Pinterest, ugh...

cmclaire · April 2014

I love pinterest, but so much of the wedding based pins are dire! I've got a wedding board, but there's a lot I've waded through en route to completing it!

Home decor and meals however? Nothing but love for those sections

countrygirl061513 · April 2014

I used Pintrest to give me some ideas when I had a mental block for my centerpieces, but I didn't copy anything directly. I took a few pictures from there and brainstormed with my MIL to come up with what we used. But some of the pins are horrible.

dolewhipper · April 2014

I have been scoping the wedding section of pinterest to shoot down my family's "great" ideas. My sister recently went to a wedding where the B&G left a "heartfelt" printed thank you note on each guests' plate. You know, where they have some lines with font larger than others. She sent me a picture and said, "You should do this!" I replied, "Oh yea, I've seen it all over pinterest. Its nice."

HisGirlFriday13 · April 2014

I love Pinterest for recipes. Dinner in our house is very often a Pinterest-inspired recipe that I have in some way tweaked.

I also love it for home decorating ideas because I'm visual but not terribly creative, so I like seeing other ideas.

I didn't use it much for wedding planning, other than for floral ideas.

DaisyMaeMommy · April 2014

I love Pinterest for all of the different ideas I see.

But do I copy everything in perfect detail? Heck no!

VulgarGirl · April 2014

wrigleyville said:

I wish I could find the pin... I saw it last night. It had to have been a teenage girl, and it was one of those "Someday..." boards.

She had the Disney wedding dresses from Alfred Angelo pinned. It was a compilation photo, so all six (?) dresses were in one pin. Those dresses are pretty and don't actually look *Disney*, so I don't really have an issue with that.

Her caption, though, was, "OMG YES. This is my dream wedding!!! All my girls in these Disney Princess dresses and then my fiance's guys/men in the corresponding Disney Prince outfits!"

Barf. What are you, 12? Also, those are wedding dresses, not BM dresses. Also, no. No no no. NO.

One pinner did comment, "Um, are you sure the guys are going to be okay with that...?" :-D

My friend and her husband are Disney obsessed. They've been to the parks so many times I don't want to count, they plan on decorating their future kid's room with a Disney theme, the had Mickey and Minnie cake topper at their wedding, and their first dance was some song from Sleep Beauty. I showed her a pin where all the bridesmaids wore the actual princess costume dresses and she said "Oh fuck that, that's too much Disney".

When people who are Disney obsessed say it's too much Disney, it's too much Disney.

VulgarGirl · April 2014

I've started a bad wedding idea board. Because there are so many bad ideas. But this is my most hated.

In case you aren't clear what is happening here, you get the pleasure of writing your address on your own thank you note envelope. Because the happy couple is just too busy being happily married to take the time to write out your address to thank you.

No. Do not be that lazy. I embrace lazy, but fuck this I bought you a gift, I came to your wedding, I let your skeevy uncle dance with me, write the address your damn self. What's next? Fill the blank thank you cards? Everyone takes a card, fills in what they brought, and gets to take home a thank you note as their favor!! Saves so much time for the bride and groom who are just too busy to continue to give a shit about you. Thanks!

PrincessOfHavoc · April 2014

But at least you'd get a thank you something in the mail.

Gak, my standards are ruined. The baffling "Why'd you give us cash, we sent you a registry card?" has done me in. Because I have just gotten over two back to back strep based pneumonia and didn't feel like dragging my butt to the store was my response. Alas, I should just go online. No, I should have gotten you nothing.

DaisyMaeMommy · April 2014

MagicInk said:

I've started a bad wedding idea board. Because there are so many bad ideas. But this is my most hated.

In case you aren't clear what is happening here, you get the pleasure of writing your address on your own thank you note envelope. Because the happy couple is just too busy being happily married to take the time to write out your address to thank you.

No. Do not be that lazy. I embrace lazy, but fuck this I bought you a gift, I came to your wedding, I let your skeevy uncle dance with me, write the address your damn self. What's next? Fill the blank thank you cards? Everyone takes a card, fills in what they brought, and gets to take home a thank you note as their favor!! Saves so much time for the bride and groom who are just too busy to continue to give a shit about you. Thanks!

A friend of mine posted this to her Facebook and was saying what a neat idea it was!

I told her it was lazy and rude, she promptly deleted me and told me to "Stop worrying about what I want for my wedding! It's MY DAY!"

wrigleyville · April 2014

Someone once told me the envelopes go into a basket and are then used to pick "door prizes". Okay, prizes are fun, but why not just have people write their names on a slip of paper? Don't try to justify your rudeness with fun and games.

VulgarGirl · April 2014

And you're still friends with her? I'm impressed. I would've gone off on her.

DaisyMaeMommy · April 2014

MagicInk said:

And you're still friends with her? I'm impressed. I would've gone off on her.

She's normally a very nice person... Until she started planning her wedding. Now she's a Bridezilla and has become self-absorbed. And even though she deleted me off Facebook and I'm not invited to the wedding, she continues to ask my opinion about this or that...

I'm waiting to see what she's like after the wedding!

SammiNJonni · April 2014

I will admit I am using pinterest to plan my wedding. There is not a stitch of burlap involved, nor a honeymoon jar, or list of bridesmaid expectations. Some of it has come from pinterest some has not and most is inspiration.

This is the worst one to me. It may have once been true but the couple should plan to fund their own wedding. It has been pinned over 6k times.

larrygaga · April 2014

SammiNJonni said:

I will admit I am using pinterest to plan my wedding. There is not a stitch of burlap involved, nor a honeymoon jar, or list of bridesmaid expectations. Some of it has come from pinterest some has not and most is inspiration.

This is the worst one to me. It may have once been true but the couple should plan to fund their own wedding. It has been pinned over 6k times.

SP29 · April 2014

@SammiNjonni- ACK!! @princessofhavoc are you kidding me? Someone complained about getting cash? Who doesn't want cash? Geez, just go to the store and buy what you wanted with the cash of your registry... at the completion event, no less! Thus, because you get a discount, you can buy even more!

Cookie Pusher · April 2014

SammiNJonni said:

I will admit I am using pinterest to plan my wedding. There is not a stitch of burlap involved, nor a honeymoon jar, or list of bridesmaid expectations. Some of it has come from pinterest some has not and most is inspiration.

This is the worst one to me. It may have once been true but the couple should plan to fund their own wedding. It has been pinned over 6k times.

Oh shit, FI and I are doing it wrong! (Paying for everything ourselves) Does this mean we get a do-over???

PrincessOfHavoc · April 2014

Yeah, she's normally pretty nice but has gotten to be a drama llama with her wedding. I really didn't want to go shopping, I know her budget is tight, I figured cash would either be good to get whatever for the wedding or later. Apparently I'm wrong.

Hopefully, the llama behavior will vanish post wedding stress. Or I'm going to turn violent.

mollyringwald15 · April 2014

Rosebubbly said:

I'm so tired of seeing the pin "today two families become one, so pick a seat not a side". GAG!!!

What's worse is helping a friend make that sign.

Just sayin.

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