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No, you are a perfect candidate for a "bless your heart."

Additionally, most old school southerners don't have multi-course sit down dinner receptions (nor do they use the phrase "surf and turf").

Indeed, that was for YOUR benefit, little poseur. Figured it was a phrase you would be all too familiar with as you clearly dont go to many nice weddings, espcially not ones in the South.

South and "nice wedding" never go together. Southerns think it is appropriate to serve punch and cake to 300 people standing around in sweltering heat. If it is really fancy, there is a nasty red velvet groom's cake, too.

I like those kinds of receptions. I like them better than sit-down meals where you have to make awkward small talk with relatives that you haven't seen in years and then pray that the DJ is decent. Stand-up receptions are more like a garden party and less like a terrible Thanksgiving dinner.

Stand up receptions are cheap and short.

And if it's what people can afford, totally appropriate.

Actually, that shows how much you know! They are more expensive because you have to provide enough of everything (not just the chicken OR the fish) for everyone. You also have to have a lot extra so the food doesn't look bare. It is significantly more expensive to have a very nice reception with food stations and passed hors d'ouevres than a plated dinner.

Absolutely.

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Anonymous wrote:

No, you are a perfect candidate for a "bless your heart."

Additionally, most old school southerners don't have multi-course sit down dinner receptions (nor do they use the phrase "surf and turf").

Indeed, that was for YOUR benefit, little poseur. Figured it was a phrase you would be all too familiar with as you clearly dont go to many nice weddings, espcially not ones in the South.

South and "nice wedding" never go together. Southerns think it is appropriate to serve punch and cake to 300 people standing around in sweltering heat. If it is really fancy, there is a nasty red velvet groom's cake, too.

I like those kinds of receptions. I like them better than sit-down meals where you have to make awkward small talk with relatives that you haven't seen in years and then pray that the DJ is decent. Stand-up receptions are more like a garden party and less like a terrible Thanksgiving dinner.

Stand up receptions are cheap and short.

And if it's what people can afford, totally appropriate.

Actually, that shows how much you know! They are more expensive because you have to provide enough of everything (not just the chicken OR the fish) for everyone. You also have to have a lot extra so the food doesn't look bare. It is significantly more expensive to have a very nice reception with food stations and passed hors d'ouevres than a plated dinner.

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Anonymous wrote:

No, you are a perfect candidate for a "bless your heart."

Additionally, most old school southerners don't have multi-course sit down dinner receptions (nor do they use the phrase "surf and turf").

Indeed, that was for YOUR benefit, little poseur. Figured it was a phrase you would be all too familiar with as you clearly dont go to many nice weddings, espcially not ones in the South.

South and "nice wedding" never go together. Southerns think it is appropriate to serve punch and cake to 300 people standing around in sweltering heat. If it is really fancy, there is a nasty red velvet groom's cake, too.

I like those kinds of receptions. I like them better than sit-down meals where you have to make awkward small talk with relatives that you haven't seen in years and then pray that the DJ is decent. Stand-up receptions are more like a garden party and less like a terrible Thanksgiving dinner.

Stand up receptions are cheap and short.

And if it's what people can afford, totally appropriate.

Actually, that shows how much you know! They are more expensive because you have to provide enough of everything (not just the chicken OR the fish) for everyone. You also have to have a lot extra so the food doesn't look bare. It is significantly more expensive to have a very nice reception with food stations and passed hors d'ouevres than a plated dinner.

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Anonymous wrote:Irish people throw good weddings too!

Forget the weddings. We throw the BEST wakes an funerals around. I've told everyone, and put it in my will, that I want an Irish Wake. Days of eating, drinking, sharing stories, and really celebrating the deceased's life.

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Anonymous wrote:

No, you are a perfect candidate for a "bless your heart."

Additionally, most old school southerners don't have multi-course sit down dinner receptions (nor do they use the phrase "surf and turf").

Indeed, that was for YOUR benefit, little poseur. Figured it was a phrase you would be all too familiar with as you clearly dont go to many nice weddings, espcially not ones in the South.

South and "nice wedding" never go together. Southerns think it is appropriate to serve punch and cake to 300 people standing around in sweltering heat. If it is really fancy, there is a nasty red velvet groom's cake, too.

I like those kinds of receptions. I like them better than sit-down meals where you have to make awkward small talk with relatives that you haven't seen in years and then pray that the DJ is decent. Stand-up receptions are more like a garden party and less like a terrible Thanksgiving dinner.

Stand up receptions are cheap and short.

And if it's what people can afford, totally appropriate.

Actually, that shows how much you know! They are more expensive because you have to provide enough of everything (not just the chicken OR the fish) for everyone. You also have to have a lot extra so the food doesn't look bare. It is significantly more expensive to have a very nice reception with food stations and passed hors d'ouevres than a plated dinner.

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Anonymous wrote:

No, you are a perfect candidate for a "bless your heart."

Additionally, most old school southerners don't have multi-course sit down dinner receptions (nor do they use the phrase "surf and turf").

Indeed, that was for YOUR benefit, little poseur. Figured it was a phrase you would be all too familiar with as you clearly dont go to many nice weddings, espcially not ones in the South.

South and "nice wedding" never go together. Southerns think it is appropriate to serve punch and cake to 300 people standing around in sweltering heat. If it is really fancy, there is a nasty red velvet groom's cake, too.

I like those kinds of receptions. I like them better than sit-down meals where you have to make awkward small talk with relatives that you haven't seen in years and then pray that the DJ is decent. Stand-up receptions are more like a garden party and less like a terrible Thanksgiving dinner.

Stand up receptions are cheap and short.

And if it's what people can afford, totally appropriate.

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Anonymous wrote:Irish people throw good weddings too!

Forget the weddings. We throw the BEST wakes an funerals around. I've told everyone, and put it in my will, that I want an Irish Wake. Days of eating, drinking, sharing stories, and really celebrating the deceased's life.

Anonymous wrote:I agree PP.

Just like in the Great Gatsby, Tom and Daisy basically do the same things that Gatsby does. Except that Gatsby loves throwing parties.

Tom however is "classy" old money and Gatsby "new money" because he spends it in much the same ways that Tom does.

T&D's wedding was in the paper, he bought her a million dollar necklace. So please explain how Gatsby was any worse than Tom save for the fact that Tom could say "but I was born this way"?

Anonymous wrote:Irish people throw good weddings too!

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is cracking me up.
I guess my family is of the shabby gentile variety of unintentional status symbols. Our generation is not wealthy by any means, but we have a 14 year old BMW, inherited from parents, old silver, inherited and used daily, because our everyday stuff was crap. No fancy kitchen remodel because our current one works just fine (same with bathrooms), we live in an old house with great bones, have the requisite golden, from a rescue org though. And we own a country home that is super plain. I grew up riding and DH sailing. Our kids go to privates and I work part time at home, mostly because I can't command the salary needed to farm stuff out (thank you liberal arts degrees!) Anyway, I never thought of my family as wealthy at all, mostly because we don't have much liquidity. I did BF each kid for over a year, and did cloth diapers. I never thought twice about that!

Your post cracks me up, b/c you are almost a satire of what we are talking about!

I know - I'm a bit embarrassed. I guess I'm so used to seeing new build mansions and brand new luxury cars, that our old stuff doesn't register with me. I do have a core group of friends from DC who have similar lifestyles, so they don't twice at our beater cars, or our hopelessly dated kitchen, etc.

Please, please tell me where you went to school.

No way - not on DCUM. Suffice it to say it's in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:

No, you are a perfect candidate for a "bless your heart."

Additionally, most old school southerners don't have multi-course sit down dinner receptions (nor do they use the phrase "surf and turf").

Indeed, that was for YOUR benefit, little poseur. Figured it was a phrase you would be all too familiar with as you clearly dont go to many nice weddings, espcially not ones in the South.

South and "nice wedding" never go together. Southerns think it is appropriate to serve punch and cake to 300 people standing around in sweltering heat. If it is really fancy, there is a nasty red velvet groom's cake, too.

I like those kinds of receptions. I like them better than sit-down meals where you have to make awkward small talk with relatives that you haven't seen in years and then pray that the DJ is decent. Stand-up receptions are more like a garden party and less like a terrible Thanksgiving dinner.

Stand up receptions are cheap and short.

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Anonymous wrote:The meal-selection reply card is a necessity in today. There are too many people who are GF, vegetarian, pescetarian, etc.

If it's classless to make sure your guests needs are accommodated, so be it. I'd rather be classless than say "oh, you don't get to eat because some granny on DCUM said meal selection/reply cards are declasse."

Thankfully, your kind are dying out and there are far fewer sticks-in-asses these days.

Too many tacky people, you mean.