"Jack & Jill" invitation - apparently a wedding fundraiser! Really?!

[Ember]

I had heard of these before, but this is the first time I've ever been invited to one. I guess in my head I didn't honestly believe anyone would think of their wedding as a charity event! But apparently I do, in fact, know a couple who thinks just this.

I have been invited to spend $10 on a ticket to a "Jack & Jill." After I have paid the entrance fee I will have the option of buying alcohol, buying tickets to raffles, and paying to play games. And the best part is that all the money raised will go to help the couple pay for their wedding! It's that great?!

Then, I assume, I will be eligible to attend a shower and bring a gift, then attend the wedding, help fund that event again by paying for alcohol and bringing a second gift.

I am really starting to hate weddings. Between this and those registry cards included in the invitations I'm really starting to despair that people get married for love. All I'm seeing lately are couples whose eyes are wide with greed at all the money and gifts they figure they have coming.

*sigh*

 

[NMAmy]

It sounds like their shower is being held at Chuck E. Cheese! Paying to get in, paying to play games. Frankly, I'd pay NOT to have to play shower games but that's just me.

Umm..yeah, I'd be declining that invitation.

 

[mickeyboat]

Unfreakingbelievable! I would not be attending, either.

 

[krcit]

Just when I think I've heard it all!! I would be busy that day and for the shower and wedding.Unbelievable.

 

[My sister's princess]

Poor College student here

I really hope this is not the new trend. That is more than a little rude. I don't care how bad off you are, a fundraiser for you wedding is weird. Maybe if you were doing it to save your house, or to send your child to college or pay medical bills, but to throw a part YIKES

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

I don't mind registry cards in the envelope. It saves me time from trying to figure out where they are registered. That doesn't faze me one bit. This however is way over the top.

 

[Aisling]

Tacky tacky tacky.

I wouldn't go.

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Maybe they hve watched "bridezillas" and feel that everything has to be lavish, perfect, and over the top? Money be danged!!

I wonder if they are also going to use the money to "fund" their honeymoon?

(WooHoo GF here they come!!!)

That is just beyond tacky.

I would send them a decline, with some brochures of the different Elvis chaples in Vegas!

hehehehehehhee

 

[luvmy3]

i don't mind registry cards in the envelope. It saves me time from trying to figure out where they are registered. That doesn't faze me one bit. This however is way over the top.

mte

 

[ksjayhawks]

It is really too bad that you are busy and cannot attend, isn't it? ,

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

This has to be the silliest idea I have ever heard of . Ummm..no, I can't come, I'm going to the arcade instead. It's cheaper and at least there I might win a stuffed animal.

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

This has to be the silliest idea I have ever heard of . Ummm..no, I can't come, I'm going to the arcade instead. It's cheaper and at least there I might win a stuffed animal.

judging by your signature, you already did!!

 

[cinmell]

I had heard of these before, but this is the first time I've ever been invited to one. I guess in my head I didn't honestly believe anyone would think of their wedding as a charity event! But apparently I do, in fact, know a couple who thinks just this.

I have been invited to spend $10 on a ticket to a "Jack & Jill." After I have paid the entrance fee I will have the option of buying alcohol, buying tickets to raffles, and paying to play games. And the best part is that all the money raised will go to help the couple pay for their wedding! It's that great?!

Then, I assume, I will be eligible to attend a shower and bring a gift, then attend the wedding, help fund that event again by paying for alcohol and bringing a second gift.

I am really starting to hate weddings. Between this and those registry cards included in the invitations I'm really starting to despair that people get married for love. All I'm seeing lately are couples whose eyes are wide with greed at all the money and gifts they figure they have coming.

*sigh*

I've never heard of this before. How tacky! I can't believe someone has the um, guts to throw an event like this.

 

[bubie2.5]

 

[penguin087]

Oh thats major tacky. I wouldn't go to the "carnival", the shower or the wedding.

 

[Pakey]

This tops the mail-in bridal shower that my MIL "hosted" when youngest BIL was getting married.

 

[dancingdisneygirl]

I'm anti Jack & Jill's. I think they are stupid. Why should I have to pay to come celebrate your wedding with you.

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

This tops the mail-in bridal shower that my MIL "hosted" when youngest BIL was getting married.

okay..

shoo away the chinese crested and post this!!!

hehehehehhe

(a new thread?)

 

[merryweather20]

Must be a regional thing? Most people have them around here. Never thought anything of it. My parents quite like them since they are always $5-$20 bucks which is cheap for a night out and dancing, and the beer is always cheap as well

They usually draw from a slightly different crowd than the wedding. My BF had one up North with her soon to be DH's friends and family. No one from down hear travelled up, but it was nice for some of the Northerners to party down with the Bride and Groom too.

Sometimes its alot of the parents friends who come out, othertimes its alot of the kids.

Just turn it down, its an invite not a demand

 

[Darsa]

Wow, that's not just tacky, that's SUPERTACKY!!