etiquette question

**SheFly** · 02-25-2009, 03:56 AM

Originally Posted by indysteel

Have I mentioned that I plan to elope?

Best idea EVER! And I've done the wedding thing both ways

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SheFly

**tulip** · 02-25-2009, 04:22 AM

Originally Posted by indysteel

Sorry for the threadjack. Married in Paris? I don't get jealous about much when it comes to weddings, but Paris is my happy place. You mentioned that you lived there. What arrondisement? Did I mention that I'm jealous?

As for the OP's shoes, I vote for red Maryjane Keens.

Yeah, it was a very nice wedding. I'm not really ready to just laugh about it and enjoy what it was. Kindof difficult to talk about still, seeing as how it all ended up.

**indysteel** · 02-25-2009, 05:33 AM

Originally Posted by tulip

Yeah, it was a very nice wedding. I'm not really ready to just laugh about it and enjoy what it was. Kindof difficult to talk about still, seeing as how it all ended up.

You've probably mentioned before that you're divorced, but I sometimes have trouble keeping everyone's back story straight. I'm sorry.....

**Aggie_Ama** · 02-25-2009, 05:43 AM

Originally Posted by CA_in_NC

Glad it got resolved. I had the same thing happen with a save the date card (won't be abbreviating that one...) - except that I really wasn't invited (no idea why), and fell totally out of contact with the couple for years. And I haven't forgotten who didn't RSVP to my (very small) wedding, either. Or who called to say he was bringing uninvited family (we had ~10 people at our wedding, cut it off at aunts and uncles, except for one....)

CA

I didn't forget the one who told my new MIL in front of me (THE BRIDE) "I am going to grab a job application, I only came to see if I can get on as a chef at this country club." My husband's cousin who his mother admitted she was hoping wouldn't come! I am sitting there thinking "Good, you can give me $30 for you plate since you are really just here to fish for a job". Her rudeness still runs through my head everytime I see her! Ay-ya-ya. I tell everyone I know to elope.

**tulip** · 02-25-2009, 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by indysteel

You've probably mentioned before that you're divorced, but I sometimes have trouble keeping everyone's back story straight. I'm sorry.....

Oh, I don't mind at all. It was Fairy Tale at the time. I did have invitations in two languages. But I won't get into the other details here. I've done that enough on these boards.

I lived just outside of Paris, but still on the Metro. It was a great place to be unemployed, if one has to be unemployed. But I lived with the MIL and that was pretty much the beginning (or the middle of the beginning) of the end of things.

Ah, but enough about me. Back to the STDs!

**Bruno28** · 02-25-2009, 09:45 AM

Just for clarity and to avoid disappointment - there is no need to 'save the date' for our forthcoming wedding.

I would so have hated to commit a wedding etiquette faux pass.

....actually we don't have a date yet but it will definitely be in May in Hawaii

I don't have shoes yet, either.

**Blueberry** · 02-25-2009, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by Bruno28

I don't have shoes yet, either.

Have a beach wedding - no shoes required

**Aint Doody** · 02-25-2009, 10:48 AM

Ditto on the beach--that's what my husband and I did--nobody wore shoes. What fun it was--Redneck Riviera, Mr. & Mrs. Silver.

**channlluv** · 02-25-2009, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by redrhodie

Oh, my...STD went right over my head.

That would be tacky.

Oh geez, me too. It still took me a few seconds after reading your post to realize there was a joke there beyond Miss Manners or someone frowning on a Save the Date card, which I'd never heard of before this thread. Ha!

Roxy

**eclectic** · 02-25-2009, 12:23 PM

Originally Posted by channlluv

Oh geez, me too. It still took me a few seconds after reading your post to realize there was a joke there beyond Miss Manners or someone frowning on a Save the Date card, which I'd never heard of before this thread. Ha!

Roxy

Took me awhile too - I thought "what is wrong with STD cards - I think they are quite considerate"

DUH - talk about non divergent thinking!

**malkin** · 02-25-2009, 12:41 PM

lol @ STD cards!
One of my volunteer duties at a clinic when I was in college was addressing cards to the 'reported contacts' of patients. "You may have been exposed to..."

**Trek420** · 02-25-2009, 01:00 PM

Now that's a whole new product line for Hallmark:

"Congratualtions! You've got ..... "

"I miss you, let's go to the free clinic together!"

"I'll never forget the night we met. And now you won't either"

**TrekTheKaty** · 02-25-2009, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by SadieKate

Here you go.

http://www.raincitystory.com/flash/screenclean.swf

Good one.

**Possegal** · 02-25-2009, 03:44 PM

STD is an abbreviation I use constantly in my job. However there, it means Severely Toxic Dose. But you should have seen the look on my face that first day when it was all STD this and STD that. I was like - what the heck did I get myself in to? I finally broke down and asked someone, who just laughed since as I've learned, it is a common mistake with new folks on the job.

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