take advantage of an email from my brother just arrived:
"Hello, tonight we take a gift for Cicciofofo that goes Saturday. You join us?" We thought one or two serving trays "
Obviously the answer was negative, but deserves a chance to say a few words for this annoying habit that so-called "wedding invitations".
So you do not know the guy who gets married, most likely is the son of your friends and you do not see since he was five years. So you can not fool one stone him to marry him and even less to let you know. But parents here are involved with their "wish list", ie the nerds who see note announcing that deliver something that leaves you mostly indifferent but for which however, you must hunt at least forty euro, the cost of a decent bunch of flowers. The message is clear now more accustomed to the situation and, above all, the most phobic towards these customs: please do not because it is an intimate ceremony just for us but we would like to let you know that we'll get married. That is, the sincere version: you're not important enough to be invited to lunch, given what it costs and we have hundreds of relatives on the rump, but you may still drop some little thing, maybe you wonder where we did the wedding list.
Well, I am contrarissima to interests, offend me terribly. Not for stinginess, is the principle that bothers me. Or invite me (and I hope not), or give me the news in a less demanding, and not just for the forty € rather that throw them for a good bottle of wine, or the fact that I have to split to go get a gift even if only a bouquet of flowers.
Most likely someone will tell me that I speak so because of envy, given that after twenty years of "engagement" (I think that in the meantime word has gone out of fashion) I have never married. So I have always done weddings and other investments. Weddings are often welcome, participation ever.
(final prediction: my mother is ashamed of me, and will deliver to the spouses of the flowers on my part)
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