Btw, those amounts are also standard for recent grads and anyone not boc anyway. Didn't mean to suggest $100/cpl was cheap or anything. It's totally normal.

afaik there is no registry, I've never been to a Mexican wedding but from the looks of things she doesn't have one (I jokingly told her mom I'll bring a tonka truck and say truck, her mom said nah bring whatever). IDK why but I don't really feel good about giving cash, everybody else is giving an actual gift but pots and pans seems so lame. Any specific ideas?

off the top of my head, he scammed some old lady for a lot of money by hacking her paypal (and would brag about it to me on AIM all the time), he scammed like 10+ ppl on transfers totalling a LOT, he scammed the pokersites for even MORE. basically matt matsch was one of the hugest scumbags ive ever met lol. thankfully i never got screwed over (did cashouts for him for a cpl months and would just western union him the $$ at a huge premium) but the list of his victims is huge.

he also would just text me and stalk me at the tables saying the weirdest, psychopathic ****. like my level of happiness at the thought of him doing time is through the roof lol. karma has been proven to exist today.

No.

But it does sound like a great thing for this guy to get punished.

DD, how do you know the bride? How much are you looking to spend? Do you still hang out with the bride today?

If you want to go the booze route, two ideas are:

1) A nice bottle of champagne and glasses. In the card, you can promise to "refill" the bottle on their 10th anniversary.

2) Some themed present: e.g., for a margarita present, I'd buy a mid-range bottle of tequila and some margarita mix, 6 glasses, rim salts, and maybe like a nice chip/dip set (or pieces to make one). Then I'd package it up in a large wicker basket (world market and homegoods are my go-to's for cheap wicker), wrapping it in cellophane and a ribbon. (igos?)

Alternately, honeymoon presents are increasingly popular. If you know where they're going, you can buy them a dinner or an activity somewhere (e.g., we just gave some friends of ours a culinary tour of Charleston, SC).

Pots and pans and such seem so lame, but if a couple hasn't been living together, they probably don't have much in the way of nice cooking ware/linens/ etc., so it's actually stuff that they will need and would probably buy anyways.

The last wedding I went to, I got really lucky and they had a margarita machine on their registry. Although it's a lot more expensive, it was worth it.

I've worked with her for 4 years, we don't really hang out per se, she's been with her BF for 10 years and has 2 kids.... they're getting married now inside the Catholic Church thats all. IDK how much I wanna spend just whatever is standard. The bottle of champagne sounds pretty cool.

You are in the "cash/registry is totally standard" group. I would not hesitate to give $$.

god i hate the concept of weddings so badly. whoever i end up marrying better be cool with a last minute flight to vegas and 15 mins in front of the altar

if i ever get married my wedding is going to be mostly focused on getting all my friends and family as drunk as possible

+1 to everything in this post, especially the if

Had my first day of classes, and by that I mean I only had one class today but it was spanish and I prob have the coolest spanish teacher in the world not to mention she is pretty cute for being early 30s ldo...

first non-drunk CCuster post in the year?

I don't fear nothing but god and weddings.

This post is hidden because Karak is on your "Giant Pussy" list.

COLDBLOODED

FACEBOOK EXPERIMENT --

- Make your status "Pimpin' ain't easy but it's necessary..."
- Leave it up for a few hours
- See what funny responses come up.

Basically, I'm planning on coming home in rare form in a few hours, and I made this my status, and I wanna see if my friends are more clever than yours. gogogogogogogogogogo

Nahhh, Tom and Jerry was much better.

see, I'm hoping that someone random recognizes the quote and goes "...so I'm chasin bitches like Tom chases Jerry" -- leaving it open for someone!

I'm probably just gonna get made fun of for bein a cracker though.

Not happening Geoffrey.

Lokos on a tuesday night lool

Wow. I would hate your life.

lol its all I've got atm. Gotta go on a liquor run tomorrow lol

No beer? Damn. I have different kinds of liquor, as well as beer. You never know what you're going to want to drink. Especially relevant here, cause you can't buy alcohol on Sundays.

yeah only had 2 lokos in the freezer. About a year ago liquor stores were allowed to start selling on sundays.


I agree about having a variety of booze. Plan on hitting up my connect and getting a 30 of some sort. Some whisky and vodka(for the girls ldo)