Splitting the bill with extravagant friends

InsideInsurance

andygb wrote: »

Wow!!!! £200 on a night out - is this still the MoneySavingForum?

Yup, they went for the Moet rather than the Cristal :beer:

purpleshoes_2

To be honest with you, anyone who needed to validate their life by spending 200 quid on a night out and making anyone else feel bad because they couldn't would be no friend of mine.

I dont even like moet champagne, its totally overrated, plenty of cheaper ones that have done better in blind taste tests, if all some people can see are labels, it really doesn't say much for them.

Feral_Moon

I actually prefer Prosecco :whistle:

meritaten

at my brothers wedding reception (in an Italian restaurant), my new sister in law announced a 'champagne toast' to 'my new husbands family'. and the waiters proceeded to serve 'Asti Spumante'! I nearly choked I was laughing so hard, and the waiters were smirking. jeez, I christened her 'Princess Ann' that day - and the nickname has stuck! (the toast to the 'Bride and Groom was Moet E Chandon') what! no Bolly!

Worry_Wart

I think the OP clarified further up that it was £200 between 4/5 of them, so not that crazy a budget.

LilElvis

meritaten wrote: »

at my brothers wedding reception (in an Italian restaurant), my new sister in law announced a 'champagne toast' to 'my new husbands family'. and the waiters proceeded to serve 'Asti Spumante'! I nearly choked I was laughing so hard, and the waiters were smirking. jeez, I christened her 'Princess Ann' that day - and the nickname has stuck! (the toast to the 'Bride and Groom was Moet E Chandon') what! no Bolly!

I take it you were laughing at her lack of "class". It actually just makes you sound incredibly rude, opinionated and totally lacking in any "class" yourself. I can only imagine what pleasant nickname they have for you.

Still, you have "form" for sneering at other people's weddings, don't you?

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Feral_Moon

Worry_Wart wrote: »

I think the OP clarified further up that it was £200 between 4/5 of them, so not that crazy a budget.

No, it was per person but also included her taxi and train fares for the night. To be honest, when proper champagne is flowing then £200 per head can be quite small fry. I've been amongst a group of friends on a night out in London where several bottles of Krug were consumed, along with fine dining. I won't tell you the final bill. It was eye watering even by my standards lol

InsideInsurance

Worry_Wart wrote: »

I think the OP clarified further up that it was £200 between 4/5 of them, so not that crazy a budget.

No, was £200 per head including transport etc.

Cant say I have bought champagne in a Weatherspoons but our local mass market chain bar is just over £55 a bottle for Moet or Veuve Clicquot. With standard 125ml glasses you get 6 to the bottle, less if you are being generous so with 4-5 drinking its nearly a bottle a round.

"Drinking champagne all night" to me wouldnt be 3-4 glasses and that assumes low pub prices, no food and no travel etc. Remembering of course that a "large glass of wine" these days is 250ml and so 3-4 of champagne is 1.5-2 large wines.

The restaurant I was at this evening, possibly more the "op's friend style", was £90 a bottle for the same so if it were £200 for the group would have been only 2 glasses per person with the same assumptions.

Worry_Wart

InsideInsurance wrote: »

No, was £200 per head including transport etc.

Cant say I have bought champagne in a Weatherspoons but our local mass market chain bar is just over £55 a bottle for Moet or Veuve Clicquot. With standard 125ml glasses you get 6 to the bottle, less if you are being generous so with 4-5 drinking its nearly a bottle a round.

"Drinking champagne all night" to me wouldnt be 3-4 glasses and that assumes low pub prices, no food and no travel etc. Remembering of course that a "large glass of wine" these days is 250ml and so 3-4 of champagne is 1.5-2 large wines.

The restaurant I was at this evening, possibly more the "op's friend style", was £90 a bottle for the same so if it were £200 for the group would have been only 2 glasses per person with the same assumptions.

Ah, right, sorry. Blimey that is a lot of cash. I have the occasional hedonistic night out but I don't think I've managed to spend that much in one go!

Lily-Rose_3

£200 a head. :eek: :eek: :eek:

That is crazy money to me! Just for a night out. I would rather spend that on a weekend away. That would pay for the hotel for 2 nights, and the train fares! (And there would be some left over!)

The most per head we have ever spent on a meal is about £35, and that has only been 3 or 4 times EVER.

How the other half live!