The costs of weddings can spark some interesting debate, particularly when some couples opt to go all out for the nuptials in an effort to achieve their dream wedding but as a guest, what if you’re charged to attend a ceremony that you were invited to?
Yep, you heard that right.
A Reddit user posted a rant after receiving a wedding invitation from a longtime friend, who was charging $65 for guests’ attendance. The poster, theluckyone95, calls the ask “embarrassing” before sharing a rundown of the shameless invitation and additional wedding add-ons with additional fees. There are three options to RSVP:
1) Attend the wedding,
2) Attend the ceremony only
3) Don’t attend at all.
—And get this, the couple listed the $65 as an “envelope fee,” the post read. According to theluckyone95, there’s also a charge for what appears to be an optional rehearsal dinner and the choice to lodge at the wedding venue for around $100.
“If a guest were to attend every single thing and contribute with money to a gift it would cost a guest AT LEAST 300 dollars,” theluckyone95 wrote.
“I don’t know what it’s like in other countries but where I live that’s a lot to pay to be a guest at a wedding.”
What’s even more mind-boggling about the unorthodox wedding sham story, the friend discloses, is that the bride and groom are not even financially strapped.
“The thing is, I KNOW they have money,” the post read.
“My friend 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.”
Responses to the pay-per-wedding-event were mixed. While some people lambasted the couple with insults, calling them “tacky” and “cheap,” other social media users reasoned with the expenses.
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“My bro got married a few years back and at the reception about 20 that didn’t show up…that’s $1400 down the drain in food costs…I get it,” @necessaryruffness commented on an Onsite! Instagram post.
IG user _kamiikaze stated, “Same people saying it’s tacky don’t even bring a gift card… but ok.”
Another Instagrammer, melindamiranda_official had this to say: “It’s hard out here! lol. Everybody wanna come to events for free. Ish cost. I’m not trying to pay for folks to eat up all the food and barely attend the service lol no ma’am.”
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a wedding reception invoice before lol pic.twitter.com/ZAYfGITkxP
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 24, 2021
Back in August 2021, an invoice surfaced on Twitter, now X, requesting a $240 payment for a wedding no-show. The newlyweds, Doug and Deidra, had an ax to grind with guests who went ghosts: “This invoice is being sent to you because you confirmed seat(s) at the wedding reception during the Final Headcount,” a note at the bottom of the “#PETTYPOST” reads. “Because you didn’t call or give us proper notice that you wouldn’t be in attendance, this amount is what you owe us for paying for your seat(s) in advance. You can pay via Zelle or PayPal. Please reach out to us and let us know which method of payment works for you. Thank you!,” the invoice read.
Aunties, what are your thoughts?
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