Posted on 09/30/2015 10:08:15 AM PDT by bgill
Uff dah!
Congrats on your long marriage! That was (I think) and IBM “Selectric” typewriter, I think they probably called it that because you could switch out those ball things and get a different typeface.
They were great until they got old, then they had this annoying habit of jumping across the desk as you typed!
Hey, I’m old enough that when I started out bookkeeping we still used adding machines!
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I hope they’re glad that they didn’t attend.
Scratch one bitter couple from your imaginary friends list.
My wife and I got married in a beautiful setting at our town hall, wife and her sisters made the food, my best friend from HS ran the grill, wife made her own dress, 250 people partied into the night with a great live band. I think we spent $1200.00 total and everyone had a great time. 34 years together, 25 years married 2 incredible kids. Big expensive weddings don’t make great marriages.
Well, that's awful thrifty, even for country folk... But I have been to many a wedding down on the river, on somebody's back forty... Swimming, hay rides and mud racing, kegs of beer and a good country band. Everyone in jeans and summer dresses... watermelon, plenty of eats, and a pig in the ground... Ain't no better.
Tacky as hell and a good way to lose some friends. So if they died in a car crash on the way to the wedding are the kids supposed to pay? stuff happens. Normal people would expect some no shows. The freaking universe does not revolve around "look at me on my day" brides.
We could argue this till kingdom come, but I don’t think either side lost much in terms of ‘friends.’ Both have shown poor form.
The guests weren’t killed on their way to the wedding; had they been, it’s unlikely a bill to ‘send a message’ would have been sent. They simply didn’t plan well enough and when their inadequate plan failed, they compounded the failure by not informing the hosts. Tacky all the way around.
Yeah, stuff happens, but there’s still a basic etiquette that should be followed. We can’t on the one hand talk about the decline of civility and manners, and on the other give kudos to and make excuses for folks who are rude enough to fail to inform their host that they won’t be able to make the occasion that they had to know was costing the hosts.
By the way, did you know that in Japan, guests pay to attend weddings? Something to the tune of hundreds of dollars.
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