Couple getting married, creates registry for funding for their startup

http://www.aboomba.com/wedding/

by khangtoh • 17 years ago

43 24 17 years ago

Jefft Bar already got AWS hosting for them

timmaah• 17 years ago

If you check the comments, Amazon Web Services fulfilled their wish for a week in the cloud. Cheap and makes for good publicity.

edw519• 17 years ago

This was cute for about 7 seconds. After that it was just annoying.

OTOH, if they can get people to fund their startup with donations, more power to them. Then I'd say something like, "Gee I wish I would have thought of that."

philwelch4• 17 years ago

This page seems to portray a very cost-inflated idea of what a startup is.

BRadmin• 17 years ago

Would be interesting to see the breakdown of donators -- wedding attendees vs. non-attendees.

philh• 17 years ago

So, it's common for people to make a list of wedding gifts they'd like to receive, and these guys are asking people to help fund their startup instead? Do I have that right?

If so, is it common for people to spend over $100 on a wedding present for another couple? $420?

davidw• 17 years ago

Yes. OTOH, it's kind of nice to get something that you feel the recipient will remember, IMO.

Tichy• 17 years ago

The gifts seemed very expensive to me on average. That might be different between countries/cultures, though.

hughprime2• 17 years ago

How much you spend depends on (a) how close you are to the couple and (b) how rich you are. Rich relatives might easily give a $420 gift, but there's a real lack of gifts in the sub-$100 range there.

More to the point, if I'm going to give a couple a $400 gift, I want them to keep it and appreciate it. I want it to be the good silverware which only comes out on special occasions, or the fancy glassware that the children aren't allowed to touch. I don't want it to wind up as a small part of a line item on an accountant's bill.

zackattack• 17 years ago

There's nothing worse than receiving a gift that the recipient wants you to have but you don't want to use.

But this couple seems annoying, and doesn't seem to understand the social process of gifting.

philwelch4• 17 years ago

Traditionally, a married couple would need to furnish their new home after moving in together. Modern couples cohabitate before getting married and already have all this stuff, but wedding gift registries are still used to get "better" stuff.

As explained in sister comments, much of this stuff will be expensive, impractical things they don't actually use very often if at all, but will provide an expensive and symbolic keepsake that satisfies people's mammalian hoarding instincts until making for an awkward asset-division discussion during the probable divorce or, less probably, will probably either be inherited or bring in some moderate amount of money at the longest-lived partner's estate sale. (You can look at it more romantically than this, but I'm in an existential mood.)

More practically, a gift registry prevents a couple from getting ten unique waffle makers when they only need one.

tjic• 17 years ago

> Modern couples cohabitate before getting married

some modern couples cohabitate before getting married

endtime2• 17 years ago

>Give an accountant some love for an hour, a.k.a. avoid "making friends" with the IRS >Price: $420.00

Do accountants really make $420/hour? I'm in the wrong field...

philwelch4• 17 years ago

Per billable hour, for a good tax accountant, probably. Per working hour for an average accountant, I doubt it. It's not impossible for a good programmer to make $420 per billable hour (or whatever the equivalent is in "real" hours).

endtime2• 17 years ago

$420 * 8 * 5 * 50 = $840,000. Where can a good programmer get paid that?

mattmaroon• 17 years ago

Apparently feeding an engineer for a day costs $273. Imagine Google's profits if they didn't have the cafeteria.

testr4• 17 years ago

If you read carefully, this is the annual salary divided by 365 days

youngj• 17 years ago

pathetic

hughprime2• 17 years ago

"Feed a hungry VC lunch: $291"

What kind of VC expects you to buy them a $291 lunch? If I were a VC I certainly wouldn't invest in any company that thought buying me lunch was a good use of their funds.

phatboyslim• 17 years ago

Have been noticing an reasonable number of articles or advice from executives that emphasize not mixing family and business. Perhaps they didn't get the memo.

joecode• 17 years ago

Emily Post is rolling over in her grave... but good luck to them, anyway.

Couple getting married, creates registry for funding for their startup

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