Okay, clearly I should have been perusing the etiquette board about eight weeks agowhen I was working on my invitations, then I could have avoided this potential gaffe.
FI and I are having a destination wedding in Aspen next month. It will mostly be attended by friends and a smattering of family members, mostly from my side as both his parents are deceased. It's to be an incredibly relaxed affair - getting married in a gazebo in a park, in the midst of Aspen Ruggerfest (FI plays and has been attending the festival for years, so this is "our thing") - with an emphasis on fun at the reception: dinner, dancing, and a good old-fashioned game or two of Cornhole.
With the exception of my FI's friends who are playing in the tournament and would be in Aspen anyway, most everyone is traveling from out of town and we wanted to make sure our guests knew that we knew they were making big sacrifices by traveling all this way to celebrate with us. We're just so thrilled to have about 40 guests attending from all corners of the globe that we felt their presence with us was gift enough...
And so, in our casual, airline ticket-style invitation, we included the following line: Dan and Francesca request no gifts, just the pleasure of your company.
And now I fear I've made an incredibly huge and completely unintended faux pas by even mentioning the dreaded "G" word in an invitation. Oi-yoy-yoy.
If you had received this invite, would you have been offended by this line?