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three cheers for honey  that was a splendid rush thread, with several lines that made me giggle. you have both an excellent memory and a talent for telling a story - usually with the retro threads by the last round it's pretty clear to me which one is going to be the chapter pledged, but you had me strung out until the last  |
Thank you! I was pretty strung out by then, too!
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also, those pref parties sound AMAZING. necklaces? monogrammed chocolate for each girl? men in tuxes? how much did all of this cost?
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WAY too much!! If you had rich alumnae with connections, it didn't cost the chapter
that much, but if you totalled everything, it probably ran well over $4-5,000. We had an alumna who made our dresses, another who had an in with the bakery which made our petit fours, another who worked in a jewelry store. Another chapter who did basically the same Pref as we did spent over $20,000 for the Pref party alone - so the strong, connected, monied chapters did well, but the small, less well off chapters couldn't hold a candle to the "magic" that money could buy. That's why the "no-frills" rush really works better in the long haul. (much as I hate to say it!)