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KatpissLabs t1_ja1tc8p wrote

Reply to comment by LewisDaCat in TIFU by being a greedy scavenger at work. by Deadeye26

A lawyer is best to consult first (ASAP!!! Like THAT NIGHT!!) if you think there’s a risk for being prosecuted either criminally or in a civil suit.

A good friendly lawyer reaching out to your employer will result in a swift dismissal, but usually will keep the whole thing out of the courts so there’s no public record at least.

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Collins08480 t1_ja1srk3 wrote

Reply to TIFU why me (29F) and my girlfriend (28F) talked about our marriage with his conservative family. by TIFUweddingday

Serve the menu you want and have a side table with more filling party food for guests to graze on, to bulk out the menu. You definitely don't want people to leave hungry. If its something like a tasting menu then people will be hungry. But you can have a second round of food that is more humble while the reception continues- carby, affordable tapas. Just make sure guests know its coming so they can enjoy the nice meal without worrying about how little food or if they will even like it.

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not_czarbob t1_ja1sbs3 wrote

Reply to TIFU by texting my ex-wife by LaVieEnRoseLavelle

What five-year-old needs a passport unless they’re leaving the country? This isn’t irrational at all, it’s exactly what I would immediately suspect.

Edit: love all the comments proving my point. “We travel abroad all the time!” “What if you have a spur of the moment vacation outside the country?”

Exactly.

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Lone_Vagrant t1_ja1rkmw wrote

Reply to TIFU why me (29F) and my girlfriend (28F) talked about our marriage with his conservative family. by TIFUweddingday

If the food is good and guests are well fed. They will leave happy. If they are still hungry they will complain about the food, or lack thereof, then nitpick about the quality of the food, then nitpick about everything and anything else.

Get them stuffed with good food and they will disregard any mishaps on the wedding day.

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Ixolich t1_ja1qyes wrote

Reply to comment by toodlesandpoodles in TIFU why me (29F) and my girlfriend (28F) talked about our marriage with his conservative family. by TIFUweddingday

That honestly would leave me with a bad taste in my mouth. Unless it was literally so much pizza that it clearly had to have been planned in advance, it would strike me as "Oh, they realized after dinner that they messed up on the catering budget and are frantically ordering pizzas to make up for it".

I was at a wedding last year where there was a standard dinner from 5-6, and then at like 9 they set up a table with about 200 sliders from White Castle. Clearly planned in advance, and enough time between the dinner and the second dinner that it was awesome. If pizzas started showing up at a normal pizza delivery time after the dinner, it wouldn't have the same effect.

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Thisisthatguy99 t1_ja1pn14 wrote

Reply to TIFU by leaving my wax burner on overnight, enabling my cat to get wax on his tail by Popular-Entrance4049

My ex had a cat that got an eye infection. To treat her, we had to burrito her in a towel and give her eye drops twice a day for two weeks. After the first day, the cat would hide from us and it was a chore to chase her around to catch her.. after it was done it took about 3 days before she was back to the lovey little fur ball she had been before

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BlazingHadouken t1_ja1p75w wrote

Reply to comment by arlondiluthel in TIFU why me (29F) and my girlfriend (28F) talked about our marriage with his conservative family. by TIFUweddingday

One of the best weddings I've been to was a 15 minute ceremony, toonie bar (so booze was stupid cheap but not quite free), and initially served a comfortable amount of catering for dinner—it was definitely enough to feel like you had a proper meal, but a hair on the light side. Then about four hours into the reception, just an absolute shitload of delivery pizza shows up. Everyone still at the reception was at least a little greased by this point, needed to eat again, and was not in a place to have another proper sit-down meal. It was absolutely perfect, like manna from heaven. I highly implore anyone fretting over food at a wedding to adopt this approach.

The best weddings I've been to followed the same game plan: 20 minute vaguely-Catholic ceremony, later got the marriage blessed by the church so nobody had to sit through an actual Catholic wedding, open bar, single round of appropriately-filling catering with an extensive dessert buffet (same side of the family, and we have a savage hereditary sweet tooth).

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bros402 t1_ja1ndfy wrote

Reply to comment by BckOffManImAScientst in TIFU why me (29F) and my girlfriend (28F) talked about our marriage with his conservative family. by TIFUweddingday

My cousin had a BBQ truck come to her wedding and they served tiny little portions of almost undercooked chicken

most of the desserts were baked by my aunt (..she is not the best cook)

it suuucked, it was 105 degrees out, 100% humidity, and I had done chemo a few days before

0/10 the first wedding I have been to was not a very good one

especially when my grandma intentionally dehydrated herself and decided not to eat so she would collapse because she didn't want to leave the wedding when we wanted to leave (6 hour drive)

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