I was talking with a friend today who was getting married. She’s in a bit of a pickle because she is trying to decide who to invite to her wedding breakfast. The challenge being that it’s an expensive business AND the number of guests is limited by room size. She was stressed because it seemed to her that she HAS to invite a bunch of people that she doesn’t really want to come (we all have them), which means some people that she does want to come might not get invited.
So I suggested to her why not solve this with TWO wedding lists… for the people who she wants to come to the wedding, include with their invite a real wedding list. For the other people, include a wedding list from Harrods or somewhere, bristling with obscenely expensive gifts. This will mean that the unwanted people will be horrified by the thought of having to spend all of that money on a wedding gift and will make those excuses. Those not tricked by trap 1 will have concerns that they won’t “fit in” with the super rich people going to the wedding and will decide not to attend.
Personally I thought that this was not only funny but a stroke of genius. I welcome your comments if you can afford to leave one.
