Bride Audit

I used to work as a photographer taking photos of people in Reception Houses. So I'd see a lot of Wedding Parties. I hate to say it but there are people out there who do think like that. Maybe not to the level of "sending out invoices" but the mentality is still there

They have these little mini'kiosks (for lack of a better term) at Walmarts, where you can enter in a bridal registry under your name with choice of patterns and whatnot... I'm currently registered under the monikers: "Joe Mama" and "Jeff Adda"...accessible from any Wally's, if they haven't cleared it... I chose the country duckies pattern, just in case you're buying me anything

Well, technically, isn't sending a card with "We're registered at" just like this??? Short of an invoice, thats what those little cards do.

I want the shirt...Shut the #uck up about your wedding.

It reminds me of this article: http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article_sup.php?news_id=42091

Here's the opening: "American couples are meeting the spiralling costs of weddings by asking their friends and guests for money. Crystal, toasters and other gifts are being shunned in favour of a bare-faced appeal for cash. 'We are happy to invite you to our wedding. PS: Please bring your cheque book,' said one invitation..."

I didn't have the disclaimer on there at first...but then I kept getting emails from easily-offended people, or possibly mental patients (the spelling was usually pretty bad), who didn't get that it was a joke. And I found them tiresome so I put the disclaimer on there. It's very sad, really.

This is no different in principle from brides and grooms being "registered" with various merchants. Essentially, they're sending demands for gifts to their friends, relatives, and acquaintances.
If you ever see me doing this, please beat me senseless with a toaster.

I have a nephew who got married to a well established young woman last Summer. No, they weren't tacky enough to ask for money. They each had their own house, fully furnished, equipped well, and paid off. So, instead , they registered with J.C.Penney for a gift selection. We visited the nearby Mall and looked up their registry, with the intent of purchasing a gift. They had selected towels, tableware, etc., that all had the most grotesque 'palm tree' theme we had ever seen. And *way* too pricey for the ugliness thereof. Instead, we stopped by a vendor on the way to the wedding, and bought them a lucite cube on a lighted stand, laser-etched on the inside with a depiction of a bride and groom kissing on a beach - under a palm tree. They *love* it - it's in the center of their coffee table. Best $20 gift I ever bought.

" ... and bought them a lucite cube on a lighted stand, laser-etched on the inside with a depiction of a bride and groom kissing on a beach - under a palm tree. They *love* it ..."

For their anniversary, give 'em a painting of a bullfighter on black velvet-- no, a painting on black velvet of an Elvis impersonator fighting a bull, with a hula dancer in the background. :wow:

Elvis impersonating a matador while playing poker with a dog, a jaguar, and a unicorn with hula dancers ringing the table and a 3D Jesus in the background. On velvet.