Anna Post said I could. XP

Re: Anna Post said I could. XP

• MrsEll member

  

  January 2014

  Anna Post? Isn't this a bit like asking Paris Hilton's daughter for hospitality tips?
  

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• photokitty mod

  

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  Hesterlicious said:

  http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4551378/?ir=Money Accidentally XP from the proposal board. I just got engaged over Christmas but I have lurked on and off for a few years. My FI just sent me this link. I hope this works. I am already having format issues.

  Anna Post has been giving out bad advice for years in the name of her rolling-in-her-grave-great-great-grandmother, Emily Post. Anna is an etiquette hack. If you want good solid advice ask Miss Manner or read the advice given by Emily Post herself.

  
  

  Asking for cash is NEVER appropriate.

  Just like sharing DNA with someone doesn't mean you actually know what you are talking about. I'm looking at you, Anna!

  ~xoxo~

  
  

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• melbelleup member

  

  January 2014

  Some one posted this last week, I love it. Here's too cash bars and honeymoon funds!
  

  

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• MNVegas member

  

  January 2014

  here is link to previous thread re: Anna Post's bad advice.

  
  

  http://forums.theknot.com/discussion/1006479/emily-post-would-say-asking-for-cash-is-ok#latest
  

  Mary Click here for my bio!

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• MrsEll member

  

  January 2014

  I take it back. Paris seems to know quite a bit about being hospitable. There's even a video to prove it.
  

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• Hesterlicious member

  

  January 2014

  If there is one thing Paris can do it is throwing a party.

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• climbingsingle member

  

  January 2014

  Anna Post = NO. She gives terrible advice. 

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• MrsEll member

  

  January 2014

  Old Emily Post would say it is best to display all wedding gifts, so I guess the real question is how to display all the cash the couple receives.

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• sofakingmad member

  

  January 2014

  MrsEll said:

  Old Emily Post would say it is best to display all wedding gifts, so I guess the real question is how to display all the cash the couple receives.

  Make it rain

  

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• MrsEll member

  

  January 2014

  According to Amy Vanderbilt, "Checks are recorded on cards which are propped up for display." Kind of like old school Wheel of Fortune, I guess.
  

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• HaileyDancingbear member

  

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  Even in the comments on the article everyone is talking about how tacky it is.  I feel that if you write an article on etiquette and the words "Tacky" and "Entitled" come up over and over again in the comments, something is wrong XD 

  
  

  ETA So Anna being descended from Emily Post makes her think she can give etiquette advice?  I've got a Rockette in my family lineage, let me just start teaching everyone how to dance like me.  I'll call this new dancing style the "Demented hippo dance."  Who wants lessons?  Anyone?

  

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• sofakingmad member

  

  January 2014

  This is off topic, but I don't feel like starting a new thread.  

  
  

  I got into a semi-heated argument with a really close friend of mine about cash gifts and that stupid idea that you pay for your plate.  She is so delusional, that she thinks you should pay for your plate AND then give a gift on top of that.  Her reasoning...if you only pay for your plate, you aren't giving me a gift.  ::head desk::

  
  

  I seriously couldn't keep fighting with her.  She is just so wrong.  

  

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• JCbride2015 member

  

  January 2014

  DragonBlood13 said:

  This is off topic, but I don't feel like starting a new thread.  

  
  

  I got into a semi-heated argument with a really close friend of mine about cash gifts and that stupid idea that you pay for your plate.  She is so delusional, that she thinks you should pay for your plate AND then give a gift on top of that.  Her reasoning...if you only pay for your plate, you aren't giving me a gift.  ::head desk::

  
  

  I seriously couldn't keep fighting with her.  She is just so wrong.  

  Hey-- she can come to my wedding!  But seriously, NO.  I hate this for many reasons, but mostly because if brides expect that, it can lead to major financial headaches and snotty expectations if somebody doesn't "cover" their plate with their gift.

  
  

  FMIL also has this idea and keeps telling us to invite her extended family members because she thinks we will make money on each guest.  Thank God she's not paying or involved in the wedding because we can just bean dip her to death.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  "I'm not a rude bitch.  I'm ten rude bitches in a large coat."

  
  

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