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Originally Posted by 33girl

What is stag & drag and casino night?? It sounds like a mixer.

A stag & drag is a pre-wedding party where you pay like $10 and get free food and beer, and then you stay there and gamble on different games, sometimes there's a 50/50, etc., and the procedes go towards THE WEDDING.

SRSLY. You throw a stag and drag to help pay for your WEDDING. Actually, your wedding party is supposed to throw the stag and drag. They basically take on the costs (food, drink, etc.), and the money from the night goes to the WEDDING.

Probably the tackiest thing ever. Probably worse, the bride and groom I mentioned above actually THREW THEIR OWN, sent out their own invites, etc., and invited AT LEAST 300 people, most of which were not going to be invited to the wedding at all (and in my case, I didn't even know she was engaged). Since this was a person I didn't particularly like to start, I was actually pretty pissed that I got the invite.

This is a tradition that's pretty strong in Erie.

ETA: I've been invited to a handful, and if it's a couple I like, I usually suck it up and go instead of getting them a gift (whether or not I'm invited - I fully understand that every wedding guest list has to stop somewhere). This couple in particular (the tacky tacksters), there was no way I was ever going to be invited, and if I had been, it would've definitely been a gift grab. You don't invite people who you've had a falling out with to your wedding in an attempt to make amends unless it's family.