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| Fri, 06-22-2007 - 12:01pm |
Ok, with all the wedding talk and what to give for gifts, I am NOW, after going to weddings for almost 20 years-lol! invited to an outdoor wedding in someone's home.
Here is the scenario:
Bride and Groom (she 22, he 36)
Living together for over 3 years
Groom-12 year old son
Bride and Groom-have a 3 year old and she is due with their 2nd in August
Wedding:
At her mother's house-catered food from restaurant
I know in other posts I said I would probably give the same as a sit down reception but we were orally invited to this wedding so I assume they are doing this just to get married before the 2nd child arrives. I have NO clue now what to do about a gift-lol!!

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many couples who lived together first have already established themselves,though - be it the house,belongings,sometimes even a kid already....i just find the lived together couple who spills out their registries,wearing the white gown and all to be a bit over the top. my opinion.
edited to add disclosure...i don't want it to appear that having the house is a bad thing before a marriage at all. the dynamic of both living there first,yes.
Edited 7/5/2007 7:32 pm ET by egd3blessed
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Just curious - what does your dd make of the wedding photos?
Joel was really confused by them for a long time. We separated when Joel was 5 weeks old, so the idea of us together has always been somewhat foreign to him. When he was really little, like 2 or so, and we were living with my parents (who had hosted our reception at their home) Joel would look at the pictures of his dad and me in that house and say, "Daddy at home??" It was really weird for him. He got more used to the idea as he got older, but I think it was always hard for him to wrap his brain around me being anywhere around, much less married to, his dad.
We didn't have a lot of wedding photos, and most of them were destroyed at my ex's house, but those I have are in an album that Joel has now. He's really the only person in the world who they'll ever be important (or even interesting!LOL) to, and he has so few reminders of his dad that I'm glad he has them.
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