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Apparently I don't have the correct e-mail for at least one of the cousins. My message to her bounced. I'll have to search my old messages from her, or else use snail mail to get them the hotel information. We also realized these cousins have young children. While there won't be many around, there are a few who might come. The venue offers kid meals, chicken fingers and fries, at $20 each. We're not sure if that's instead of the regular per head count or in addition to. Whichever it is, we need a count for how many we'll need.

One of the maid of honor's tasks involves one of the other relatives who did get my hotel e-mail. She's an aunt who is a very nice person, but who has a habit of asking rather personal and impertinent questions, then going off on a tangent about her own issues. Talking with her is best in short bursts. The maid of honor will be given a photo of her and one of her daughters, who is of a similar bent. If MoH sees either of these women chatting with BD, she is to come over and say BD needs to attend to something else.

BTW, don't expect a blog entry tomorrow. (Hey, stop that cheering!) The "procedure" is around 1 PM, and I don't expect to be capable of rational thought for the rest of the day. (Okay, who said it's because they're working around the area of my brain?? )

gsabc wrote:The venue offers kid meals, chicken fingers and fries, at $20 each. We're not sure if that's instead of the regular per head count or in addition to.

The mind boggles!

MarleysGh0st wrote:

gsabc wrote:The venue offers kid meals, chicken fingers and fries, at $20 each. We're not sure if that's instead of the regular per head count or in addition to.

The mind boggles!

Yeah. Reminds me of an old joke, about the 7-year-old being taken to his first fancy restaurant. He proclaims loudly and often in the days before the event that he's going to order something he's never tried before. The family arrives, settles in, looks over the menu. The kid orders a hamburger.

Mom says, "I thought you were going to order something new."

Kid says, "I did. I've never had a $9.95 hamburger before."

Good luck......I hope they don't find anything unusual.....

Good luck with your procedure!

I ask this cautiously, since I may well be old-fashioned and out-of-touch, but isn't it considered bad form to show up at a wedding with children -- especially little ones -- who haven't specifically been invited?

silvercamaro wrote:I ask this cautiously, since I may well be old-fashioned and out-of-touch, but isn't it considered bad form to show up at a wedding with children -- especially little ones -- who haven't specifically been invited?

It's bad form, but people do it all of the time.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:

silvercamaro wrote:I ask this cautiously, since I may well be old-fashioned and out-of-touch, but isn't it considered bad form to show up at a wedding with children -- especially little ones -- who haven't specifically been invited?

It's bad form, but people do it all of the time.

There was no intention of leaving them out. The youngest is at least five and probably older; I have enough trouble keeping track of how old MINE are, let alone someone else's. I don't see their parents often enough, so we can deal with the kids.

One of the station setups will be Italian, with farfalle and marinara sauce. If there's an unexpected kid, that should be good enough for their dinner. They could also load up on the mini-cheeseburgers with the tangy tomato dipping sauce.

gsabc wrote:

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:

silvercamaro wrote:I ask this cautiously, since I may well be old-fashioned and out-of-touch, but isn't it considered bad form to show up at a wedding with children -- especially little ones -- who haven't specifically been invited?

It's bad form, but people do it all of the time.

There was no intention of leaving them out. The youngest is at least five and probably older; I have enough trouble keeping track of how old MINE are, let alone someone else's. I don't see their parents often enough, so we can deal with the kids.

One of the station setups will be Italian, with farfalle and marinara sauce. If there's an unexpected kid, that should be good enough for their dinner. They could also load up on the mini-cheeseburgers with the tangy tomato dipping sauce.

Is this a gourmet term for catsup?

On the morning of my wedding, the neighbor knida informed me that she was bringing her 5 year old son to the ceremony (it was in our widlflower meadow on the property) and would then walk him home and come back for the party.

Yes - that really happened.

Given I have balls, I told her that we had talked about inviting children and decided that we wanted it to be adults only - not just for us but also for the enjoyment of our other guests.

And

The MoH's job sounds a bit like that Mad About You episode where Jamie and Paul had a signal when they wanted to be rescued and Jamie told a guy that signal and then that guy was talking to Paul and Paul gave Jamie that signal.

It was funny then.

silvercamaro wrote:I ask this cautiously, since I may well be old-fashioned and out-of-touch, but isn't it considered bad form to show up at a wedding with children -- especially little ones -- who haven't specifically been invited?

I took it that BD and FSIL were inviting the kids (Mr. & Mrs. Johnson & family).

Although, as fancy as this reception is sounding, it might be a better idea to have a separate area with some "babysitters" for the kids.

I also do not think that I would worry about the obnoxious aunt ans cousin. If my wedding was nay example, BD will not have that much time to converse with any one guest. Her preference will be to hang with her close friends. The only time that a guest should expect that they will be able to talk to the bride or groom is in the receiving line (either at the church/wherever or at the reception.)

Anyway, the best part of having our reception taped (DJ had a couple stationary cameras to just capture the reception as part of his fee) was we could see who was at the reception after the fact. People were a blur.

Rexer25 wrote:Is this a gourmet term for catsup?

Oh, no, no, no! It's much more expens---err, elegant than catsup!

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Rexer25 wrote:Is this a gourmet term for catsup?

Oh, no, no, no! It's much more expens---err, elegant than catsup!

Zactly. The term has become a joke catchphrase in the family. What makes it funnier is that BD does not like ketchup. At all. Will not touch it. Her college roomies offered her money to have some. Did not have it.

So we're saying "Excuse me, do you have any tangy tomato dipping sauce?" (we don't have Grey Poupon), or "Please pass the tangy tomato dipping sauce." Maybe I'll start a ketchup business, call it "Tangy Tomato Dipping Sauce", and sell it in small jars with fancy labels for big bucks.