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How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by x1798DE »

sumeno wrote: post #41
iblaine wrote: post #10

Physical wedding invitations are still tradition such that people may get offended if they do not get one in the mail.

Anyone so offended by the lack of a physical invitation that they don't come to my wedding is someone I wouldn't want at my wedding anyway. Two birds, one stone

I wasn't offended by lack of a physical invitation, but a friend of mine got married and invited my wife and I in a very informal way with a text message. We ended up waiting until way too late to book tickets, because my wife was expecting a physical invitation to follow the informal SMS save-the-date, and we ended up missing the wedding because flights got ungodly expensive (and involved many complicated connections).

Anyway, it's not totally relevant to the main story here, since that was very obviously a "This is the official invitation/confirmation" thing, but I think it's worth considering that if you are going to buck tradition, you should try to be absolutely clear that that's what you're doing so that people can adjust.

Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by fuckemem »

polmuz wrote: post #9
jdpedrie wrote: post #2

I like it, but I think if I'd sent out save the dates via SMS for my wedding I'd have been sleeping alone for quite a while.

Why?

Privacy and 4th amendment concerns: They'll need a warrant to open your guest's mail

Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by arthur_pryor »

froindt wrote: post #71
noobiemcfoob wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Add a couple more features, we might well have LaaS (Life as a Service)

And SaaS (Sex as a Service). The day there's an app for people seeking prostitutes where both parties leave stars and text reviews like Airbnb or Uber will be a weird day.

not that those rating systems can't be gamed, but yeah, this would definitely be better than the current situation of criminalized prostitution. esp if prostitutes could leave reviews of clients. i imagine there'd be less scamming, violence, and disease transmission on both sides of that sort of transaction if there were reputable rating services that let prostitutes and clients vet one another. it would also lessen the value of pimps/madames/etc, thus making it easier for prostitutes to work independently, which would hopefully lessen the prevalence of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation.

so yeah, weird, but in a good "we finally got rid of a relic of our prudish past" sort of way.

Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by nutanc »

What are the odds, wrote this blog exactly 5 years ago,to the day, http://blog.kookoo.in/2012/04/wedding-ivr.html

This was built using KooKoo, the Twilio for India and is more of an IVR rather than SMS as India is a voice friendly country, and who does not like to hear the invite in the groom's own voice :)

Its got options for directions etc too, people always seem to call to know the directions to marriage hall :)

Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by randlet »

cheeze wrote: post #51

> It is a cash bar, so please bring sufficient money with you as there is no nearby cash machine. Are guests expected to purchase their own alcohol at their wedding?

I think the author is in the UK where I believe cash bars at weddings are more socially acceptable.

I've been to a few weddings here in Canada with cash bars. Some people really frown on it, but it's not a big deal to me. Some people just can't afford it.

Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by mstade »

sumeno wrote: post #38
andrewguenther wrote: post #23

In my opinion, this makes the whole process very impersonal. I invited people to my wedding because I care about them and wanted them to share that day with me. Although it was a lot of effort, I was happy to make save the dates, invitations, and hand write thank you notes to every singe one of them. If you're not willing to do that, then you're inviting too many people in my opinion.

Not everyone cares about the same things you do. I used paperless post for my wedding because it was easy, free, and physical wedding invitations are not important to me or my wife in any way. Nobody complained, it took a couple hours to get everything set up the way we wanted it, and within a few days we had around a 90% response rate. Only 1 person RSVPed as no so it doesn't seem like anyone got the impression we d…

I'd love it if I didn't get dead tree invitations. I have nowhere to put them and I feel bad throwing them away. And also of course, dead trees.

Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by tootie »

iblaine wrote: post #10

Physical wedding invitations are still tradition such that people may get offended if they do not get one in the mail.

I personally abhor empty formality. I got married 10+ years ago and can't for the life of me remember what we did for invitations and I doubt anyone who came remembers either. I remember the food pretty well because it was great. We did a chocolate cake (black forest) which people still remember.

Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by rdiddly »

downandout wrote: post #50
paulcole wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>They're doing what they can To be a little more accurate, "They're doing what they choose to." Nobody does what they can. My problem is in even saying that this is an environmental decision, like that matters at all.

They're doing what they can within the confines of the activity they are engaged in, which happens to be having a wedding. That involves travel, whether environmentalists like it or not.

Within the confines of my current activity (sitting on my ass) I am doing what I can (nothing since I'm sitting) to become a world-class marathon runner.
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