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"So I was perusing wedding sites last week when I stumbled across this pile of tackiness, which was included as an insert in a wedding invite: For a couple of years we&amp;amp;#8217;ve lived in sin, We have a toaster, a kettle and a stainless-steel bin. Saucepans and towels we have many, Corkscrews and flannels we don&amp;amp;#8217;t need any, We just want you with us to celebrate our day. But if you insist on a gift anyway, What we&amp;amp;#8217;d really like is a gift of money, We hope you don&amp;amp;#8217;t think we&amp;amp;#8217;re being funny! We&amp;amp;#8217;ll put it all together and buy something that&amp;amp;#8217;s best, As a reminder of our day and our wonderful guests! Sadly, this wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t an isolated incident of money-grubbing, there are pages and pages all over the web dedicated to &amp;amp;#8220;cash request&amp;amp;#8221; poems. (Here&amp;amp;#8217;s an example.) Blech. Look, it&amp;amp;#8217;s common knowledge that most brides and grooms would be happy with cash&amp;amp;#8212;but I don&amp;amp;#8217;t think it&amp;amp;#8217;s cool to flat-out say: &amp;amp;#8220;We don&amp;amp;#8217;t want any of that other crap you&amp;amp;#8217;re thinking about buying us.&amp;amp;#8221; Which is why I&amp;amp;#8217;d like to find this couple and smack them around with an etiquette stick. Do you guys think cash request poems are totally tacky, too? Or do you think it&amp;amp;#8217;s fine to let your guests know what you really want? Would you ever send an invite that included a poem like this one? And has anyone ever received one? More miscellaneous wedding stuff: * Which of These Adventurous Honeymoons Would You Choose? * Put Your Old Bridesmaids Dresses to Good Use&amp;amp;#8212;and Score Some Freebies in Return! * I Do or I Don&amp;amp;#8217;t: Theme Showers More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow Glamour on Twitter. Photo: Thinkstock "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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