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Stolen from Ettiquette Hell
Malignant Thank Yous
by admin on February 24, 2011
A year or two ago, my husband and I were invited to our neighbor’s son’s wedding. This neighbor also happened to be one of my husband’s work supervisors. We bought a nice gift from their registry and brought it with us to the reception. Yes, I know it’s proper ettiquette to ship it before the wedding, but in our area, all the gift are brought to the reception.
During the wedding, I notice a message from the bride and groom on the back of the program. Basically it said, “We have many friends and family whose lives have been touched by cancer. In honor of those friends and family, we will be foregoing sending thank you notes and donating the cost of thank you notes and postage to the American Cancer Society.” We saw a sign with this same message on the gift table.
So basically, for approximately 250 people at the wedding, they are donating less than $100 to the American Cancer Society and using it as a way to get out of writing thank you notes! Of course, if anybody had not been able to come to the wedding and shipped their gifts, they would not have received any acknowledgement and would not have known the lame excuse that the couple was using to not write thank you notes.
If the groom had not been the son of my husband’s supervisor, we probably would have left the gift in the car and written in the card, “We are so happy that you support such a wonderful organization. In honor of your support and your nuptials, we have made a donation in your name to the American Cancer Society.” 0221-11
http://www.etiquettehell.com/
Malignant Thank Yous
by admin on February 24, 2011
A year or two ago, my husband and I were invited to our neighbor’s son’s wedding. This neighbor also happened to be one of my husband’s work supervisors. We bought a nice gift from their registry and brought it with us to the reception. Yes, I know it’s proper ettiquette to ship it before the wedding, but in our area, all the gift are brought to the reception.
During the wedding, I notice a message from the bride and groom on the back of the program. Basically it said, “We have many friends and family whose lives have been touched by cancer. In honor of those friends and family, we will be foregoing sending thank you notes and donating the cost of thank you notes and postage to the American Cancer Society.” We saw a sign with this same message on the gift table.
So basically, for approximately 250 people at the wedding, they are donating less than $100 to the American Cancer Society and using it as a way to get out of writing thank you notes! Of course, if anybody had not been able to come to the wedding and shipped their gifts, they would not have received any acknowledgement and would not have known the lame excuse that the couple was using to not write thank you notes.
If the groom had not been the son of my husband’s supervisor, we probably would have left the gift in the car and written in the card, “We are so happy that you support such a wonderful organization. In honor of your support and your nuptials, we have made a donation in your name to the American Cancer Society.” 0221-11
http://www.etiquettehell.com/
