You used Papyrus as a font on your wedding invite. We can get past that. Asking for money instead of gifts so you can fund your honeymoon AND your fucking trip to Burning Man? It’s tacky and obnoxious, but I’ll let it slide. But charging for food, booze, and “carnival games”? Encouraging people to bring a guest… as long as the guest pays 20 bucks into a “wedding gift box” at the door?! The note encouraging photographer-friends to work for free and send you digital files was a nice touch. But this part’s REALLY special: I found out that some people got a “ticket” with their invitation, entitling them to a wristband and a VIP area with free food. You have been going to shitty festivals for too long and you are confused. I am not going to pay at the door, pay for my drinks, pay for food, watch you get married, and then watch other people get into the VIP area. I can’t wait to see what kind of hustle you’re gonna try to pull when you get knocked up. Guess what: If you can’t afford a big fancy wedding, you have a potluck and a ceremony in the backyard with your closest friends. Sure, maybe you couldn’t invite everyone and throw a carnival, but it would be meaningful and wouldn’t leave half the people you know horrified and embarrassed. 
I, Anonymous
Your Wedding Sucks
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Does a +1 have to pay $20 to attend this, or not, hmmm.…
Whether the b&g intended it or not, the answer is technically YES for anyone who received an invitation addressed solely to himself/herself. The clear, commonplace, and sensible solution, if +1s were meant to be invited for the same “free admission” as the friends themselves, would’ve been for each one-person invitation to have been addressed:
Mr./Ms. [name] and Guest
123 Shady Tree Lane
Etcetera, WA 98123
That’s how couples addressed their invitations to me when I didn’t have a +1, and I really appreciated it.
BTW: “and Guest” can sometimes be used to avoid awkwardness if you don’t know if your invitee is still in a relationship, or if you can’t remember the name of the +1 or how to spell the +1’s name.
Why do all the comments here keep blaming this fiasco solely on the bride? Did it ever occur to anyone that the groom, at the very least by his participation in the event, was a collaborator in all this tackiness? Everyone seems to have gone straight to a misogynistic “bridezilla” mentality, failing to remember that a wedding involves a COUPLE.
This is not a wedding, it is a commercial festival to which anyone with a spare $20 is admitted. The ceremony is merely the hook to guarantee minimum attendance.
Had the happy couple wished for a blowout AND a honeymoon AND a free trip to Burning Man, they could have saved, held honestly for-profit raves or sold lemonade on the sidewalk. Milking family and friends to cover their exorbitant luxuries in the guise of helping them celebrate their special day displays both enormous self-centeredness and a depressing lack of creativity. They can’t be very artistic, alternative types if their best idea for paying for a wedding is calling any member of the public who pays at the door a close enough associate to be invited to their wedding ceremony.
Performers of all sorts have gotten married for centuries; they do not get a free pass from the rules that others keep merely because they like to live large. Etiquette exists to protect the feelings of others by establishing social norms and expectations. There needs to be a good reason to break such conventions, or at least an understanding that the results will not be pretty and a willingness to brave the resulting shitstorm. The fact that they clearly did not expect such negative reaction only reinforces the impression they give as completely oblivious narcissists.
I would regard the invitation to this party with the same eye I would cast on a flyer to any other cash-based event. If I want to spend money I could use to fund my own art projects on attending a 1990s-era San Francisco circus, I will go and drop a twenty in the box. Otherwise, I will wait for an invitation from the next happy couple of my acquaintance who treats me like a valued friend and not a profit center.
Penguin hit it on the head.
I think so many people are aghast because they have or know people who have taken time to remember etiquette for what is supposed to be a momentous occasion in two peoples’ lives. For the most part a lot of old etiquette and american traditions are dead, but weddings are the one time when people look to Miss Manners for advice, open up a book on what the proper way to do things are and decide for themselves what they will and will not include.
The B&G have every right to say “to hell with etiquette” (which they VERY CLEARLY did) but should not expect for it to fly over without some criticism. Considering how many bad etiquette decisions they made, (VIP, lack of caring to find out who someone’s guest is, guests paying for food, guests paying for drink, guests paying for games)I’m shocked that they are surprised to be receiving this type of backlash. This IA had to be written to say what others were not. People pussy-foot and talk behind everyone’s back for every detail of a wedding, I commend the IA writer for telling it like it is. And come on, this was not taken out of context, scroll up and take a look at the actual invite’s wording (#80)I would have been offended to receive this.
It seems that they invited a lot of people who barely know them, that was their mistake again, this whole thing could have been avoided if they had invited their close friends instead of the whole world. I can’t wait to see what the stranger staff has to say about this shit show of a wedding.
Sounds like a couple of selfish, egotistical, megalomaniacal assholes. So they deserve each other, but I give this marriage a shelf life of about six months.
My wedding was at the courthouse, with only immediate family and a couple of friends present. And it was still a huge event, inasmuch as it was a public statement of our lifelong commitment to each other.
If I ever do feel the need to throw a massive party, I’ll pay for it myself. These people are confusing the roles of “couple in love” and “event promoters”. If I lived in Seattle, I would seriously try to find this ridiculous event just so I could projectile vomit on the bride and groom just before they could say “I do (want all my friends’ money)”
Love: UR DOING IT WRONG.
After reading the invitation, if I knew and loved this couple I would have no problem plunking down a $20 donation instead of a gift to go to a kickass party and be witness to a fun wedding. I mean, if they were my friends and had gone to all the effort to plan something spectacular, why not support them? I think it’s a better show of love to throw them a few bones for their honeymoon than to get them a wok or a toaster. This clearly is not your traditional wedding, so I think it’s a-okay that they are not playing by “the rules.” If you don’t agree, and it offends your delicates sensibilities, then don’t go. I’m sure the couple and the guests who understand the intent behind the event will have a kickass time whether you’re there or not.
Proverbs 10:13 – If you have good sense, it will show when you speak. But if you are stupid, you will be beaten with a stick.
The bride and groom are repulsive and Burning Man is dumb. If you are into Burning Man you are a shit-for-brains.
Your wedding is an “event”? I was under the impression than an “event”, such as a concert, a play, or carnival, was a production in which patrons paid for entertainment. Isn’t a wedding (and the reception) supposed to be a celebration of the couple’s future together? I know that in recent years the trend for weddings has leaned toward putting on a huge, elaborate drama with the bride as the star of the show, but this is ridiculous. You aren’t having a wedding, you’re having an event you’re charging people for? This is the nadir of bad taste. Congratulations, Bride-and-Groom-zilla, you have achieved the depths of tastelessness. Really, truly you have.
This can’t be a Burner wedding. Money does not exist on the playa, and Burning Man is a GIFTING economy.
This sounds like evil Fox propaganda. LOL!
Wow @ 152. It’s not a misunderstanding, it’s a transparent and sad little joke. And an appropriately placed anonymous rant about it. And seriously, your having to bitch about the timing thereof, of all things, just shows up the weakness of your argument. At least one guest who’s known about the requested cash gift for a while now is calling it as they see it: a blatant and crass use of near-strangers.
The awesomeness of the freak show is irrelevant to the question of whether the wedding ceremony should be part of one. Apparently the answer is YES. The obvious reason to invite all and sundry is to get warm bodies and funds, and it bit the couple in the ass, here. So what? Have fun and take pictures, m’kay?
Oh, for fuck’s sake. Get over yourselves and just burn an Anonymous Man in effigy, capitalist piglets.
..people keep asking me if my marriage to my husband is legal. and i’m still saying ‘no’.
Man, what a fucked-up wedding that must’ve been. I now pronounce you event manager and scalper!
To all those horrified by the sheer tasteless gall of the bridal couple: From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU!
Reading the comments, it’s easy to see that the shocked among us are from a very broad spectrum of places, traditions and current cultural affiliations and I am absolutely delighted to see that the basic concepts of hospitality span all these diverse perspectives.
The barbarians may be at the gate but at least some of us are not prepared to invite them in… even if they will pay a $20 cover charge.
Shadowblind, you just contradicted yourself. You told me: “Really? Because a vast majority of the wedding guests have since the publication of the IA been sending a massive outpouring of support, love, and great excitement of the coming festivities, including their families.”
And then in the same post you went on to tell Penguin that some people are changing their RSVPs because of a “misunderstanding” that could have been cleared up if people had just asked about it. But the couple getting married is responsible for effectively communicating information in the wedding invitation. If people need to ask questions to avoid confusion, then you failed to communicate properly in your wedding invitations.
Most likely people replied to the RSVP initially out of obligation, but now that the date is drawing nearer they realize that they don’t really want to attend a highly commercialized freak show. And there’s no guarantee that people who RSVP will show up. And even if they show up, with the huge crowd and noise and stressful carnival atmosphere, I doubt most people over the age of 16 will want to stay very long. Why not plan something that people can actually enjoy instead of something guaranteed to induce a headache? Does any adult really like circuses? Isn’t that only something we feel obligated to take the kids to in order to say we’ve done it?
Burning man sounds kinda cool.
That said, every single person I have met that identifies themselves as a “burner” is, without fail, such a child-like narcissist that it’s mind-boggling.
Burning Man is amazing, but most of the people who are preoccupied with nothing but Burning Man are predictably, well, Burnouts.
As for that variety of navel-gazing wedding narcissism, it’s far from exclusive to the Burnout community. I’ve witnessed just as much arrogant exploitations amongst squares. But there is something about the festival-going scene that makes it seem ethically unproblematic to perpetrate this kind of chicanery on friends and family.
Here here!
Sick and tired of these Bridezilla/Groomzilla/Momzilla types who simply don’t understand: their most important day is NOT the world’s most important day and should adjust accordingly.
They will soon be raffling off the right to name their first-born child. Those who buy the most tickets will be able to watch the baby actually get squeezed out live and up close, and photos will be sold in the waiting area at $20 a pop. Show your support, buy the “True Friend” package and save!
I don’t care one way or the other about the bride, the groom, their friends, their enemies, or their frenemies. However, if I have to hear, read, interpret in American Sign Language, or have communicated to me by any other means the words “THE/THEIR SPECIAL DAY”, I will make a vow to spend the rest of my life hunting down the people who use this phrase and washing their mealy little mouths out with soap. I’ve found that the people who use this term feel that it’s a bride’s right to be a fairy princess on her wedding day, no expense should be spared to make her feel like the afore-mentioned fairy princess, and any amount of bad behavior should be tolerated in pursuit of a state of princess-ness. Because, you know, it’s her SPECIAL FUCKING DAY! Wedding ceremonies are nothing more than two people dressing up in ridiculous costumes and reciting a legal agreement framed in Hallmarkese to each other in front of everyone they know. Please let the cult of the SPECIAL DAY end soon!
OH MY ILLITERATE FUCKING GOD. Can you people not tell by now??? Have you no reading comprehension skills? Burners have different social standards and ideals than the rest of you. This couple’s friends (minus one douchey person who was such a good “friend” they wrote I-Anon instead of the couple) are happy to pay for a giant entertainment event at which said couple plans to marry.
No, this is not how weddings normally are. This is not a normal wedding. This is not a normal couple. THERE’S NOTHING NORMAL ABOUT THIS. So what? SO WHAT?!?! GET OVER IT!
make sure if you are going to do something “different” in good ol liberal Seattle you follow the strict guidelines of how to be different.
Dont piss off the hipster troll community! Do your own thing, but only if it follows the rules.
In the words of the wise philosopher Patsy Stone: “It’s not a rave, it’s a happening.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBRYXn-1k…
In the words of the great philosopher Patsy Stone: “It’s not a rave; it’s a happening.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBRYXn-1k…
Sorry for repeating myself– stupid iphone.
heatherly, did you not see the bride’s letter to the editor? Watch who you’re calling illiterate.
I know a lot of burners, though I’ve never been to Burning Man. It’s my understanding that you don’t bring cash. Cash has no value on the playa. So, yes, they have different social standards and ideals. And those standards and ideals have NOTHING to do with cash. None of the burners I know would ever dream of asking their friends for cash for any reason. What I do see are people offering help and accepting help where needed – to build an art car, to sew desert-worthy apparel, just pitching in and supporting noble efforts. Every burner I know would be sickened by something like *this* posing as a way to bring the burning man experience to someone who hasn’t experienced it. Just all around fail.
@181: Since I am a burner I’m going to go ahead and call bullshit on “the burners you know” being disgusted by a large scale entertainment event funded by the participants. Where people happen to get married. Like, oh say…Burning Man? Weddings happen there every year, and often involve people’s families making the long hard trek down there for the wedding. Tickets to Burning Man range from $200-$400. It’s not a “humbly requested donation”,either, it’s a fixed price.
Do you have any idea how much money we spend to get ourselves to and throw an event like Burning Man every year? Burning Man is a HUGE cash generating machine!!! We’re talking millions and millions of dollars here, pal. There’s a reason why half the participants are between the ages of 31-40.
Seriously, you don’t understand the nature of this event because it’s taken *completely* out of context here. You aren’t qualified to be a judge of these people or their situation, but what’s staggering is that you (and so many others, apparently) feel the need to judge in the first place.
Get a life?
@shadowblind, j242, et al…
I’d just like to point out that the shit-storm created by the original IA was multiplied by the bride’s letter & your continuing posts to defend her/them/the wedding. If you feel that the wedding, b/g are being attacked, well, it’s because you feel that way & chose not to take the high road. A strong, un-conventional community can withstand the attacks of others if it believes in itself & its goals. If you feel the need to reach out to strangers to justify yourself, I begin to doubt your own belief in yourself & your friends. I think that public perception is far more important to you than supporting your friends.
I mean, please– The SLOG is _not_ “all of Seattle,” no matter how much it wishes it were!
If you truly believe that the wedding is going to a glorious celebration of love, community, joy, togetherness, support, blah blah blah, then no snarky IA’s could ever change that. Unless, of course, you value the perception of strangers far more than you value your own. Which seems to be the case, judging from your many defensive posts, thereby adding lots of fresh energy to the shit-storm.
Also, if the bride has hosted *lots* of parties where the guests walk all over her, then the problem rests w/ the bride. Fool me once & all that.
To Some Old Nobody, I haven’t posted in quite a while but I simply have to pop in and respond to this:
“If you feel the need to reach out to strangers to justify yourself, I begin to doubt your own belief in yourself & your friends. I think that public perception is far more important to you than supporting your friends. “
No, what’s important to me is that a bunch of anonymous haters are verbally shitting all over an event that you have nothing but ignorant assumptions about. This is an important event to all directly involved in it (Obviously I anon is not involved seeing as the B&G have been discussing this with their friends & families and actively planning it for a year now so no detail should come as any surprise and there shouldn’t be any confusion on the guest list concept) and all of our large group of friends who are more than happy to give $20 to help our friends have a great honeymoon & burn. See, rather than give some tacky kitchen appliance or whatnot, in our circle we prefer experiences. For a variety of events from birthdays to holidays, we give each other great experiences like traveling, hosting a party, going out camping, etc, etc, etc. It’s far more meaningful than some tangible item that anyone can get for themselves at any time. That’s how we do things, if that’s not your thing, that’s fine. We’re not coming out trashing you for buying shitty gifts for people on events now are we? Of course not, you can celebrate events however you want and so can the B&G…
You and the other haters can continue hating all you like, I certainly can’t change any of your minds, nor am I going to try to as your your self-righteous “holier than thou” opinions are so thick nothing would get through even if we were to try.
To sum it all up, you have no right whatsoever to be offended or even speak about the event being held by complete strangers which you are not even invited to in the first place. You and the rest of the haters are basically doing nothing more than spewing inane and hateful rhetoric at complete strangers and for what? Does it make you feel better about yourself? Does it make you feel witty or clever to bash on a loving couple’s event which over a hundred people are eagerly anticipating and are more than happy with the way it’s set up? Well good for you…
” Unless, of course, you value the perception of strangers far more than you value your own. Which seems to be the case, judging from your many defensive posts, thereby adding lots of fresh energy to the shit-storm.”
Again, the last time I posted was when? 5 days ago? So sorry that I take offense to douchebags slamming good friends of mine and their attempt to have a great time with their friends and family. Let us know when you try to do something so we can all come out and completely bash everything you do and see how you like it. Basically I’m just calling you and the rest of the bad-mouthers out for what you are, a bunch of classless pricks who have nothing better to do than to try and demean others based on one jerks opinion of an event. Oh, but then you try to justify it by saying it’s US, the B&G’s friends who are causing all of the problems. Wow, that’s laughable considering the negativity was spewing well before myself or anyone else I know came on here in the first place.
Get a hobby or something and stop wasting everyone’s time talking shit about people you don’t even know throwing an event that you aren’t even invited to. Seriously, do realize how pathetic you and your ilk are? You’re almost as bad as the fucking $cientologists…
I was wondering when that J242 guy was going get back into it, he’s hilarious and so easy to get wound up…. best to the married couple btw, with however they wish to celebrate their wedding vows.
@ 183: “If you feel the need to reach out to strangers to justify yourself, I begin to doubt your own belief in yourself & your friends. I think that public perception is far more important to you than supporting your friends. “
The irony of posting this in your own “reaching out to strangers” comment is lost on you?
@ All: This whole thing is now about as lame as discussing what happens to contestants on “reality shows” like they’re close friends.
Holy fuck, how meaningless.
I dont think they are being unreasonable. Nontraditional yes, but not unreasonable. They are only asking for $20. You cant buy decent gift with that money anyway. What’s the big deal?
You know, bride and groom and vigilant friends, seriously why do you care? None of us know you from Adam’s housecat. We’re not going to your wedding, we’ll never meet you, and if you all had just bitched to each other about how could one of your guests, guess what? We’d all have long since forgotten about you. Instead, you can’t STAND the thought of someone thinking negatively about you, your wedding, your lifestyle. Kind of ironic, given that you lead a lifestyle that purports to “not care” what other people think. You seem to care a whole hell of a lot what other people whom you’ve never met think about what you’re doing, which is ironic given your etiquette gaffs. I’m not even going to lecture you on manners, because it’s obvious you don’t have any.
And no, letting other people walk all over you does not allow you to be an asshole at a later date. You let people take advantage of you, and it obviously bothered you, but you didn’t set limits then. But you decided that you were “owed” for your wedding. Classy. No one is owed a huge wedding reception. People elope… people have potlucks and are fine with it. You are no better than the princess brides that demand Vera Wang, French service and signature cocktails. Actually, you’re probably more of an asshole than Betheny Frankel, despite how alternative and entertaining your event may be.
You could have never commented at all, and guess what? Your event would have still happened, and the people willing to put up with your bullshit would have lined up at the door.
Just seems to me given how unconventional this wedding is, the people involved have awfully thin skins. One (or more) of your guests thinks the thing is in bad taste, and suddenly the whole thing is ruined. Jesus…. good luck with parenting, or getting a job, or doing anything where you might get critical feedback or interact with other human beings. Maybe you’ve been able to surround yourself with syncophants, but that ain’t generally how the rest of us roll. And like someone said, ain’t like they can bring anything directly to you… look how you react.
What’s funnier than anything else is that said “freakshow” wedding is now, more or less, a public event.
Oh, didn’t mention that yet, did they? If you were paying attention to large scale places in the Seattle area to hold events where such an industrial-style event might be able to take place, It happens to be right smack in the middle of a Magnificent Park…and in a week’s time.
For $20, you too can go to this Saturday Evening affair with Midgets and Freaks and Wedding. Because at this point, this whole event is little more than a dinner and show. Oh, and did I mention the cheap bottom-shelf liquor that will be served by a coterie of people well-versed in pouring short?
And to the persons chanting and ranting about how much Burners have different social ideals than the rest of society: eat a giant bag of infected pusmonkey dicks. I’m a Burner and I consider the ten principles to be common sense rules of human living, not some set of behavioral superiority guidelines.
Seriously, people, those who are out there chanting, “Burners are sooooo evolved!” are usually the ones who are excusing the fact that they went off, humped fifteen different people in a silver dome and got a cold sore or ten.
I am an eight-year Burner, and every time some douchewad trots out “Burners do it better than you do, we’re so spiritually and environmentally and emotionally and creatively different from X, Y, and Z” I want to shove their sanctimoniously pretentious faces into their own dust-filled asses.
Burners are everywhere, and THIS Burner is having a wedding too. But he’s marrying a Burner who wants a quiet, family and friends wedding that we’re paying for. We’re asking for the gift of presence of our family and friends to share a celebration. We have photographers we’re paying very well to take pictures of us and our wedding.
We’re feeding people. We’re getting a cake. And *gasp* we also will be having Burners perform at the wedding.
And here’s the other shock – we’re not charging ANYONE. I know, crazy, right?
So to the people who are chanting, “Burner weddings are TOTALLY DIFFERENT” – seriously. Get the fuck over yourselves. Take all the behaviors you’ve seen in this thread and in the event itself and put it to the “traditional” wedding setup, and you see selfish people with a very greedy self-involved, tacky wedding.
I already made a bet that the parties involved are going to be divorced in a few months – probably AFTER they get back from Burning Man and the groom gets caught humping the leg of a transvestite from New York by the trash fence.
Being a Burner does not give you a license to act like a douchewad.
Oh, one other thing? I’d go pay $20 to act like an entitled douchewad at a wedding that the hosts were stupid enough to pass to the public realm.
I’m just shocked nobody leaked the deets to the SLOG yet.
I met a crowd of ‘Burning Man’ types once and came away thinking, “Where are those nerve gas throwing Japanese doomsday cultists when we need them?”
As for this wedding, I think the appropriate response would be to tell the B&G, to their faces, how hideously tasteless, crass, low-class and offensive their arrangements are.
People in their state generally do not take hints well, or at all. More direct communication is called for.
That, or the nerve gas..
To Malachi: May you and your intended share long years, great joy and small troubles and may your wedding NOT be the “happiest day of your life” but the first of many.
…before they could say “I do (want all my friends’ money)
LTR, that’s the best line in this entire thread. Well done. 🙂
Sorry, one more…
“And no, letting other people walk all over you
does not allow you to be an asshole at a later date. You let people take advantage of you, and it obviously bothered you, but you didn’t set limits then. But you decided that you were “owed” for your wedding. Classy.”
Minny, your entire post was a +5 Mace of Truth, but that’s the key part right there.
I’d say we’re looking at what happens when people fail to observe (or even have) a sense of personal and social boundaries. They don’t, or can’t, say “No” to others or even to themselves.
(Posted this on the slog thread as well)
I’ve been following this kerfuffle for some time now on both threads, and as a Burner must weigh in. No one objects to the theme of their wedding or the type or variety of the entertainment provided, or will, one imagines object to the undoubtedly unique self written vows they will exchange. I certainly take no issue with their culture or lifestyle, because remember, I too have seen the Man burn more than once and, as corny as it may sound, it changed my life. What is objectionable is asking people to pay for the privilege of attending a private event. And it doesn’t matter if the people asked don’t mind. That’s not the point. The point is asking for money, or gifts for that matter, from your guests is appalling. It is crass. It is insulting. Doubly so by virtue of the VIP tent, the inhabitants of which are the only true guests at this wedding. Every one else is a customer.
How different is this from having a “destination wedding” somewhere exotic where many relatives (whom the wedding couple is close with and spend time with ordinarily) can’t afford to go? I was in a resort-wedding recently (so I had to go, although I almost backed-out at the last minute) where the bride’s family owned a house, but everyone else had to pay for resort-priced rooms and food. And the festivities lasted for a week.
Maybe it’s just me, but I though it was pretty obnoxious and insensitive to force the poor friends and relative to fork over a large chunk of change to see someone they love tie the knot, just because the bride’s family is loaded.
To #197- It’s not different and the “Destination Wedding” is among the most selfish things a couple can plan when they know that the resources of the people who care about them are not without limit.
The exception is when the bridal couple and the assorted family and friends are far flung- Then it becomes reasonable to plan a wedding in a location more or less central to everyone or which features great flight and room packages (Vegas, Reno and Orlando, to name a few)but to plan a lavish “event” in an exotic locale is to try to have your cake and eat it, too (literally) by taking the best aspects of eloping while still demanding the pomp and fuss of the more traditional arrangement.
What is she going to do when she get’s knocked up? I wonder…Oh wait she can’t because she has problems with her uterus. Do you even know the bride? And yeah you have to pay $20 if you are a guest of a guest, and weren’t originally on the guest list. Meaning they don’t know who you are. Oh and anonymous, no one said you had to come.
I find it funny that IA was outraged by the pay-your-way mentality, but ‘let slide’ the B&G’s request that friends and family provide them with cash for a trip to Burningman…
The most valuable gift one could give to the B&G would be a lesson titled ‘How to earn and save YOUR OWN money like a real adult.’ It seems that they are well practiced in the mooching arts.
J242 says:
“To sum it all up, you have no right whatsoever to be offended or even speak about the event being held by complete strangers”
Alright, so talking and opinions are no longer allowed. Kinda idiotic as far as rules go, but at least J242’s belief system is internally consistent, right?
[two paragraphs later]
“I take offense to douchebags slamming good friends of mine”
Doh!
I agree with the person who said this was the best IA ever. This whole thread plus the SLOG comments just used up about 2 hours of my time. Time well spent, methinks.
I’m excited to read the Party Crasher story..God,it’s going to be great!!
A word about Destination Weddings:
A “loaded” family wanting one of these should pony up for the travel expenses for relatives and close friends… or call the whole thing off and have a normal wedding.
If you’re rich (bored, vain, pompous) enough to want your darling daughter married on Easter Island or some goddamned place and you have the wherewithal to actually make it happen, you’re certainly in a position to spring for some airplane tickets.
Yeah 201, it’s also rich that he describes other weddings as “some shitty little boring ceremony.”
Ya know, J242, people don’t go to a wedding primarily because the entertainment’s awesome. They go to support people they genuinely care about who are making a commitment to each other.