I worked with a girl once who planned a big extravagant wedding in Florida. She was then upset to the point of tears when only about a third of her guests accepted the invitations.
She genuinely couldn't seem to understand that people on limited budgets, or with small children, or getting on in years or with only so much annual leave, were not prepared to fly to another continent, pay for five or six nights in a hotel, take a significant chunk of their annual leave and sort out complicated child care issues, just to attend her wedding
I felt very sorry for her as she was so obviously deflated and upset, but she had just lost all sense of perspective and didn't realise that her wedding wasn't the massive occasion in everyone else's life that it was in hers.
Narrow miss. Bus and student on his mobile
Good Morning Wednesday 24 April 2024