Your guild is lucky to be able to have a good party! My guild is having a fundraiser auction for our Christmas Party. Kinda tacky I think to pay to come to a party to celebrate our membership especially when our bank balance is very healthy and can cover our budget for several years with no fundraising at all. We have had several fundraisers during the year why can't Christmas just be a fun time? Even the times I was in charge of the Christmas program I was overruled when it came to stopping the fundraising.