Are Things Changing?
photo-Martha Stewarts Weddings
Have you read Dear Abby recently? A writer wrote to tell how she bought her, soon to-be, niece in-law a new sweater and gave it to her as a gift. The girl said she didn’t like it and gave it back! Lawdy! I would have been as flabbergasted as the writer was when the incident through her for a loop. Where were that girl’s manners?
Another Dear Abby writer wrote to say that she had received a wedding invitation asking that no signatures were to be placed with any gifts given. The couple didn’t want to know who the gift was from. They would be writing a mass email thanking everyone for their gifts. Individuals would not be acknowledged. Can you believe that?
My son just received a wedding invitation via Facebook. It wasn’t just a conversation telling him that he would be receiving an invitation to the wedding and to keep the date open. No, this was the invitation. Come on people. How much can wedding invitations cost? Cut costs on mints and nuts by using coupons at Savings.com. How about having the wedding and just sending everyone pictures instead of having them use gas to travel.
I recently received a wedding invitation that actually requested money for the honeymoon. Tacky.
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April 20th, 2011 at 5:13 pm
It seems sad to me that now it seems to be old fashioned to actually give thought and time into purchasing a gift for any occasion, including a wedding. Everyone just wants cash.
Lynne´s last [type] ..Freschetta – Contest
April 20th, 2011 at 9:18 pm
We went to a nice wedding once, and at the dinner reception someone passed around baskets for people to put in money for the honeymoon. That was the first and only time I’ve ever seen that done.
My mother taught me the importance of writing thank-you’s! It’s sad that people don’t write them much anymore.
April 21st, 2011 at 3:12 pm
Don’t ANY of these people care about manners?!
April 25th, 2011 at 2:18 pm
You are absolutely right Lynne… Most people would rather get cash or a gift card. I’m not going to lie, I went to my cousins wedding this weekend and gave her a gift card for the wedding gift.
Jcmiles´s last [type] ..Robin says-
April 27th, 2011 at 9:29 am
Wow, that’s just crazy. Cold Cash is the in thing nowadays! But to make a pull back on those crazy ways in weddings asking for cash, there are now couples who ask for cash as a gift from the guests but donate these cash to charities.
April 29th, 2011 at 8:21 pm
What a shame that you are no longer able to whack your kids!
April 30th, 2011 at 6:50 pm
Sad but true. The proliferation of social media in people’s lives will warp long-held customs in strange and interesting new ways. Take wedding invitations for example – I have a feeling that the next generation will fully embrace online invitations and see physical wedding invitation cards as a quaint relic of a bygone era. The times they are a changing…