Nice! One thing about the RSVP, it has a section where you can specify the number of "Wife or kids" you are bringing. Probably could be reworded to something more neutral.
Congrats on your anniversary!
Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they mean the word "Fiancee" which refers to a woman that is engaged to be married.
I don't know anyone who uses fiancee in a gendered way; all my engaged friends refer to their future husband/wife as their fiancee (though, granted, I'm probably not as old as many here who are already wed so I might just be out of the loop). Google's definition of fiancee seems to offer both wife-to-be and husband-to-be as synonyms as well, so I'm not really sure the parent's sneer is really valid in this case.
Apparently the number of "e"s matters and one means male and two means female. In practice, I highly doubt anyone actually knows or cares.
Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they mean the word "Fiancee" which refers to a woman that is engaged to be married.
I don't know anyone who uses fiancee in a gendered way; all my engaged friends refer to their future husband/wife as their fiancee (though, granted, I'm probably not as old as many here who are already wed so I might just be out of the loop). Google's definition of fiancee seems to offer both wife-to-be and husband-to-be as synonyms as well, so I'm not really sure the parent's sneer is really valid in this case.
The word fiancé/fiancée is gendered. It is one of the few gendered words in English, as the gender was not dropped in taking it from French. Fiancé refers to the male. Fiancée refers to the female. They are pronounced exactly the same, which is why you have never heard it.
Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they mean the word "Fiancee" which refers to a woman that is engaged to be married.
I don't know anyone who uses fiancee in a gendered way; all my engaged friends refer to their future husband/wife as their fiancee (though, granted, I'm probably not as old as many here who are already wed so I might just be out of the loop). Google's definition of fiancee seems to offer both wife-to-be and husband-to-be as synonyms as well, so I'm not really sure the parent's sneer is really valid in this case.
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#35I was totally on-board until he mentioned he works for Oath.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's no gender specific wording anywhere on the open sourced website, or in the parent post, so the parent's regex works regardless of who's doing the regexing.
I think they mean the word "Fiancee" which refers to a woman that is engaged to be married.
TIL there's a separate term for the male in this case.
Looking it up, it appears the distinction between fiancé (for the man) and fiancée (for the woman) has been falling out of style.
This isn't helped by the fact that the distinction in spelling is, apparently, taken directly from French and that both words are pronounced the same way.
Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they mean the word "Fiancee" which refers to a woman that is engaged to be married.
I don't know anyone who uses fiancee in a gendered way; all my engaged friends refer to their future husband/wife as their fiancee (though, granted, I'm probably not as old as many here who are already wed so I might just be out of the loop). Google's definition of fiancee seems to offer both wife-to-be and husband-to-be as synonyms as well, so I'm not really sure the parent's sneer is really valid in this case.
The technicality here is that “fiancée” is historically female while “fiancé” is historically male. Same word, same pronunciation different suffix. Either way, nothing to get hung up about.
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#38I still find the idea of a digital wedding invitation pretty strange, because here in Hungary the bride and the fiancé invite everybody in person together. Maybe distant relatives are invited by mail or something. Is digital invitation a common thing nowadays? Or was it more common even years ago in other countries?
Yes, sites are the best way to get information for weddings IMO. What we did was: send out an invitation and it had the date + website (no other info) so people HAD to go on the website to get that information. I love the idea of the couple inviting everyone in person, I would've loved to do that too. We invited close family and friends so would've been obvious.
We did the same. Paper + only date & website link. Worked out awesome. Then you can update the site as people ask questions or need more detailed info, etc.
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#39Happy Anniversary! For those looking to use this, the following may help a little: find /path/to/folder -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/Ram/YourName/g' find /path/to/folder -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/Antara/OtherHalfsName/g' Edit: FianceeName -> OtherHalfsName (some people are easily offended) :P
This doesn't solve polymarriages, but fixing that is probably more than a regex.
Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary
#40I still find the idea of a digital wedding invitation pretty strange, because here in Hungary the bride and the fiancé invite everybody in person together. Maybe distant relatives are invited by mail or something. Is digital invitation a common thing nowadays? Or was it more common even years ago in other countries?
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