Just asking: Is it tight to charge your guests to come to your party?
Wait, before you say “yes totally!” I want you to think “GFC” and read the email I received from Sarah about this exact issue.
She wrote:
I have a delicate issue that I need some social advice on that I know you will be able to help me with.
Question: Is it ok to have a significant birthday party and charge your guests to attend?
Example: A friend of mine is having her 40th coming up – at The Hyatt Hotel in Canberra – it will be a very glamour cocktail event, that will cost about $120 per head. She is looking at having about 50 close friends, a band, room hire etc. the function will end up costing her about $7,000.
She is considering charging her guests a nominal cost (ie $40 per head) and has asked for my advice on the matter. I am in two minds – initially I think it is really tight, and that if you cant afford to throw your friends a party then don’t have one.
Then I started thinking maybe it was a bit practical. If you stipulated no gifts and in lieu of that a charge…..
No, I still think its pretty average.
I would love your thoughts Mamamia community…..HELP
Tough call this one. In a perfect rich world, we would all be able to entertain our friends in lavish style or even just buy them a few drinks and some teeny little gourmet rice paper rolls carried around on a silver tray. And pay for it. Group dinners are SUCH a minefield of ettiquette it’s hard to know where to start.
Dive in. What’s been your experience and do you have any kind of….policy?
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