Sehrysh
October 4, 2011, 8:14pm
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Re: No boxed gifts please
To everyone else, I don’t think there’s anything rude or tacky about the ‘no boxed gifts please’ concept considering our Desi Weddings and the types of guests we have to invite sometimes. If it’s an all “non-desi” wedding I can see how it may be bordering on sounding forceful or tacky…but who are we kidding? We’re desi and we have desi weddings with typical desi family friends who show up with typical desi gifts!
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With desis, however, sometimes we have to invite tons of family friends at weddings(because we’ve known them for 20+ years, they invited us to their weddings, or they would be really hurt or offended that they weren’t invited which we don’t want to do to anyone) and those families will most likely pick up a convenient/cheap gift and it’ll end up sitting in the garage or re-gifted to someone else.
So you’re concerned about not offending people by excluding them from your wedding, but you’re not concerned if they are offended by your request that they give you a cash gift
Can’t have it both ways…
