Posted by:
bezoar
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Date: September 20, 2017 12:45PM
There's been a lot of discussion on this board about Mormon weddings, how we ex-Mormons aren't good enough to be invited to the wedding but they're more than happy to have us bring them presents at the reception.
Believe it or not, they've gotten worse. My husband and I recently got a wedding announcement for the daughter of a friend of mine. That was it - an announcement. Not even an invitation to a reception.
The announcement has the names of the bride and groom, the date and place of their wedding (which occurred several weeks previously and was not in the temple), and the names of the parents. At the bottom of the announcement were directions to their gift registry on Amazon.com. That's it!
I was wondering if maybe the couple eloped, or if an unexpected pregnancy necessitated the wedding. But no. I looked them up on Facebook and there were lots of pictures of a well-planned wedding, and there's no way they bride could have been pregnant in the very tight dress she was wearing.
I know I won't ever be invited to a temple wedding, but at least we usually get stale cookies and Kool-Aid in the cultural hall when we hand over the expected gift underneath the basketball hoop. But nope, not even good enough for that.
I had a couple of great suggestions for gifts from coworkers. One suggested stamping the announcement "Unpaid" and sending it back. Someone else suggested sending them eclipse glasses. (If the wedding has already happened, when not send them items for an event that already happened?"
My husband thinks that the couple wasn't satisfied with the gifts they received at their wedding so they decided to send out another set of announcements to the second tier friends of the family to improve their haul. I believe that the lowest common denominator of bad taste has once again been lowered. Needless to say we will NOT be sending a gift!