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Weird wedding card

169 replies

changedthenameforthis · 16/05/2021 20:28

If you received a card like this for your wedding, how would you interpret it? White background, Mr & Mrs in black, a few miniscule hearts, blank inner. Hand written best wishes - that's it.

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Itsokthanks · 16/05/2021 22:04

The actual card sounds nice, I'm not getting the relevance of it being black and white??
Not signing their name is a bit odd, I'm not one for long messages in cards but weird to just put best wishes with no name.

Thistles24 · 16/05/2021 22:05

It sounds like the kind of card I might pick up! I find a lot of greetings cards quite old fashioned with over the top printed messages, and know most of my friends are the same.

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 16/05/2021 22:06

I think provided it was delivered by a unicorn it would be fine. 🦄

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PurpleWh1teGreen · 16/05/2021 22:07

I’d think they’d got good taste.

SixesAndEights · 16/05/2021 22:07

@maslinpan

There really is only one way to get to the bottom of it. Scan the wedding and engagement cards, ask them to explain the difference in style, and why the wedding one was so very terse, send it to them by recorded delivery and await their response.
Totally this! Grin Grin Grin
Hollywolly1 · 16/05/2021 22:08

And if their was money in the card sure thatscall that mattersGrinGrin

4PawsGood · 16/05/2021 22:08

Could be a statement to you or could just be a classy card.

NeverDropYourMoonCup · 16/05/2021 22:08

I wouldn't buy the champagne bottles, hearts and sparkles shit or go into some huge paragraph of how wonderful I think somebody is, even if they are - it's just not me; I'd also expect that there was a good chance you'd already have at least three of every other 'tacky' wedding card, if I had considered grabbing the first card I saw in the aisle when getting cat litter and bread like they have.

EduCated · 16/05/2021 22:09

@Thistles24

It sounds like the kind of card I might pick up! I find a lot of greetings cards quite old fashioned with over the top printed messages, and know most of my friends are the same.
Agreed. I like the sound of that more than flowery flourishy champagne flutes and embossing and rose scented half a trees with of pages of poems. Which, incidentally, is what my Nan favours and then writes just her name in tiny writing at the bottom, because she actually pays attention to the verse inside (which I tend to barely glance over).

People have different taste in cards.

LauraLovesLemons · 16/05/2021 22:10

Who wants "flowers, gold embossed, silver embossed, champagne flutes, etc, etc" Hmm Not me!

Clarabella77 · 16/05/2021 22:10

Is the sender someone you believe to be secretly in love with your spouse? That's the only possible explanation for giving a simple card a second though.

BeenAsFarAsMercyAndGrand · 16/05/2021 22:12

I think you are likely putting a lot more thought into this card than the person who sent it probably did.

It's just a simple, minimalist card. That's it. It doesnt matter in the slightest.

NakedBanana · 16/05/2021 22:13

I never knew there was such a thing as analysing cards! I just pick up the cheapest, whether it be flowery or mono.

I hate the things, such a waste of money!

Makes me wonder who I may have offended in the past!!

Staffy1 · 16/05/2021 22:14

Can we see the front of the card?

mellicauli · 16/05/2021 22:16

A lot of people still aren't going shopping. It's probably the best of a bad bunch from a post office.

Hallyup6 · 16/05/2021 22:16

Clearly it's designed as a wedding card, on sale for people who want to send cards to people who are getting married. It might not be to your taste but then there are a lot of floral cards that aren't to mine. It wouldn't cross my mind for a second that someone who sent me a card that I didn't like had a problem with me. I'd think quite the opposite, in fact.

Livingintheclouds · 16/05/2021 22:17

You are way overthinking this. It may not be your style, but it's still an appropriate card.

Staffy1 · 16/05/2021 22:18

@LittleCatDog, my husband's friend and wife got a blank card for their baby's birth, as I bought it and the present, knowing he wouldn't get around to it, but expected him to fill in the card as it was his friend. The twerp didn't even think to do that and just gave it to them blank.

HaveringWavering · 16/05/2021 22:19

We’re they actually AT your wedding? I was astonished when someone told me that it was the done thing to take a card with you to a wedding, what is the point of that?! I never bother.

sonjadog · 16/05/2021 22:20

I would probably send someone a card like this. I don't really do cards, think they are a waste of money and paper. So if I have to send one, it is usually the best of the selection in the supermarket/petrol station. I also think "Best wishes" is a nice thing to write to someone. It never occurred to me that someone could actually take offense at my card skills (or lack of).

ImInStealthMode · 16/05/2021 22:22

This is the most spectacular example of overthinking I've seen here in a while.

I had to pick up a 40th card yesterday from a small supermarket. There was a choice of 3, one 'hilarious' joke about ageing, one sickly soppy one, and one tasteful minimal design with line drawn balloons on it. I got the tasteful one.

I'd be horrified if the recipient is now mentally going back through every card I've ever sent them and comparing them for subliminal messages.

Let it go OP, and concentrate on enjoying your (presumably brand new) marriage Thanks

ShaunaTheSheep · 16/05/2021 22:24

Card sounds perfectly normal. I’m interested to know what the sender’s gift was...that might be more telling, surely?

Cyberattack · 16/05/2021 22:26

It sounds tasteful and not tacky

EvenMoreFuriousVexation · 16/05/2021 22:36

Just the fact that you still have your engagment cards and could be bothered to get them out of the loft is blowing my fucking mind

who the hell keeps their old cards. (and who still sends cards in, like, a postbox? Are they powered by ELVES?)

Flowers500 · 16/05/2021 22:36

Christ I’d think that I’m bloody hard work, that’s about it...

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