Sweet 16 Party
Jan 28th 2008, 8:31 am
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Jan 28th 2008, 8:41 am
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Re: Sweet 16 Party
I would like that idea. I had thought of renting a beach house for a weekend but the middle of the summer makes them hard to get for a few days.
Jan 28th 2008, 8:46 am
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Has anybody watched the "sweet Sixteen" show on MTV, Jesus! its a whole "I love me" fest and my parents are going to spend an extortionate amount of money on getting me what I want..
One silly Dad actually paid in excess of $300,000 because his son wanted 50 Cents at his.....I suppose it did help that daddy was a Record Exec...
One silly Dad actually paid in excess of $300,000 because his son wanted 50 Cents at his.....I suppose it did help that daddy was a Record Exec...
Jan 28th 2008, 8:49 am
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My favorite line in that show is 'I deserve it' - why exactly do you deserve a $100k car?! Because you did what exactly?! Showed up in the world? My 4 year old is not going to be watching that show for a very long time. I love the trashy ones where the parents clearly have no idea of what the word tasteful means. Where they spent all that money and they still look like trailer trash!
Jan 28th 2008, 9:13 am
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Did you see the one where she wanted them to land her dad's plane on the main street outside the venue?
Jan 28th 2008, 9:22 am
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Last Summer we went with some friends to Liberty State Park for a picnic (and got busted by the park police for having a bottle of wine...):curse: Just before the sun was setting we strolled across to the Liberty House restaurant at the Marina, to sit outside in the gardens and gaze at the Manhatten skyline and have some seafood and cocktails.
Suddenly we saw a large group in a wedding party. There was a bride and groom in traditional wedding dress and we were astonished to see at least a dozen (maybe more) bridesmaids in peach coloured gowns and a similar number of 'groomsmen' all wandering around the gardens having formal photographs taken. In the procession were some parents wearing formal evening attire.
As the group got closer to us we were amazed at how young they all looked (and indeed, some of them looked bored - including the bride!). We thought that it must have been a 'shotgun' wedding with the young bride presumably pregnant. However, they still looked incredibly young. There was obviously a reception taking place upstairs in a private room inside the restaurant, but I couldn't resist mentioning to our waitress about how young the wedding party looked. She exclaimed that it wasn't a wedding at all....it was a Mexican 'quincentera' (sp?) which is a kind of 'Sweet 16' for 15 year old Mexican girls.
It must have cost her parents a fortune!
Suddenly we saw a large group in a wedding party. There was a bride and groom in traditional wedding dress and we were astonished to see at least a dozen (maybe more) bridesmaids in peach coloured gowns and a similar number of 'groomsmen' all wandering around the gardens having formal photographs taken. In the procession were some parents wearing formal evening attire.
As the group got closer to us we were amazed at how young they all looked (and indeed, some of them looked bored - including the bride!). We thought that it must have been a 'shotgun' wedding with the young bride presumably pregnant. However, they still looked incredibly young. There was obviously a reception taking place upstairs in a private room inside the restaurant, but I couldn't resist mentioning to our waitress about how young the wedding party looked. She exclaimed that it wasn't a wedding at all....it was a Mexican 'quincentera' (sp?) which is a kind of 'Sweet 16' for 15 year old Mexican girls.
It must have cost her parents a fortune!
Jan 28th 2008, 9:24 am
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She went to a pretty swanky Bat-Mitzvah last week.
Jan 28th 2008, 9:31 am
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Re: Sweet 16 Party
Last Summer we went with some friends to Liberty State Park for a picnic (and got busted by the park police for having a bottle of wine...):curse: Just before the sun was setting we strolled across to the Liberty House restaurant at the Marina, to sit outside in the gardens and gaze at the Manhatten skyline and have some seafood and cocktails.
Suddenly we saw a large group in a wedding party. There was a bride and groom in traditional wedding dress and we were astonished to see at least a dozen (maybe more) bridesmaids in peach coloured gowns and a similar number of 'groomsmen' all wandering around the gardens having formal photographs taken. In the procession were some parents wearing formal evening attire.
As the group got closer to us we were amazed at how young they all looked (and indeed, some of them looked bored - including the bride!). We thought that it must have been a 'shotgun' wedding with the young bride presumably pregnant. However, they still looked incredibly young. There was obviously a reception taking place upstairs in a private room inside the restaurant, but I couldn't resist mentioning to our waitress about how young the wedding party looked. She exclaimed that it wasn't a wedding at all....it was a Mexican 'quincentera' (sp?) which is a kind of 'Sweet 16' for 15 year old Mexican girls.
It must have cost her parents a fortune!
Suddenly we saw a large group in a wedding party. There was a bride and groom in traditional wedding dress and we were astonished to see at least a dozen (maybe more) bridesmaids in peach coloured gowns and a similar number of 'groomsmen' all wandering around the gardens having formal photographs taken. In the procession were some parents wearing formal evening attire.
As the group got closer to us we were amazed at how young they all looked (and indeed, some of them looked bored - including the bride!). We thought that it must have been a 'shotgun' wedding with the young bride presumably pregnant. However, they still looked incredibly young. There was obviously a reception taking place upstairs in a private room inside the restaurant, but I couldn't resist mentioning to our waitress about how young the wedding party looked. She exclaimed that it wasn't a wedding at all....it was a Mexican 'quincentera' (sp?) which is a kind of 'Sweet 16' for 15 year old Mexican girls.
It must have cost her parents a fortune!
Jan 28th 2008, 9:32 am
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My son went to loads of them when he was 13 as there is a large Jewish community in our area. There seemed to be a definite mindset of 'keeping up with the Joneses' as to which country club the bar and bat-mitzvahs were being held in. My son was invited to quite a few where he didn't even know the kids. Just the stationery for the invitations must have been pretty expensive, some of them were extremely elaborate.
One (lucky) boy at a bar-mitzvah my son went to received a cheque for $30,000 from his uncle....! 
One (lucky) boy at a bar-mitzvah my son went to received a cheque for $30,000 from his uncle....!
Jan 28th 2008, 9:41 am
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Re: Sweet 16 Party
Last Summer we went with some friends to Liberty State Park for a picnic (and got busted by the park police for having a bottle of wine...):curse: Just before the sun was setting we strolled across to the Liberty House restaurant at the Marina, to sit outside in the gardens and gaze at the Manhatten skyline and have some seafood and cocktails.
Suddenly we saw a large group in a wedding party. There was a bride and groom in traditional wedding dress and we were astonished to see at least a dozen (maybe more) bridesmaids in peach coloured gowns and a similar number of 'groomsmen' all wandering around the gardens having formal photographs taken. In the procession were some parents wearing formal evening attire.
As the group got closer to us we were amazed at how young they all looked (and indeed, some of them looked bored - including the bride!). We thought that it must have been a 'shotgun' wedding with the young bride presumably pregnant. However, they still looked incredibly young. There was obviously a reception taking place upstairs in a private room inside the restaurant, but I couldn't resist mentioning to our waitress about how young the wedding party looked. She exclaimed that it wasn't a wedding at all....it was a Mexican 'quincentera' (sp?) which is a kind of 'Sweet 16' for 15 year old Mexican girls.
It must have cost her parents a fortune!
Suddenly we saw a large group in a wedding party. There was a bride and groom in traditional wedding dress and we were astonished to see at least a dozen (maybe more) bridesmaids in peach coloured gowns and a similar number of 'groomsmen' all wandering around the gardens having formal photographs taken. In the procession were some parents wearing formal evening attire.
As the group got closer to us we were amazed at how young they all looked (and indeed, some of them looked bored - including the bride!). We thought that it must have been a 'shotgun' wedding with the young bride presumably pregnant. However, they still looked incredibly young. There was obviously a reception taking place upstairs in a private room inside the restaurant, but I couldn't resist mentioning to our waitress about how young the wedding party looked. She exclaimed that it wasn't a wedding at all....it was a Mexican 'quincentera' (sp?) which is a kind of 'Sweet 16' for 15 year old Mexican girls.
It must have cost her parents a fortune!
The parents don't usually pay out alot for them. It is a joint effort of all family and friends. Most Hispanic families are fairly large and close knit. Usually the parents make a list of what needs to be paid for and different aunt/uncles/cousins/grandparents/godparents etc step foward and contribute to the celebration.
Jan 28th 2008, 9:59 am
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Jan 28th 2008, 10:23 am
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