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[tielan]

Etiquette Hell would definitely think this was unconscionable.

My cousin T's widower is remarrying. He and his wife-to-be are asking guests for assistance in setting up the hall out the back of the church, and assisting with put away at the end of the 'afternoon tea reception'.

They've just sent out an email to a handful of friends/guests asking if people are willing to help with one, the other, or both. The party itself is catered, and the caterers will be managing most of the food and utensil clean-up, but the hall needs to be set up and taken down again.

There's a part of me that's a bit annoyed at being asked, a part of me that's willing to be helpful, and a part of me that's kind of gleeful at doing something so "anti-etiquette" (where the rule is that one is guest or one is servantry, and never the twain shall meet).

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[ringsandcoffee]

One wedding where I was a bridesmaid, we girls cleaned up most of the reception hall. I can't remember how that came to be, but we just did it. My feet hurt like crazy and my dress was a mess after, but whatever. We had fun.