One of FI's friends has a very rude, dramatic, immature, obnoxious fiancee. A lot of people find it very hard to get along with her. Luckily I don't see her too often because they live in a different city, but when I do see her I'm always really nice to her, even when she's rude to me. I just don't want there to be bad blood between us since I'm sure I'll be seeing her many times in the future. Although she seems to like making it very difficult to be nice to her. When I found out this couple had gotten engaged, I was ready for their wedding to be an etiquette nightmare.
They sent out STDs a couple weeks ago, and their wedding is more than 9 months away and is local. No big deal. But she didn't want to pay for postage, so some people got their STD several weeks ago. We just got ours yesterday. So did a couple other people that were hanging out at the couples' house. Again, no big deal. There was ONE guy at their house who is apparently not invited to the wedding, and had to sit there and watch everyone but him be handed an STD. Ouch.
Then this girl starts talking about how we should all bring flasks to her wedding. She said it was "strongly encouraged" and she "really wishes" we'd all bring flasks full of liquor. She's even considering putting this on her wedding invites-- really. Why? Well, because she's having a cash bar, of course. And drinks are expensive! And she'd rather have the guests all sneak in their own liquor. Ugh.
The cash bar is already irritating to me (although like I said, I expected it), but what bugs me more is that she realizes that what she's doing to her guests is shitty. By saying the drinks will be expensive and we should all sneak in our own liquor, she knows that she's now put an unfair burden of cost onto her guests and they won't be happy with this, but she did it anyway. I find that extremely annoying.
And how will the staff at this venue react if they find that the guests have snuck in their own liquor? Will that guest get their flask taken away, be scolded, get kicked out, what? How embarrassing for that guest.
Needless to say, I am NOT looking forward to this wedding but I'm sure we'll go since the groom is a good friend of FI's. Sigh. I'm predicting this will not be my last post about this couple's wedding.
