Roll Call Thread......

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Roll Call Thread......
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Thu, 04-02-2009 - 4:49pm

There are a lot of new posters out there and some old faces, lets all introduce ourselves again...


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Registered: 02-22-2007
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 2:07pm
The ceremony and reception were at the same venue.

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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?

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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?
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Registered: 01-15-2006
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 2:08pm

yes.

 

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 2:11pm
I had two uninvited guests at my wedding, too. It was a little odd. One of the wedding guests, my aunt, called and said that she was having some health problems and wanted to know if she could bring along the daughter of one of her friends, who was an LPN. My aunt was a non-compliant diabetic, so I thought this might be a good idea and said yes. Our wedding was a weekend thing, and we paid for all of our guests to fly in and for their meals and lodging over the course of the weekend, and I kind of expected my aunt to say that she would pay to bring the nurse, but she didn't. But OK, no problem, Auntie needs the nurse and I love auntie, and her granddaughter going to be in the wedding, so no problem. But then the weekend of the wedding, I get there and not only is the nurse there, but also the nurse's daughter, who was about eleven. And I had thought the nurse was going to room with my aunt, but no, they got their own room. So we ended up paying for the airfare and the room and meals of two strangers. And to this day whenever I look at the wedding pictures, it's like, here are the forty guests, and here are the nurse, whose name might have been Susan, and here's the little girl....I can't remember her name. Makes a great story twenty years later, but still.....
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Registered: 04-20-2009
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 2:12pm
Ahhh, now you claim there is an invitation. Whereas for the last couple hundred posts you have been saying it is normal for anyone & everyone who just happens to know about a wedding and wants to go, can show up for the ceremony, whether they have an invitation or not.
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Registered: 01-15-2006
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 2:13pm

both of my brothers' had very formal,adult only weddings.

 

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 2:14pm

The bride and groom do not put an "Announcement" in the church newsletter if they are inviting the congregation. They put in an "invitation." Wedding Announcements are usually put in the newsletter the week AFTER the wedding, to let the congregation know that the marriage has taken place.

How would people "tell you that no one but the people invited to the reception are invited to the ceremony" if they had no clue you were intending to come to the ceremony? Here, the invitation to the ceremony is what tells you you are invited. If you don't get one of those, you know you are not invited.

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Registered: 02-05-2009
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 2:17pm

An pre-wedding announcement published in the paper usually does not have a time -- and sometimes not even a cermony location -- in it, ime.

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Registered: 01-15-2006
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 2:18pm

I have honestly not heard of it being OK for just anyone to wander into a wedding ceremony, no.


 

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 2:21pm

I have been to as many Catholic wedding masses as I've been invited to....I don't know, maybe twelve or fifteen in the last twenty years? And no, no one searched me at the door to see if I had an invitation, it was just assumed that everyone there was there because either they had been invited to be there. I wouldn't presume to just show up at someone's wedding uninvited.

On the other hand, sometimes I asked people if they were going to so-and-so's (Catholic) wedding, and they said they weren't because they weren't invited.

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Registered: 02-05-2009
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 2:21pm

Dh and I had a "crasher" too, but it wasn't a big deal.

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