Oh do I have a new low in wedding poems for you...

[Weddingpoet]

This is so going to out me but I actually don't care. I went to a wedding this weekend. We had to buy our own evening meal and the invitation said "no presents please, cash gifts only". There was a wishing well at the reception to but cash into (ringing the bell as you did ). This morning I received this corker which, obviously, I needed to share with you at once...

Cash we asked for because cash we need
For our kitchen to proceed
Having checked our wishing well
We think some people might not have rung the bell.
If you’re one who has forgotten
Don’t sit at home feeling rotten
Just use the bank details at the end of this ditty
And you can still contribute to our kitchen kitty

Queen that is brilliant.

To the poster with the grabby baby shower friend...

Ignore the instructions about not buying "off list" and send her a copy of the brilliant book This Little Piggy Went To Prada ......

Although I guarantee the irony will be lost on her

Thank you. Now I just need to get that bloody tune out of my head!

This Little Piggy Went to Prada looks perfect. There also appears to be This Little Piggy Got Divorced - perhaps someone should have lobbed a copy of that into the well?

Have just got 12 yr old dd1 to read this thread and she is ROFL !!!!

Fabulous!!!!

Hearts - oh I love it. Perhaps I could send it as a gift for the proud mommy-to-be, along with my 'sorry I will not be attending' card.

Vlad's Ogden Nash-inspired effort is pure dead brilliant. I love this thread!

My life is so sad that I have actually been seriously researching the legalities of running a casino at a wedding.

Awww dammit!! I just bought me a bell and a wedding wishing well!!

I didn't bother with posh envelopes though, I just went and nicked a load of paying in envelopes and slips from the bank

This thread is famous! It's the star of a Guardian article. May have only just been published, because there are no comments yet.

Yep - just saw it!

Oops, well they are the cheeky buggera

No bloody mention of the wishing wells!

OMG, they didn't - they didn't post that poem from the OP - they fucking DID!!

Are they insane? Way to out a MNer, good job Grauniad!

Weddingpoet have PMd you.

Oh lord they have published it. Weddingpoet's been here for ages too.

Maybe the rest of the guests wouldn't read that paper?

"If you are so uncomfortable asking for money that you feel the need to put it in a poem, maybe you should reconsider asking at all," she said."

Agree with this though.

Hmm, The poem was sent by a member of the OPs 'family' and the OP has been quite, umm, frank about the bride, groom and even the grooms mother.

If it's all true then wouldn't it be best to get the thread deleted.

The OP has a posting history that would surely make her very identifiable to the people concerned.

The OP also confirmed the poem 'appears to be sent to lots of people'

Time for this thread to go?

I have reported my thread (thanks a lot bloody Guardian).

Next time I get a grabby poem I'll name change.

Any chance MNHQ can change your name for this thread only? If it's the connection to your posting history you're worried about?

Hahahaha!! Brilliant. The nerve of some people.

I went to a wedding where they had a box for donations. Fine when it was just sat there but later the bride went around the room asking people directly to put money in there and then

She also did an 'old Scot's tradition' where the men pay for her to lift her dress up and the women pay for her to put it down. (Not one I know of despite me being Scottish.)

We had already paid to haul ass to France and cabs to the backarse of beyond. I gave absolutely fuck all!! She then afterwards asked us all how much we'd given so she could thank us.

Is there a tradition of telling grabby brides to fuck off? Is it too late to start one?

Did MN really let them print that without giving you prior warning Weddingpoet? Dear god that's rude.

I very much doubt MNHQ was asked permission. Its a public forum so it can be read by anyone.

Thats what happened with penis beaker. And its a salutary lesson about not posting identifying info on the internet.

Just reading it in the Observer now.