That’s a horrible thing to happen at anytime. Hoping things take a turn for the better for your S and FDIL.
I’m sorry to hear that; good luck!!!
That’s very bad timing, @greenbutton . I hope things turn around for them soon.
My SIL returned from their honeymoon to be told that his company no longer needed his services - a new manager decided to make changes. They had recently purchased a house, and it was not exactly a welcome present. However, SIL found a really great new job within a short amount of time. I hope the same for your S, @greenbutton.
@greenbutton, I’m sorry that your S and FDIL are dealing with this stress on top of the upcoming wedding. Hope he has a quick and good resolution to this as did @kelsmom’s SIL.
All the best to your son, @greenbutton. Our SIL’s firm changed their mission shortly before their wedding and kept only 10% of their employees. He was not one of them. Fortunately, he found a new position and benefitted from the old firm’s generosity for those terminated. All the good stuff to come was hard to see in that moment, though. DD had already started job hunting as she was ready for a change. Ironically, they both started new jobs on the same date 3 months before the big day. Hope it all works out soon and that the joy of the wedding prevails.
There is a saying, “When one door closes another opens.”
Ouch, @greenbutton and @kelsmom. Hoping better things are on the horizon, as was for @kelsmom’s SIL.
Well, it is engagement party day and the clouds are thick but my obsessive Weather Channel refresh is telling me the showers will be to the north and west of us. We don’t have to call inside or out until about 4pm so I’m hoping the decisions is clear, one way or the other. I guess the worst thing might be if we set up outside and have to do a fire drill to move things in if the skies open up…it will be what it will be!
My S, the one who never calls, called after work yesterday and the excitement over his celebration was so obvious…nothing makes me happier than to be able to make one of my kids so happy! It will be a great day, rain or shine!
We are one week out. They got the license yesterday—had procrastinated, wanted to file where they live, had no birth certificates (because the parents had them), found out 3 day wait does NOT include weekend days. Getting pretty close to the wedding!!! D says “$50 for same day license, worth it?” Uh, yeah.
I got a wedding invitation recently that said “The bride requests that you not wear white”. I wouldn’t have anyway, but I have never seen it spelled out on the invitation before. I don’t plan to wear all white but a dress with some white should be okay, right?
tatinG. I’m sure some white is fine. Maybe the bride has a MOG who plans to wear a white dress.
@TatinG Too funny! I’m sure some white would be fine. Those brides want all the attention. My daughter told me she didn’t want her 6 week old nephew at the wedding because he’s steal the show.
Good luck @dentmom4. We’re at 13 days and counting.
The fact that the bride feels the need to explicitly say so is making Miss Manners spin in her grave. But I agree that a print with some white would be fine, as long as white isn’t the dominant color.
Makes you wonder what would have possessed the bride to feel the need to explicitly say that in a wedding invitation!
Maybe that bride saw the posts here about the MOB or was it MOG who bought the same dress the bride bought. I don’t think she wore it to the wedding…but geez…
@zoosermom wasn’t that you?
If I received an invite like that I would do all I could to stay away from white. It’s her day and there are a lot of colors in this world.
Miss Manners died?!
I think this bride knows her audience and that some needed to be told not to wear white dresses, tuxes, pantsuits, robes. I don’t think she meant that there could be no white at all as part of the outfits.
There are a lot of white dresses in the stores and this may just have been a reminder that they may be in style but not for the wedding. Those of us of a certain age knew that white and black were not supposed to be worn to a wedding but I notice black being worn all of the time now. So not so impossible that some might wear a little white dress.