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maplebeez

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I'm considering not attending a family member's child's confirmation, after getting an invitation asking guests to RSVP for the morning ceremony & luncheon, then immediately afterwards drive 90 minutes away, so nobody gets lost or arrives late for their child's evening, extravaganza, sit-down, event center dinner. When asked what guests are supposed to do for the rest of that afternoon, the proud mother recommends we go to the mall, the movies, or check into a hotel. In the words of Full House's Stephanie Tanner, "How Rude!"
 

I wouldn't go...! I wouldn't even consider it.

We had a similar situation a few weeks ago at a wedding, it would have been a nightmare trying to find something to do between the wedding at mid-day and the reception at 7pm... Too far away to return home, so I chose just to attend the reception in the evening , but if the same scenario were to rear it's ugly head I wouldn't attend at all.
 

maplebeez said:
I'm considering not attending a family member's child's confirmation, after getting an invitation asking guests to RSVP for the morning ceremony & luncheon, then immediately afterwards drive 90 minutes away, so nobody gets lost or arrives late for their child's evening, extravaganza, sit-down, event center dinner. When asked what guests are supposed to do for the rest of that afternoon, the proud mother recommends we go to the mall, the movies, or check into a hotel. In the words of Full House's Stephanie Tanner, "How Rude!"
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I would go to the confirmation and the luncheon; give the child a gift and that's all.
 
Aunt Bea said:
It sounds too complicated for me, I would go to the ceremony or send my regrets with a token gift.

Good luck!
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Me, too. Why in the world would you have the evening "do" an hour and a half's drive away, anyway?? IMHO, that's just nuts. So after dinner you get to drive another hour and a half home or spend money on a hotel room. I didn't realize confirmations were an all-day affair -- they aren't around here.
 
Maybe it depends on the social circles we move in. In my area , no one I knew ever had such an elaborate and long Confirmation.

But the Bar/Bat Mitzvah's are sometimes super elaborate and the Quincenera's downright extravaganza's!
 
RadishRose said:
Maybe it depends on the social circles we move in. In my area , no one I knew ever had such an elaborate and long Confirmation.

But the Bar/Bat Mitzvah's are sometimes super elaborate and the Quincenera's downright extravaganza's!
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I was thinking the same thing RR. Is this a confirmation or a wedding? For my confirmation my immediate family and my grandparents went for Chinese food and that was it.

Seems all of these celebrations are way overblown these days.
 
I've decided I'll go to the child's confirmation ceremony, but not the dinner. After attending a wedding reception, where because of my Celiac Disease (an auto immune disorder which causes a severe, allergic reaction to wheat) and discovered there wasn't a bleeping thing on that dinner buffet I could eat without becoming violently ill, I have no desire to go through that again.
 

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