Just one of those random thoughts – What if one had been invited to Jeff Bezos’ $20 Million wedding extravaganza in Europe?
What would be the appropriate wedding gift to send?
The groom has the resources to have already bought everything he might ever have wanted, and the bride is getting the groom. They certainly don’t need a set of silver cake forks!
If one was in the near-Bezos wealth category and wanted to make sure one would not be invited to his next wedding, there would be options like … maybe his & hers tickets for a SpaceX ride? For the rest of us, what to do?
In the interests of full disclosure, my invite to the wedding got lost in the mail. Whew! Possible major breach of etiquette avoided.
On a smaller scale, it’s the same kinda conundrum when a couple who have been living together for a few years gets married. Wedding gifts were originally meant to help the newlyweds establish a household, but in such cases: done that! So they wrack their brains thinking up luxury items they really don’t need. I’m attending a wedding next month where the couple didn’t even bother with that, just said anybody who’d like to can contribute to their honeymoon fund…well, okay, but since they both make lotsa money, idk, $500 or so seems like both too much and too little.
Bezos is an INTJ, and INTJs have a weak spot in extraverted sensing:
Extraverted Sensing (Se) is the function that engages directly with the external, physical world—what’s real, tangible, and happening right now. For types with inferior or underdeveloped Se (like INTJ, INFJ), the function tends to operate unconsciously or immaturely, which can create specific pitfalls.
When INTJs are severely stressed, Se can erupt in unhealthy, uncontrolled ways:
I suppose I could dig out my space studies institute senior associate certificate that was numbered one after Ronald Reagan’s which was 400 mine was 401. I got it while I was SSI’s Miami local support team leader promoting Gerard O’Neil’s ideas to the community there. I don’t know maybe some kid in high school heard about that.
It’s kind of ironic that I tested out the Plato network’s group note facility that operated between the Cyber nodes worldwide a few years before Usenet took off, by creating a space industrialization group. That was part of the reason the Miami herald and AT&T joint venture got me down to Miami to architect the nationwide roll out. But then I discovered when I was down there that they didn’t want people talking directly to each other because that would be unmoderated. So I left probably before Jeffy and I ever met.
“honeymoon” – there is another concept that has gone south. I recall reading about not-so-long-ago marriages in an Italian village, where the groom would proudly wave the blood-stained sheet off the bed out of the window so that the wedding revelers in the street below would know that the bride had been a virgin.
