Mine is on monday. IT is the second out of three they are having that day. So far, although both me and parents live in the city, it has cost around £100. Tickets were limited to 2 each (so who do I leave out - dad or dp ) and you couldn't say apply for someone elses who wasn't going (Cos then they couldn't collect their certificate).
Tickets were £16 each . Robe hire was also very expensive, and could only get it from one company. A week or so ago got email to say was some spare tickets I could buy, so got another one (another £16). BUt turns out they are numbered and so dp will have to sit by himself on one side of cathedral, while parents on other.
I have to get there to register and sort things out 2 hours before service - service itself lasts 1 hour
COnsidering they are doing about 10 courses at same time and on ours there are around 300 people, can't see it being more than a procession of names being called and being given certificate.
There is a canape and drinks session after - but will end 30mins after service ends
Am so fed up of whole thing now - seems little more than a money making exercise by the university. Bearing in mind this is a former poly and as such, many of the students are not well off by any means. God knows how much it costs if you have to pay travel and hotel expenses as well.
The only reason I am still going is a) we have now paid and b) at least I will see some friends once again.
Is also going to be sad as one of my tutors died suddenly at end of June and his absence is bound to be very noticeable
Nobody else I know has had to pay so much just for tickets (none of them has had to pay for tickets at all)
SO AIBU to think of it as production line money making exercise, rather than celebration of actually passing our degrees