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

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Weddingpoet · 21/07/2014 09:43

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

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WallyBantersJunkBox · 21/07/2014 10:16

Pirate Grin

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SauvignonBlanche · 21/07/2014 10:17

No! Shock

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WallyBantersJunkBox · 21/07/2014 10:18

I do like the telegram idea. I don't think I'd put strong letter, though. Just the first sentence. Grin

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Pagwatch · 21/07/2014 10:18

Linerunner wins!
Pithy.

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BeaglesOfDeathMetal · 21/07/2014 10:19

AAaahahahahaa those response poems are fabulous. Well done, MN.

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JustSpeakSense · 21/07/2014 10:20

Un-fucking-believable!

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JenniferJo · 21/07/2014 10:20

How awful for you, OP. But you can't help relatives, at least they aren't friends.

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DidoTheDodo · 21/07/2014 10:23

Your shitty poem is a winner
But since we had to pay for dinner
No money's in your wishing well
My wish is that's you'll go to Hell.

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DidoTheDodo · 21/07/2014 10:24

THAT not that's . Gah!

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fuzzpig · 21/07/2014 10:25

No jeffing way! Shock

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TalcumPowder · 21/07/2014 10:30

Dear lord, so this couple spent their wedding night fishing the cash out of their wishing well and counting it, and now they're disappointed with the total?

And yes, I also want to know, are cash gifts in a wishing well included with a note or card so the bride and groom know who gave how much, or just anonymous envelopes of money?

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Suzannewithaplan · 21/07/2014 10:38

That ditty is dire
Has provoked my ire
I'm now so irate
I ain't gonna donate

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Thiscantbetrue · 21/07/2014 10:43

Unbelievable Shock

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melliebobs · 21/07/2014 10:45

That makes me cringe inside for them

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QueenOfThorns · 21/07/2014 10:47

Which is your relative, OP, the bride or groom? Do you think they're both behind the grabbiness, or is one of them leading it?

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dairylea4brains · 21/07/2014 10:48

Shock

I am cringing at the thought! So rude!

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Tinkerball · 21/07/2014 10:52

Sadly I do believe it . Don't understand how anyone could possibly think it was a good idea though.

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CogitoErgoSometimes · 21/07/2014 10:53

I do hope you donated nothing more than a pair of rubber gloves as you rang the bell.... :) Grasping, crass and thought it would work as a poem. Deserves to go viral on Facebook.

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Suzannewithaplan · 21/07/2014 11:03

Fuck your kitchen
Quit your bitchin
Stuff your well
And shove your bell

Perhaps we could muster a limerick, but we'd need a location...

There was a young couple from?

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LineRunner · 21/07/2014 11:19

Or indeed simply, 'Fuck your kitchen'.

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Fluffycloudland77 · 21/07/2014 11:27

Oh my lord, the cheek of them.

The whole ringing the bell thing is just cringeworthy.

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Suzannewithaplan · 21/07/2014 11:31

Maybe cut it right down to 'fuck you'?

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Greyhound · 21/07/2014 11:33

Good God - that is shocking.

People are so greedy. I went to a wedding where the bride and groom wanted money to go travelling for a year. Another one where the bride and groom wanted money to buy a camper van. Vulgar and greedy.

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Purpleroxy · 21/07/2014 11:36

Fuck me!

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maras2 · 21/07/2014 11:36

Hmmm DS and his DF are getting married in September.We were wondering how to trim a few bob off.Now about these wishing wells ............. ? < NOT >

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