Fucking hell.
I have to say the great thing about being married is you now know exactly how much to give people and which weddings you’ll be invited to. Takes a lot of the guess work out of it.
His family did business with them for 35 years — All he wanted was a card. The relationship obviously meant more to Farmer than the middle class merchant — Historically, these small town merchants are the real oppressors of the Irish people.
I’ve often thought that about the small town tycoons in Ireland. As rapacious as Cromwell.
+1. some fellas even keep a spreadsheet of gifts they can refer to when it comes to reciprocation
(My parents did ask me how much the neighbours gave when it came to their daughter’s wedding the following year).
The spreadsheet is key mate. You wouldn’t want to jip someone who was generous or vice versa
100%.
I’m still waiting to nail the cunt that gave us an anonymous donation to charity in our wedding card.
I hear he’s doing a serious line with a bird… Tick tock.
You’re welcome mate. Was a great day.
Waiting in the long grass…
Holding onto a long standing grudge like that is what makes this country so great
If there’s one thing Nogra are good at its holding grudges.
Who doesn’t attend a funeral is another great grudge list
We could sell badmind we have so much of it.
I heard a wedding related story about a friend of my life partner’s last night that really tickled me.
We were at this particular couple’s wedding ages ago but it turned out they weren’t happy with their wedding photographs. Their chosen photographer had to cancel on them at the 11th hour due to a bereavement in his extended family but recommended an alternative who did the photographs on the day. They got the photographs back after returning from honeymoon and were really unhappy with the quality of them…
…So they arranged to have their wedding photographs redone around 8 weeks later with the original photographer at the wedding venue as it has nice gardens, views and so on. This involved yer wan getting her hair and make up done again and wearing her wedding dress, yer man in his wedding suit etc. They roped in the lady’s parents who also wore their wedding outfits but the groom’s parents told them to piss off and bridesmaid and best man also made excuses.
The four of them toddled off on a weekend morning to the venue (around an hour from Dublin) and did the shoot.
This seems crazy to me.
That was all her no doubt and your man is a soft cunt for entertaining it… It is bat shit crazy
Shows how mad this country has gone when something as mad as this doesn’t make national news.
My aunt got married way back, pre the digital age. To save money she asked my auld lad to take the pictures. He’d bought a fancy new camera recently and said he would no bother. Snapping away all day anyway, only to realise afterwards he was loading the film wrong. None of them came out apparently and they’d to cobble together a few photos from other guests who were there on the day. Still hasn’t lived it down.
In fairness he’d be a hard man to get into the frame properly