Say, hypothetically, that you had just been forwarded an email with information about your high school reunion. Say further that the email had been forwarded about 23 times before it reached you. Say that the person who forwarded it to you was your MOTHER, who was apparently cooler than you when you were in high school even though she was not, technically, a member of your high school class, yet somehow she mysteriously made it onto the list of people to forward it to and you did not.
Hypothetically, if these things were true, how much would you pay to go to such an event? If it had an open bar? Or would you pay to not go?
I paid $85 to go to mine this summer, with no open bar (the $5 glass of wine was totally worth it though) – and it wasn’t really worth it.
I graduated from two high schools (don’t ask) and well… I’ll be 31 in almost a month and have never been invited to any reunions. Neither has my brother (though he only graduated from one high school so he’s got less of a chance).
Anyway. I would not go. At all. Not even if I were paid money to go.
But you’re not me. You’re married and cute and own a place and have an impressive sounding job. I am none of those things. You should do what’s right for you. Or at the very least, cough up $100 to send your mom, so she can catch up with her/your old friends.
$100 is way too much! Also, I am not as cool as you or your mother, because I didn’t get that email! Luckily I will be out of town so I don’t even have to legitimize my not going…phew.
I just had the whole reunion invite thing at it was at Joe’s Bar on Weed Street. Open bar and snacks. $55 a person.
Regardless if I’m pregnant, there is NO WAY Bryan and I would have consumed that much booze to justify those ticket prices. Others? Probably thought that was a bargain. Then we got an email saying there were lower ticket prices for pregnant people who couldn’t drink. Score! I thought that was super nice. Went down to $20 a person.
So, I think the $100 is a lot, unless it’s at some super swank place. Which I doubt, since it’s only the 10 year. And really, for the 10 year, a lot of people our age don’t have wads of extra cash, so they should go easy on us at this point. Then if we’re still broke-ass bitches by the 20 year, it’s our own damn fault
Completely aside from everything else, I think that if the invitations are being sent via email forwarding, that is a big warning about the ability of the organizers to put together an event.