I need to vent....

[Spyder]

lloyd mayflower Wrote:

Fitz Wrote:I'm sure I vented about this over at FH.

But it's happened again, a second time now. Another wedding I didn't get invited to, but got invited to the engagement party, got them a gift and everything. But this non-invite surprised me a little more than the last one.
I bumped into them 3 days ago, and the girlfriend was real coy, she didn't say anything and was just looking down at her phone (I didn't know at this point).
I'm not best buddies with him or anything, and I did go to school with her. But I was expecting an invite to this one.

Not this Saturday, but the following. I have a bucks party and it's a joint bucks party. I am obviously invited to the wedding of my mates for this bucks party, but the joint party is also with the other groom that I didn't get an invite from.

I'm fucking sick of cunts these days having engagement parties, expect presents (and get them). Set themselves up, and then don't invite people to a wedding. It's a very ratty and slippery thing to do.

I wish them the worst and hope they get a divorce. That will really hurt them considering they have been childhood sweethearts since they were 14-15.

The non-invite isn't what bothers me. It's the non-invite when you get invited to an engagement and have to get people a present, when you're not going to get invited to the big day.

I'm taking a stance. I am going to show up to engagements empty handed from now on. No fucker is getting anymore gifts. They can fucking wait until they tie the knot. I will only get engagement presents for a very best mate. But from now on. No more.

Engagement parties on the whole are bullshit. Just a way to get presents. I totally disagree with them, and moreso if people are usong them to get.gifts.from people they dont intend to invite to the wedding. If you want to celebrate your engagement with friends fine, go to the fucking pub

Engagement parties are less formal than the wedding, and you're right they are all about presents. Fitz, maybe they wanted to include you but didn't think that you'd clean up enough for the wedding itself. So they decided to invite you to the engagement party, rather than leaving you out completely.