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It seems to me that a lot of etiquette is predicated on the idea that people don't actually mean what they say.
To me, if I said, along with the invitation "If you want to get us a gift, we're registered at..." I'd actually mean that and not "You better get us a gift, you cheap skinflints." I'd be providing information to people who wanted use it, which, although we're somehow supposed to pretend that there's not a strong societal expectation of bringing gifts to a wedding, I'm well aware would be the vast majority of people coming to the wedding.
However, instead of including a piece of paper with that information, we included one that had, among other things, a link to our wedding website, which had a page dedicated to our registries.
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Of course, if I had my way, most of my friends would have gotten an eVite to the wedding instead of an elaborate invitation that they opened, looked at and then put aside, and promptly lost. The people that the paper invitation is important to would have gotten one, but electronic communication offers so many benefits here in comparison.
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