TidyDancer's bridezilla thread part 2

[TidyDancer]

New thread. :)

I am really going to miss this thread when it's all over
Shall we go and lurk on Confetti, so we can point and laugh?

A perfect response Tidy!

Your 'friend' needs to be re-acquainted with her manners sharpish.

Confetti is a hideous site. Brings out the worst in the most surprising of people!

So this is where all those cringe-making poems asking for money at your wedding comes from: www.confetti.co.uk/gift-lists/invitation-etiquette-how-to-ask-for-gift-of-cash/

Eww eww eww

I have written a comment about the cash grab poems. It is 'awaiting moderation'.

don't comment, you will get barred, how can we lurk then?

"If you were thinking of giving a gift to help us on our way,
A gift of money in a card would really make our day!"

Oh god, the "we want cash" poems, only slightly more irritating than people that put the comment on "no children" invites that about parents appreciating the "night off" like they're doing us a favour giving us the opportunity of a night off. It just sounds patronising. If you want to say "no children" just say "no children". It's not rocket science.

I will admit to being curious whether or not Tidy will receive a response.

silverOldie I like the suggestion that if you don't like the idea of asking for cash yourself you could delegate this task to your mother, mil or chief bridesmaid. Lolling at them being rung up 150 times and having to recite the 'we want money' poem to everybody!!

"Be prepared for the eventuality you will be showered with cash and take care to appoint the right private banker to navigate offshore structures for you."

You can see how all of a sudden, after a while on that site, with everyone/everything around reinforcing misguided calls, that people would lose all perspective.

You can see how all of a sudden, after a while on that site, with everyone/everything around reinforcing misguided calls, that people would lose all perspective.

I agree. Getting married is like having your first baby, you have never done it before and rely on others to tell you what to do. When those others are involved in the wedding industry they will tell you anything to get you buy their crap (birdcage table decoration anyone?).

BS like telling brides that it is an honour for guests to be invited. What a crock! Its at best a nice day/evening out and at worst its a bloody expensive PITA!

Yes, moderators seem to reinforce this Diva attitude - "this is YOUR special day," " your guests will be delighted to pony up their mortgage money/ dress as fairies and elves/ wear only purple/ organise ridiculous stag/hen weekends in New York/ organise for a wet nurse for newborn-and if they don't do it with a smile, they are just not worthy..."

Ring Ring

Hello?

Um, is that Gladys? As of erm Auntie Gladys and Uncle Lenny?

Yes dear

Ah. Good. < Clears throat >

As Maid of Honour to the Blushing Bride
I've been asked to do my duty
To ring loved ones o'er far and wide
And bring in lots of booty

The Gorgeous Bride and Handsome Groom
Your company merely require
To greet you in the banqueting room
Will be their hearts desire.

But we know you are a generous crowd
And adore us madcap lovebunnies
So I'm letting you know you are allowed
To give us lots of money

Cash is great, cheques fine too
We hope they will be ample!
So long as we have some money from you
We will be truly thankful.

What? What was that dear?

Um see you at the wedding

Who is this?

Click burrrr

I think that thirty years ago it was normal for the MoB to organise most of the wedding, with the bride's input. Nowadays it's the bride, with input from groom and parents if they're lucky. I wonder if this change has caused most of the craziness?

'The first thing you have to remember is that your guests actually WANT TO (some even feel obliged to) give you a wedding present. After all, it?s a milestone in the couple?s life, and it?s an honour to be invited to celebrate with them ? and the guests want to mark the occasion too!

Brides often worry whether to include the gift information on the invitations or not. The answer is ? if you include it, your guests will be grateful to know of what it is you want/need to have the most. After all, nobody wants to give an unwanted or inappropriate gift!'

I don't think I have ever seen a piece of copy containing so many grammatical tongue twisters.

The poems are God Awful as well.

"The first thing you have to remember is that this site wants to - in fact is obliged to - encourage the general buying and giving of naff tat."

Thurlow - Don't muddle 'getting married' with 'having a wedding'. Those women want to have a wedding. I just wanted to get married- as in, I wanted to be married to my lovely DH. Not wanting the latter isn't the same as not wanting the former (though of course you may not want either)

We actually did have quite a big white wedding. But it was all fairly, you know, normal. A service, a nice meal and a party with lots of alcohol and a band. No chair backs, favours, poems or 'my special day'

American sites are even better - where a bride gets 17 showers, 3 bachelorettes, and the bridesmaids pay for their own dresses! But God forbid you should ever utter the words "cash bar".

horry I first got married 11y ago and never got much input. however it was my mother organising it. it was MOG. actually she wasn't even organising it. she demanded everything and flung massive strops to get her own way. I twice called the wedding off, telling exh I wasn't doing all that. anyway mummy couldn't have liked that so was told to wind it down a bit in order to be placated, and exh actively encouraged her lying to me about some things in order to get her way. I just wanted a small family affair, ended up with a giant wedding with a load of people is never even met before because MOG wanted it. it was her day apparently. she even told my mother to 'fuck off, this day is about me and my son and not you and certainly not your daughter'

wedding 2 is going go be a very small informal affair. about our marriage, not some mentalists wish for a wedding!

Don't muddle 'getting married' with 'having a wedding'. Those women want to have a wedding.

That's it exactly, Amanda! And it leads inexorably to postnuptial depression.

Bring back rationing, I say. There'd be none of this flimflam at an austerity wedding.

Oh good lord - I have just caught up with the entirety of this story!

Itching to know the outcome :)

That is brilliant Balloonslayer Perhaps they could put a recording of the bridezilla and groom reciting the poem in every invitation lol.

Oh I wonder if Gluezilla has replied yet. I doubt it, what could she possibly say except I'm sorry and in her zilla mode she won't do that.

Shall we go and lurk on Confetti, so we can point and laugh?

Way ahead of you Beast, I have been lurking all morning, the utter craziness of the posters on that site has got me hooked- it is so hugely entertaining I fear it may become an addiction!

Shall we go and lurk on Confetti, so we can point and laugh?

No, even better, let's all sign up, using our Mumsnet user names!

Maybe we could develop a new game - Confetti bingo - watching out for key words like -

your special day
honour to attend
nothing is too much trouble
no expense spared
once in a lifetime
chance to be a princess
don't want my wedding ruined
if they're not even willing to ......... then frankly they don't deserve to be invited

Wow, Eaglerider - sounds like your ex MIL had a Jocasta complex (Jocasta was Oedipus's mother) going on there!

Any news yet, Tidy?