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I don't see the problem, if it's an excuse to get as many of your friends together as possible to have a party.

If it's just a fund-raising scheme and you SPAM-bomb as many of your casual acquaintances as possible with invitations, then yeah, that's a little tacky.
 
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Bleedsblue&white said:
I don't even know where you're coming from. Where I live, everybody has one, and we all go. If you can't make it you buy a ticket anyways. Shit, I've thrown money out to a friend who could make it when I couldn't, told him to spend it from me. I consider it honourable to know, at the end of the night, I've helped them out. They're my friends.
I'm not the exception, I'm the rule. (I'm not saying I'm an extra great friend). That's why almost 300 people showed up at mine. I've grown up with a lot of the people around here, we tend to get along pretty well in general.

I don't know what kind of friends you have, or how you grew up, but if I cared, I'd pity you for that attitude.
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Gotcha, cletus.

It's a trashy, small town kind of thing to do.
 
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LeafGm said:
I don't see the problem, if it's an excuse to get as many of your friends together as possible to have a party.

If it's just a fund-raising scheme and you SPAM-bomb as many of your casual acquaintances as possible with invitations, then yeah, that's a little tacky.
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I don't know about you, but I don't need another reason to party.

Especially not when there is already a bachelor party and wedding involved (+ showers for the girls side).

When I have a party, I supply the booze and food. Not try to charge entry and make some additional scratch to throw an even bigger party.
 
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It generally replaces the bachelor party...that's what it is...a stag and doe....it merges the two events. At least in my experience.
 
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Why is he being an "ass" not wanting to go to a money-raising event for people that don't even value him enough to invite him to their wedding? The people being asses are them, not corky. And anyone who's been here over the past year knows I'm never in a hurry to defend corky.
 
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If you don't think holding a half charity event/half party for 300 people at a Legion Hall or community centre is tacky then I can't help you.
 
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If you don't think holding a half charity event/half party for 300 people at a Legion Hall or community centre is tacky then I can't help you.
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Absolutely right.

One of my good buddies brothers held his wedding in Jamaica. They are originally from the East Coast but live in TO now. They did it at a resort because if they got a certain amount of people to attend (like 30 or so people) the wedding would be free. So basically they forced their family and friends to go to Jamaica, pay upwards of 1500.00 to attend the 'wedding/resort', so they didn't have to pay anything. Now that's ****ing tacky. On top of that the bride apparently started giving her parents shit who have next to nothing for money as being selfish because they might have not been able to afford it.

I just got back to Vancouver from a wedding on PEI. Was perfect, ceremony was 20 minutes, good dinner, reception wasn't too long and got a shout out during the thank you's for coming all the way from BC. Little gesture like that goes along way with me. 50-60 people there.
 
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Yeah I kinda do side with cork - generally the stags we attended also included the invite to the wedding. Not sure how I would feel to be asked to only go to the fund raiser....probably not good...
 
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Leo Bannister said:
Absolutely right.

One of my good buddies brothers held his wedding in Jamaica. They are originally from the East Coast but live in TO now. They did it at a resort because if they got a certain amount of people to attend (like 30 or so people) the wedding would be free. So basically they forced their family and friends to go to Jamaica, pay upwards of 1500.00 to attend the 'wedding/resort', so they didn't have to pay anything. Now that's ****ing tacky. On top of that the bride apparently started giving her parents shit who have next to nothing for money as being selfish because they might have not been able to afford it.

I just got back to Vancouver from a wedding on PEI. Was perfect, ceremony was 20 minutes, good dinner, reception wasn't too long and got a shout out during the thank you's for coming all the way from BC. Little gesture like that goes along way with me. 50-60 people there.
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Making people travel for wedding or holding it around a major holiday is also crass and tacky in the extreme, IMO. If you want to have your wedding on a beach, knock yourself out. But don't get all pissy if your friends don't want to shell out a couple of thousand bucks on hotels and planes. Destination weddings are pretty much just for parents, siblings, and very best friends/best man kinds of people.

And don't do it around thanksgiving weekend or the week between Christmas and new year. People want and deserve that time for their own families, and you shouldn't be expecting people to set all that aside to come and see you.
 
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theREALkoreaboy said:
If the gays expect anyone to show up for their "weddings", they're being narcissists.
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Stag and does are very much a Hicksville thing. One of my exes from university was from a small town and these were big time things there. People would post notices in the local hick newsletter and complete ransoms would show up hoping to get loaded.

It was tacky as all ****. Though the wedding was almost as bad. Was held in a community hall with bench seats for all the tables. Yet many of the locals thought it was amazing.

****ing hicks.
 
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SundinsTooth said:
Yeah I kinda do side with cork - generally the stags we attended also included the invite to the wedding. Not sure how I would feel to be asked to only go to the fund raiser....probably not good...
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What? There's no invitations, you put an ad in the paper and they come or they don't. It's like going to a bar, just cheaper, and all your friends are there.
Whatever lol, some strange shit indeed.
 
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It sounds pretty redneck-y to me. Not trying to be offensive or anything, but it screams plaid if you catch my drift.
 
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