Asked for daughters hand over email...

Swampyseifer

Swampyseifer

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So, as the title suggests I emailed my partners father to ask for her hand in marriage...

digital age encroaching on everyday life

OR

epic failz in the manliness area
 
whoa...severe negative feedback!! lol

I am going to talk to him about our thoughts on the wedding but I just utilised email to initially introduce him to the idea
 
secretspy said:
oh...oh no that wasn't a very good idea lol.

In the words of Homer Simpson "Doh!!!"

Why did you decide to ask by email? :confused:
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well I'm a very new-age technological person and tbh I think having to ask her father whether she can marry me is old fashioned.

However, she said it would be a nice gesture to make the father part of it...so, in a moment of complete madness I mixed the old fashioned approach with the new-age stylee
 
The father has already read the email and replied to say that he is glad that I have chosen to consider his opinnion in the matter

so there OCUK.....you're not always right! :p
 
wow, thats a lot of replies......some unneccesarily harsh.

as I said, I think the concept is outdated and unneccesary, thats why I didnt go to effort of buying him a pint to ask him a question which (as a previous poster pointed out) he has no real say in and even if he had said no the wedding would go ahead anyway. I emailed him just to broach the subject of marrying his daughter and that I would discuss it with him and his wife in more detail at the weekend.

I phrased my post to make a joke of the situation really, something I have tried to keep up as I went along - like the lol after suggesting I was prodding the boundaries of society.

Still, was a good laugh for the first few pages!
 
Chocolate-dipped Jesus on a stick!

Right just to try and clear things up. I never made this thread to either make my choice of communicative methods feel right or wrong. I simply thought it was quite funny and if you look at many of the posts at the beginning, it was a joke and as expected there were plenty of /facepalms and epic fail images. I didnt create this so I could argue and justify the finer points of respect or how out-dated the concept was, I chose to do it that way, when I thought about it, it seemed quite a daft/funny way to do it and I thought I would share.

The father IS NOT a member on here....

The wife to be, knew that I had done this and was quite supportive and I even passed the email by her first as she wanted to know what I was going to say.

The father replied within a few hours, thanking me for asking for his opinnion and agreed to discuss the finer points with his wife and I this Sunday.

My wife to be, spoke to her father, who mentioned that I had been in touch with him...she pretended to not know...he said he had some good news to talk about this weekend and she said he sounded happy.
 
Sharlaw said:
To be fair mate, whatever people say here, we don't know you, your missus or her father. It all seems to have worked out well, and I wish you all the happiness in the world. Good luck to you both.
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Thank you

I quite agree, thats why the thread was fine while it was just a load of people saying epic failz and lulz and the like.

When it gets to the point when people suggest I have no balls or am missing a spine, or even to the degree that a mod felt the need to star out something they deemed as a 'personal attack' then its going a bit far
 
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