iowgirl
Pearl Clutcher
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Post by iowgirl on Nov 6, 2022 15:32:51 GMT
Interesting that someone really wanted the announcement put in the paper. Those were "a thing" back in the 1960s but I have not seen one in years. Our wedding announcement was in 2 papers in the early 90s! My hometown and his. Small town papers. Could they drop anymore names if people nobody knows?!?! That was tacky as hell. That one is a bit pretentious! LOL But I remember as a kid reading the wedding announcements and they always described what type of lace was used in the gown, etc. I grew up in a small town, and I remember often reading how the family and wedding party enjoyed a breakfast or lunch after the wedding prepared by the brides mother. My own parents wedding, my Grandma cooked a turkey dinner for everyone after the wedding. How sweet! Our wedding announcement wasn't quite so pretentious as the OP's share - but it did list parents, bridal party, location, and reception and dance details. It was just done for everyone! I really miss them. |
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Post by Skellinton on Nov 6, 2022 15:42:15 GMT
Could they drop anymore names if people nobody knows?!?! That was tacky as hell. Name dropping is why it was in the paper. They both work in hospitality. But how about they name drop names of people that people actually know? Mario Cantone is the only one I bet most people know. Most of the names mentioned are mentioned in such a way it is like they bought their name being printed. And really all the fun details of the wedding are left out. Someone is trying to hard, which is tacky as hell, no matter what their job is. |
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Post by bc2ca on Nov 6, 2022 19:36:44 GMT
Could they drop anymore names if people nobody knows?!?! That was tacky as hell.  I mean, how do you feel if you were one of the unnamed attendants? But "luminary" guests get named?  Also questioning "joined at the altar" for an outdoor event . . . |
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Post by tentoes on Nov 6, 2022 19:47:57 GMT
My mom got married in a double ceremony with her brother. The bride's mother (who married the brother) obviously wrote the wedding announcement! It was laughable to say the least! It was almost "Oh yeah, the other bride wore this--" My mother saved it and I have it now as a reminder of what not to say!! My father's father died a week or so before the ceremony, but all the announcements were already out--so the grooms' mother wore a black dress.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Nov 7, 2022 15:25:31 GMT
It’s odd because “traditionally” the bride’s family hosts, but in this case it seems as if the whole thing is all about the groom’s family (who no doubt paid for the announcement along with everything else). And being the obvious social climbers they all are they want everybody to know exactly who backed the whole shindig. 🙄 It feels like the bride is almost an afterthought. How embarrassing to be her, I would have been mortified if my in-laws would have published something like that. If this was written by the MIL, and the bride did not want it to go that way, can you imagine having her as your MIL?!  The name dropping was gross, tacky, and gauche (I could think of a few more words, but I wont!). |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Nov 7, 2022 15:54:08 GMT
It’s odd because “traditionally” the bride’s family hosts, but in this case it seems as if the whole thing is all about the groom’s family (who no doubt paid for the announcement along with everything else). And being the obvious social climbers they all are they want everybody to know exactly who backed the whole shindig. 🙄 It feels like the bride is almost an afterthought. How embarrassing to be her, I would have been mortified if my in-laws would have published something like that. If this was written by the MIL, and the bride did not want it to go that way, can you imagine having her as your MIL?! The name dropping was gross, tacky, and gauche (I could think of a few more words, but I wont!). Yes, I can imagine it because I lived it, though not quite to that extreme. I still recall one particularly stinging Christmas “newsletter” that my MIL mailed out to everyone on her Christmas card list the year I opened my business. She wrote something to the effect of, “Crazy4scraps quit all of her low-paying jobs to start a business this year.”   WTAF. I worked 2-3 jobs concurrently the entire time DH was in college to support us. All of my supposed “low-paying jobs” were what paid the mortgage for the house that her son (my DH) and I were living in, utilities, insurance, gas, car payments, etc. while he was a full time college student working part time. So yes, I was more than a little salty about that because it showed what she really thought of me. She was a miserable, hateful wretch. Needless to say, there wasn’t a lot of love lost from me when she passed away. ETA: Thankfully we mostly paid for our wedding ourselves with only a small financial contribution from each of our families, and a generous honeymoon trip paid for by DH’s elderly grandma and there was no stupid announcement like that in the paper. |
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Post by shessoaverage on Nov 7, 2022 16:06:36 GMT
This made me laugh because I was an avid watcher of the soap “All My Children” way back when I was in college and one of the characters, a rich, obnoxious, robber-baron type, was named Palmer Cortlandt. The groom’s name here is Courtland Palmer. That’s quite a wedding announcement!
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I mean, how do you feel if you were one of the unnamed attendants? But "luminary" guests get named? 
WTAF. I worked 2-3 jobs concurrently the entire time DH was in college to support us. All of my supposed “low-paying jobs” were what paid the mortgage for the house that her son (my DH) and I were living in, utilities, insurance, gas, car payments, etc. while he was a full time college student working part time. So yes, I was more than a little salty about that because it showed what she really thought of me. She was a miserable, hateful wretch. Needless to say, there wasn’t a lot of love lost from me when she passed away.