Bartending at a wedding??

Question

I was asked by my friend to bartend at her wedding and she said she would pay me. We are not the closest friends and she has kind of left it up to me with the compensation. How much should I ask her to pay me? I am taking off a day of work but at the same time she invited me to the wedding so I would not be working anyway. Secondly, would it be tacky to have a tip jar or should I just accept tips as they come? It is an open bar. Im a poor college student so any extra cash is helpful. Any suggestions are great. Thanks!

Answer 1

You could do the bar tending as part of your gift to them and set the tip jar out and hope people know what it's for.

Answer 2

It would be OK to accept tips from people, but don't put out a tip jar.  In this kind of a setting a tip jar would be very tacky indeed.   As to the compensation, figure out what your normal daily pay is and present that as a figure to your friend.  You can negotiate from there.