Presents and Stuff

There's a lady going off about how impolite it is to NOT open presents at a wedding on one of my lists. I just want to smack her in the head.

After five minutes of thought, I realised why. She's blaming the COUPLE (and in one instance, punishing them by not buying a gift) because of HER insecurities about her present buying abilities.

Bitch. Deal. Move on. If you're that unsure, then either make arrangements to give it to them in person BEFORE or AFTER the wedding.

We had 99 people at our wedding. Roughly, that means we got a lot of nice presents on a day when we'd been up since 4 in the morning, spent about 8 hours in prep, got married, been emotional, had hours of photos, and then about 5 hours or so of reception. With a many course meal.

Um, *WHEN* does she think we could have fitted in a present opening for about 50 or so presents in such a manner that she would not feel slighted because her pressie only got 30 seconds??

It's HER problem she feels that worked up about it. John and I love giving our standard wedding present - a decent chef's knife - it's not necessarily something people look at and go "whoa, great!" but after they've used it once or twice, you can see the understanding grow... I have no problems with this. And we've yet to come across any one who didn't fall in love with the knife we bought them.
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Also, I have never been to a wedding where any one opened the presents that day. Every single one has had a present opening, usually the next day when every one is hung over.

Oh, and I was naughty and never quite got thethank you notes out. We bought the paper. I had the list. It just ... didn't quite happen. Sorry every one! We loved everything we got though...

*blush* and *run*

Pic du Jour

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I Get It!

Chesh and I are going out to dinner at a friend's place, and it's been a long long long time since we've seen him, and he mentioned that he will have guests from over east. So I'm trying to get a bit more dressed up than usual.

Now I understand why women go through three or four sets of clothing before an event! It's like this...

Ok, I'd like to wear a dress. Which one? I'd also like to wear matching underwear.

So, we need a dress which is either a) high cut enough to hide any glaringly obvious underwear, b) has underwear a similar colour, or c) find pretty underwear I want to show off.

So, I can wear dress A with underwear B, or perhaps Dress B, except that it's pink and if it is low cut enough to show my red and yellow bra with the red trim, it would clash, and I don't know if it low cut enough to do that, but there is Underwear C, which is a similar colour pink and is cool swirly patterns. Or what about Dress A, Underwear A, and do people prefer round boobs or pointy boobs or roundy pointy ones which would mean changing underwear...

Ok, sack cloth and ashes it is.
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PS, I've been wearing matching underwear all week! It's so cool! I love it! I rock!!

I feel kind of 1920's tonight in hair and makeup in the end

Your 1920's Name is:

Leota Mafalda

What's Your 1920's Name?