"Mr and Mrs Boysfirstname Lastname request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter..." but leave your loud, snotty, stinky, trifling children AT HOME. This is perhaps my biggest pet peeve regarding weddings. Kids are not invited but the invitation is so cleverly worded I don't even realize it right away. As I highly doubt this particular family invite could have excluded children I come across the beautifully caligraphically depicted response card with tastefully cliche artwork. My options for responding are as follows:
__ Will attend with pleasure (my, my... aren't we feeling self-important?)
__ Must decline with regret ( " " " " " " " )
__ of 2 guest(s) attending
On this last line the "2" has been filled in with a sharpie. Not just a pen-- a permanent f'in marker.
I can move beyond the obnoxious choices but what I really don't understand and will never understand is how people can invite the adults only to a wedding. And this one is 6 hours away. So I am supposed to get an overnight and all day sitter so I can go to your wedding? What happened to all that family schmamily crap we shared at Christmastime? What happened to GTC busting his excel spreadsheet to try to get you Miami Tickets? You do know we have three kids, right?
I am resisting for now the urge to sharpie up the response card so it honestly reflects my intention and feeling behind that. It's the other side of the family so I'll let GTC take care of that part. I wish you well on your quiet, clean and perfect family, not family celebration.
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