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For this bride-to-be, her wedding day will double as a payday.
An engaged woman has been dubbed “cheap and tacky” for charging family and friends a minimum fee of $65 to attend her nuptials.
The anonymous bride’s billing strategy was revealed by an irate attendee who took to Reddit to ask whether it was wrong to expect guests to cover wedding costs.
“One of my closest friends is getting married and is charging her guests to attend the wedding,” the Redditor wrote. “I always knew she was cheap, so in one way I’m not surprised.”
The Reddit user claimed they received the invitation in the mail, which required the $65 if RSVPing “yes.”
“It doesn’t even say what the fee is for but after googling it says it includes, food, music, decorations and venue,” they wrote. “So they literally want their guests to pay for decorations.”
The invitee added that guests who want to eat at the reception will be forced to fork out additional money. And, if they want to stay the night at the venue, they’ll be charged an extra $100.
With a gift included, the Redditor said they expected the wedding to set them back more than $400.
“The thing is, I KNOW they have money,” the friend fumed of the bride and groom. “She [the bride] inherited a lot of money from her grandma in advance, they have a house, her fiancé is an engineer, they have a boat, and they are currently renovating their house.
“I also suspect that they actually can afford both the renovation and the wedding, but they are probably just trying to play it smart and make the guests contribute because as I said, I’ve always known she’s cheap,” the pal proclaimed.
The bride was roundly blasted in the Reddit reply section, with a majority of readers saying they wouldn’t attend the wedding for love or money.
“Ask her if you can not pay, but still come to the reception if you bring your own dinner and promise not to look at any of the decorations. That should be fair, right?” one wrote. “This is so beyond tacky and tasteless. I hope she gets roasted for it.”
“I would send my regrets and my congratulations and that’s it,” a second concurred. “The bride is out of her freaking mind.”
“In my country of origin, it’s a tacit understanding that the guests pay for the wedding,” another stated, without revealing their nationality. “The gift is almost always cash, and it’s used to pay for what is usually a lavish wedding. But that’s it, you don’t give any other presents and nobody directly asks you for money.”
Indeed, it’s not uncommon for newlyweds to expect to receive cash or a present that equals or surpasses the cost of a guest’s spot at the wedding.
Earlier this year, one recently married woman took to Facebook fuming that her guests were “not generous enough” with their gifts. She believed that their presents didn’t even cover the “price of their plate,” which was $200 per head.
Meanwhile, back in 2021, a bride hit headlines after charging a $240 “no-show” fee to an invited couple who didn’t show up at her wedding even though they had RSVPed “yes.”
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