March 17, 2019February 27, 2020 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

missouri-nationalist:

Marriage is good and weddings are great but I hate modern wedding culture. You don’t need to bankrupt yourself to have a nice wedding. Stop supporting the wedding industry, stop buying outrageously priced engagement rings, stop spending 10k on a dress you’ll only ever wear once.

Coming from a professional event planner – weddings are egregiously expensive because companies openly raise prices at the word “wedding.”

Pro Tip – Never drop the word wedding while planning if you don’t need to. Most things can be for “an event you’re planning.” This obviously doesn’t include things like the venue, DJ (who needs specific wedding songs), and the wedding dress company if you’re going that route versus just buying a dress.

For my wedding I got “discounted” cupcakes, flowers, decor, bridesmaids dresses, groomsman attire, and invitations. I did this by either searching for things that aren’t marketed for weddings or not telling the companies I was working with it was for a wedding. Because honestly, most of the time they don’t need to know why you’re ordering.

These companies target people planning their weddings and markup everything the second “wedding” is said. And it’s said often because people assume the services change exponentially for weddings. They absolutely do not.

The best example are the cupcakes I had for my wedding. I used a designer cupcake store in town instead of spending $1000 on a wedding cake. If you place a large order of cupcakes with a cake tree for display – it costs about $150 for 100 (which is what I did). When you order their “wedding” package – the price raised to a $700 base for 100 cupcakes. The only other perk includes a “tasting.” Forget that. Our tasting was buying a few cupcakes in flavors we thought we’d like and picked three. It cost maybe $20.

What these companies do is scummy and targets people who don’t have information about the event industry.

I will yell it from the rooftops until people realize there’s a better way.

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#PSA #adventures in human capitalism

Image ~ May 14, 2017January 11, 2020 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

bartdontlie:

Sometimes I accidentally receive email intended for other people.

I try to be helpful.

(Meanwhile I haven’t replied to like the last six emails from actual family members. I’m the worst.)

bartdontlie:

UPDATES!

Jules replied to thank me for pointing out her error. She regrets to inform me that they already have an officiant:

Then while attempting to send the wedding weekend accommodations email to the correct Ed she sent the original email to me again.

I’m still trying to help:

I haven’t heard from Jules since Friday so I suspect this is the end of our correspondence, but I’ll keep everyone posted.

bartdontlie:

UPDATE! Pete and Jules’s big day is almost here!

It seemed like the right thing to do for all the joy they’ve brought us.

bartdontlie:

Oh my god oh my god oh my god!

Pete and Jules sent me a thank you note!

Complete with a very nice note:

Aren’t they just the best? I should probably send them a thank you note to say thank you for the thank you note, shouldn’t I?

Of course I should.

bookoisseur:

God I fucking love the internet.

yieldsfalsehoodwhenquined:

:D

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#storytime #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

May 11, 2017January 10, 2020 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

sinesalvatorem:

sinesalvatorem:

Random problem for Tumblr: How does one plan a wedding? What goes into planning a wedding? How is it similar to or different from planning anything else? Are there actually people who are good at this shit?

(Feel free to answer only one or a few of these questions. I just really really want some answers from someone, even if you don’t have any good ones. Pls no bystander effect s’il vous

plaît, gracias.)

((Yes, I’m aware that I’ve already said I’m married. That was the civil ceremony; actual getting-married-ceremonially-with-guests-in-attendance is still upcoming.))

So everyone seems to basically be like “get a wedding planner”

I am a poor

If anyone would like to plan a wedding in exchange for my undying gratitude and affection, that would be super great

Otherwise, we are probably going to have as much “““planning””” as I can fake up, which is why I’m trying to figure out what I’ll need to do.

(But really please take this off my hands I will love you forever)

Re: OP, for what it’s worth, some stories I tend to hear from people talking about their weddings (or other people’s weddings):

“Our photographer didn’t show up, or showed up but didn’t focus on the areas we told him to focus on.”

“Our DJ didn’t bring the music we requested, causing a last-minute scramble in which my fiance had to run home and get tapes* out of our own music collection.”

“My mother-in-law took a party-favour bouquet without asking first. I was going to give that bouquet to my aunt-in-law!”

“Only half of the people who said they were going to show up actually did, leaving us with an unnervingly empty venue.”

[while watching a reality show:] “It is not possible for a wedding dress to be worth that much money unless it is made out of precious materials and you plan to sell it for scrap. That lady is so going to regret not buying her wedding dress from the thrift store for $40.”

And a positive one:

“It’s great that the groom’s sister in Arizona was able to listen to the ceremony [in Massachusetts] live on speakerphone. Isn’t modern** technology amazing?”

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As for the second part, maybe you can barter your services?

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*This was in 1991.

**This was in 2008, so it was not actually that modern, but still.

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#reply via reblog #signal boost #wedding

lemonbird asked: IMPORTANT QUESTION. Vampires aren’t suppose to enter a premise without being invited right? What if a hermit vampire was living in his falling apart old castle and some fuck bought it as a “fixer upper”, would the vampire just glitch out on to the lawn or would he be okay since he lived there before?

April 13, 2017March 20, 2020 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

thebibliosphere:

Okay so this would depend on where you are in the world, and whether or not they had squatters rights (can’t be evicted and can apply for legal ownership of place once they have been there for X amount of years) but I mean, the dude owns the place, even if it is a run down mess he was still there first and there’s probably some ancient land ownership law which can’t be overwritten by modern laws (you find all sorts of weird things are still technically legal cause no one bothered to update the books since 1645) so basically whoever just bought this castle to turn it into a modern fixer upper, congrats, you also just bought yourself a vampire and he’s not going anywhere.

(Also now I kind of want to write this where a family buys it to turn it into a hotel/wedding venue and the kids find the vampire in the attic and he ends up being the weird uncle who gets roped into hilarious wedding related shenanigans?? Like

“Okay yes fine, you can host weddings here, but registrar only, no religious ones.”
“But Theolodious, why?”
“Really Sharon, really, do I have to spell it out for you. Really.”

*

“We really should increase the lighting for photographs, what about skylights?”
“No.”
“But—”
“How about I just set all of you on fire while you’re trying to sleep.”

*

“Please, for the love of god, please don’t let people throw confetti or rice, I’m begging you.”

*

“Okay what’s our final head count for the night?”
“107.”
“Are you sure?”
“Did I fucking stutter Steve?”

*

“Uncle Theo, why does the groom have “help me” on the bottom of his shoes, why is everyone laughing?.”
“Because small one, humanity has failed collectively as a species and heteronormativity is a constructed lie designed to oppress over half the population for not conforming to arcane and chauvinistic ideals put in place by dead scholars who have long since turned to dust and have no place influencing modern society.”
“…”
“Permanence is an illusion.”

*

“Madame, flattering as your offer is for a quickie, you’re not my type.”
“What is your type then?” ;) ;) ;)
“O negative.”

*

“Whoo, what a day, I could eat a horse.”
“Same.”
“…”
“…well obviously I’m not going to.”

*

“Theo…are you…are you crying?”
“Yes.”
“You big softie, I never thought someone like you would cry at a wedding.”
“…I’ve lived a long life, Sharron. People come and go, the christening you bless will be the funeral you mourn in less than a century. But people keep saying “I love you”, that has to count for something.”

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#vampires #story ideas I will never write #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog