To be miffed at "Gift list for mother of the baby" enclosed in *Baby naming ceremony* invitation?

[doubleshotespresso]

So some close friends (who married in church), but now claim to be atheist are holding a naming ceremony for their 8 month old first baby in an hotel.....

The invitation is beautiful with a map, timings "event closes at 11pm"?

The gift list ranges from £30-to £300, all items for the mother, cosmetics, trinkets, jewellery, pampering breaks, personalised hand-bound stationery and photo albums...

Anybody know the drill for these naming ceremonies? Are we supposed to guess a gift for the baby? Or just congratulate the mother for deciding on a name?

I have read this a dozen times and am staggered beyond belief-DP read it and fell into hysterics....

My gut tells me to go along with Jo Malone scented nappies or something.

Somebody please tell me this is not normal?!?!?!

Not sure I can actually find the words for your friends sister.

Would definitely refer the email to your friend's DP/parents tho deal with though.

I agree, it needs to be referred to someone else to deal with

& I think the inevitable reproof would be best coming from her parents (though seeing what she's said will be awful for them )

The only possible reason she's asking you to deal with this is because she wants you to know how absolutely livid she is with you for putting a spanner in the works. Someone else up-thread mentioned passive-aggressive. Asolutely. This is ALL YOUR FAULT!

Speechless. That is all.
And grateful that Australia is the other side of the planet, 3 weeks isn't that long & your friend doesn't have to put up with this toxic woman on a more frequent basis.

Just forward te e mail to your friends husband and mum o orint it out for them,and let them deal with her. Ignore her!

Hello again- have just begun a new thread with the same title -Part 2 in AIBU..

Will update further there later this evening....

Part two.

Read this going through amazement and then rising sniffles at how lovely you all are, and now I'm back to .

Think Lancelotte had an excellent response...

Thanks, OldLady

double
Unbelievable. Truly no idea how her world interlinks with normality.

I agree with you that silence is probably the best course ...but you could forward the missive to both your friends DH & Mum? .....with a note to say you hope they can advise the nutcase on how to speak with her sister, because you don't feel you should be involved in the family matters she mentions.

Or, you could just opt for a bit more bare stress

Me, me, I'm addicted! What a story-DDP sounds like the designer Bobby Trendy from the Anna Nicole (Smith) reali shows of bygone years!

I've been trying to find ways of getting last couple of uncomfortable weeks of pregnancy passed and this has been the best entertainment so far!

Double, you sound really blessed and deserving of all the blessings you and your family have. I am so happy reading this thread, not to mention entertained with the interspersed drama. Huge congratulations on your engagement and can't wait to read whatever happens next. Also, loving the MN replies, what a wonderful lot and I would be delighted to have such like minded people as friends in RL. Hope we can all learn a bit about being honest with people from this thread. Best of luck!

There's space for another 30-odd comments on this thread, I'm not leaving it on such a negative note. If you don't believe it, tell MN. Don't accuse OP of trollery at this point.

I agree, OldLady.

Double - I can't BELIEVE the memememememememe tone of that email, absolutely ridiculous!
I'm going over to your new thread now to see if there's anything new - but I really think you should just pass it on to your friend's mum; she's the best one to deal with her utter arsewipe of a daughter now.

Just when you think there can't be any more bonkers-ness from friend's sister and there is.

She really doesn't have a clue does she?

I know that the sensible grown up way to deal with this is silence and then let her parents know so they can deal with her over-inflated ego and complete lack of understanding and empathy towards her sister... (and it must be heartbreaking for the parents to realise that one of their dd's has turned out to be completely lacking in any humanity, particularly when it comes to thinking of her sister at this particular time)

...but - I think that doubleshot needs to compose a sentence by sentence response to the email and that she needs to do it on here so we can all throw in our suggestions too before it gets sent. I hope that you are going to say that DDP and the sis are the ones that need to be giving the apologies to the friend and that friend most definitely will not be sending out apologies (not least because if she does apologise then he might start to want some of his money back) - he's lucky he didn't get a court summons the disgraceful way he treated her.

And if you decide to call her to explain to her very clearly what exactly the matter is, then make sure your dsd is around to record it because I'm sure it will be excellent!

Hope your keyboard survives through today at work

My goodness notafanofyoo what onearth did you say?

Anybody know please?

Troll hunting.

Oh is that all? Ha thanks! Mystery over.

I should have made up something more interesting - I am ashamed of myself :( Perhaps I could have pretended it was Fronk.

she said "i don't believe a word of this"

Sceptical scoffing like that is bad form though, notafan. You're effectively accusing someone of lying. Better to stay off the thread or report it to MNHQ.

the reason it was deleted is because you were accusing her of lying.
All we did was point out what you said.

saying that you don't believe her on the thread is called troll hunting and it's not allowed.
that's why you were deleted
You have to report to MNHQ (by clicking "report" on the blue bar above the post)

notafan you are obviously interested enough to return here today?

How very odd.....