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Originally Posted by ItalianFX
This is bugging the **** out of me and put me on life tilt tonight. More of a vent post, but maybe someone can tell me this is normal.
There is a long backstory to the personality of one of my friends and I think I'm starting to reach my breaking point.
He's getting married next weekend and I'm in his wedding. Tomorrow is his "bachelor" party - we're going golfing and then going out to his uncle's camp afterwards. First off, FFS golfing for a bachelor party!?
Anyways, tomorrow we're playing a scramble and there is going to be about 15 people playing.
Tonight one of our other friend's invited us up to his house, but my friend was working and then he just went home. I asked him if he was going and he said I would have to ask the woman - which I already knew she said no.
So it was 3 of us at our other friends house and we're all playing tomorrow. All of us, at the same time, got a text message from him that said, "Bring some cash tomoro cuz the winner gets the pot then donates it to our honeymoon fund"
I was thinking "WTF?!" So I texted him back asking him why I would donate to his honeymoon fund? I think it's extremely tacky that he ****ing tells all of us to bring cash to put money into the "pot" and then directly donate it to him. Why not just give him the money directly? All of us were pissed that he's telling us to give him money. I'll ****ing lose on purpose if he's going to be that greedy and tacky.
Is that standard? I don't know. It put me on life tilt for like a half hour while we all bitched about how stupid it was that he said that.
I've been to a few bachelor parties where we did the all day thing (golf - lunch - poker at somebody's house - bar) and they have been a lot of fun. I think the golfing just depends on if the majority in the group are golfers or not.
Yes it is standard to do whatever you can for the bachelor party to help the groom get some cash. Whether it's skins golfing and they get a % somehow, or poker and they take a cut etc. Also like I said normally it would be a "share" of it. Not the entire thing.
But yes, tacky that he would just come out and say it, since afaik it's pretty much a given.