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LOL we just talked about this on the chat thread. We had a 5 year reunion planned even though there's a get together every year anyway (some of my class is still living in high school) but not enough people decided to go, so it got cancelled. I don't feel bad about that one bit. If you do't want to go, then don't! $100 dollars could buy a super nice dinner for you and the FI, without all the "yeah... I'm doing such and such..." awkwardness.
Girl, it seems to me you have answered your own question! If it's not gonna be great financially, it's too close to the wedding, and (most importantly!) you don't WANT to go.... don't go!
Ugh, I've thought about this as well. Mine will be coming up next year. As discussed in the previous post re: "hating where your parents live" I have ZERO desire to return to my crappy hometown and see my H.S. classmates who were never that nice to me in the first place.
I do have a sneaking desire to show off my handsome FI and our fun life, but I don't think it's enough to want to go back there ;o)
If it makes you feel better, mine was REALLY lame. Given the reasons you stated, don't bother!
Ours got canceled because there wasn't much interest, but the 8 of us who were around, went to a local sports bar. SO awkward. And what's even weirder is that like 5 of the other 7 people - I was REALLY good friends with in high school. And we couldn't think of anything to talk about. I'm not sure if it would've been better or worse with more people.
And I had always looked forward to our reunion! But now, I doubt I'll ever go to one again. It was painful!
I doubt that I would go to a high school reunion. The people that I want to talk to and see from high school are the ones that I keep in contact with. The rest of them, I don't really care to find out what they have been doing since graduation and if I did, I could probably look at their facebook! I think that since money is tight and it's right before your wedding, you shouldn't go!
@honeybun: One of FI's classmates/former close friends organized theirs this year and gave FI a HUGE guilt trip because he couldn't make it.
It ended up being like 10 people in their town's dive bar. He still laughs about it ;o)
Thank you for the validation! Phew! **takes weight off shoulder** lol. I don't know why I feel guilty not wanting to go! I guess because I liked a lot (but definitely not all) of the people I went to school with. Actually, now that I think about it, I bet in the 10 years since we graduated I probably just forgot how much I disliked some people, ah whatever! I'm just gonna keep in touch with the ones I care about and call it a day. Maybe the 20th will work out... or not lol.
Its so odd that such a large percentage of the people in my class didn't leave town or even date new people. It seems cool but I just couldn't do it. The town bored me so much! I mean probably 65% of my graduating class just stayed there, married someone from our HS, had kids and all that jazz. Its so great if that works but I had to expand.
Mine's in 2011, and I definitely plan on not going. I still keep in touch with people from high school that mattered to me anyways, so no point in spending all the money to go across the country for a reunion!
I had my 5 year reunion this summer and I went for three reasons: to show off my shiny new engagement ring, to tell everyone about our fab wedding that most aren't invited to (yeah, I'm kinda a b*tch), and to tell everyone about our fab life in Chicago. I know it's a little petty of me, but I actually had a blast at our reunion. I was worried that old crap from HS would be brought up, but we played drinking games and had a ton of fun. It was really unexpected. But if you don't want to go, then don't, not worth the time if it ends up sucking.
BTW, my home town is small/redneck/cliqueish/and about 90% of the people I graduated with still live there and are marrying their high school bfs/gfs. It's cool if that's you, but just not for me.
I do want to throw these two cents your way: My FI decided that he didn't want to go to his reunion a few years ago mostly for financial reasons and because he was worried that it might be awkward, but now he really, really regrets not going. He has heard from people how much fun it was and how much they missed him being there. I wasn't planning on going to my reunion until he told me how he felt he had missed out on something kind of special.
I felt ambivalent about mine and ended up going, and was pretty glad I did! It was a lot of fun, and it was nice to see people that I hadn't even thought about in years. I was surprised at how pretty much everyone remembered me (I was a shy geeky kid) and even those that hadn't been all that nice during HS were awesome at the reunion. Good luck with whatever you decide!!
If you have to ask yourself whether you should go...the answer is probably no. Online networking is making reunions somewhat obsolete.
My reunion is next weekend, and I'm blowing it off (though, to be perfectly honest, most of my schoolmates were complete bores).
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My 10 year reunion is in March and I always thought I'd go, I had a lot of friends in HS, no enemies (that I'm aware of!) so naturally I thought it'd be nice to catch up. I do still speak to a few girls. But uh, I kinda don't wanna go... like, at all. First of all, its 3 months before my wedding and its $50 per person. Ouch, that hurts. I know in the grand scheme of things $100 probably isn't gonna break the bank but c'mon! Technically March 2010 is not 10 years, we graduated in JUNE (I know I'm grasping at straws here, its only off by like 3 months off). The rumored date was in October which would of worked much better. The funny thing about that last sentence is that it doesn't exactly work better but at least by then I'd be married! I mean jeesh, all my other classmates are married, have kids, a house... throw a girl a bone! Hahaha, I'm a nut.
PS. I have a HS reunion every time I sign onto Facebook. Do I really need the face to face stuff? I think not... right?