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You wish.
You've got wednes on you.
In other news, these Adult Swim marathons all week have been positively scrumtralescent.
So is the lemon soda I'm drinking...fucking delicious.
Bridezillas is the most hilarious reality show EVAR.
Can you beleive I'm still not done making hats? I made two more today for Dave C and Kwame.
I rule. Now I have to make another hat for Bre to replace the one that JoJo "played with."
Stupid cat. It's cool though, this one will be bigger and fluffier.
Here are some questions about weddings:
--How important is the receiving line?
--Do I need RSVP cards if my guests are mostly young?
--Pros and Cons of opening gifts at the reception?
--Who usually cuts the cake (after the first cut) and serves it to guests?
--Is it tacky to have them slice their own? Should I assign someone?
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It depends on how much you like hugs.
--Do I need RSVP cards if my guests are mostly young?
you can tell them to e-rsvp, and include your e-mail address I guess
--Pros and Cons of opening gifts at the reception?
You might get a nightie or something.
--Who usually cuts the cake (after the first cut) and serves it to guests?
the people that work at the place where the reception is held
--Is it tacky to have them slice their own? Should I assign someone?
there will be someone to handle it at most places, if not, yeah, I'd assign someone.
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We didn't have one, and we still greeted more people in one day than we had in our lives to that point combined.
--Do I need RSVP cards if my guests are mostly young?
I would send them, only because a hall or reception place likes to know how many to expect by a certain time.
--Pros and Cons of opening gifts at the reception?
Personal gifts might be a little awkward at the reception. Besides, money is a popular gift at weddings, I find, so it doesn't matter too much.
--Who usually cuts the cake (after the first cut) and serves it to guests?
An employee of wherever the reception is, or if it is very informal, the last person to volunteer for any sort of duty. We had a Krispy Kreme stack of donuts anyway.
--Is it tacky to have them slice their own? Should I assign someone?
I wouldn't think so, though generally having someone specific do it might ensure more equal distribution of the cake.
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I didn't have one.
I had a second line parade instead.
--Do I need RSVP cards if my guests are mostly young?
Only if you want to know how many people are coming.
It forces people to answer you on time.
--Pros and Cons of opening gifts at the reception?
Don't do it. Open a bottle of champagne and do it while tipsy the next day. Much more fun and less awakward for friends who could only afford small gifts from your registry.
--Who usually cuts the cake (after the first cut) and serves it to guests?
The servers did it for us.
You'll want a pro doing it.
--Is it tacky to have them slice their own? Should I assign someone?
If that's the option, assign someone.
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Yeah, I think we'll have a recieving line but let people bypass it if they want to.
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Katie told me about your Krispy Kremes, which I thought was an awesome idea. I wanted to have chocodiles, but H doesn't like them. We are still thinking about cupcakes but they are like, $50 more.
I've heard that opening the gifts at the reception is tacky, but I've also known people who've done it. Seems like time away from dancing and merriment just to ooh and aah at material things.
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o.O
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Everybody is going to want some face time with you both to congratulate you and offer you praises about how beautiful everything was -- and guests kind of expect one -- so you may as well plan on having one.
While I didn't plan for one, one spontaneously erupted -- and in the end, it was a good thing because it allowed me to be able to thank my guests for attending. In other words, I sort of saw it as the "hosts escorting the guests out". YMMV, though, because we never had a wedding party.
--Do I need RSVP cards if my guests are mostly young?
Is it because you think they will RSVP by e-mail? I personally added the RSVP cards (I printed the info on card stock and cut into postcards to save postage) because it was easier to physically track a stack of cards against my guest list than it was to sort through my e-mail. If it adds cost to your invitations, then don't worry about it -- but remember that you can always go the card stock/postcard route.
--Pros and Cons of opening gifts at the reception?
I've never been to a wedding where they opened gifts at the reception, so I can't speak to this. At our wedding, we had a table to receive gifts, but we never opened them there. Instead, our family and friends took the gifts to our house and we waited until the following week to open everything. (That way we could keep track of who gave what.) Then I sent out "thank yous" within the month (send them all out at the same time, btw; otherwise some people might think that you didn't send them one).
--Who usually cuts the cake (after the first cut) and serves it to guests?
I have "worked" two weddings for friends where I have done the cake cutting. At our wedding, the staff of the restaurant cut it. In either case, make sure that they know how to cut those 10" and 12" cakes, or you won't get as many pieces out of as you expect to get.
--Is it tacky to have them slice their own? Should I assign someone?
It's not tacky, but you're going to end up with a mess. I mean, even in office functions, there's always one person that cuts the cake for everyone else -- imagine a guest line trying to switch off on this task! Anyway, just go ahead and assign someone, because otherwise you won't get the right number of pieces and it will look sloppy. It may be a good plan to have two people do this -- one to cut the cake and the other to shuttle the filled plates to the guests' seats, or to the cake table for guests to pick up.
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I think I was dreaming when I thought my guests could cut their own cake. It's going to cost far too much to have people making a me4ss of it, or taking huge honking slices.
Postcards for RSVP is a good idea, especially for grandparents and people I don't reach via Email. I just didn't want to spend on stamps.
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-I think an RSVP is a good idea, though like Dan said, an e-RSVP may do the trick for many people. I think that having it actually makes people who say they are going to be there more likely to be there. Also, it's good to know how many you are expecting.
-I've never been to a wedding where people opened their gifts at the reception. Katie and I had a blast the next day opening up gifts. Also because many people give money, it can be a little strange to open that in front of others.
-I think having a volunteer cut the cake for everybody would be easy enough to find. They don't typically cut them for each individual, but once you two cut the first piece, then the rest is just cut up and set out for everyone to grab when they are ready for it.
my 2 cents
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I was thinking of E-RSVP for everyone except grandparents.
Kassy would be the perfect person to cut the cake. Or Grete...either of them would be great.
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It isn't. If you don't want one, don't have one. I didn't *mean* to have one, like one of your other respondants above, but it happened anyway. Our reception was down the hall from the ceremony, and Todd and I got there first, and we got stuck by the door greeting everyone. But it was good, as it meant we at least said hello to everyone and got hugs and got introduced to obscure people from both sides. But we had 150ish guests...if you can get around to everyone, it's really not necessary.
--Do I need RSVP cards if my guests are mostly young?
Age is irrelevant. You need RSVP *somethings* only if it matters how many people attend. If you have a limit on space, or if you have a caterer who needs a headcount, and so forth, you need people to RSVP. If you don't need to know, it doesn't matter. And a small RSVP postcard is what we used...pre-stamped, with a checkbox. Given that, I only got about 10 of them back. Even older people apparently have no manners. ;-) RSVP via email is completely acceptable if it's acceptable to you, but don't expect a huge rate of return on that either. Threats of "tell me you're coming or you don't get any cake" *might* work... ;-)
--Pros and Cons of opening gifts at the reception?
I'm completely against it, personally, unless your reception is *very* small with only close personal friends, like you might have at a birthday party. For one, it's tacky. ;-) You should be writing down who gave you what, so you can send the thank you notes, and your guests will all end up knowing who got what, and someone's feelings will probably get hurt. And if you get duplicate gifts, someone ends up feeling like a tard, too. *heh* I've been to two receptions where this was conducted, and swear to god, they were both the hillbilly-type weddings. Only thing that made me gag more was the Cash Dance. Then there's the fact that it cuts into socializing time with people you might not see very often. Usually you assign someone to get the loot back to your house, and open it later with a pad of paper to write it all down, and the privacy to go, "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?"
--Who usually cuts the cake (after the first cut) and serves it to guests?
Usually an employee of the place you're having the reception, or the caterer. If you have neither, you can assign someone. Us, it was the caterer.
--Is it tacky to have them slice their own? Should I assign someone?
Tacky? Nah. A colossally bad idea? I would think so. You're going to wind up with a giant mess, OR you're going to wind up with one person standing there doing it anyway. :) Might as well assign someone. It's not a hard duty, and if they know ahead of time, they can learn how to slice whatever type cake you've gotten. Sheet cakes are easy. Bundt cakes (what I had) are easy. Small rounds are easy. BIG rounds suck ass. :)
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I was thinking of E-RSVP, for everyone except oldsters who don't do the internet yet.
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Are you married? I don't even know.
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12+ years.
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Thanks!
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Have your heard that version of "do they know it's Christmas" by the cast of Venture Bros?
High Larious.
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