Dymphna
Loyalty, Friendship, Love
We got a wedding invitation in the mail yesterday. Didn't have the slightest idea who these people were.
The wording was, "You are invited to the wedding of Bride's Name and Groom's Name...." Neither name, first or last, meant anything to either of us. No parents' names were on the invitation.
The return address on the envelope was the bride and groom's. The response envelope was unaddressed and unstamped. The RSVP card was a 1.5" square photocopy that was cut crooked with the bride's email address and phone number in addition to the traditional wording of a card that would normally be mailed. There was also a, "We are registered at Macy's" card.
So, after searching around facebook, I find that it's likely either the bride or groom is the child of one of the husband's cousins. The cousins are a good bit older and always lived several states away, so the husband never interacted with them much. I've only met them once or twice in twenty years of dating/marriage and I'm not sure I ever met their children. I continued to search around facebook at the bride and groom's pages and their friend's pages trying to figure out who these people are. (This is why you need to set you FB privacy settings tighter than the default, because people like me are nosy.) Well, seems the soon to be married couple have been engaged for nine years and have been living together most, if not all of that time. They have a child together who looks about three years old and the bride uses her fiance's last name, not the name on the invitation. I have to wonder if they haven't already had a courthouse wedding and are just going for the big church wedding now.
Seriously? They may as well scream, "We think you must be rich Yankees who will NEVER show, but will feel obliged to send an expensive gift."
It's too bad that I'm busy that day. I'd be tempted to drive the 10 hours to eat their food, drink their drinks
and give them the toilet bowl brush from their main wedding registry, which is at Target (google tells you these things). 
BTW, today's facebook chatter confirms that the groom is the child of one of the husband's cousins. I'm 90% certain that we've never met him.
The wording was, "You are invited to the wedding of Bride's Name and Groom's Name...." Neither name, first or last, meant anything to either of us. No parents' names were on the invitation.
The return address on the envelope was the bride and groom's. The response envelope was unaddressed and unstamped. The RSVP card was a 1.5" square photocopy that was cut crooked with the bride's email address and phone number in addition to the traditional wording of a card that would normally be mailed. There was also a, "We are registered at Macy's" card.
So, after searching around facebook, I find that it's likely either the bride or groom is the child of one of the husband's cousins. The cousins are a good bit older and always lived several states away, so the husband never interacted with them much. I've only met them once or twice in twenty years of dating/marriage and I'm not sure I ever met their children. I continued to search around facebook at the bride and groom's pages and their friend's pages trying to figure out who these people are. (This is why you need to set you FB privacy settings tighter than the default, because people like me are nosy.) Well, seems the soon to be married couple have been engaged for nine years and have been living together most, if not all of that time. They have a child together who looks about three years old and the bride uses her fiance's last name, not the name on the invitation. I have to wonder if they haven't already had a courthouse wedding and are just going for the big church wedding now.
Seriously? They may as well scream, "We think you must be rich Yankees who will NEVER show, but will feel obliged to send an expensive gift."
It's too bad that I'm busy that day. I'd be tempted to drive the 10 hours to eat their food, drink their drinks
and give them the toilet bowl brush from their main wedding registry, which is at Target (google tells you these things). BTW, today's facebook chatter confirms that the groom is the child of one of the husband's cousins. I'm 90% certain that we've never met him.
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