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> "Goomba" wrote
They do a money tree
>>> in Hawaii as well and you clip money (or checks) to it with paperclips.
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>> Thats about as sad and tacky as "Dollar Dances" at weddings.
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> Naw, not tacky at all! You'd have to see it to understand. 'Dollar
> dances' are tacky. Dollar trees are a normal thing there in Hawaii and
> everyone understands what's up. Saw one couple get almost 30,000$ (very
> big wedding / housewarming with over 1,000 guests I was told at the end).
> It probably cost them 10,000$ to hold the party (Luau with 6 roast pit
> pigs etc).
>
> We werent 'family' but we were more than 'casual friends'. Don and I did
> 12 hours of hard labor running the bar (for free of course) and gave a
> small gift plus a gift card.

Of course it's tacky. There's no difference in my mind between putting a
tree out and expecting money to be pinned on it and shaking your butt in
someone's face to get money tucked into your thong.

You have just described an entire wedding as a business proposition -- how
much they invested, how much they profited, how much you gave in services.
Weddings really aren't supposed to be like that. I avoid any that are.