How to handle: Receipt of inappropriate cards/gifts...

I think this is hilarious. Unless you know her to be someone who would try to stir stuff up, she may have just grabbed it in a rush and not really looked closely at it. I almost bought a mother's day card for my step mom that was for "a special woman" and would have been offensive to her, but I was picking things up quickly, it was a pretty color, I liked the inside and did not notice until I dropped it before I bought it. Unless this is something she does all the time, I would cut her some slack. Especially with the language barrier.

I very highly doubt that it was intentional. If she wanted to insult you, she wouldn't be sending you a gift or card.

I'm thinking it was just a mistake, my aunt who speaks english as her first language got me a Congratulations card for my bridal shower and inside it said "we knew you could do it" so clearly it was for a graduation or something like that, people sometimes are rushed when they're picking things up.

Also I don't think being called Groom's to be is an insult anyways!

I got a a card that said something like "cheers to MR & MR" (were a heterosexual couple) and i'm just assuming it was an oversight. It was probably in the wedding section of cards and she like the pictures on the front!

I think you handled it fine but I really wouldn't' worry about this for one more second. I highly doubt it was anything more than an honest mistake.

LOL I don't think it's a big deal. As someone who speaks a couple of different languages, I understand. I feel like it could be confused with the word Newlyweds. And in a lot of languages, whenever you're talking about a couple or a group of people with at least one male, the word is masculine.

I think my FH and I would have ourselves a big laugh over this. I definitely think this was just an oversight. She probably just grabbed a cute-looking card from the wedding section without realizing what it said.

My husband and I received a card meant for a homosexual couple at our wedding. When I told the person who gave it to us that we thought it was funny that person said they didn't even realize it was meant for two men. She just grabbed it because it was in the wedding section the day of the wedding. People make mistakes or don't bother looking at things when they're in a hurry.

LOL! I agree with others this was very likely unintentional. My dad was in his mid-eighties when he bought me a birthday card that read, "You're like a daughter to us...". My mom didn't have the heart to tell him, so they gave me the card, and she and I got a good laugh over it. Both my folks are gone now, but it's a very happy memory. And, it, especially, comes to mind when I inadvertently pick up a hilariously inappropriate card while shopping for a greeting card.... He loved me enough to go shopping for a special card; he just happened to picked one that had an extra funny message!

We received a "Mr. and Mr." card for our wedding, and my friend did too. The card was super cute, and I honestly think that the gifters didn't realize it. I can confirm that in my friend's case, because the gifter was a bridesmaid and she told us about their card blunder and said they didn't realize it until they were sealing up the card. No biggie at all!

FWIW, my brother-in-law (whose first language is Spanish) asked my sister before they were married, "What will your fathers think when they find out we are boyfriends?" In Spanish, the plural of anything that includes at least one male is masculine, and he was just doing a direct translation. Any chance that's what happened here?