So tacky with capital T

Posted By: Benni on 2007-06-20
In Reply to: Wedding shower... - asking for $$ only...sm

I would be so offended to get an invite like this, would not care where it came from. I probably would not go and if I did, hey $$$ would to me equal 3 but I don�t even think I would show up. I got invite before from relative, had not seen nor talked with them in years, invite to wedding, threw in garbage.

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Wedding shower... - asking for $$ only...sm
- shower...(OP) - sm
  - Just out of curiosity... - PAMT~MDM
    - ummm...good question (OP) - sm
      - Well, have a granddaughter, similar situation - Sandy
        that's kind of a poor excuse (sm) - SP
        Let the other grandmother they lavish - Sandy
        That's too bad... - PAMT~MDM
- Friends of our set up their registry at Honeymoonwishes.com. Basically asking everyone to pay for h - anne
  - Ugh! When did weddings and births become fund drives? nm - Miss Manners
- How about addressing your own thank you cards! - Miss Manners
  - Our family does that. So many are out of town and addresses not readily available. (nm) - joan
    - The hostess sent invitations, and so should have addresses. sm - Miss Manners
      - Not necessarily, many phone calls may have been made. (nm) - jo
        Really? People are invited to a shower over the phone? - Miss Manners
        I have a relative who has a wealth of knowledge - Candy
        Sounds like when I got...sm - PAMT~MDM
      - Miss Manners, you got it going on! - Bren
        And that should be - Bren
- My feelings; people shacking up together for years and years - sm
- $$$ for showers - AuntieB
- Want to hear something even tackier? - sm
  - This, I think, falls under the fraud category - Bennie
- So tacky with capital T - Benni
- Copied this so it is not to "you" just some rules. - pdqtrans
  - Shower/Wedding gifts - SCMT
    - Got a tacky thank you note - Bren
- wedding shower - MNMT

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I think it's tacky (sm)
to have showers for second marriages and beyond. My MIL got married for the THIRD time three years ago and not only did she have another wedding shower, she threw it for herself in her own very large 3400 sq. ft. home! I attended but thought it was in very tacky and greedy of her!

Same here!. I don't want to be tacky, but if I am
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Tacky�NM
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Got a tacky thank you note
I went shopping for the gifts and got a printed thank you note. That is just tacky-back. If I have time to shop for a gift, you can at least send a 2 sentence thank you- hey could mention my name and what I gave also. That is how you do things.

Throwing yourself a housewarming is tacky...(sm)

Oh my.... Do NOT register for gifts. That's just so incredibly tacky. If someone asks you what they can bring you or what you'd like or where you are registered, the ONLY proper answer is to say, 'Oh no, please... We'd just like to have our (dear friends/new neighbors) over to help us celebrate our new home. Your presence is present enough!' If they bring something, then they bring something. But to register for gifts is just too tacky. A housewarming party is NOT a wedding shower!

A housewarming is for you to serve your guests food and drink as a way to show your home to your friends and meet your neighbors, not as a way to grub for gifts... which is exactly what you're doing if you're even giving ideas for gifts when someone asks! Truly, if someone asks you what to buy, you need to act horrified by the mere thought that guests to a housewarming would need to buy you something.

Okay, I just found a great link. You really need to read this. http://rebecca576.tripod.com/etiquettebyrebecca/id60.html

If someone invites me to a housewarming and then says what I suggested above, I'd certainly bring something because I was raised not to attend any sort of party without bringing a little gift for the hostess, be it a bottle of wine or a platter of brownies or a nice plant. But if someone were tacky enough to register for a housewarming? Oh no... I wouldn't even come.

She's making them buy their own dresses? TACKY!! NM
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What an extremely tacky and insensitive
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Tacky. One Word. Homeowner's insurance.
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...nm up there. Love those tacky sequined, bent out
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Very sleazy and very tacky. There are other gossips shows, but
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Is it tacky to hand someone a Christmas card...
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