I knew I had an invitation in the mail for a friend's wedding just over a month away but I was starting to worry I wouldn't receive it. Maybe she had to cut down her wedding guest list. After all, we haven't seen each other in a while and maybe she forgot she verbally invited me. Maybe the US Postal Service swallowed it whole (which happens to me occasionally and for unknown reasons.) Maybe this was some sort of subtle hint that we weren't as good of friends as I thought we were. By Sunday, I had given up on ever receiving this invite and was trying not to think less of the friend as a person for verbally inviting me then not sending an actual invitation.
Well, today I got the anxiously anticipated wedding invite.
I smile at the envelope, carefully addressed in my friend's best handwriting and rip that sucker open. My envelope destroying euphoria lasts for just a moment. My jaw drops at the first thing I read, which is an invitation to send them on their dream honeymoon. Overseas. To the place my husband and I wanted to go for our honeymoon, but realized we didn't have the money for at the time. So we put it off for a future vacation and made plans way closer to home at a much more affordable destination for our honeymoon. Next comes the traditional registry card for BBB. After consigning these to the trashcan since I'd already looked up their registry online for BBB and had no desire to contribute to their honeymoon, I turn--finally--to the actual invitation. It's plain, but nice. And there's another problem. The wedding starts at 6pm and there's an hors d'oeuvres and dancing reception. I really hope they'll have enough food for a full-blown meal, but I'm kinda doubting it at this point.
I know the whole thing isn't that bad. They could've sent the invite even later with an RSVP that had already passed, clearly indicating a B-list situation. They could've used the blood of innocent puppies to print the invites. They could've told me what to wear or indicated it was "black tie" when it clearly wasn't going to meet the criteria for it. And I'll probably go if I can get the time off of work and hope she was just a little etiquette-careless when she did the whole invitation part of her checklist. I'm just a little put off by the whole thing and hoping that the end result won't need to revive the Worst Weddings thread.