£700 for invites and a website?! Like dude, I can buy a pack of invites for £20. I single-handedly made my brother's wedding website by myself and not only was that cost a 2-digit figure, that figure started with a 1! Including hosting!
And yes, I did notice you changed the colour of the text slightly so that it's no longer a "golden copper" but what I would call "diarrhea stomach medicine brown copper". Which you changed because you think green and gold is "so overdone".
No. Paypal doesn't need 2 capital P letters. Type it however you want. Adding the capitals is just free advertising. Treat it like a normal name.
No, I will not shoot one of the alpacas so we can afford the invites. Ha ha ha. So funny.
What do you mean we don't have time to think about it? We don't need them for another 3 months! Pressuring us to go with your crazy high quote right now will result in me saying, "no, thanks, we'll go with this cheap shit from Etsy" just to piss you off.
(Reader, I did actually say that if he wouldn't give us time to consider the quote that I would outright say no right then and there. I will not be fucking pressured. He was not happy.)
If we paid for these (which we're not) it would currently be the most expensive thing in the wedding besides the venue.
For things I could have done, and wanted to do, by myself! But hey, you offered, I figured you wanted to be part of the wedding and not just fleecing a customer.
Why the fuck have we got a bespoke website hand built from scratch? We're not a company with a new product. It doesn't need to be unique and innovative and catch the eye of unsuspecting punters. It just needs our names, a date, a time and an address. We're not here to make money off of our guests by claiming commission on photography.
Just wtf.
Also, please stop capitalising Wedding Day. In some circumstances I'm sure it's fine but I hate it. Welcome to our special Day.
No. No capitals.
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But did I say any of this? Mostly no. Mostly I stayed quiet and tried to diplomatically say we'll think about it. Then came home raging.
Work was eventful too and I went straight from there into our client meeting, I mean, visit to the groom's parents.
Now I'm restless and wide awake and not sure how to process any of this.
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@miffyhelen I support all of your thinking here. Very reasonable, IMHO. #Justsayin
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@abominabledrh ahhh yes please! Thank you :annoyingdog:
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@miffyhelen Your rant is justified. Weddings do not need to be expensive to be awesome. We wed at a town hall and rented a Chinese restaurant for $1,000. We had no rings and still have none, yet the vows have held. I only remember bits of it due to social anxiety and various substances I used to deal with that. Please don't shoot an alpaca for a day that, beautiful or not, will fade and be replaced by better memories. Best wishes!
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@miffyhelen save yourself some more money and don't send him an invite!
I suspect you could probably get the alpacas to deliver the invites for less than his quote. Hope tea and thoughts of fluffy alpacas have improved your evening.
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@teapot_ben @miffyhelen I got my invitations (back when I was getting into a shitty marriage that was a bad idea but it's fixed now) from a designer on Etsy and just printed them off myself. They even had Gallifreyian and the TARDIS on them. Supported an indie designer and saved a TON of money.
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@miffyhelen spend on things that bring you joy but honestly, save where you can on everything else.
Nobody will remember the invites and the day goes by SO fast you’ll barely remember anything else either so just do what makes you happy.
We designed our invites together and I got them from vistaprint for like £30. We spent less than £1000 total for everything and everyone thought our wedding was amazing.
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@miffyhelen And tell people who think weddings cost £££, especially if they’re trying to sell their own product, to stick it where the sun doesn’t shine. Including in-laws.
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@Troggie I still hold rage for those fuckers at the boat club who bumped the price by like 250% when we let slip it was a wedding. Fair play though, it ended up being even better, so I guess they did us a favour. @miffyhelen
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@DJDarren @Troggie the people doing our suits said their friend booked a venue as a "celebration of life". When it got to the day the staff discovered they were setting up for a wedding so the next day the couple got an extra invoice for £3000.
Because "wedding".
The services provided were identical but because it was a wedding they demanded more.
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@miffyhelen rant away my love, it’s good for the soul.
Standard businesses adding the wedding tax to things fucks me off but this seems even worse.
We did as much ourselves as possible and people still tell us, almost 13 years later, that it was one of the best weddings they’d been to. So do whatever makes you happy. That is, after all, the point.
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