Spinoff thread. Gifts how much is too

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Registered: 07-23-2003
Spinoff thread. Gifts how much is too
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Tue, 06-26-2007 - 11:47am

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Registered: 06-17-2003
Mon, 07-02-2007 - 9:28am
If you can't afford to pay for alcohol for your guests, then you just don't offer alcohol at the reception. Where I'm from (NJ) it is considered extremely rude to ask guests to pay for their drinks.
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Registered: 06-17-2003
Mon, 07-02-2007 - 9:32am
My per person cost for the reception included 5 hours of open bar. It also included the wedding cake, cocktail hour with passed appetizers, champagne toast, certerpieces for the table, and a few other things. I don't remember actually getting a price for a reception that didn't include an open bar.
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Registered: 07-23-2003
Mon, 07-02-2007 - 9:38am

<If you can't afford to pay for alcohol for your guests, then you just don't offer alcohol at the reception. Where I'm from (NJ) it is considered extremely rude to ask guests to pay for their drinks. >


While I am not one to love a cash bar why do we keep talking about what "we" as guests think is rude and not rude at a wedding.

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Registered: 06-17-2003
Mon, 07-02-2007 - 9:38am
I went to a wedding in Vermont/New Hampshire (wedding in one state, reception in the other, not sure which was where though) and there was an open bar. I've also been to as wedding in CT that had an open bar (is CT considered New England?).
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Registered: 01-15-2006
Mon, 07-02-2007 - 9:42am
ot but i was lurking through this thread over the weekend with ds on my lap......he's absolutely amazed and in love with your butterfly. lol. ;)

 

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Registered: 07-23-2003
Mon, 07-02-2007 - 10:01am

Why thank you :)

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Registered: 07-08-2001
Mon, 07-02-2007 - 10:01am
I had the strangest flashback reading your post. Being a Newenglandah myself (a "real" one at that, *wink*), I have been lurking on (lurking in? at? against?) your conversations and have been cracking up. My great-aunts, 3 lovely never-married ladies from the Boston area who raised my dad when his
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 07-02-2007 - 10:25am
That's why I keep coming back to the regional thing.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 07-02-2007 - 10:27am

That's because you're a youngun.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 07-02-2007 - 10:31am
I tried to get my Sacramento bride friend to go out, but she didn't want to, so I went out with the bridal party without her!!! DH couldn't make it to that wedding, so I was free as a bird and I certainly wasn't going to go home at 9:30.

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