What's the most snobbish event you've been to?

[JoetheLion]

Or what was the most snobbish even that you didn't enjoy? It seems that I would have to attend Canadian Jewellery Expos which I find too snobby for my health, but my employer INSISTS. :X What are your experiences with such events?
Btw: I think they have a really crappy cheap website for such a snobby expo.

Sigh, I've tried to persuade my boss to send me to represent/report on some other event, geez, I swear I would go to any other event from this list for example: http://partnershiptoronto.com/2013/08/toronto-august-events (well, maybe except the IncentiveWorks which seems to be just another dull event full of empty words about success and charity holding their hands together).
I guess I would have to keep a low profile on the event without looking way too much disgusted. He could have sent me to Air Show festival instead.
http://partnershiptoronto.com/2013/08/toronto-august-events

 

[Hugo L.]

Nascar Race.

 

[purbeast0]

a wedding where the "goodie bags" that each person attending received was a tiffany flute.

 

[lxskllr]

An outdoor concert with the BSO. It featured show tunes :^S I went with my mother, so I had no choice. Anyway, many of the people that went had these elaborate picnic setups, with lots of wicker, wine, and gourmet food. I don't think I'd call them snobby. Everyone seemed nice enough, but it was a little pretentious.

 

[KeithTalent]

Definitely some of the art show openings I've attended. Some were fine, but some of them, mainly the fancier ones, were painful.

KT

 

[Sonikku]

McDonalds

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Never been never will. Not my cup of tea to watch the human animal strut around like they are something special.

 

[kranky]

Cousin's giant fancy wedding at a country club. Her new husband was a big-shot executive and it seemed to me most of the guests were there to work the crowd for contacts and networking. At a normal wedding you introduce yourself to someone you don't know with "Hey, I'm John." These people were more like "Hello, I'm John Doe with SuperMegaCorp". The crowd was about 25% family/friends and 75% business people.

They spent 90 minutes at the church after the ceremony doing pictures, then after they arrived at the country club for the reception, the wedding party drove off in a caravan of golf carts to do even more pictures, so there was another hour wait before we could eat.

No DJ, just a 6-piece mini-orchestra and basically all ballroom-style dancing. No cookie table. Nobody really having fun. Couldn't get a bottle of beer, they would pour you a cup of about 8 ounces. Took forever to get served between having to pour every beer and making cocktails with 10 ingredients for the upper crust who needed to have something special.

After a little while most of the non-business type guests migrated down the hall and outside onto a deck to feel more comfortable and maybe even raise our voices a little without getting the hairy eyeball, and the facility manager herded us all back in because "this venue (meaning the deck) was not included in this event's portfolio." Snobby to the extreme.

 

[KeithTalent]

Cousin's giant fancy wedding at a country club. Her new husband was a big-shot executive and it seemed to me most of the guests were there to work the crowd for contacts and networking. At a normal wedding you introduce yourself to someone you don't know with "Hey, I'm John." These people were more like "Hello, I'm John Doe with SuperMegaCorp". The crowd was about 25% family/friends and 75% business people.

They spent 90 minutes at the church after the ceremony doing pictures, then after they arrived at the country club for the reception, the wedding party drove off in a caravan of golf carts to do even more pictures, so there was another hour wait before we could eat.

No DJ, just a 6-piece mini-orchestra and basically all ballroom-style dancing. No cookie table. Nobody really having fun. Couldn't get a bottle of beer, they would pour you a cup of about 8 ounces. Took forever to get served between having to pour every beer and making cocktails with 10 ingredients for the upper crust who needed to have something special.

After a little while most of the non-business type guests migrated down the hall and outside onto a deck to feel more comfortable and maybe even raise our voices a little without getting the hairy eyeball, and the facility manager herded us all back in because "this venue (meaning the deck) was not included in this event's portfolio." Snobby to the extreme.

What's a cookie table?

KT

 

[PingSpike]

What's a cookie table?

KT

Its like a regular table only a million times better because there are cookies on it.

 

[KeithTalent]

Its like a regular table only a million times better because there's cookies on it.

Intriguing. Where can I get one?

KT

 

[lxskllr]

Intriguing. Where can I get one?

KT

I'm reluctant to advocate marriage, but with careful choice, you can get a cookie maker that'll turn any table into a cookie table.

 

[jaedaliu]

Its like a regular table only a million times better because there are cookies on it.

Hrm, I didn't have one of those at my reception, either. But I did have a dim sum table. God, I'm asian.

 

[SAWYER]

I have no desire to attend any event even slightly snobbish, I cant stand people like that

 

[KeithTalent]

I'm reluctant to advocate marriage, but with careful choice, you can get a cookie maker that'll turn any table into a cookie table.

Sounds like a pretty big price to pay.

KT

 

[Slew Foot]

they should make the table out of cookies

 

[highland145]

On the highbrow side of the local steeple chase track. Someone gave the congressman tickets, he gave them to the wife.

 

[nickbits]

Country club dinners I guess

 

[Scarpozzi]

I've been to quite a few cocktail parties that were black tie, etc... Typically like high floors in bank buildings or wherever they could find ritzy real estate with a view.

What's funny about snobby events is that most people are there for free drinks....no matter how much money they have or want you to think they have...

 

[kranky]

What's a cookie table?

KT

I keep forgetting that the cookie table is a local thing. At 99% of the wedding receptions here, there will be a table (or tables) inundated with homemade cookies of all different types. This is what you nosh on when you get to the reception because while the bar is open, dinner is not going to be served for quite a while.

I've seen receptions that had easily a dozen or more cookies per attendee on the cookie table. Most people eat a couple and at the end of the night you can take home all you can carry if you want.

 

[PingSpike]

they should make the table out of cookies

Cookie technology is just not there yet. But there is some promising early research using carbon nanotube cookies.

 

[CPA]

I have no desire to attend any event even slightly snobbish, I cant stand people like that

snob

 

[Corporate Thug]

never been to an art show or a museum.

Probably a high end steak house or charity fund raiser. The fund raiser itself was pretty cool but the people there were snobby.

 

[Broheim]

I worked at an artsy architecture firm for a while, the parties there got real boring, real quick (though the interns were usually pretty cool).

 

[SAWYER]

snob

mind blown