That is trashy! Again with the entitlement mentality... “but I want a complete SET not just one glass”. I can actually top this story: my icky SIL actually took about 95% of the flowers set out by my Mother’s casket. She just kept on taking them, walking out to her car and sticking them in the trunk/backseat/wherever they could fit . She actually said, “I like flowers and everyone knows that... including my MIL”. (not that you have to guess but who do you think she voted for?)
I'd say nothing. I certainly wouldn't accuse someone of stealing.
You have too much time on your hands.
Mom should never invite anyone from the groom’s family to her home, or if she does, she had better lock up the good china, silverware and glasses. Oh, and put jewelry and other valuables in a safe.
Squabbling over a few glasses??? Really? This is what they will walk away from their daughter’s wedding remembering and thinking about??? Get a life!!!
At my wedding reception, I had a co-worker try to walk out with the centerpiece - AND the salt and pepper shakers - AND the tablecloth. I had to tell her to put them back. Another co-worker scolded me for making the thief feel bad. Turns out that the “scolder” had put all the sugar packets she could find, plus TP and paper towels from the ladies’ room into her large purse.
Those two never got an invitation to my house!
It’s possible that people were uninterested in taking home a single painted glass, and let the other people take theirs.
liberals again!!
I was at a wedding reception where a fistfight broke out and the cops were called.
Some of the grooms trashy young cousins found, and opened, some bottles of champagne intended for an after-party. They were load and annoying anyway, and some other guests called them out on their behavior. Punches were thrown!
They better hurry up if they want to get any back. If you go to ebay and type in “hand painted glasses” they may be one of the listings.
Mrs. L is a Banquet Manager at a very high end facility in the western suburbs of Chicago. She’s won some prestigious awards for the quality of the venue, service, etc. These are NOT inexpensive events, costing tens of thousands of dollars for gatherings of less than 200 or so.
In the last ten years she has had:
Mothers of the bride attack female members of the wedding party using high heeled shoes as weapons. Quite a bit of blood there.
Some drunk idiot steal 4 golf carts and ram them into doors, trees, sand traps and then return to the party. He caused about 30k in damage and was arrested, wait for it... ON THE DANCE FLOOR.
Groomsmen drag a bus driver off the bus and beat the crap out of him. This was the ride to the hotel for the entire wedding party, mind you.
Groomsmen break into the very high dollar scotch cabinet and drink $200 a bottle Scotch and passed it around like it was a bottle of cheap wine.
Stopped a woman from performing oral sex on a man in AT THE BAR by pointing out that they were being videod by Security at the time.
And had a relative of the bride drop dead of a heart attack during the reception in the men’s room.
Those are just the stories I can remember off hand. People get downright stupid at weddings.