Let's not kid ourselves. Most of the time, prizes and raffles in the "wedding industry" are cheesy and eye-roll-worthy.
"Yaaaay!!! 5 lucky brides will win manicures for their BIG DAY!!!" Ugh. Chop up our fingers in the gift-registry-cuisinart, already.
Our friends over at OneWed, though, have an interesting new hook.
Their premise is this: much of the wedding-porn fails to consider the "true costs" of weddings, and a lot of junk falls through the cracks. So they launched the "Off the Chart" giveaway. Basically, they're awarding $15,000 worth of stuff like honeymoon airfare, tux packages, hotel rooms at Sandals resorts, etc...the kind of stuff that's not (often) in your wedding budget. Yeah, there's some cheesy bridal crap that you can ignore, but plenty of guy-friendly items, too. (Get the full prize list here.)
How do you enter?
You join their online wedding "pre-party." Huh? We know, we know, we know...this seems antithetical to The Plunge mission. A pre-party, really? Really? Shouldn't the only "pre-party" involve a flask of bourbon? Fair enough.
The upside, however, is that by creating a closed-circuit social networking site, you confine all your annoying conversation in one tidy place, thus avoiding your transformation into "That Couple" blabbering about their wedding on Facebook. (Plus, odds are, your fiancée will do most of the social-networking work. Just tell her about the site and you'll look like a winner.)
Full transparency: Do we have ulterior motives? You're damn right. We like OneWed. They're one of the few wedding-sites that has maintained a few (just a few!) shreds of sanity. From time to time, we'll be giving them the groom's perspective, and maybe even--gasp!--asking them to chime in on The Plunge. Stay tuned.
To enter the $15,000 giveaway, head here.
And find more info on the pre-party here.
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