SS - Am I the first???

Yaaaaay!!!! ?

Yep opening night will be on the same night as the Hitched awards, 15th December. I'll arrange with Tina when we can fit it in.

As for wrapping do as you please, ha ha, i shall probably wrap mine in christmas paper then again with the brown posting paper.

AmnesiaCustard - This is something we arranged ages ago, sorry you missed out this year, maybe someone will do it again next.

Not cliquey at all - we arranged a secret santa for anyone that wanted to be involved a few weeks ago, probably before you joined...

Ahhh AmnesiaCustard don't feel like that. It won't be long and you'll be joining in with the madness that is Hitched 'events' I'm sure.

Things are never cliquey when you are in on the clique!

Boo Hoo, i missed this also I think, darn and drat!, never mind though - will defo join in with next years!!!! ?

thats the spirit!!!

That's more like it!

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Will be looking in to have a nosey what you lovely ladies have ended up with though!! x

haha of course of course, goes without saying lol

I bought mine ages ago, I just need to wrap and send it! x

Very exciting! Posting mine at the beginning of next week. Do you think it might be an idea for us to all email Grace to let her know that we have received our secret santa present? Then perhaps Grace can email the present buyer to confirm that it has been safely delivered (sorry Grace - I know it makes more work for you). Just concerned in case some go missing, or not everyone's turns up on time for the grand present opening and flashing. What do you think?

Happily, I shall be married by next year and will have no need of anything weddingy.

That's fine by me ili, it'll only take 2 seconds to send a quick email.

It'll be nice for peace of mind that they've been received.

There is no clique AmnesiaCustard! As we all join at different times, things like this will happen.

This is community and you get out of it what you put in. If you continue acting like a petulant spoilt child then I'm afraid that you will indeed find Hitched a very cliquey place to be. Now, lighten up and get into the spirit of the place.

Good gracious! Thank you so much for your kind and generous welcome to this forum.

Good point. There's nothing worse than wondering whether its arrived or not.

I came in to this thread asking (as I thought) a reasonable question. The thread didn't seem to be much about weddings and I did not undersatnd the meaning of it. It seemed to be a private message for a select few?

I did not expect to be insulted by people who do not know me and are making assumptions about the questions I have posed. You will note that I have not responded in kind.

Would you talk to someone like this face to face - or perhaps make more of an effort to explain (as originally requested)? My comment about being married by next year and hence not here was entirely factual and I do not believe it deserved the response it got.

That's a little unfair Amnesia.

No one has criticised your question and in fact you were given an explanation by LauraSJ straight away. What has irked people is that you insulted us by calling the thread cliquey. It's natural for there to be threads on any forum which regular users will understand much quicker than new users.

Your comment about being married next year and not needing to be here was also ill-judged because if you'd taken the time to have a browse about the forum, you'd see that a lot of people remain active on here following their marriage to provide tips to those getting married after them - your comment suggests you are just here to use the forums for your own advantage with little intention of giving anything back.

I'm sorry you didn't get the welcome you feel you should have received. Why not start a newbie thread and tell us a little bit about yourself and your wedding plans?

(Factual reply) I started a newbie thread when I first signed up (as opposed to lurking), also posed a question and given information about my own wedding in another thread and have already contributed my opinion and ideas to several other threads.

I am sure you will all flame me for this post too, as I can see how it might come across as being "petulant" but it is a simple statement of my activity on this board. I HAVE entered into the spirit of things, I HAVE commented on my own wedding, I HAVE asked questions and i HAVE offered opinion or help to others where I have felt appropriate.

All I offered was a personal opinion (not an accuastion) that this particular thread felt cliquey.

We did explain... ? This started before you arrived...

And yes - if you told me I was "cliquey" to my face after having spoken to me, erm once, I would say exactly the same thing.

If you are looking for a nice little fluffy forum ? I can recommend one.

If you want real opinions and (mostly) adult conversation then welcome to Hitched!!! ?