jrho ([info]jrho) wrote,
@ 2009-03-12 19:22:00
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Questions
To anyone who is familiar with Canadian wedding customs:

I have a few questions for you. My cousin is getting married to a very nice Canadian woman this summer. My aunt is currently butting heads with the fiancee's mother (we'll call her Mary since I don't know her name) over a few issues of wedding etiquette. Mary always claims these differences are 'how they do it in Canada.' I'm tempted to call bullshit on two of these, but maybe that is how you do it in Canada. Please advise if Mary is correct by Canadian standards or if she's being rude (as my family thinks is the case).

1. You only send someone an invitation to the wedding if you know they are definitely coming.
2. Any party related to the wedding is automatically a shower. A person can only be invited to one shower.
3. She's never heard of the bride's family paying for all or most of the wedding and reception.

They been living in the US for almost 15 years now. I really think she would have heard about at least one US wedding during that time.


To anyone who is coming to the Pi Day party:

1. Are you bringing food and/or drink with you? You don't have to. I just don't want to end up with too much of one thing and not enough of something else.
2. Does anyone have food restrictions? I don't remember anyone having allergies or personal food choices, but I wanted to make sure before I went shopping.




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[info]heartofslash
2009-03-13 05:03 am UTC (link)
Now, keep in mind, I've never been married, except for the time at Gay Pride Day in the water fountain and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and that guy my friend wanted to get into the sack, so he begged me to get married in a threesome with them so it wouldn't be so serious and scary for the poor guy - my "husband" I never saw again! But I digress... *g*

So, I'm not married, but my mother likes to bitch about people fucking up on the wedding etiquette...

1. Wrong. You send an invitation to anyone you would like to attend (or who you feel obligated by family/community/business ties to invite.) Once they receive the invitation, they have no obligation to attend, but the fact that you were willing to invite them kinda sorta obligates them to wend some sort of gift. But if they don't attend, the gift does not have to be so extravagant. Depending on Canadian-whatever-they-happen-to-be, there may or may not be an expectation of a monetary gift. (My brother married a Greek Canadian - you gave a gift, AND money, if you did not attend, you sent money only.)

You do not send an invitation if they definitely can't come AND you know they would not want to/are not able to send any sort of gift OR you hate their guts and don't want them to come.

2. Errr, says who? You can have however many fucking parties you want, and if there are ten showers and ten shower organizers want the same person, that person has to go to ten showers. Although I can't imagine why they would want to. I find them hideous. (And I still keep getting invited to them - sometimes I'm glad it's so hard for me to travel. "The car trip would be too hard on me," always shuts them up. *evil grin*)

2. Dude, the brides family pays. and pays and pays and pays. That's one reason my wedding-loving mother is happy I never got married! (She was a little perturbed for the first ten years, but once she figures out she could call my Dwarf her "son-in-common-law", she was fine. And now she just calls him her son-in-law and is quite happy.)

I have never noticed any difference between Canadian and US weddings.

Except for I've only been to Christian weddings in the states, (and one of them was dry.) In Canada I've been to Christian (Anglican, Italian Catholic, French Canadian Catholic, United Church, Greek Orthodox, Methodist, Presbyterian), Baha'i, Sikh, Sikh/Methodist (now that was an interesting ceremony) Jewish (lesbian), atheist, farcical... the bride's family footed the bill for almost ALL of them. (Except for the ones where the couple paid for their own wedding.)

Wow, for someone who doesn't domarriage, I've been to a lot of fucking weddings. But then, I'm old.

It's possible the fiancee's mother is full of shit.



Edited at 2009-03-13 05:04 am UTC

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[info]jrho
2009-03-13 11:11 am UTC (link)
See, that's what I (and the rest of my family) thought. Most of us don't know any Canadians besides them to ask about it, so no one felt comfortable calling her out on it. I will pass the word on to my aunt.

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[info]bakanaonna
2009-03-13 07:32 am UTC (link)
Well, I'm not overly fond of eating crickets...

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[info]jrho
2009-03-13 11:06 am UTC (link)
Well, fine then! *stomps foot* You are always so difficult!

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[info]pezlady84
2009-03-13 02:45 pm UTC (link)
I thought I'd bring a pie... store bought and hopefully apple.

Will you need extra controllers and games? I forgot to put them in the car this morning whoops XD

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[info]jrho
2009-03-13 03:11 pm UTC (link)
Yay pie! I know Brooke said we need one more controller, but I don't know about games. I'll ask her later.

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[info]bakanaonna
2009-03-14 12:30 am UTC (link)
I don't have many games, so feel free to bring whatever you want! XD

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