Well, that's just a tacky ass text ...

[AJL]

Mar 4, 2014 15:02:07 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Mar 4, 2014 14:52:37 GMT -5 AJL said:

Yep. It's called "A list, B list, C list."  It's shitty and Emily Post dies all over again every time a bride pulls this nonsense.

I've heard of the A list, B list, and C list, but I thought the idea was that you wait until you get "nos" from A list folks and then move to the B list without telling the B list folks that they are on the B list. If you do it right, no one knows they didn't make the first cut, as opposed to inviting folks and then asking permission to demote them, which is just some ratchety ratchetness.

Oh the demoting happens. It's an extension of the listing system.

[andrealynn]

Mar 4, 2014 13:17:50 GMT -5 NitaX said:

Y'all this just keeps getting better. She sent a new text that the folks who were bringing their kids are making sitter arrangements and taking the total invitee list down.

Dear Lord Baby Jesus. Keep Me Near the Cross.

Wait, so did she un-uninvite you? Is that what happened there?

I wonder if she texted those people to see if they would consider not bringing their kids. lol.

[redwino]

Mar 4, 2014 13:42:24 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

THIS is the tackiest gift ever I got at a nestie White elephant. NitaX say the word and I will send it to you to give as a wedding gift:

It took me way too long to figure out what the hands were doing. Why does this exist?

[NitaX]

Mar 4, 2014 15:07:46 GMT -5 andrealynn said:

Mar 4, 2014 13:17:50 GMT -5 NitaX said:

Y'all this just keeps getting better. She sent a new text that the folks who were bringing their kids are making sitter arrangements and taking the total invitee list down.

Dear Lord Baby Jesus. Keep Me Near the Cross.

Wait, so did she un-uninvite you? Is that what happened there?

I wonder if she texted those people to see if they would consider not bringing their kids. lol.

Yes Hunty. We're apparently back on the list. 

[pixy0stix]

Still no gift, unless it's the hands thing.

[mrs.jacinthe]

I got a dollar-store calendar as a wedding gift (the wedding was in JULY). Perhaps you should hit up whatever clearance racks you can find and stock up now, then hit them with a pile of kittens in baskets when she asks where her gift is.

[jlt19]

Mar 4, 2014 15:02:07 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Mar 4, 2014 14:52:37 GMT -5 AJL said:

Yep. It's called "A list, B list, C list."  It's shitty and Emily Post dies all over again every time a bride pulls this nonsense.

I've heard of the A list, B list, and C list, but I thought the idea was that you wait until you get "nos" from A list folks and then move to the B list without telling the B list folks that they are on the B list. If you do it right, no one knows they didn't make the first cut, as opposed to inviting folks and then asking permission to demote them, which is just some ratchety ratchetness.

Or you get a text a week out that says "OMG I totally forgot to invite you!!!! Please come, and NO gift is necessary".  What was funny was I had a work event near the venue, so we went to the work thing and then walked over to the reception for free drinks and danced with my friends. I didn't even have to sit through the ceremony or the boring stuff before dinner. I did write a check though.

[StrawberryBlondie]

Ooh, are we sharing tacky wedding stories now?

I went to one once where the bridesmaids all were wearing legit prom dresses, the bride's dress criss crossed I the front,, kind of like a corset except it left skin showing down to her belly button, and the only alcohol served was Miller High Life or Mike's Hard Lemonade.

I felt like I walked into an episode of Shameless.

[andrealynn]

Any knotties circa 2007 that remember chadnjared's epic drunk post about his fear of being tacky? Cuz it was hilarious.

[Deleted]

Mar 4, 2014 15:09:27 GMT -5 NitaX said:

Mar 4, 2014 15:07:46 GMT -5 andrealynn said:

Wait, so did she un-uninvite you? Is that what happened there?

I wonder if she texted those people to see if they would consider not bringing their kids. lol.

Yes Hunty. We're apparently back on the list. 

Wait. So she's un-uninviting you? Did you respond to that? 

This just gets better and better worse and worse. 

[NitaX]

Mar 4, 2014 15:05:04 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Mar 4, 2014 15:03:12 GMT -5 @shenanigans said:

But - is this really an A list / B list thing if @nitax was already invited AND ALREADY RSVP'D?!!!

Exactly. I feel like this is a whole new level of bald-faced shitty-ness. I USED to value you, but now? Not so much.

ETA: I didn't realize how much I love tacky wedding stories. I hope this thread goes another 100 posts with anecdotes.

AND. Y'all she said she needs to do a side hustle on wedding etiquette. 

LMAO

[ECB]

So- what IS your response to now being invited again?? I sure as heck hope it's stands with a "it's best if you just keep us off the list. I don't want you to be confused about who you did/didn't/did invite. "

[mrs.jacinthe]

Mar 4, 2014 15:20:10 GMT -5 andrealynn said:

Any knotties circa 2007 that remember chadnjared's epic drunk post about his fear of being tacky? Cuz it was hilarious.

YWIA.

CON FESS I ON

From: Chad_n_Jared Chad_n_Jared is not online. Last active: 8/25/2007 8:44:56 PM

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Date: 8/25/2007 at 8:40 PM



I avoid everyone. Can't talk to peopl ein sotres or on the phone or at the doctors office. I onloy can talk to Jared and my DAddy and my sister and my brothers and a couple fiends. I stutter and Im' phobic. I talk to my therapist but you know wihat I talk about? FUCIKING KNOT> Yep. totally truew. TAlk about how the NEY thinks I'm a girl (they're so fdumb about that but funny too) and how I NEED to help people cause I feel anbandoned by humanity. Rob is my therapist he's nice and I can talk to him but nobody else. You know that voice mail thing they're doing? I like that and I want to but I"m scared because i STutter and they'll laugh. Always laugh or finish my sentences and I'm scared people laughh but they don't here. NEY does but they're just scared because we ALL see in others what we're scared of in ourselves. Like tacky. I'm scared that a LOT OF my family are hicks and I"m scared opf being tackyt like them so I come ehere and say "DON"T be tacKY" like moM taught me. She died. Did you know? She died almost 4 yrears ago.. NOT perfect bu tso smart. I miss her. I cry for her and I hoep she's not ashamed of me helping people learn what she taught me. So pretty with blond hair and blue eyes like Mark. He's my oldest brother. He's smart and good looking. I want to be him but I can't. I'm sick with diabetes and all knds of stuff but Mom NEVBER made me feel bad about it. Such a good Mom and Dad was such a good daD and I want to be just like him. I'm afraid he'd die too except Mom died of an aneurism but the canc3er would have died her anyway. So smart. I'm afraid peopel will laugh when I stutter but I don't stutter here. Fallin is so smart an I wish I could help her understand that I'm not a lair. She looks like my Mom. Saw her pic and he slooks like Mama but she thinks I'm a fake. Hurts so fbad so I try harder to be good and give good advice likie she taught me but Fallin will die anyway and she'll think I was a failure. I wish she would come back for a while and help me with the baby and Matt because I'm so lost. I read nbooks but I still think I"m not good at being a DAd to them. I worry all the time and I don't sleep like tonight. Jared willc ome home and be mad at his parents for being such b8itches and then I won't sleep and I'll be stupid tomorrow and fallin will stil hate me just like mama will hate me if she was alive. So nice WW so funny and never tell sme I'm stupid. Thank you even when I don't know the words to make the not tacky advice sound better. Thank you. I'm tired now and Jared won't bve home for a long time because he'll have a party time with his parents like the rest of the rich people and I"ll just be a plain man who's not good enough for him or his parents or his money or anything. Good night WW. God's blessings upon you this night and the morrow.

[MixedBerryJam]

Mar 4, 2014 15:05:04 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Mar 4, 2014 15:03:12 GMT -5 @shenanigans said:

But - is this really an A list / B list thing if @nitax was already invited AND ALREADY RSVP'D?!!!

Exactly. I feel like this is a whole new level of bald-faced shitty-ness. I USED to value you, but now? Not so much.

ETA: I didn't realize how much I love tacky wedding stories. I hope this thread goes another 100 posts with anecdotes.

"Your friendship is not quite worth the cost of your dinner, so .... wouldja mind?" This is actually worse than an A List/B List thing, since the couple's original plan was "Let's invite them for the gift" and it's only now that the value of the gift is diminished by the cost of the dinner that they've decided who to "gracefully" uninvite by soliciting volunteers. 

And eff you spellcheck, saying "uninvite" is not a word. Have you never been on TK?

[NitaX]

Mar 4, 2014 15:27:23 GMT -5 ECB said:

So- what IS your response to now being invited again?? I sure as heck hope it's stands with a "it's best if you just keep us off the list. I don't want you to be confused about who you did/didn't/did invite. "

I've decided that I'm going to go, but my job will be to give live updates to the Board during the event. Because, well, we all like Wedding Horror Stories here.

[cville]

This post is fantastic. The only thing I like more than TV shows about shopping for wedding dresses is a litany of tacky wedding stories.

[laurenpetro]

here's tacky for you:

i was IN a wedding in college where the family of the couple were invited upstairs for dinner. the rest of the bridal party? nope.

and it had no food and a cash bar. 1 of my professors got me drunk as shit that night. i think i ended up sleeping with a friend of mine.

klassy all around.

[cville]

The only cash bar wedding I've ever been to was ALSO actually a fake wedding. The couple had been married for months but didn't disclose that to anyone and did the whole church thing (like, an hour + service) because they decided they regretted eloping. Then a reception at a place called Durango and was all faux southwesty (it was in Virginia) where it wasn't just a cash bar for alcohol, but for ANYTHING THAT WASN'T WATER.

It was at the reception, sipping on my $1.50 diet coke, that I overheard the "this whole wedding was fake" news since the booth backs were so high the bride didn't realize that we could hear her while she joked about it with her brother. Like "ha ha can you believe no one knows!"

I had a cold the day of her baby shower. **cough cough**

[StrawberryBlondie]

Ooh, another one.

I was at a wedding a while ago that had a live band. A local one, not a famous one. They refused to play anything but their own originals. No covers. No one knew any of their stuff.

And they were pretty terrible.

[Deleted]

Mar 4, 2014 15:24:37 GMT -5 NitaX said:

Mar 4, 2014 15:05:04 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Exactly. I feel like this is a whole new level of bald-faced shitty-ness. I USED to value you, but now? Not so much.

ETA: I didn't realize how much I love tacky wedding stories. I hope this thread goes another 100 posts with anecdotes.

AND. Y'all she said she needs to do a side hustle on wedding etiquette. 

LMAO

NO. I don't believe you! You're just making this up now.

[Deleted]

This is rapidly getting better than nugget sister. RAPIDLY!

[NitaX]

Mar 4, 2014 16:15:37 GMT -5 @kcpokergal said:

Mar 4, 2014 15:24:37 GMT -5 NitaX said:

AND. Y'all she said she needs to do a side hustle on wedding etiquette. 

LMAO

NO. I don't believe you! You're just making this up now.

I swear before a slab of Memphis Ribs that I am NOT making this up. 

I promise. 

[katfco]

I was once a B-listed bridesmaid. My college roommate asked me if I'd be a bridesmaid and in the course of that chat (I was overseas, so this was all over chat), she said she was excited that all 5 bridesmaids had said yes. I asked who the other bridesmaids were and she listed five names.

...??

So I asked for clarification and was told that she asked me "in case one of the other girls backed out." Mmmkay. We'd only been roommates and close friends for 4 years.

[emilyj]

Since you are now going, PLEASE give those floating hands as your gift. If not for the bride, please give them as your gift to us.

[IIOY]

Mar 4, 2014 17:38:43 GMT -5 @246baje said:

Lol one of my friends got an evite to a wedding today. It also notes that there will be swimming. I cannot wait for the updates after the event.

I once got an evite, along with a request to bring food.

[pixy0stix]

One of my high school friends got married a year out of high school. We were all underaged, but still served alcohol, but they marked our hands so we'd only get 2 drinks. Their system didn't work out so well. Oh, and the reception was at the local roller rink. No rollerskating, though.

I actually don't know what the point of my story is, other than if you're trying to discourage underage drinking, don't leave bottles of champagne at the tables.

[Velar Fricative]

I'm sad that I don't have any klassy bride/groom stories. Stories about guests though, I have good ones.

[EloiseWeenie]

Mar 4, 2014 17:39:50 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Mar 4, 2014 17:38:43 GMT -5 @246baje said:

Lol one of my friends got an evite to a wedding today. It also notes that there will be swimming. I cannot wait for the updates after the event.

I once got an evite, along with a request to bring food.

Ditto and SHOCKER that the potluck wedding couple is now divorced.

Her family has plenty of $, AND everybody had to travel 2+ hours with their dishes. Not cool.

[Deleted]

I'm going to be in a wedding that should be interesting in April. The bride is really uptight and wants to be in control of everything, but she kind of has no idea what she's doing. I'm pretty sure her soon-to-be MIL hates her, so that should be extra interesting (they have an 18 month old, so MIL should kind of be over it by now.)

[tef]

Mar 4, 2014 12:52:58 GMT -5 teacup said:

What would be the tackiest wedding gift? That is exactly what you should give to her. Plates from goodwill? Used hand towels? An open bottle of wine? SOMETHING.

Underwear from Marshall's.