I think the point is that you don’t put registry information for anything - whether bridal or baby.
True…but I recently received a casual wedding invite that had the registry on it. Not anything I would do…
If I need to know where someone is registered, whether bridal or baby, it’s easily googled - I don’t see the point of putting it on an invite, though I do know people do it sometimes. I’d turn to google anyway to find/buy the registry.
I did find it absurd when the bridal march at a distant relative’s wedding was the Muppet’s “Rainbow Connection”. It was all I could do to keep a straight face and try to control my shoulders from shaking when those first few notes came from Kermit…
^^But you’ll never forget it, and I think that’s a good thing. How many weddings have we all been to that just are forgotten the minute you leave? I’d put that one in the WIN column :).
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find it absurd when the bridal march at a distant relative’s wedding was the Muppet’s “Rainbow Connection”. It was all I could do to keep a straight face and try to control my shoulders from shaking when those first few notes came from Kermit…
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Lol…
We were a bit shocked when H’s nephew and new bride left the church with the Indiana Fight Song playing.
@MotherOfDragons I guess this one also goes in the WIN column…lol
My son’s first dance with his new bride was “Rainbow Connection”. Hope the guests at his wedding didn’t find it as tacky.
D & SIL began their honeymoon in Hong Kong and two days ago I got 4 or 5 texted pics of a wedding reception at their hotel. The theme was La Petit Prince with large cutouts as decorations and the cake decorated in accordance, etc… I’m assuming it’s a cultural difference???
My D’s was Muse’s “Madness.” They stopped dancing to air-guitar through the solo.
@3bm103 Its just that it was so NOT what I was expecting during the ceremony… in that hushed anticipatory moment before the bride starts down the aisle.
I think most of us have different expectations for Ceremony v Reception music and I’m sure no one batted an eye about it at a reception. I bet it was a sweet moment for your newlyweds…
@3bm103 I think the guidelines are completely different at the reception than at the ceremony.
Tacky guest behavior - we went to a wedding and pretty much the entire set of groom’s friends didn’t show up. He had deployed previously, and used that money to pay for much of the wedding. Most of the people who didn’t show up (an entire table, maybe more) were army guys and SOs. I felt really bad, because the kids paid for the event and could have used that money for other things.
SIL had groomsmen and 4 extra friends served as ushers. Their ceremony was at 5 pm and pictures started at 3. One of the ushers showed up at 4:40 pm. Am I sexist for thinking that some young men are less likely to take wedding etiquette and responsibilities seriously (thinking about my example and @1214mom’s post) than young women? Not making complete generalization, just speaking to a small subset. I think there’s a post in another thread about conscientious best man planning his speech for 600 months in advance, so I recognize this isn’t universal.
When my D was in elementary school, her young piano teacher got married and invited her students including a parent to chaperone. Her flower girls carried hot dogs so the canine ring bearer would follow them down the aisle. I got the giggles and my D was mortified at my behavior.
Not “tacky” but something to steer clear of…
About unusual invitations or rather “less than traditional”—I almost tore one up to throw away before realizing it was an invitation and not another ad for a credit card or similar. My tip off was the engraving on the card–it made me pause just long enough to give it another glance (thankfully). It was real pretty, more of a “post card type”.
The real problem:
It only had first names of the couple in large letters–no last names. At all. Just “John and Mary”. I was huh? Who’s “John and Mary”? I know lots of John and Mary or one John and no Mary or any variation thereof.
Took me a few minutes and looking at return address to figure it out. Thank goodness I saved the envelope! No parents names. No last names. Just first name, date, time, place. Which is why it didn’t click. At all.
These were friend’s kids–I only recognized the groom’s first name (never met his fiancee) and hadn’t seen the parents for a while so it wasn’t foremost in my mind that their kid was even getting married. (The wedding was beautiful BTW)
I’m sure the B&G’s circle of current friends knew immediately–people outside the current circle need a little help.
Later, a couple people mentioned that they hadn’t received an invitation (who were DEFINITELY on the list–and did go after well placed phone calls of inquiry by friends–we’re talking super close friends not acquaintances). I DO think they received the invite but threw it away as I almost did.
@college_query Lol, that was a pretty ingenious way to get the dog to behave. However (and this will probably get me in trouble), pets have no place in a wedding ceremony IMO. Best case, they’ll steal the show. Worst case is limited only by the imagination.
Reading golf 78s post reminded me that we once got a wedding invitation and did not recognize the names. There was not a reply card, nor was there a request to RSVP. We just ignored it and hoped it wasn’t someone we should have remembered. Wedding was out of state.
Yes, I don’t understand folks who decide not to use last names on invitations. Many of us need all the cues we can get to figure out who the people involved are. The same goes to invitations for graduations and birthday parties–please help give us clues about who the honorees are and how we may know them.
I once got an invitation to a bridal shower in honor of a first name I didn’t recognize. I called the hostess to ask the last name and I didn’t recognize that either! I made up some excuse and politely declined. About a month later, the wedding invitation came and I didn’t recognize the names, but it turned out that the groom was a casual acquaintance of my (then) husband’s from work. It was so bizarre that the bride, whom I had never met, would invite me to her shower!
We get fishing invitations occasionally-people are “fishing” for gifts-they don’t really want you to come to their wedding, you barely know them, but they hope you’ll send them something. Sometimes I send them the “a donation has been made in your name” gifts. Because I know they’ll totally appreciate it.