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  • #2
    Addle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,817 ✭✭✭Addle


    I've known 'guests' to be charged for day after bbqs, but at least they'd been to the wedding and knew in advance there was an additional cost. Still bad form imo though.


  • #3
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,555 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Addle wrote: »
    I've known 'guests' to be charged for day after bbqs, but at least they'd been to the wedding and knew in advance there was an additional cost. Still bad form imo though.
    Really? God thankfully I have never experienced that. I remember going to a next day BBQ and I couldn't genuinely make wedding the day before. I was welcomed with a fridge full of free beer and a dj in a marquee.

    To thine own self be true



  • #4
    Moody_mona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭Moody_mona


    I went to a second day dinner. We went to the races first, paid for by ourselves, and we had been advised when booking the hotel to get the 2 night bed and breakfast with one dinner. Thought it was genius. Wedding had about 200 and second day had 50. I thought it was very clever. The couple were upfront about it and it was optional.


  • #5
    GingerLily
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,766 ✭✭✭GingerLily


    Where did this happen?

    We're having a BYOB BBQ the second day, there will be some refreshments but if you want to drink more than one or two just pop to the off licence and bring along a 6 pack etc. Kinda how you would do it at a normal BBQ?


  • #6
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    In the UK, it was a mumsnet thread.

    We had a second day thing which my parents hosted in their home, mainly for relatives and a few friends came too. I have been at second day BBQs, not at a cost to us though. People who see their guests as a means of funding the wedding they want are few and far between thankfully, but I have heard a lot of 'cover your costs from your cash gifts' stories online.


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  • #7
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    I think half those mumsnet threads are made up.


  • #8
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    I think half those mumsnet threads are made up.

    Absolutely. In fact I would say it's more than half. I enjoy some of them, even when they are obvious trolls. :D


  • #9
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,555 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Wish someone else would verify that story because I want to know if it's true!

    To thine own self be true



  • #10
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    Probably not. Mumsnet is troll city particularly at the moment.


  • #11
    Toots
    Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,978 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    Yeah there's been a fair few mumsnet stories that made it into the media in the last year or so, and I reckon a lot of what's been posted there lately is people posting stuff in the hopes that the Daily Mail or one of the other rags picks it up.


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  • #12
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,272 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Its click bait.


  • #13
    bee06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,514 ✭✭✭bee06


    Was invited to a BBQ the day after a wedding at a cost of 20euro (just for food). Expensive BBQ in my opinion, we didn't bother going. It was explained beforehand alright and I assume we had the option of going and not eating.


  • #14
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,555 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    bee06 wrote: »
    Was invited to a BBQ the day after a wedding at a cost of 20euro (just for food). Expensive BBQ in my opinion, we didn't bother going. It was explained beforehand alright and I assume we had the option of going and not eating.
    Was that at a venue?
    I hope they weren't crass enough to charge for a BBQ at home?

    To thine own self be true



  • #15
    bee06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,514 ✭✭✭bee06


    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    Was that at a venue?
    I hope they weren't crass enough to charge for a BBQ at home?

    Yeah, it was at a venue.


  • #16
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,555 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    bee06 wrote: »
    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    Was that at a venue?
    I hope they weren't crass enough to charge for a BBQ at home?

    Yeah, it was at a venue.
    Still mean.
    Was there free drinks included too do you know?

    To thine own self be true



  • #17
    bee06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,514 ✭✭✭bee06


    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    Still mean.
    Was there free drinks included too do you know?

    No drinks included. Just 20 Euro for the food. Buy your own drink.


  • #18
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,555 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    bee06 wrote: »
    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    Still mean.
    Was there free drinks included too do you know?

    No drinks included. Just 20 Euro for the food. Buy your own drink.
    The venue must have had a price pp but 20e is a bit steep.
    The b+g could have foregone the food and just sent out a meet for drinks invite.

    To thine own self be true



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