Spring break cruise coordination drama—do I just drop it?

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Oink

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The more you keep texting the group about this, the more forced and less fun it becomes. You’ve told them the plan and you’ve linked to the shirt—NOW LET IT DROP.

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Anonymous wrote:The only person labeling this as drama is you. Get an AI program that inserts the shirts you want. Let everyone enjoy a night out. Enjoy your picture. Done.

Don’t alter photos to clothe your relatives or others in something they didn’t choose. My husband would hate this shirt thing, would not participate, and if you photoshopped and posted him in said shirt he would be livid.

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I can’t even get extended family to coordinate or at least wear solid colors for professional portraits. Let it go. People don’t care that much about cool pics as you do.

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Anonymous wrote:This is really some midwestern Jessica starbucks pink drink $*@# but to each their own.

My husband would be incredibly resistant to wearing an ill-fitting Hawaiian shirt that I picked out for him, but to be fair, this is a vacation scenario that we would never find ourselves in (big family reunion cruise).

Best of luck to you guys.

absolutely!

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I don’t understand the basic premise that you are all doing this on the dl, getting your DH to wear the shirt and then the men show up surprised to see they’re all dressed the same.

Does that mean every single one of your husbands gets dressed up by their mommies? Does not one of these men choose their own clothes?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the basic premise that you are all doing this on the dl, getting your DH to wear the shirt and then the men show up surprised to see they’re all dressed the same.

Does that mean every single one of your husbands gets dressed up by their mommies? Does not one of these men choose their own clothes?

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My husband would think it really weird if I told him to wear a cheap, new Hawaiian shirt one night. I would have to make up a story about some theme night and wanting him to match my outfit, or just tell him it was a dumb prank and try to persuade him to go along with it.

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The part I don’t understand is how everyone is getting their husbands to wear this shirt. Don’t your husbands, as grown men, dress themselves?

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This was a ‘prank’ trend on TikTok a couple of years ago. Mostly executed by dorky wives getting their husbands to wearing matching, loudly colored, dress shirts to church the same Sunday.

OP, it wasn’t really hilarious the first five times I saw the videos. Now it’s just lame.

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Anonymous wrote:The part I don’t understand is how everyone is getting their husbands to wear this shirt. Don’t your husbands, as grown men, dress themselves?

Right? I can’t even get my teen to wear a jacket in sub zero temps.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t even get extended family to coordinate or at least wear solid colors for professional portraits. Let it go. People don’t care that much about cool pics as you do.

The definition of “cool pics” is also highly subjective.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the basic premise that you are all doing this on the dl, getting your DH to wear the shirt and then the men show up surprised to see they’re all dressed the same.

Does that mean every single one of your husbands gets dressed up by their mommies? Does not one of these men choose their own clothes?

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My husband would think it really weird if I told him to wear a cheap, new Hawaiian shirt one night. I would have to make up a story about some theme night and wanting him to match my outfit, or just tell him it was a dumb prank and try to persuade him to go along with it.

Yeah, I would not be able to prank HIM with this. It would be too far out of the norm. He'd probably go along with a matching plan if asked, or if the other men were organizing it, but there's no way I could surprise him, nor would I find it all that funny.

But, like another PP, I will never be in this situation. We will be camping in the Rockies on our next trip. So whatevs.

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NP, but haven’t you seen this? All the men enter the room and realize their wives put them all in the same shirt. It’s really cute and makes for a fun photo op. Lighten up! You sound like you’d be one of the loud naysayers.

That’s not cute. That’s tacky and embarrassing. My husband would be absolutely mortified. Groan. Stop making people into social media puppets.

Drop it, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:This is typical of people who frequent Disney and cruises. Generally white and trashy

These people are all going on the cruise already. They clearly would never be as cool as you.

I go to disney and on cruises pretty frequently and I can assure you that th large family groups that have matching clothes items are not exclusively white and in fact are probably less likely to be white than the American population as a whole. Because white peoples are generally less likely to travel in large family groups, if we want to put people in racial categories.

This isn’t about race or even cruises. The people still scratching their head at what OP is talking about are just hopeless at this point. You could do the shirt joke at church, home, a restaurant, school, wherever. The cruise is totally irrelevant.

That is absolutely true. But the Venn Diagram of "people who think this is the best idea ever" and "people who love cruises" are pretty much concentric circles.

(They're the same people who have to look up Venn Diagram. And concentric.)

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Anonymous wrote:Can they jsut buy their own shirt? So it's just hawaiin shirt night? And some people match and others don't and life goes on.

They could, but it defeats the purpose and they’ll look out of place in the photo.

This is so tacky. Cruises are bad enough, but matching outfits. Come on. Just let it go. People are trying to be nice and don't want to hurt your feelings, but they don't want to be dressed up like 3 year olds.

NP, but haven’t you seen this? All the men enter the room and realize their wives put them all in the same shirt. It’s really cute and makes for a fun photo op. Lighten up! You sound like you’d be one of the loud naysayers.

You gotta be trolling. This the worst FB Mormon wife nonsense I've ever seen on social media.

These are people who say things like "hubby" and "the hubs" without irony.

Who are you people? I don't know anyone who says either of the above or people who haven't heard of this? Some of you are completely out of touch.

I'm sorry, was this supposed to be a dig? Like for those of us who aren't on social media or don't have friends who wear matching clothes we're supposed to feel stupid for being out of touch? Are you for real?

Yes, you should feel stupid. I don't think some of you still even get the point. It's like explaining something to an 87 yr old who won't turn her hearing aids on. Yet you have big opinions about this.

What a small world you live in but you think it's so big because of all your social media interactions. Go touch some grass.