Awkward Family Story: Multitasking
August 3rd, 2009
I went to my great aunts Funeral this week. I left before my distant cousins arrived, but here is what happend once they were there. The room was very solomn, and my cousin and her mother began to walk around the room and tell everyone how sad it was that our aunt had ascended to the next world. Following their condolonces they handed out black cards with hot pink inserts. These little jewels turned out to be invitations to my cousins wedding in 5 weeks. Awkward.
(submitted by Shawna)
Tags: coffin
Very tacky but I work at a funeral home and you would be surprised at the things that happen during visitations and funerals.
why aren’t those stories posted on this website for all to enjoy???
I hope the great aunt comes back to haunt them! May she make a surprise visit to the wedding reception and see everyone pee themselves in fear! Mwah-ha-ha!
“She used to always talk about how she couldn’t wait to see me married. Incidentally…”
They were dying to get married.
Believe it or not, this same thing happened to a friend of mine at a grandparent’s wedding. Wonder if it were the same family? I think my friend’s “incident” was in New Hampshire.
Thought to ponder: Handing out invitations at the funeral could be an omen on the upcoming nuptuals.
Wonder if they slipped one in the casket too.
THAT got me to chuckle.
Sadly this is totally part of my family too.
They shouldn’t be allowed to breed. Stop the madness!
It’s solemn…not solomn. Sorry, but that really bothered me.
If you are going to correct their grammar errors, correct them all.
It should be aunt’s, not aunts.
It should be funeral, not Funeral.
It should be happened, not happend.
(You got the next one.)
It should be condolences, not condolonces.
It should be my cousin’s wedding, not my cousins wedding.
Also, it’s Awkward Family Photos…not Awkwardly-written Family Stories. PLEASE STOP THESE ATROCITIES. I hate everything about them. Or, if you must include them, put them on a different feed to save me (and countless others) the cringes.
Don’t ever be sorry for using the right words, Sarah!! However, people’s misspellings and mangled grammar are sometimes the funniest things on here (unintentionally of course). If we could only add speech bubbles to some of these pictures – the dorky boy saying “your awsome” would be hilarious.
ascended into the next world?
It sure beats being on the “down” elevator.
One assumes they are religious.
My inner optimist wants to believe that it’s possible the aunt and cousin had good intentions, and were trying to lighten the mood.
If I’m wrong, however… how horrible and selfish for this cousin to think only of herself during such a difficult time for the whole family. Especially at a funeral of all places.
Of course, I must add I once heard a similarly awful and tactless story: Someone said on a messageboard that their cousin’s boyfriend had proposed… at their grandfather’s funeral.
A bit awkward and completely tasteless.
Tacky and rude!
((thought I’d post something original that people hadn’t said yet.))
That was extremely rude. They should have had respect and placed the invites on the windshields of the cars under the wiper arm…
WIN! Very funny!
Hey, maybe they could pack up any leftover funeral reception food, freeze it, and serve it at the wedding! And the flowers would probably still be fresh if you put them in a big enough refrigerator. In fact, why not freeze up the dearly departed with some fruit cocktail and float her festively in the punch bowl. Oh wait, no, that might be, I don’t know….TOTALLY WEIRD AND INAPPROPRIATE!
Killed it! Good stuff.
The only thing worse is to enclose the gift registry…..
Tacky and inappropriate, yes. Grief will do strange things to people’s taste and judgement. I assume the cousin and aunt were close to, and truly grieving for, the deceased great aunt. If not, then it was truly gauche.
I must say, if I were close to the cousin/aunt and they were truly so grief-stricken that they both lost all sense of taste and judgment, I would have taken one quietly aside and mention that there would be a better time to be passing out wedding invitations…
Can you say “etiquette book” for their wedding gift?
It makes it even more awkward to those who DIDN’T get the invites, they were probably wondering what it was!
haha thats just what i was thinking!
thats just so incredibly rude, but at least they saved on postage?
That was worded as if two cousins were marrying each other.In that case What’s the problem?
My family insisted on singing “happy birthday” to me at my Dad’s memorial service.
uggghhh that’s awful. And awkward – what sort of facial expression would you have?
Wow, that’s horrible.
At my cousin-in-law’s memorial service (he was cremated) my mom and I were standing talking to his wife (my cousin) next to an easel holding a board with pictures of him on it. As we moved to leave, my mom bumped the easel with the pictures with her walker, and it started to fall. THANK HEAVEN I and my cousin caught it before it hit the floor, and got the easel legs re-arranged after much trial, but OMG. It doesn’t get too much more awkward than that. Thank heaven we were already leaving.
My Aunt and Grandmother despised wakes because of the loud joyful reunions, laughing etc. in the face of someone else’s grief. Doing something that tacky at a FUNERAL takes it to a whole new level of awful. Life does go on but even a little socializing at a repast lunceon would still not make this any less glaringly rude and cheap.
I’d have to go to that wedding, just so I could pass out some funeral mass cards.
wonderful comment. totally lmao.
Ugh … disrespectful. Totally. Kinda like when my MIL announced to the assembled guests at my future SIL’s engagement party that I [who wasn't there] was pregnant. Tacky and rude.
5 weeks, very soon… will this be a shotgun wedding?
A compound bow wedding.
FTW compound bow…FTW
“Bleah! says:
August 3, 2009 at 8:16 am
Marney frowns on this behavior. She says use email.”
Cause even then- you won’t even have to pay for the invitations to be printed! Cheapos
time and place, ladies and gentlemen–time and place. sheesh.
Wow, that is incredibly offensive! Buy some stamps, cheapskates!
In these econonmic times those getting married appreciate when a family member passes… As it saves them postage and the cost of a plate at the wedding dinner…
Reading this was downright weird. Since I went to my great aunt’s funeral this week too. Luckily I didn’t get invited to any weddings.
Maybe you were the only one not invited. Now, that is AWKWARD! ha ha
your comment made me LOL more than most of the pics on this website. love it!
Rude and Tacky! I would never go to someone’s wedding that gave me the invitation at a funeral!
yeah but the really tough questions is…would you go to someone’s funeral who gave you an invitation at a wedding?
Well, wait. Wouldn’t it be better to accept the invitation at the funeral to the wedding and when the couple asks about their gift tell them “Oh, I thought that the gift of me being alive and well at your wedding is good enough.”
Marney frowns on this behavior. She says use email.
And God help you if you don’t.
LOL! Brilliant.
I want some sort of Marney t-shirt…hmmm perhaps the front should say Marney Rules and the back will be a list of rules from Marney.
it should so have a casserole dish on the front, along with the specs that, in fact, make it regulation. then have a list on the back, with a beehive-haired silhouette giving all the ingrates a wag of the finger. someone get started, i expect royalties, lol. ^.^
She probably got an invite,
then threw it away out of spite
while shaking her head angrily.
In response to a shirt idea:
I would wear it.
Hahah!
This story is so simple and great!
I saw it in my head perfectly.
Too good.
In these econonmic times those getting married appreciate when a family member passes… As it saves them postage…
HHHHHAAAAAAA
Luckily, if no one dies in time, you could probably also just pass them out at someone else’s wedding that occurs before yours…baby showers too, if you don’t mind the possible inferences.
Distant cousins…
Distant for a reason.
Haha, nice. Exactly what I was thinking. Would it really have been that hard to just MAIL the invites? Ugh. Disrespectful.
totally wrong way of doing this, now they have no way of claiming that weird Uncle Art’s invitation must’ve gotten lost in the mail
How tacky!!! This sounds like something my cousins would do!
Mine too!
There’s nothing awkward about it. That’s just downright rude.
That’s exactly what I was thinking!
Disrespectful, no matter how distant you are. No class!
Saves on postage I suppose.
Awkward and incredibly tacky. Wow.