Just went out to get my mail, and I got an invite to a wedding reception. Brooke and Darcy are the bride and groom, but I really don’t know which one is the bride and which one is the groom. I do know the bride’s father, but thankfully not very well, as I don’t like him very much. I have never met his wife. I know two of his three sons but not very well. I didn’t even know he had a daughter.
I guess it is possible that I know the groom’s parents, but it is a mystery to me who they might be. None of my friends has a kid named Brooke or Darcy (at least that I know of).
Its kind of late now on Sat Night to investigate, I will find out more tomorrow.
Mundane, yep Pointless Yep, and I must share my bewilderment.
i considered that, or even both the groom, but there is no way the “father” would be financing that kind of wedding. Not in this small town, not in the Bible belt in the midwest.
How can you know that you know the bride’s father without knowing which one is the bride? Or that it is indeed the bride that your friend has fathered? Oh wait, you assumed that it was the bride’s father because his name was on the invitation?
If you know the bride’s father’s last name, wouldn’t the bride’s last name be the one on the invitation, then you’d know who the bride was or at the very least, you’d know the guy was the groom that didn’t have the same last name?
Did they not have last names on the invitation?
Well… if they were traditionally minded the wedding invitations might have said Mr and Mrs [Father] cordially invites you to the wedding of [Daughter] to [Future SIL].*
If it was in this style and he doesn’t recognize the name, I’d say they know the father of the groom then…
*This is how my friend’s wedding invitations are. The return address and rsvp envelopes are also addressed to her father.
I work in a print shop. Many of the wedding invitations that we print are set-up in this way:
Mr. & Mrs. A Surname and Mr. & Mrs. B Surname
Cordially invite, bla bla bla wedding
of their children First Name A and First Name B
on such a date,
yadda, yadda, yadda.
Ambiguity has proven to be socially acceptable, I suppose.
Not to be snarky, but was it addressed to you? I’ve had moments where I’ve just opened the mail without checking and found that something addressed to someone else ended up in my mailbox.
If that’s not the case, it sounds like a gift grab to me. But I’m cynical that way.
Years ago we got one that had us scratching our heads. After several minutes my husband said “oh, that’s probably Skip’s first name!” He has one of those friends that has always been known by one of those unrelated nicknames…not even sure he’d know what his legal name was until that moment.
Mr. & Mrs. Dad & Mom Lastname
Cordially invite, blah blah, blah, wedding
Of their daughter
EJsGirl’s full legal name
to
EJ’s full legal name
Where, when, etc.
This is the invitation with bolded names and places changed to protect the innocent:
Archie and Edith Bunker
invite you to the reception
following a private ceremony
uniting
Brooke
and
Darcy
in Holy Matrimony
Saturday, December 27th, 2008
at 6:00 in the evening Rockefeller Center
New York City, New York
I know Archie (but not very well) and I also know that he has three sons, two which I know only slightly better than the father. I know all of the sons names.
I have never met Edith. I didn’t know that they have a daughter, and I can only assume her name is Brooke and she is marrying some guy named Darcy.
As I was typing this, I just found out the rest of the story and will post it shortly.
Brooke is indeed the daughter of Archie and Edith and is marrying a guy named Darcy.
Brooke was (is?) a beautiful young girl who was in a tragic car accident while in high school which left her crippled and partially paralyzed and in a wheel chair. She is marrying a guy (Darcy) that is also in a wheel-chair. They both lead quiet lives.
From what my buddy said, they are both as happy as can be and deeply love each other.
The reception is at a private country club in which Archie and me both belong. Apparently, everyone at the club was sent an invitation.
This actually turned out to be a sweet inspiring thread.
And from the OP title, I expected an invitation like the one gotten by Bear_Nenno for a cousin’s wedding a few years ago. The thread was hilarious but neither sweet nor inspiring.
