{"id":38099,"date":"2025-04-07T10:50:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/the-best-possible-wedding-gift-leaving-the-reception-without-saying-goodbye-polly-hudson\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T10:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:50:53","slug":"the-best-possible-wedding-gift-leaving-the-reception-without-saying-goodbye-polly-hudson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/the-best-possible-wedding-gift-leaving-the-reception-without-saying-goodbye-polly-hudson\/","title":{"rendered":"The best possible wedding gift? Leaving the reception without saying goodbye | Polly Hudson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newlyweds spend a ridiculous amount of money to have the same conversations over and over. That\u2019s why it is time to embrace the French exit<\/p>\n<p>Turns out it\u2019s not only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/apr\/04\/tiktok-was-the-first-app-that-made-me-feel-old-now-i-realise-its-much-more-than-dance-and-prank-videos\">intricate dances<\/a> and lip-syncing \u2013 there is common sense on TikTok, too. An idea circulating there is that a new wedding rule should be introduced, stipulating that guests must not say goodbye to the happy couple, but should just leave. That way, the newly spliced spouses are allowed to enjoy the most expensive party they will ever throw, rather than being persistently interrupted and pulled off the dancefloor.<\/p>\n<p>While your kneejerk reaction may be that this is rude, ungrateful ghosting on the most special day of their lives, stop for a moment and think about it rationally \u2013 and mathematically. A wedding reception can easily have 150 guests, some of whom will be in couples. Even if they\u2019re bored witless, social convention dictates that people usually stay until the last, say, two hours of the night, which means one or two goodbyes a minute. So, in fact, the couple won\u2019t be repeatedly pulled off the dancefloor, because they won\u2019t have enough time to get back on it after the previous guests bid them adieu.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/apr\/07\/best-wedding-gift-leaving-reception-without-saying-goodbye-french-exit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newlyweds spend a ridiculous amount of money to have the same conversations over and over. That\u2019s why it is time to embrace the French exit Turns out it\u2019s not only intricate dances and lip-syncing \u2013 there is common sense on TikTok, too. An idea circulating there is that a new wedding rule should be introduced, &#8230; <a title=\"The best possible wedding gift? Leaving the reception without saying goodbye | Polly Hudson\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/the-best-possible-wedding-gift-leaving-the-reception-without-saying-goodbye-polly-hudson\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The best possible wedding gift? Leaving the reception without saying goodbye | Polly Hudson\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}