"sponsored" weddings?

[Briar Rose 7457]

new story on t.v. tonight -- want a deluxe wedding but can't afford it? have it sponsored by a business or businesses.

good idea or terribly tacky?

 

[Jeff in BigD]

terribly tacky.

"Bud light, the official beer of John & Heather's wedding!"

 

[Serena]

tacky

 

[house_of_princesses]

I'm goin' with tacky. Almost as bad as registering at 5 or more stores....

Official beer of...

LOL!

 

[aahmom1]

Really tacky!!

 

[Nagle]

But Jeff, what if the wedding is sponsored by the good stuff instead of Bud Lite?

"Glenfiddich, we paid more because this wedding is worth more." LOL

Still tacky?

 

[CathyCanada]

LOL John!!!

Definitely tacky. I see that you were smart enough to not put this in poll form where Alex would obviously cheat and alter the numbers!

CC

 

[Jeff in BigD]

Originally posted by Nagle
"Glenfiddich, we paid more because this wedding is worth more." LOL

Still tacky?

*thinking*

 

[jfulcer]

"BigD's wedding has been brought to you by iMac"

 

[Jeff in BigD]

Originally posted by jfulcer
"BigD's wedding has been brought to you by iMac"

Once you go Mac, you never go back.

 

[WebmasterAlex]

I have this mental picture of the bride walking down the aisle with "valvoline" across her butt

 

[Jeff in BigD]

Originally posted by WebmasterAlex
I have this mental picture of the bride walking down the aisle with "valvoline" across her butt

Maybe it should be Crisco

 

[DonnaS]

I've heard of this before. I think it is done somewhat like church bulletins although even more subtly-- with statements very tastefully thanking vendors on the back page of the wedding program.

I don't know if I would do it, but heck if I could get a company to provide something expensive for free just for putting that on the back of the wedding program???? I might consider it. Maybe it's the frugal German in me. LOL

 

[WebmasterAlex]

 

[Cindy B]

Originally posted by DonnaS
I've heard of this before. I think it is done somewhat like church bulletins although even more subtly-- with statements very tastefully thanking vendors on the back page of the wedding program.

I don't know if I would do it, but heck if I could get a company to provide something expensive for free just for putting that on the back of the wedding program???? I might consider it. Maybe it's the frugal German in me. LOL

Donna-- I have seen it like that... with a small insert in the program saying the couples say thank you to the following companies for their support...

I would do it. Weddings are expensive (I know I paid for it ourselves!) Photography, cake, even other things, sure I would say thanks in a nice non tacky way.

 

[snuggles]

ROFL Alex!

 

[RUDisney]

I say more power to the couples who get businesses to sponsor their wedding. How can it possibly be profitable for a business to market itself that way?

So you invite 200 guests. A third of them won't be around by your 5th anniversary (i.e. older than dirt,) a third of them are 35-65, and the rest are younger than 35. Even if they gain a customer or two, is this really a profitable way for them to advertise? Or, is it such a novelty that it will be picked up by the local news for "free" advertising?

How far does sponsorship go? Do you have a bar that is only stocked with Canadian Club because they donated the bottles? "Sorry, no vodka and tonic for you, but I can mix the tonic with whiskey for you..."

I may be wrong, but I see more value in donating money to a charity for an ad in its program than in donating the flowers to a wedding. You can reach a bigger audience, plus you look charitable. Biggest benefit... the couple doesn't look cheap.

 

[jfulcer]

Originally posted by Jeff in BigD
Once you go Mac, you never go back.

buwhahahahhaha! Your devotion to those fruity computers certainly makes me laugh. Good one!

 

[jfulcer]

Originally posted by RUDisney
I may be wrong, but I see more value in donating money to a charity for an ad in its program than in donating the flowers to a wedding. You can reach a bigger audience, plus you look charitable. Biggest benefit... the couple doesn't look cheap.

How does it make the couple look cheap? I know many friends that got married and wished they had more money to work with because parents couldn't help, or the parents weren't around or they just didn't have the means to do it the way they wanted themselves?

I don't know too many girls that don't grow up hoping to have this big beautiful wedding with champagne and flowers all over. Some of those same girls that can't afford something like that might be willing to do a little advertising to have some extra cash for the event. After all, most people only get married once.

I think the audience is much larger than you might think because anyone that attends that wedding is going to tell their friends "Hey, we were at Susie's wedding and look at their program - it has an advertising for Joe's radiator shop." Whether or not the friends like the advertising is a mute point, because they just got their name out to a larger audience.

 

[Poohnatic]

Tacky, tacky, tacky.

I planned two weddings, both done with our own money. Easy answer to the expensive wedding is to cut down that guest list. 100 invited to the first, 57 attended (lived 5 hours away from most guests). Wonderful ex father in law picked up the reception bill when it was presented, but we were prepared to pay the $2500 that was presented. Both mine and maid of honors dresses were off the rack-spent more on hers than on mine!

Second wedding, 60 invited, 48 attended. I like the idea of it being an intimate celebration with CLOSE family and friends. I wasn't inviting cousins who I hadn't seen in nearly 20 years. If we couldn't pay for it, it wasn't gonna happen.

I've been to some huge weddings, and I did enjoy them quite a bit (three friends in the past three years have had those 25-30k weddings), but I also have had a great time at some very small weddings.

I don't think I'd like the 'corporate sponsored' deal. It smacks of 'I want you to share in my day, but I want you to patronize this company since they're footing the bill' and that just turns me off. Don't invite me if you can't afford for me to come-I will understand!

Suzanne