Topping-out ceremony, who is allowed to join?

Hello everyone,

my husband and I will start building the house at the end of March. Almost everything is planned, but today I had a question regarding the [Richtfest]!

We definitely want to hold a [Richtfest] to express our thanks to the helpers. Some things will also be done by ourselves. Therefore, a part of our relatives will also be on the construction site and contribute to our dream. Unfortunately, we have a very large family, some of whom only show up at celebrations, even if they have not done and will not do anything.

My idea now was to simply make invitation cards for the "non-helpers" and distribute them accordingly so that we don’t have to feed them. Is that something you can do? Or is that too much? Unfortunately, I have no experience with [Richtfests]...

I’m of course always open to suggestions ;)

Thank you very much.

Best regards

Hi Engelchen2010,

whoever builds a house and already from the start thinks about who will come to the topping-out ceremony and who will not, is doing something wrong, right?
A topping-out ceremony is for helpers and helpers of helpers, for acquaintances & relatives and for friends. Just consider the invasive relatives as well-known friends and then you won’t have a problem with it. Whether one beer more or less is drunk or one steak more or less is eaten is nonsense regardless at such a construction sum.

Focus rather on building and not on the topping-out ceremony. For example, I can only advise you to make thoughts about the installation plan for the electrical system instead of already calculating who may or may not come. Otherwise, I would think the whole thing over again.

Best regards and no offense.
Clich09.

p.s. At our topping-out ceremony, I grilled for people I didn’t even know existed. To this day, I still have no idea who those people were but I can say one thing, "It was a great topping-out ceremony" until 4:00 am and there were more people there whom I had never seen on our construction site than people who actually helped us.

Hello chli09,

thanks for your open words! ;)
I believe we agree when I say that after 2 years of planning time, it’s okay to think about something like that once in a while ;).
The rest is almost settled, except for the laminate floor... there is still debate whether it should be very light or a bit darker...

No offense!

Best regards