Letter: Wedded bliss

Heidi Withers was invited to spend the weekend with her fiancé's father and his second wife and told to make herself "feel at home" -which the girl clearly did.

Without realising what happens when you send stuff into the ether, the stepmother, Carolyn To-The Manners-Bourne, fired off a stunningly snobbish e-mail, (your report). It reached the entire planet, as did the father of Heidi's description of the sender: "She has her head stuck so far up her own arse she doesn't know whether to speak or fart."

This response is worthy of Oscar Wilde (or at least Billy Connolly) and well-deserved. During my 35 years as a parish minister I loved conducting weddings, which were always happy occasions - except when the parents-in-law were divorced and remarried.

REV DR JOHN CAMERON

Howard Place

St Andrews, Fife