay bale seating. When I mentioned my allergy, I was told not to worry about it, there would be a chair for me so I didn't have to sit on the hay. Because not touching the hay will evidently solve all my allergy issues.