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Wedding Registry
Target confiscated Nick's coupon for 10% off items left on his wedding registry after randomly deciding that the coupon was too generous.
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This Target Coupon Is Made Of Lies
Target confiscated Nick's coupon for 10% off items left on his wedding registry after randomly deciding that the coupon was too generous.
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rite-aid
Rite-Aid Made My Mom Think I Got Married Behind Her Back
Rebecca got one of those calls from her mother that everybody dreads. "Is there anything you think you should tell me?" her mother wanted to know. Rebecca's mom got a piece of junk mail with Rebecca's first name and her boyfriend's last name and was under the impression Rebecca had snuck off for a Vegas wedding. She hadn't. After Rebecca calmed her mother down, she tried to figure out how Rite-Aid, where both had worked for a time, had merged her name and her boyfriend's. When Rite-Aid gave her the run around, we advised Rebecca to try an EECB to get some answers. Read her email, inside. More »
target wedding registry
Target Fixes Their Broken Wedding Registry, Will Let You Return Duplicates Without A Receipt
Reader Jon writes in to let us know that your complaining has had a positive effect on Target's return policy. They will now allow you to return duplicate wedding registry gifts without asking your friends and relatives for a receipt. More »
weddings
7 Ways To Have A Gorgeous And Inexpensive Wedding
Blowing $100,000 on a wedding is still in season, and there's no better way to show up your over-spending friends than by throwing a lavish affair without bankrupting your parents. Inside, seven tips to have a lovely and affordable wedding. More »
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Target Bungles Wedding Registry, Won't Exchange Duplicate Gifts Without Receipts
Target doesn't accept returns without receipts to keep criminals at bay, but Chrissy recently discovered that their policy also extends to wedding registry gifts. Chrissy and her husband ended up with several duplicate gifts when Target failed to keep track of her registry. Chrissy didn't want a refund or cash, just store credit, but Target refused to consider any proffer until Chrissy provided receipts. One manager even urged Chrissy to call her wedding guests to ask for their receipts, because in Target's book, that's not extraordinarily rude or anything. More »
rude
Men's Wearhouse Can't Help You, Get Out
Clint at Seattlest went shopping for a suit for his wedding. The wedding isn't until August, but he and his beyonce just wanted to see what Men's Wearhouse had to offer. Mostly, they had to offer a really rude sales clerk who told them to get out of her store and come back in the summer when they were ready to shop. More »
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Amazon sent out some unexpected bundles of email joy earlier this week, when it let unsuspecting couples know that not only did they have a baby gift registry, but that someone had bought them something off of it. Julee writes, "I was shocked to find out we were expecting a child. So was my husband. And that someone had been stalking us online early enough in the process to know to buy us a gift!" She asked her married friends and found out that they, too, had received similar good news. Babies for everyone! Hooray!
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Amazon Tells Customers, "Surprise, You're Pregnant!"
Amazon sent out some unexpected bundles of email joy earlier this week, when it let unsuspecting couples know that not only did they have a baby gift registry, but that someone had bought them something off of it. Julee writes, "I was shocked to find out we were expecting a child. So was my husband. And that someone had been stalking us online early enough in the process to know to buy us a gift!" She asked her married friends and found out that they, too, had received similar good news. Babies for everyone! Hooray!
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lawsuits
The $400,000 Wedding Florist Lawsuit: Dirty Vases and Brown, Wilted Flowers
We briefly mentioned a lawsuit in which a bride (who happens to be a lawyer) was suing her florist for $400,000 after she was disappointed with the wedding flowers she paid $30,000 for. More »
Some newlyweds are suing a florist for $400,000 for messing up their wedding. They say they paid 30k for centerpieces of rust, fuchsia and dark green at $465 a pop, but were surprised to see cheaper flowers used to create pinkish-white centerpieces that ruined the overall look of the room. The florist says he has proof they got what they asked for and will counter-sue. We say we're in the wrong business. [Reuters]
complaints
"My sister is getting married in Reading, PA on October the 27th and we booked approximately 30 hotel rooms at the Sheraton Hotel in Wyomissing, PA for out-of-town guests. The groom is from Washington state, so there are a significant number of people traveling across the country. The block of rooms was reserved well over a year in advance and all of the individual reservations were made with months to spare. There is a large figure skating competition in the area (Skate America) that same weekend, and hotel rooms are nearly impossible to come by at this point within a 45 minute drive. Late last week my mom called the Sheraton to check in on the reservations (as she had done multiple times prior given the aforementioned dearth of hotel rooms in the area for that weekend to ensure that nothing like this would occur) and was told they had canceled all of the hotel rooms in the block including the bridal suite."
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With Imaginary Mold, Sheraton Cancels 30 Wedding Guest Reservations For International Figure Skaters
"My sister is getting married in Reading, PA on October the 27th and we booked approximately 30 hotel rooms at the Sheraton Hotel in Wyomissing, PA for out-of-town guests. The groom is from Washington state, so there are a significant number of people traveling across the country. The block of rooms was reserved well over a year in advance and all of the individual reservations were made with months to spare. There is a large figure skating competition in the area (Skate America) that same weekend, and hotel rooms are nearly impossible to come by at this point within a 45 minute drive. Late last week my mom called the Sheraton to check in on the reservations (as she had done multiple times prior given the aforementioned dearth of hotel rooms in the area for that weekend to ensure that nothing like this would occur) and was told they had canceled all of the hotel rooms in the block including the bridal suite."
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hotels
Marriott Ruined My Wedding Night!
"I got married over Labor Day weekend in North Chicago, Illinois. We did a lot of advance legwork to set up a hotel for our guests that was close to the venue and convenient. Our wedding venue recommended the Marriott Courtyard in Waukegan/Gurnee. It was more expensive then the other hotels in the area and a bit further away, but they offered something irresistible— a free shuttle to and from the wedding venue for all of our guests staying there. Since we had been contemplating hiring vans to shuttle our guests around so no one would drive drunk, this was a no-brainer. Plus, the Marriott has a good brand name and we felt confident things would go smoothly. More »
bargains
Fall Is The Best Time To Buy Cars, Jeans, Wine And More
Did you know that the best time to buy wedding dresses is in November, right after Thanksgiving? For many items, fall is the best season to make a purchase, says SmartMoney's "Deal of the Day" section. This includes wine and cars in September, jeans and toys in October, sneakers in November, and those bargain-basement wedding dresses right before December begins:"The dynamic of the wedding industry is that most people get engaged at Christmas, and most people who are planning [a wedding] get distracted by the holidays," says Alan Fields, co-author of "Bridal Bargains." The result: very lonely bridal-shop owners anxious for business.Now we know what everyone's getting for Christmas! More »
savings
Wedding Cakes: Buy Or Rent?
When weddings cost as much as one year of college, brides and grooms start to wonder why they should pony up $250 for a wedding cake when they can rent a beautiful model for just $100.The inside of a faux wedding cake crafted by Fun Cakes contains mostly plastic foam, with a secret spot reserved for a slice of real cake to be shared by the bride and groom...The savings from a rented wedding cake could buy a wedding dress at Target. Is it worth it? Tell us in the comments. — CAREY GREENBERG-BERGER More »
"The only difference is the inside. Nobody can tell," said Kimberly Aya, whose 3-month-old company also bakes real cakes.
making the best of it
Anybody Want A Free Wedding Dress?
What would you do if your wedding dress arrived only 3 days before your wedding? Well, if you were Elisa, you'd leave it in the box and wear a spare dress you'd bought off the rack. Then you'd start a website and hold a contest to find someone worthy of your unopened, unaltered, unworn $3,000 wedding dress. From Elisa's site:I did get married in October, and I did wear a wedding dress. But it was not my wedding dress: the simple, strapless, A-line gown that made me feel teeny-tiny. (I'm not.) The dress I got married in was my Back-up, bought off the rack two weeks before the big day, in the kind of frenzy I'd sworn I'd never get sucked into.More »
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24 Hour Vegas Wedding Window Slimmed To 16
The halcyon days of jumping into your rusty Impala with your teenage bride and driving off to Vegas to get married by Black Elvis at dawn in Vegas are soon to be forever gone. More »
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• According to this blog, Toyota hates babies. [Jalopnik] "Breaking! Tundra Recall: Toyota To Recall 160,000 Pickups"
• Just like the cool kid says, MacBooks came with everything right of the box, except for a little sniggly thing called a word processor. [The Stranger] "Rampant, Idiotic MacBookery"
• Tire on car knitting blogger rented from National blows, twice, which still isn't as many times as their customer service does. [Got Gauge] "Tire, Tires, Tired"
• Ever wondered why Bose target customer base seems to be the wealthy and clueless? [FirstAdpotor] "Why Bose Sucks Review Resources"
• Buying a wedding dress on Craiglist is cheap, but you also have to factor in the cost of removing the boob padding. [Another Fucking Wedding] "Wedding dress redux"
Blogobitchin'!
• I DON'T LIKE YELLOW-PLAID SUITS!!! CAN'T YOU SEE BY MY DIMENSIONS THAT I WOULD RESEMBLE A STICK OF JUICY FRUIT GUM!!!?!!??? [Bernard Johnson]"Suit Shopping for a Mutant"• According to this blog, Toyota hates babies. [Jalopnik] "Breaking! Tundra Recall: Toyota To Recall 160,000 Pickups"
• Just like the cool kid says, MacBooks came with everything right of the box, except for a little sniggly thing called a word processor. [The Stranger] "Rampant, Idiotic MacBookery"
• Tire on car knitting blogger rented from National blows, twice, which still isn't as many times as their customer service does. [Got Gauge] "Tire, Tires, Tired"
• Ever wondered why Bose target customer base seems to be the wealthy and clueless? [FirstAdpotor] "Why Bose Sucks Review Resources"
• Buying a wedding dress on Craiglist is cheap, but you also have to factor in the cost of removing the boob padding. [Another Fucking Wedding] "Wedding dress redux"
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