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08'er wants your opinion ladies...UPDATED QUESTION

Original post by Dalia

ok so at my wedding I invited this family of 5 +1 fiance (a dad, mom, 3 daughters and her finace). They RSVP'ed NO becasue they were going to be on vacation... fine. Great. Considering we knew this family for 25 years and we are familly friends dont you think they should have sent a gift, a card, something?!? ESPECIALLY becasue they know their daughters wedding is coming up right after and they expect us to be generous?! Any thoughts?.....

ALSO...
Now, that daughter is getting married and she invited my husband and I, and an invite for my parents too. SInce I got married my family is just now my two parents AND two brothers. My parents invite was adressed to Mr.& Mrs. ____ and Peter (my 1st brother). My parents were so confused as to why my other brother's name wasnt on the invite so they havent sent out the RSVP yet.

So this girl sends me a message on facebook saying do you know where your parents RSVP is?

I sent her a messege back saying they didnt see michal's name so they were confused.

she's like oh no, I know you have another brother but we cant invite everyone becasue we are inviting 300 people and thats our limit, we had to cut out certain people and we did this to other families too because we want as many families as possible!!!!?????????????? HOW DOES THIS EVEN MAKE SENSE??? I never heard of inviting HALF a family, ESPECAILLY since i invited her WHOLE family (6 people) AND her fiancee who I dont even know but I invited him becasue i thought it was appropriate.

Am I wrong ladies? I wanted to know your opinions becasue maybe its just my culture who is very against this? DId you guys ever hear of this.. inviting half the family???

I am just so offended...between them not giving us anything at our wedding and now this... I am on FIRE!!!!

THIS IS THE EXACT CONVERSATION IF YOUR INTERESTED:

1:00pmMary
dalia do you know if your parents and peter are coming to the wedding? i dont think i got a response from them

1:00pmDalia
i dont know if you know but i have another brother lol

michael.. he is really quiet thats why maybe you dont know him.. he's 19

1:02pmMary
lol no i do know michael... i wish i could have everyone at the reception i really do...but its been so hard

the hall only holds up to 300 people and we had more than that on the guest list so we had to eliminate...you know how it is

we had to make our parents eliminate and we had to elminate...but we also wanted to include everyone as many as we can


1:10pmDalia
hmm, i understand where your coming from in terms of having a small room and too many people, I was in the same position as you.. but i didnt invite half of any families, I either invited the entire family or not... in any case they didnt send the RSVP becasue they were confused about that point... now that its cleared up I dont think they will be able to make it becasue its not right for everyone to go and leave michael home alone

1:17pmMary
im sorry that they feel that way...i would have loved to have them there. we invited as many people as we could, and we actually had to do that with a lot of families so we could have as many families as possible. if they do decide to come that would be great, but if not i understand.

1:24pmDalia
ok mary, thanks for clearing that up. You should be recieving the RSVP soon

1:44pmMary is offline.

********************************************************************UPDATED QUESTION: I'm filling out my mothers RSVP... Should I just check off 'will not attend' and leave it at that... or should I write a little sentence like 'wish we could have ALL been there'???
gina409 Posted:

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Posted by coldasice217

That is beyond effed up. If anything, they shouldn't have invited either of your brothers, to invite one and not the other is absurd. I would say no for yourself and your husband, and hope that your parents and one brother say no as well, and do not send a gift. That's ridiculous.



took the words outta my mouth ali
flairforfashion Posted:

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Def screwed up! I have a cousin who picks and choose cousins to invite. She will invite me and not my other Sisters. Talk about F'd up!

las1 Posted:

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That's horrible. And they did not give you a gift? I would not go.

Gracie821 Posted:

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Posted by coldasice217

That is beyond effed up. If anything, they shouldn't have invited either of your brothers, to invite one and not the other is absurd. I would say no for yourself and your husband, and hope that your parents and one brother say no as well, and do not send a gift. That's ridiculous.



ITA!
Dalia Posted:

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Posted by las1

That's horrible. And they did not give you a gift? I would not go.




Nope, no gift. Not even a empty card!

I was so hurt at that point and now this just makes it WORSE!

I feel like a FOOL, I even went to her shower and was very generous!
Dalia Posted:

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Posted by ace730

Ok, just to play devil's advocate, we had to make the cut list somewhere because our hall is small so we decided that we were not going to be able to invite anyone under 21. So yes sometimes we did invite half of a family due to our cut off. However, everyone knew the circumstances and they were understanding. I wonder if they are doing the same thing???????



ok, i get what youre saying but at least you made it GENERAL FOR EVERYONE.. 21 and under. This girl is picking and choosing specific people in the family to invite and cut out.. i think thats just ugly!

plus to quote from a poster on here.... 'We had to draw the line somewhere with our guest list....but not right through a family!'

pandafish519 Posted:

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that makes absolutely NO SENSE! it ***** that you already RSVPed. i would tell your parents to RSVP NO and not send anything. that is UNREAL! what are people thinking!?!?!?
dazies1011 Posted:

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All I know is that I wouldnt attend and I would hope your parents wouldnt either.

KittyGags Posted:

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You should just no show to the wedding or call day of and cancel. That'll teach her

Seriously I hate the people who cancel day of but this girl is in major need of an attitude adjustment. How about just inviting the parents???????
nraboni Posted:

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My advice to your parents would be to respond no or respond that only they are going. If your parents respond no to the wedding then you should call her or send her an email telling her that you and your husband have to change your RSVP to a no. I wouldn't just not show up because I think about my wedding day and if people were to rsvp yes and not show up I would be sooo pissed.

FutureMrsM Posted:

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Wow! now I've seen it all... In my opinion if they couldn't invite both brothers they should have only invited your parents, people would understand that, not oh sorry michael, we're all going but you weren't invited... Honestly, if it were me I wouldn't go and since they didn't send you anything, I wouldn't bother to send a gift either... If I was a more tolerable person and they were good friends of mine, then if I was you're parents and they wanted to go, I would RSVP for just the two of them and decline for your brother that was invited.

Juhgail Posted:

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Want to piss her off?

If the RSVP's ae going to mommy and daddy's house.. (and not the bride)

your parents should RSVP for all 4 of them!!!!!
Dalia Posted:

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Posted by Juhgail

Want to piss her off?

If the RSVP's ae going to mommy and daddy's house.. (and not the bride)

your parents should RSVP for all 4 of them!!!!!



I know what you mean.. I wish that my mom just played dumb and sent the RSVP for 4 before this girl questioned me about it.

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