eastcoastpea
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Post by eastcoastpea on Aug 12, 2015 21:34:15 GMT
Maybe they got the wording on Pinterest. Don't you think their personalized vows are worth hearing? I'm sure they might be equally as moving.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 12, 2015 21:45:50 GMT
If the wedding was being held at his house, I would check out the garage.
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Post by alittleintrepid on Aug 12, 2015 22:00:00 GMT
I'd ignore it, obviously. But, just curious, why didn't your DH involve the police for the stealing?
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Aug 12, 2015 22:02:25 GMT
I would be tempted to write a note that says "We gave at the office. Thanks." OhMyGod!! You have to do that!!! Drop a card off at the gift table...or steal their box of wedding cards!!! Lol
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Post by myboysnme on Aug 12, 2015 22:07:36 GMT
I would send the entire poem back to them with the words 'No Thanks.'
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Post by red88 on Aug 12, 2015 23:44:20 GMT
This one deserves a gif.
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luckyexwife
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Post by luckyexwife on Aug 13, 2015 0:16:49 GMT
Get a Target gift card, don't put any money on it...but write $250 on it! Put the gift card in a wedding card with a nice note of congrats.
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 13, 2015 0:18:17 GMT
Well, since he fired the guy for stealing, I wouldn't go. Obviously. Clearly it's a very tacky invitation. But if it came from someone I cared about, I'd ignore the tackiness, give my usual gift (which would indeed be money), attend the wedding and wish the couple well. This is my answer too.
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Post by Dixie Lou on Aug 13, 2015 0:28:18 GMT
That's the best one I've seen so far. Thanks for sharing!
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Post by alittleintrepid on Aug 13, 2015 0:35:10 GMT
Get a Target gift card, don't put any money on it...but write $250 on it! Put the gift card in a wedding card with a nice note of congrats. Oh, yes! This gets my vote! Can I change my answer?
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lesley
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Jul 6, 2014 21:50:44 GMT
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Post by lesley on Aug 13, 2015 0:40:53 GMT
Get a Target gift card, don't put any money on it...but write $250 on it! Put the gift card in a wedding card with a nice note of congrats. Or better yet, get a gift card for an expensive restaurant with a dollar on it. Write $250 on that, and send them out for a nice meal!
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Post by Sassy Sabrina SWZ on Aug 13, 2015 1:10:47 GMT
I just googled the first lines of the poem and got a lot of hits, so it's not even original. Just wondering whether your DH and the fired guy were friends at any point in the past before the stealing was discovered.
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Jun 28, 2014 3:48:49 GMT
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Post by PLurker on Aug 13, 2015 1:13:48 GMT
I would be tempted to write a note that says "We gave at the office. Thanks." I was going to say the same kind of thing. "No thanks, you took at the office." Tacky and ballsy. ETA I like the gift card ideas! Only problem being, they would probably contact you to tell you of "error" on the card and then you'd have to deal with the idiots again.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 13, 2015 1:31:52 GMT
Get a Target gift card, don't put any money on it...but write $250 on it! Put the gift card in a wedding card with a nice note of congrats. Or better yet, get a gift card for an expensive restaurant with a dollar on it. Write $250 on that, and send them out for a nice meal! LOL! I love it!
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Post by delila on Aug 13, 2015 2:02:10 GMT
My DH has 3,500 employees. He knows most of them & some of them more than others. He hosts golf & football tournaments through the year & this guy played in one of these tourneys so he was known a bit more personally. It was a shock to know this guy was stealing.
As involving the police or pressing charges, in this situation it was not worth it. He does a specialized skill, people talk!
delila
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 13, 2015 3:52:27 GMT
My DH has 3,500 employees. He knows most of them & some of them more than others. He hosts golf & football tournaments through the year & this guy played in one of these tourneys so he was known a bit more personally. It was a shock to know this guy was stealing. As involving the police or pressing charges, in this situation it was not worth it. He does a specialized skill, people talk! delila Sounds like he is Liam Neeson.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 13, 2015 5:04:55 GMT
Wow, that is truly tacky.
I would completely ignore it.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Aug 13, 2015 11:14:21 GMT
Under the circumstances of the stealing and firing, I would feel no compunction to respond to that invitation at all.
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anniebygaslight
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Post by anniebygaslight on Aug 13, 2015 11:49:07 GMT
File it in the waste paper basket and forget about it.
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Post by delila on Aug 13, 2015 16:24:36 GMT
Invite has gone to the shredder but the cutesie little poem is a keeper!! I have to show all my friends that have kids getting married soon what NOT to do!
I love coming here & getting validated bc I feel sometimes that I am so old school & a hard ass. Now I know I'm not, or at least I'm not the only one!!!!
delila
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 13, 2015 16:27:55 GMT
that's a pretty bad attempt at poetry, right there...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2015 16:45:36 GMT
a gift of currency, we thought you'd like trying. I think this is perfect for you guys. You should go. When your DH sees him there he can congratulate him and express appreciation for the gift "after what happened at work". Then your DH should just ask where he should go to receive the gift.
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Post by PEArfect on Aug 13, 2015 16:47:26 GMT
I would send him 2 pennies and a rhyming poem about what you think of him. Your $0.02 worth!
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Post by macaddict on Aug 13, 2015 16:49:10 GMT
It needs a good graphic! LOL
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Post by Miss Lerins Momma on Aug 13, 2015 18:50:56 GMT
that's pretty ballsy to send your DH an invite. And oh so very tacky, on every level!
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Post by kimpossible on Aug 13, 2015 19:15:27 GMT
If he steals from his employer - perhaps that's how they were able to set up their new house too? Well, unless he suddenly got ethical when he lost his job.
All that was missing was a BYOB - we'd like you to set up the bar in our new house!
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Post by twinks on Aug 13, 2015 19:52:34 GMT
I would reply with an equally tacky and grammatically incorrect poem:
Thank you for the wedding invitation, One that I will decline with gratification. Your offering to save us "all the fuss," Is a thought not totally lost on us. A monetary gift, my wife and I decline, By using the "I gave at the office" line.
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Post by maryland on Aug 13, 2015 22:53:48 GMT
Obviously tacky, but I'd wager that his bride has no idea that groom was fired for theft. Groom probably gave her some excuse that he left on good terms. And of course I wouldn't go, nor give a gift. I don't know, maybe she is just as bad. My husband had a boss that was pretty sneaky like that. We felt bad for her husband. Then we found out he was worse! They had that in common.
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