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Guest gets bill after not showing up to wedding (MN)
KARE ^ | Sept. 30, 2015 | Jay Olstad

Posted on 09/30/2015 10:08:15 AM PDT by bgill

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Scratch the newlyweds off the Christmas card list and unfriend them on FB.

People make too big a deal on all the wedding fru-fru. It's not about the few hours event but about the lifelong commitment. Ditch the forego the dinner and put the $$$$ toward a house or pay off those students loans so the rest of us won't be stuck with the bill.

1 posted on 09/30/2015 10:08:15 AM PDT by bgill
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That’s generally my position. Go get married in a small church, then begin your life.


2 posted on 09/30/2015 10:10:03 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: bgill

Whaaa it is all about the bride man!


3 posted on 09/30/2015 10:10:34 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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Most practical wedding reception I ever saw...full wedding party dressed for the day, the minister, I’d guess about 50 guests....in the semi-private room at Golden Corral! Now, there’s a couple with a promising future.


4 posted on 09/30/2015 10:11:27 AM PDT by grania
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To: bgill

With friends like this,,, who need them ?


5 posted on 09/30/2015 10:16:48 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: bgill

That’s some minnesota nice for you.


6 posted on 09/30/2015 10:16:48 AM PDT by Trillian
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But what about all those poor wedding planners getting paid to plan wonderful and expensive weddings? And all of those florists and bakers, what about them? It’s horrible, tragic even!


7 posted on 09/30/2015 10:17:02 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: bgill

Sure hope she hadn’t sent a gift on ahead.


8 posted on 09/30/2015 10:21:32 AM PDT by madison10 (If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter)
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To: grania

When I was in my teens, there was a wedding that went like this:

After the evening service, we were invited to stay for a wedding. Two members of the congregation came forward & were married. We all congratulated them. Then we all went to Denny’s, and paid for our own meals. We all chipped in to pay for the newlyweds’ meals.

No invitations. No fancy dresses. Pictures by friends. No fancy reception. No debt. Just friends, and God’s blessing.

Moved away a little after that, but I’d bet they were starting a good marriage.


9 posted on 09/30/2015 10:22:12 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
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To: grania

32 years ago, we provided the cake, the church provided the fellowship hall, and guests provided the potluck. I blame the wedding shows on television for raising expectations too high.


10 posted on 09/30/2015 10:22:57 AM PDT by Ingtar (Capitulation is the enemy of Liberty, or so the recent past has shown.)
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Who would risk offending someone important enough to include in their wedding with this sort of trifling behavior over such a small amount of money?

Or was the point of the invitation to suck as many potential gift-givers into an obligation as possible? In any case, these aren't the kind of people you want to stay in touch with.

11 posted on 09/30/2015 10:23:56 AM PDT by FredZarguna ("It appears a Kenyan has infiltrated the lumber room")
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There’s some weird juju idea that spending a lot on a wedding will make it last or something.


12 posted on 09/30/2015 10:24:30 AM PDT by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
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If it were me, I would respond with a comment stating it was nice being friends, but now it is ended, have a happy life. This couple need to get some etiquette learning.


13 posted on 09/30/2015 10:24:36 AM PDT by Conservative4Ever (ENOUGH!! Man the pitch forks and torches...let the revolution begin!!!)
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Well. Fifty-one years ago, husband & I married in a largish church wedding. I’d never even been to a wedding of any sort; so I had to try to do it by the book. - Got a summer job working at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL on the Saturn V “moon shot” project (Clerk Typist), made enough to pay for the wedding. A few years later, I was very nervous when the astronauts took off for the moon; afraid I’d made a horrible typographical error on the work orders I’d typed.
It went OK; no thanks to me. The engineers I worked for took it for granted that MANY men would lose their lives in the quest for the moon. - I couldn’t look at it that way, so I prayed!


14 posted on 09/30/2015 10:32:20 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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Good thing it wasn’t a NY wedding!


15 posted on 09/30/2015 10:33:44 AM PDT by LadyBuck (Strangeways, here we come....)
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To: grania
Most practical wedding reception I ever saw...full wedding party dressed for the day, the minister, I’d guess about 50 guests....in the semi-private room at Golden Corral! Now, there’s a couple with a promising future.

We had the same number of guests, but we went into the church basement for the wedding. My wife made her own wedding gown, and her family and bridesmaids made the food. Eighteen years later, no regrets.
16 posted on 09/30/2015 10:33:47 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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So, the rocket launch went ok, which is good, of course.

How was the wedding?


17 posted on 09/30/2015 10:35:14 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: bgill

Now there is an RSVP that means something.


18 posted on 09/30/2015 10:38:08 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: Seruzawa
There’s some weird juju idea that spending a lot on a wedding will make it last or something.

Is there? I think it's just a big competition. Women want all their friends to "oooh" and "aahh" about how fairytale like everything is and money is no object. Meanwhile the groom's buddies are happy enough if there is an open bar.

19 posted on 09/30/2015 10:38:33 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (The only fiscally sound thing dems ever did: create a state run media they don't have to pay for)
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To: Dr. Sivana

You did it right. Close friends and no debt. That should be the goal of all weddings.


20 posted on 09/30/2015 10:40:18 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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