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I think Reddit is officially worse then WW....

AuroraRose41AuroraRose41 member
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http://www.reddit.com/r/weddingplanning/comments/23sbse/getting_the_elopement_i_wanted_after_all_fh_is/

They are eloping, but still having a PPD "Wedding", and anyone who told them that they were having a PPD and that it was rude got reamed out. I think that there needs to be a higher Knottie presence over there, you guys.


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Re: I think Reddit is officially worse then WW....

  • jenna8984jenna8984 member
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    All the ones calling her out were deleted unfortunately. That is ridiculous. I am appalled at all the people saying "that's what we did!" Apparently this happens way more often than it should. I just can't with the "we HAVE to". No, you don't. Either go without insurance for a few months or move the actual big reception up sooner to the day you want. So f-ing ridiculous.

                                                                     

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  • AuroraRose41AuroraRose41 member
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    @jenna8984 I can't believe that they got deleted. It is aboslutely ridiculous with all of the snowflakes there.

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  • Jells2dot0Jells2dot0 mod
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    Posts like that give eloping a bad name.

     







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  • Peaseblossom55Peaseblossom55 mod
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    I really can't believe how many people agree with the whole concept.  It's pretty upsetting actually that people feel so entitled.  You make your bed you lie in it.  Nothing wrong with eloping at all, but don't like about it, hide or even reenact it.

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  • grumbledoregrumbledore member
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    AuroraRose41 said:

    http://www.reddit.com/r/weddingplanning/comments/23sbse/getting_the_elopement_i_wanted_after_all_fh_is/

    They are eloping, but still having a PPD "Wedding", and anyone who told them that they were having a PPD and that it was rude got reamed out. I think that there needs to be a higher Knottie presence over there, you guys.

    /r/weddingplanning and all the other Reddit wedding boards are a total cesspool of bad advice and horrible rudeness. Good sound etiquette advice is routinely downvoted into oblivion. I gave up very quickly. Even /r/etiquette is a wasteland of special snowflakes and rude assholes.

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  • blabla89blabla89 member
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    I can't even deal with reddit.

    Also, now that my company has started doing layoffs and I can't find another job, I'm starting to see why people find PPDs to be an attractive option. But I won't do it, because reasons (see every PPD thread on TK ever).

    ETA: words are hard.
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  • vulpiepopvulpiepop member
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    It got more upvotes than down :-/
    This is why I only use Reddit is only for cute animal pictures...

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  • theartistformerlyknownastheartistformerlyknownas member
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    Um, hey, anyone who "needs to get married for the insurance"... come work in advertising, all the agencies I've worked at offer domestic partner coverage which is open to opposite- AND same-sex couples... so I was able to add FI before we were even engaged. We just had to live together. Better, cheaper coverage for FI than what he got at work, no PPD for anybody. Whooo equality! :)
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  • blabla89blabla89 member
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    lolo883 said:
    Um, hey, anyone who "needs to get married for the insurance"... come work in advertising, all the agencies I've worked at offer domestic partner coverage which is open to opposite- AND same-sex couples... so I was able to add FI before we were even engaged. We just had to live together. Better, cheaper coverage for FI than what he got at work, no PPD for anybody. Whooo equality! :)
    Whaaat? I work for an agency (under Omnicom) and the requirements for domestic partners are super strict. FI's company doesn't cover spouses or domestic partners because obamacare. Womp womp.
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  • manateehuggermanateehugger member
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    I can't believe people can defend lying to friends and family - just stupid. That's so wholly disgusting to me. I was lied to by a couple last year when I was a BRIDESMAID in their PPD. The only reason we found out is because they called us to recommend we do the same thing. 
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  • AuroraRose41AuroraRose41 member
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    @PDKH ouch. I would be so upset to find that out (and hoping it doesn't happen for the wedding that I am a bridesmaid in next year...).

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  • theartistformerlyknownastheartistformerlyknownas member
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    lalalaurita said:

    lolo883 said:
    Um, hey, anyone who "needs to get married for the insurance"... come work in advertising, all the agencies I've worked at offer domestic partner coverage which is open to opposite- AND same-sex couples... so I was able to add FI before we were even engaged. We just had to live together. Better, cheaper coverage for FI than what he got at work, no PPD for anybody. Whooo equality! :)
    Whaaat? I work for an agency (under Omnicom) and the requirements for domestic partners are super strict. FI's company doesn't cover spouses or domestic partners because obamacare. Womp womp.
    Yup! I work for an IPG co but it was the same under WPP. The rules were more strict on paper than in reality... i.e. provide proof that you've lived together >1 year, that one would support the other should some tragedy befall them like paralysis or a vegetative state (which come on, often doesn't even happen in marriages!). All I had to do was check a box during online open enrollment that those things were true (shhhh... we had lived together for a month at that point) and that was that.
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  • blabla89blabla89 member
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    lolo883 said:
    lalalaurita said:

    lolo883 said:
    Um, hey, anyone who "needs to get married for the insurance"... come work in advertising, all the agencies I've worked at offer domestic partner coverage which is open to opposite- AND same-sex couples... so I was able to add FI before we were even engaged. We just had to live together. Better, cheaper coverage for FI than what he got at work, no PPD for anybody. Whooo equality! :)
    Whaaat? I work for an agency (under Omnicom) and the requirements for domestic partners are super strict. FI's company doesn't cover spouses or domestic partners because obamacare. Womp womp.
    Yup! I work for an IPG co but it was the same under WPP. The rules were more strict on paper than in reality... i.e. provide proof that you've lived together >1 year, that one would support the other should some tragedy befall them like paralysis or a vegetative state (which come on, often doesn't even happen in marriages!). All I had to do was check a box during online open enrollment that those things were true (shhhh... we had lived together for a month at that point) and that was that.
    So what kind of documentation did you have to provide? FI and I don't actually live together so that complicates things. Ugh, grown up things are so stressful.
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  • theartistformerlyknownastheartistformerlyknownas member
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    lalalaurita said:
    lolo883 said:
    lalalaurita said:

    lolo883 said:
    Um, hey, anyone who "needs to get married for the insurance"... come work in advertising, all the agencies I've worked at offer domestic partner coverage which is open to opposite- AND same-sex couples... so I was able to add FI before we were even engaged. We just had to live together. Better, cheaper coverage for FI than what he got at work, no PPD for anybody. Whooo equality! :)
    Whaaat? I work for an agency (under Omnicom) and the requirements for domestic partners are super strict. FI's company doesn't cover spouses or domestic partners because obamacare. Womp womp.
    Yup! I work for an IPG co but it was the same under WPP. The rules were more strict on paper than in reality... i.e. provide proof that you've lived together >1 year, that one would support the other should some tragedy befall them like paralysis or a vegetative state (which come on, often doesn't even happen in marriages!). All I had to do was check a box during online open enrollment that those things were true (shhhh... we had lived together for a month at that point) and that was that.
    So what kind of documentation did you have to provide? FI and I don't actually live together so that complicates things. Ugh, grown up things are so stressful.
    No documentation at all. Literally just checked a box. We do live together, so I had already changed my address on file with HR to FI's address, but they never verified anything. It was harder to get a library card than to add him to my insurance. 
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  • HysilvinialithibelHysilvinialithibel member
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    lalalaurita said:
    lolo883 said:
    lalalaurita said:

    lolo883 said:
    Um, hey, anyone who "needs to get married for the insurance"... come work in advertising, all the agencies I've worked at offer domestic partner coverage which is open to opposite- AND same-sex couples... so I was able to add FI before we were even engaged. We just had to live together. Better, cheaper coverage for FI than what he got at work, no PPD for anybody. Whooo equality! :)
    Whaaat? I work for an agency (under Omnicom) and the requirements for domestic partners are super strict. FI's company doesn't cover spouses or domestic partners because obamacare. Womp womp.
    Yup! I work for an IPG co but it was the same under WPP. The rules were more strict on paper than in reality... i.e. provide proof that you've lived together >1 year, that one would support the other should some tragedy befall them like paralysis or a vegetative state (which come on, often doesn't even happen in marriages!). All I had to do was check a box during online open enrollment that those things were true (shhhh... we had lived together for a month at that point) and that was that.
    So what kind of documentation did you have to provide? FI and I don't actually live together so that complicates things. Ugh, grown up things are so stressful.
    Domestic partner basically means a person that lives in the same domicile as you and you live "as married" as in not just a roommate. 

    So they probably purposefully would exclude people who do not live together. I needed proof of living together for at least a year and proof of combined finances for at least a year (the previous 12 months, specifically). For us this was a joint lease and a statement that I have my own copy of one of his credit cards (luckily he did this when we moved in together, I thought it was silly at the time).  There were other options but I forget what they were. Some countries register domestic partners so proof of being legally registered would count. 
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