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[kniedzw]

As swan_tower bemoaned, "No one is coming to our wedding!" ...which is to say that the first wave of invitations to our wedding went out, and we started getting response cards today. The first four? "Sorry, we can't attend." Note that the list our parents provided us of "must invites" is sufficiently large that, were they all to accept (which, obviously

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[kniedzw]

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[d_c_m]

"No one is coming to our wedding!"
Oh darlings the rule of thumb on wedding invitations is that 40-50% will not be there. :) Trust me. I invited 325 and 125 came. Then again, it was at Xmas time.

Fret not. This is your wedding and swan's wedding and you make it for you. The rest of us are just here to support you and be glad you are in love. :)

[nwhyte]

Also, people who know they can't come will be able to reply much more quickly than people who have to plan a journey, so I wouldn't despair...

[kniedzw]

Oh, we're not really worried. All four were from folks that we'd expected wouldn't be able to make it but who really needed to be invited. It was just an amusing quote. Despair is unlikely. :)

[kniedzw]

Heh. We're fine, really. As I commented to nhw, we aren't despairing. It was just an amusing quote to take out of context. :)

[schenker28]

Wedding cake tasting?!? Is that like wine tasting, but with wedding cake?

And does one have to be engaged in order to attend such an event? Or can I drop by Mama's Little Wedding Cake Bakery on Saturday afternoons for free wedding cake tastings?

[kniedzw]

Generally speaking, the assumption is that you're actually in the market for wedding cakes, but yes. You basically just call up the bakery in question, ask to set up a tasting session, and show up, generally with your fiancé. Saturday afternoons, for the record, are generally not doable, since most such bakeries have deliveries for the Saturday afternoon and evening weddings, as Saturday is the big wedding day most weeks.

...but yeah. You just sort of show up, and they offer you slices of cake of various sorts, often with various types of fillings and such. I probably had about five or six good-sized slice-equivalents of cake that day.

[oddsboy]

I could get ya people. Lots of people. Homeless people. Cat people. Dolphin people. Iguana people. I mean, I'm not saying I'd, like, unlock all the animal cages at the zoo and then attempt to get them into tuxes... I will need complete control of the zoo's security system, though, it's keys, $500 and at least three martinis.

-RC

[gollumgollum]

It's amazing to me how much politics is involved in wedding invitations. My sister's currently going through the same thing (with the added wrinkle of "75 people in your family will show up either way because they live on the island, so we have to at least invite the equivalent of your fiance's family" which is turning into spending 4 hours getting 225 people from shore to the island for a 30 minute wedding). My sister and her fiance also have the list of Have To Invites, some of which they agree with, some of which they don't, but their parents (and grandparents, in our case) are pretty firm on this.

And i totally understand the bind that you two and my sister and her fiancee are in. Which is why i'm getting married in Katmandu. (;