I WIN MUMSNET WEDDINGS

[FuckyDuck]

So we all love a good wedding thread 'it's not a summons, it's an invitation'..
We have been 'invited' to a wedding WEEK in the USA, prices starting from £3k, with 5 organised events, each with their own dress code, and given a link to the Amazon wish list/registry where the cheapest item is >£300! Children are welcome on the holiday but not at the ceremony, and we're to chip in to the brides accommodation the night before the big day to show her our love?!

Total costing is £5,500 for a WEEK.

So, come on, what do I win??

This is the most batshit thing I ever heard!

The only possible way for anybody to steal your Mumsnet Wedding Trophy from you now is if somebody gets invited to a lunar wedding where all guests are expected to pay for a trip to orbit the earth in a pod whilst the happy couple say 'I do'.

To whom it may concern...

I think you have sent us this invitation by mistake as we have been racking our brains to place you but alas no, we don't know who you are.

Have a lovely wedding

glitters nice and simple but gets the point across.

Or an extreme sports themed wedding where guests are expected to bungee jump into the gaping mouth of an active volcano.

I think you should let them think you assume it's a joke invitation. "Ha ha! Nice one! Good job we know no one could be this ridiculous! Let us know the real arrangements asap"

It's just so gauche to have a massive wedding like this when a) you clearly can't afford it, b) you've already got children!

I love some of these creative declines but I'm a total coward and would just send a 'no' card back.

(I can just picture them having a moan about having to re-jig the estimated costs as people drop out )

Wow!!!

I'm speechless.

at GlitterGlitters

One does not simply decline an invitation like this

I know a couple who deliberately invited people they knew wouldn't come, in the hope that they would send a gift (cash) anyway.
Maybe it's that?

I favour the earlier suggestion of "wise the fuck up"

Here's your creative decline:

"Are you on glue?"

Please can you elaborate on the five different dress codes?? 😁

Maybe tell them you are unfortunately busy that week, but if they would postpone it by a month you may have some time?

ExplodedCloud

Sadly, having recently received a wedding invitation along similar lines, I am confident this is not made up, whether we get to see a shot of the original invite or not. I despair at the entitlement of these types. Less is more.

Please reply with either a meme or a gif.

I agree with olderthanyouthink, just reply with a meme . Already have one for you.

ciliated

You can't leave us hanging like that. Come on, spill the beans.

Tell them your going to sort travel etc then bugger off to disney instead

I'm still snorting at No Proofy, no troophy

Dearest, dearest friends, We're incredibly flattered that you feel you know us well enough to ask us to pay for your wedding - that honour is usually reserved for the bride's parents. We're going to have to decline as we feel you have been too generous, and it is too much for us to accept.

If you don't go to the wedding are you likely to see them again?

I love glitters!

Mr and Mrs FuckyDuck
Thank
The soon to be Mr and Mrs ShowoffWealth
For their kind invitation
And regret that they are unable to attend
Because with that money they could
Pay down the mortgage, buy a new car, mend the roof
Give their parents a family holiday
Or purchase 100 goats for Oxfam.

Texas! That explains it!