Taking the c-l out of "classy"

Last night I got an email from a Right-Thinking Friend who also designs invitations (not Cicada). This is what my horrified RTF wrote, while still in the throes of horror:

A friend wants me to do her sister's wedding invites and thank-you cards. The instructions are "really classy, they want everything to be very elegant and classy, white lilies, very very classy . . ." To go along with this theme, they want a photo card thank-you with a picture of the couple in their wedding attire. They will then leave a stack of these cards on the gift table and guests can just pick one up and feel thanked.

People.

People.

I was actually joking about this exact sort of thing yesterday afternoon with GF and his sisters. GF realized for the first time that we would be expected to write individual thank-yous to the people who give us gifts and promptly went into a coma. And, with not a little bit of relish, I informed his inert self that the groom gets to write the thank-yous to his own side of the family (which is about 12.7 times larger than my side). Then I laughed oh so evilly. So we were joking about the white-trash alternatives, like form letters that you fill in and stamp with a signature, or writing "thank you" on the wedding favors and calling it good, or leaving blank thank-you cards on the gift table.

So imagine how awesome it was to learn, not 5 hours later, about someone who is actually doing that and actually thinks it's okay and thinks that a wedding with such a thing can still be considered a classy affair.

Because guess what. Something like that? That completely negates the thank-you. It really does. It's pretty much akin to the bride throwing this "very very classy" wedding and then very, very classily climbing up on the gift table, taking a dump on it, and passing out plastic sporks for people to take a bit home.

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