My friend is trying to CHARGE me £50 to attend her wedding – it’s only because she wants to do up her house, I’m fuming
A WEDDING guest has been left fuming after the bride has tried to charge her £50 to attend the big day.
The woman shared how she is shocked at her “cheap” friend, and suspects she wants to get people to pay for her wedding so she can renovate her home.
The worst part is, the wedding guest - who is also a student without much cash - says she knows the bride inherited a lot of money from her grandma.
She took to Reddit to seek advice, after adding up the whole day would probably cost her at least £235.
She wrote: “One of my closest friends is getting married and is charging her guests to attend the wedding.
“I always knew she was cheap, so in one way I'm not surprised.”
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She said that when you RSVP, you have three options: you will attend and pay £50, you will just attend the ceremony, or you won’t attend at all.
With around 50 guests invited, if everyone paid the fee, the bride-to-be would have around £2,500 to help towards costs.
The wedding guest continued: “It doesn't even say what the fee is for but after Googling it says it includes food, music, decorations and venue.
“So they literally want their guests to pay for decorations.”
And that’s not all the bride is asking people to pay for.
The guest continued: “The evening before the wedding, they also have a dinner which you need to pay for (don't remember the price but cheaper than attending the wedding).
“If you want to sleep over at the venue, you need to pay around £78.
“This applies both for the night between the pre-dinner and wedding day, and the night after the wedding. So that would be £157 in total.”
The shocked student said the bride was also asking people to give them a cash present.
She explained: “They have a page where you can choose to contribute with money towards a gift.
“You have different options like cooking class, dance class, a trip, etc. It says ‘gifts are not needed but welcome’.
“But WHO would pay for a gift after they have to pay to attend the wedding?
“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.
“The thing is, I KNOW they have money.
"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.
“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.”
On top of all this, the wedding guests is also hurt she wasn’t asked to be a bridesmaid, as she was always told she would be one by the bride.
Many people were shocked at the bride’s demands for money, with one saying: “I would send my regrets and my congratulations and that's it. The bride is out of her freaking mind.”
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Another added: “This is so beyond tacky and tasteless. I hope she gets roasted for it.”
And a third commented: “Wedding are not fun enough to pay an admission fee. They can be torturous.”