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conflicted - bachlor party but too expensive

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You should do it if they are really good friends. My friends spent probably over $1500 each on a trip for my bachelor party. I'm sure they had as much fun as I did.
 
unknown00 said:
one of my good friends (i would say one of my closest friend from college, though we don't talk much anymore cause i moved) just got engaged and is having a bachelor party. i was invited. it's going to be a weekend thing (so total fun time of like 48hours) and is going to cost roughly $800-$1000 all inclusive (includes cost of paying for bachelor). i can't justify spending $800 (lets just say it'll cost this much) for 48hours of fun, that's ridiculous. i'm not poor, i have the money, but again, 48hours of fun for $800? it just sounds ridiculous to me

am i really being too cheap or am i reasonable in my thoughts?
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That is ridiculous. You're not being cheap. It's not a quinceanera or a bar mitzvah or a vacation, it's about getting together for one last night out as an unmarried man with your best friends and (male) family only. Usually involves drinking and strip clubs. If they're turning it into a vacation and dialing up the costs to the point of excluding people then they're doing it wrong.
 
Can you deal with missing one of your "good friend's" party? Are you cool with being the guy in the circle who can't recount the good time you had in Miami 5 years later? Sometimes memories cost a fair bit to make and to me, that is worth $800 if it's money you have in the bank today.

Bottom line is life sucks way too much to bail on an opportunity like this one.
 
jessica. said:
Can you deal with missing one of your "good friend's" party? Are you cool with being the guy in the circle who can't recount the good time you had in Miami 5 years later? Sometimes memories cost a fair bit to make and to me, that is worth $800 if it's money you have in the bank today.

Bottom line is life sucks way too much to bail on an opportunity like this one.
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Let me expand on this.

My friends had just turned 21 and they invited me to go to Vegas. I'm about six months older so we couldn't go for my 21st. I was broke at the time and my then girlfriend was a real debby downer. One of my friend's girlfriend's uncle's and his friends ended up going and paid for everything! Strippers, food, gambling money, etc.

I missed out big to say the least.
 
If you have themoney,I think you are being cheap.Money can't buy friends but can make you lose friends.
While I was graduating, an old good friend of mine contacted me so I could be there (I used to live in France but then moved to the UK). We had not spoken in a while. I barely had the money and knew that if I spent it I will have a tough month ahead of me.
I did it anyway and the wedding was **** but my friendwas very happy to see me there.
I still don't see him but from time to time I send him updates or so does he.
Now, I forgot about the money or the hard month I had after that and I am very happy that I sucked it up.
Friendshipis not always about receiving but receiving.
Ponder on that my friend.
 
I'm poor, a shut-in, don't drink alcohol, have very little interest in sex (clinically low testosterone) and don't have many friends, so let me live vicariously through you all and tell me what you do in Miami for 48 hours? It sounds stressful to me, but I'm always stressed out. Like flying there and back and just being there for a day essentially, and I guess in between you drink, high five, watch strippers? All I can imagine is what I've seen in the movies, like the Hangover. That looked really stressful.

But if you think you'll have fun and you can afford it, you should go! I just can't imagine anything fun beginning with a plane trip, lol. But you should see me on airplanes...in fact you would know if you had, I'm the one rocking in a fetal position singing to himself nervously--although I haven't flown since Sept 11 at all.

Seriously not looking for pity, I'm happy most of the time actually, I really would like to know what happens at actual bachelor parties.
 
swingerofbirch said:
Seriously not looking for pity, I'm happy most of the time actually, I really would like to know what happens at actual bachelor parties.
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I will defer to your longevity, and accept your post as written.

It is an ugly, disgusting display of macho bull-****, which proves absolutely nothing.

That may be the point, but chaining a bowling ball to a drunk's ankle is beyond my scope of entertainment.
 
Do it! in the future when you have a wife and kids and responsibilities these opportunities dont present themselves you'll be full of regrets. You can't put a price on these type of memories and the prospect of no regrets later on in life.
 
Some of the best times I ever had were at out-of-town bachelor parties. If you can afford it, go for it.
 
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