The Great Canadian Wedding Gift Debacle

Woman gives a gift basket of candy, salsas and marshmallow fluff as a wedding gift. In return, she gets a note from the bride ripping her for not giving cash:

Woman A takes her case public, to the good people of Hamilton, Ontario, and a hilariously catty back-and-forth between newlyweds and gift-givers ensues:

This whole thing is as sad as it is funny. Someone ought to mail the bride a wet dog turd wrapped in a $100 bill. Here's the whole e-mail/text exchange between the parties involved and the reader response:

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/3845206-have-your-say-about-the-firestorm-over-a-wedding-gift/

 

Wife #2 sounds just delightful. Wow what a bitch.

 

OK, what the heck is a Stag-and-Doe, or in this case a Doe-and-Doe?

 

Sounds like a Wisconsin thing.

 

Teh Google says it's a fund-raiser for the wedding.

Canadian marriage is weird.

 

Yep. It's a pre-wedding party/fundraiser. Also called a buck and doe, or a jack and jill.

 

Can't afford a wedding? Don't get married.

Or ... get married in a way that doesn't require you to hold a damn wedding fundraiser.

 

Never heard of a buck and doe or jack and jill pre-wedding fundraiser before. Back home in Eastern Alberta, one of the groomsmen will pass a cowboy boot around during the reception, but that's it. There's no expectation you give, you give if you want, however much you want, if at all. And it's never initiated by the couple.

The idea that “Weddings are to make money for your future …" makes me die a little inside.

And who invites someone they don't know real well to a $100/plate wedding and expect them to shell out for it in lieu of a gift?

 

I blame Bettman for not letting the Coyotes move to Hamilton.

 

I will say that the story I read on this and posted to FB yesterday made the gift-givers look MUCH better than that one, and this one here in this thread was in the gift-giver's own words. I think they're all assholes.

 

That's pretty much an annual line item.