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Is a raffle rude?
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So I work next to a store that makes gift baskets of local products, I live in Humboldt County, CA and my family is all in Shasta for the most part. I never felt an emphasis on local products in Shasta county and I've only lived in Humboldt for a year and can already tell they're big on local foods and farming, lots of organic foods, hardly any chain restaurants, mostly mom and pop places. So with that in mind I felt it'd be a cute idea to have a raffle for a gift basket or 3 full of local products. 3 of my family members; dad, aunt and uncle, used to live here and understand the culture. It really is a completely different world over here. The baskets would mainly be good, I know I'd include the local favorite larrupin sauce which I even got my mom to love and shes picky, it's a sweet mustard sauce. The basket store has dozens of options that have a long shelf life and I feel it'd be a nice touch for my family coming to Humboldt to get a taste of the culture. It's not something I'd necessarily include in the menu given my fh is 100% in charge of that since it's the only thing he shows interest in planning I gave it to him. I could suggest using local products but I'm not sure how he'd respond, we are trying to be thrifty. I brought this idea of a raffle to my mom and she said it was really rude to have one and I should just put out a honeymoon jar or have a money dance, which I find appalling as my FH and I already decided on 2 things together being NO kids and NO dancing for us. We hate dancing. Plus I'd feel very uncomfortable dancing with anyone besides my FH but I'd only dance with him in private. Like I'll only dance with my developmentally disabled clients and that isn't anything special. I feel my guests would like the raffle if they didn't want to spend money on a gift or whatever they could spend a couple dollars for raffle tickets for a really tasty gift basket. Please let me know if I'm missing any sort of etiquette. I'm only 23 and I've been to one wedding in my life being my cousins back in the late '90s so I know nothing other than what I've learned from WW and my mother and grandmother. I posted photos of the baskets I'd want to get. Both would run under $100 together and I am inviting 83 guests. Please let me know if this sounds like a bad idea. And congrats to all you future brides and grooms
