Last rant from a groom...I promise :)

[firstbase32]

So today we spent the ENTIRE day decorating our reception hall. It''s pretty much going to be an awesome party. The only thing....my fiancee chose the colors...we had agreed to incorporate the beach and my favorite team of the Cubs into the rehersal...upon completing the decorating I noticed that everythign in the room was purple and pink (mostly pink) and that the only Cubs thing is my grooms cake...I''m completely fine with it..but it''s going to be obvious that she picked the colors haha.

Another thing that is really upseting me is that we sent out 260 invites and we got 140 back and now a bunch of the people who we expected to be there are not coming because other stuff is popping up. It''s just insane that some people that we expect to respond and come aren''t responding at all and that the people we expected to come no matter what are saying other things are more important. It just sucks becuase we could have taken off and spent the same amount of money and went to Jamaica or somewhere awesome and got married instead.

Another thing...I''m a cheater...I keep looking at the registry and it''s really frustrating. Pretty much the only stuff bought is the stuff that was given at the bridal showers...do you think that you would be frustrated? We''re both college students and have NOTHING to fill a house and people haven''t bought anything. I know some people probably haven''t taken it off the list or forgot or something but still...I''m freaking out. Also along the same lines...we registred for these storage containers...and we had received them at a bridal shower and we only requested 1 set...I checked it the other dya and someone bought us the EXACT same thing so now instead of 1 set of each of the 2 storage containers we now have 2 sets of each...there''s tons of other stuff on the registry..why would someone do that!??!

*sigh*
Thanks for allowing me to randomly hop on here and vent...it''s been fun...I''m not sure how much I''ll be on here again before the wedding...so I''ll see you guys in a week or two when we get back from Mexico


P.S. I''m really glad we changed our honeymoon from South Carolina haha...now they''re havinga tropical storm...Mexico is looking MUCH better now

 

[Gypsy]

Oh... keep the rants coming. You need a place to vent and it provides us with nice prospective.

I''m sorry about all the pink and purple. At least you''ve got the grooms cake. Still... it would have been nice to get some warning, right?

It is unbelievable now inconsiderate people are with invitations! I''m sorry!

As for the gifts... maybe they just decided to give you all cash at the wedding???

That would make it all okay right?

ENJOY MEXICO. And don''t forget the pictures!!!!!!! Even though you are groom... WE NEED PICTURES!


CONGRATS!!

 

[zoebartlett]

I can''t wait to hear all about the wedding and honeymoon when you get back. Congrats on your big day!!

As far as the registry stuff goes, maybe people chose not to buy "random" gifts because they''re aware of your financial situation and are planning on giving $ instead. It''s tricky because you need stuff but most people could also use the money as well. Maybe guests are thinking that if they give money, you can decide how to use it -- either to buy stuff you registered for or use it for other things. It''s kind of a slippery slope though. A registry is basically just a wish list and you (not YOU but the general ''you'') can''t expect people to purchase from them if guests have other ideas. I''d try not to be frustrated with the registry. Let it go for now and you and you FI can fill in the gaps if you want to later.

When my sister got married, she was surprised at the amount of people who just decided to bring people who weren''t invited. One guy, a coworker of my mom''s, decided to bring his daughter, who had not been invited. Um, okay. Why? Neither my sister (nor our mom) knew this girl. Did they not think that my sister and her FI at the time hadn''t gone through the thought process when it came to their guest list? I''m sorry to hear you''re having troubles with guests at this point.