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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
It's your wedding! You decide who gets to be there!
And since you've invited me you presumably want me there (generic me), which is unlikely to happen if I'm going to be sitting at a table twiddling my thumbs and trying not to feel like a giant loser. IJS.
I don't think it is or should be a hard and fast rule - if it's a ton of old friends at the wedding, who wants a +1 there in the first place? But it's also nice to try to make things comfortable for your guests, within reason.
This is a weird time for this conversation because I just ordered my invites while watching Recount.
What are all these weddings people are invited to when they don't know anyone else who is going to be there?
It happens. I'm in touch with one friend from college, he is coming but doesn't know anyone I know from law school or whatever. I have other friends who don't know my friends from home and may not know anyone else there. Given that going to a party where I don't know anyone is one of my worst fears, this produces a lot of sympathic anxiety.
They are high school or college friends where either I don't keep in touch with mutual friends, or any mutual friend will actually be in the bridal party. I am never in the bridal party.
For an afternoon snack, I am having blueberry yogurt with Grape Nuts. Totally virtuous, right?
I swear when in Texas that we got some invitations to JUST the wedding - like big church wedding, much smaller reception - common?
My mother wants me to tell you that a church wedding is actually public, so anyone could just go anyway. Both of my parents would like to remind Susan's friend that the wedding is a covenant between the couple and the community, and it is theologically wrong to have a private wedding. If they are Christians, at least.
And since you've invited me you presumably want me there (generic me), which is unlikely to happen if I'm going to be sitting at a table twiddling my thumbs and trying not to feel like a giant loser. IJS.
Unless you are the girl that was mean to me in high school and then I totally want you there sitting at a table alone and miserable watching me in all my glory.
OMG that little revenge daydream felt good.
Well, that would be totally different, naturally.
Jesse's mom is funny, but should I ever have a wedding, it will be a civic affair, and anything that happens at a church will still be a private ceremony because 1) I don't much like the larger community in any sense. 2) Unless I have had some massive change, I will want to control the event within an inch of its life.
Well, I'm not sure our friends' wedding is so much private private as it's over on the Olympic Peninsula (family connection and/or they go hiking there a lot), but most of their friends are here in Seattle.
On the running mates thing, I laughed hardest at the kitty and the entire state of Ohio.
Oh, some Freeper said that all the GOP needed to do to win the general was show a picture of Obama with a turban on his head next to McCain in naval uniform. Only they spelled it "turbine," which led to the following post at dKos: [link]