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re: Minnesota Woman Says She Was Billed by Bride for Missing Wedding
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:02 am to MightyYat
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:02 am to MightyYat
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Wut? It scares me that people like you exist in the world.
a friend of mine did this with concert tickets (Garth Brooks). Agreed to pay 175$ for the ticket and just bailed. Are you supposed to eat the $175 that they clearly agreed to pay?
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Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:04 am to Polycarp
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Shouldn't have RSVP'd. Pretty sure they had at least a month or two to find child care.
Jesus, did any of you read the article....? They had a sitter, she called them saying she was sick and couldn't do it at the last minute....
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:05 am to NYCAuburn
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maybe a very informal wedding, but its proper and quite common. The more formal etiquette is black tie as well for all sit downs, but that rarely happens now
Like I said, that just doesn't happen here very much. I've only been to 2 sit down receptions in my life in New Orleans and both were families with some deep ties to old NOLA society.
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And Ive been to sit down dinners where the location staff had to shut down the power because the partying went too late
Probably because the partying started too late due to the long arse sit down dinner.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:06 am to TheAlmightySmash
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a friend of mine did this with concert tickets (Garth Brooks). Agreed to pay 175$ for the ticket and just bailed. Are you supposed to eat the $175 that they clearly agreed to pay?
See my sig quote please.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:07 am to Street Hawk
Yea, like none of the other men there didn't go to town on those extra meals.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:07 am to Polycarp
Dear Bride,
I got your bill and a request for a response as to why we did not attend. We were dressing to leave for your wedding when our babysitter called and cancelled. I am so sorry.
I have enclosed a check to cover John's and my meals. I have also added in extra to cover for any two others that did not show up. If you billed them also, they will surely call you an insufferable count and not pay you so I will get this one.
I have also enclosed postage for the letter you sent me and $4 for minimum wage on the time you spent writing and mailing it. If, by chance, there is leftover money, use it for some of those spinning hubcaps for your house.
I also hope you enjoyed the Mall of the Americas honeymoon.
Love,
Aunt Suzie
PS Since you are my husband's niece, we wanted to really step up for a wedding gift. The $2800 we spent on the upright washer and dryer, with extended warranties, now needs to be reimbursed to us. We will take a check, just like you got for your fish.
I normally would not ask but I see that you are a huge fan of keeping it real and would have it no other way. Toodles
I got your bill and a request for a response as to why we did not attend. We were dressing to leave for your wedding when our babysitter called and cancelled. I am so sorry.
I have enclosed a check to cover John's and my meals. I have also added in extra to cover for any two others that did not show up. If you billed them also, they will surely call you an insufferable count and not pay you so I will get this one.
I have also enclosed postage for the letter you sent me and $4 for minimum wage on the time you spent writing and mailing it. If, by chance, there is leftover money, use it for some of those spinning hubcaps for your house.
I also hope you enjoyed the Mall of the Americas honeymoon.
Love,
Aunt Suzie
PS Since you are my husband's niece, we wanted to really step up for a wedding gift. The $2800 we spent on the upright washer and dryer, with extended warranties, now needs to be reimbursed to us. We will take a check, just like you got for your fish.
I normally would not ask but I see that you are a huge fan of keeping it real and would have it no other way. Toodles
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:16 am to Street Hawk
1) Calling/texting day of would have done nothing to avoid the cost for the wedding. These things are locked out well in advance.
2) When I got married we got RSVP cards back - yes or no - for maybe half the people we invited. I had no idea the day of the wedding how many people would show up.
3) The couple should have called someone and told them they were not coming - if only so that way no one was worried about them.
4) It is completely nuts that the person who got this bill would post it on facebook and run to the media. It's their family (however extended) which makes it even worse.
In summary, everyone involved here is an idiot.
2) When I got married we got RSVP cards back - yes or no - for maybe half the people we invited. I had no idea the day of the wedding how many people would show up.
3) The couple should have called someone and told them they were not coming - if only so that way no one was worried about them.
4) It is completely nuts that the person who got this bill would post it on facebook and run to the media. It's their family (however extended) which makes it even worse.
In summary, everyone involved here is an idiot.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:18 am to TheAlmightySmash
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a friend of mine did this with concert tickets (Garth Brooks). Agreed to pay 175$ for the ticket and just bailed. Are you supposed to eat the $175 that they clearly agreed to pay?
You could not get someone else to buy it?
If that happened to me, I'd eat it, but that would be the end of the friendship.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:19 am to Dam Guide
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send it back with the envelope filled with glitter.
Better yet, those little confetti pieces. That shite is insidious and prolific.
Mr. 1999's old girlfriend sent him a gift with these little metallic hearts in it, a year or so before we started dating. We dated a year & then married. We found those damned hearts in random boxes and dresser drawers for 8+ years after.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:19 am to Austin Cajun
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My wife and I just had this conversation. We just got married in August. I think we had 8 or 9 people RSVP and not show. Catering for our wedding was $75 per head. So that cost us an additional $600 - $675. Not a ton of money, but who wants to waste that much? That shite adds up fast. If you RSVP and don't show, show some class and offer to pay for what you wasted
If you have a problem with wasting that money, then you can't afford to have a $75 per head wedding (not directing that at you, just saying). Thems be the breaks. You had a party. They wanted to go, but couldn't. It's not their fault. You should take responsibility for wanting to throw the party.
And don't bring up "waste" in the context of a wedding. We had to have Hubig's pies and Roman Taffy for favors at an additional cost of God knows what. We were left with boxes of the shite (not really complaining). There was sooooo much extra cake. Should I charge all those that didn't eat cake or take a favor?
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:22 am to MightyYat
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Not here and especially not in New Orleans. It's silly and pretentious to do that at a wedding. I've been to sit down receptions where they served 5-7 courses over the course of 2 hours leaving very little time to actually have a good time.
I've been to 5 sit down weddings in my life - 1 in Baltimore, 1 in Houston, 1 in Galveston, and 2 in New Orleans. For the 2 in New Orleans, one the woman was a nutcase and wanted to do a sit down wedding just to be different - but they were cheap and thus the reception was a sit down dinner in a damn Lions Club, with a crappy caterer, terrible food, and no alcohol. The other one was for a super high society girl, it was at the Windsor Court and the food was amazingly good, but it was so boring, only music was a harp solo.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:33 am to Street Hawk
im more shocked of the 26.5% tip.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:33 am to LSUFanHouston
yikes My wife is from Virginia and that's how they are all done. Putting on a sit down here though skyrockets pricing to an absurd degree so we passed on doing it.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:34 am to Austin Cajun
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If you RSVP and don't show, show some class and offer to pay for what you wasted.
This is the most bizarre thing I have heard recently.
Every wedding, event, social function, etc. have people who RSVP and then don't end up making it. Things come up, who cares. If you are worried about it that much, don't have a big wedding.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:34 am to Austin Cajun
quote:Trust me, she knows the value of $75.
My wife and I just had this conversation. We just got married in August. I think we had 8 or 9 people RSVP and not show. Catering for our wedding was $75 per head.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:38 am to Teddy Ruxpin
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My wife is from Virginia and that's how they are all done. Putting on a sit down here though skyrockets pricing to an absurd degree so we passed on doing it.
I have family in Ohio and all 4 of my cousin's weddings were sit downs and boring as frick. Serving that many meals takes forever. By the time they were starting to have fun it was time to shut it down. And then I was in Ohio so there wasn't really much to do afterwards. At least when the weddings end here you can take the party as long as you want.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:38 am to HoustonChick86
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Every wedding, event, social function, etc. have people who RSVP and then don't end up making it. Things come up, who cares. If you are worried about it that much, don't have a big wedding.
I think if we broke down reasoning you have some situations that are fine and not fine.
For us, we had a few of my invites who didn't come because a grandparent died and another couple because she drove into a building the day before (hilarious).
Life happens.
RSVPing with no intention of going is uncouth I think. That's a bit different.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:41 am to MightyYat
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I have family in Ohio and all 4 of my cousin's weddings were sit downs and boring as frick. Serving that many meals takes forever. By the time they were starting to have fun it was time to shut it down. And then I was in Ohio so there wasn't really much to do afterwards. At least when the weddings end here you can take the party as long as you want.
Ya I was happy it didn't work out and she is too. It was more her mother and "tradition" anyways. Let's be real, it's the bride's mother's day.
Time just isn't on your side with 7pm ceremony and you can't keep people hostage for 9 hours.
This post was edited on 10/1/15 at 10:42 am
Posted on 10/1/15 at 10:42 am to Teddy Ruxpin
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RSVPing with no intention of going is uncouth I think
Well that is just rude.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 11:01 am to NYCAuburn
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maybe a very informal wedding, but its proper and quite common. The more formal etiquette is black tie as well for all sit downs, but that rarely happens now
I've been to, and stood in more weddings than most, all over the country. I've also worked a number of receptions as a side job. Small weddings receptions in the South (less than 50 people) are maybe 50% sit down. However, for larger weddings (100+ people) in the South, including Texas, the far majority of these are not sit down receptions, and this has been the case for a long time. Even among the super old school New Orleans elites, less than 50% of those are still formal sit down events. Maybe we just party better here?
And back on topic, the bride is not a good person.
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