Bride calls off the wedding since attendees were not all going to pay £1200 to be present

[TheButcher]

This shit is getting beyond funny, in my day we got toasters, mugs, irons and trinkets at the wedding. You do not have to go spend on your wedding hoping the guests will make you money. Some people you supposedly care for can not fork out big bucks to attend a wedding, so don't make a stink about it. You get married to be with the man or woman you love not to turn the shit into a business. If you invite people then it is because you want to share your happy day with them. We were invited to a wedding on September 7th, literally in 10 days or so, and my friend inviting us to his son's wedding said they spent $180 per person just for the restaurant, and everyone should put at least $250 in gift money. Two of my kids said they would come because restaurant is a high end banquet hall, I said it you guys think I am putting $1,000 for the 4 of us to go eat at a wedding where I don;t see my friend more than once a year and he lives 3 miles from us, and hardly see his son you must be joking.

I agree it's best to put a cash gift than the couple getting married get a bunch of junk, but you should not dictate the gift amount to your guests, that is going too far.

Peace




https://www.yahoo.com/news/bride-calls- ... 41948.html


"Bride-to-be calls off her wedding after guests refuse to pay £1200 towards it
Yahoo Style UK Marie Claire Dorking,Yahoo Style UK 6 hours ago


A furious bride-to-be has called off the wedding she wanted her friends to pay £1,200 to attend.

Getting married can be an expensive business, so it isn’t unusual for brides and grooms to ask their friends and family to contribute.

But one bride-to-be, Susan, got a little bit carried away with her wedding planning and needed a, really quite significant, financial contribution from her friends to pull-off her dream day.

And having asked them to splash the cash, she also made it apparent that if they weren’t willing to cough up, they weren’t really going to be welcome.

Unsurprisingly, things didn’t end well and having called off her big day, Susan seemingly took to Facebook to share her feelings on the matter.

Of the epic rant has since gone viral, after being screenshotted and shared to Mumsnet and Twitter.

Susan started her post by apologising for cancelling her wedding at such short notice explaining that she and her other half have split due to “recent and irreparable” problems.

“How did this all come crashing down? Well I invite you all on Facebook – players, bystanders and side characters of the people in my life – to take a seat and listen.

“You’re all involved somehow, somehow everyone is wrapped into this mess. Even if you weren’t invited to my wedding, I don’t care.”

She goes on to explain that things were all rosy at first.

Having met her ex at 14, he asked her to marry him at 18 and they had their first child at 20. But fast forward a few years and while planning their big day, things started to go wrong.

Though they’d saved $15,000 (around £11,600), to have the big party they’d always wanted they would need about $60,000 (about £46,500) in total, so they turned to friends and family for help.

“I SPECIFICALLY, I mean SPECIFICALLY, asked for cash gifts. How could we have OUR wedding that WE dreamed of without proper funding?

“We’d sacrificed so much and only asked each guest for around $1500 (approx £1200). We talked to a few people who even promised us more to make our dream come true.

A bride-to-be’s called off her wedding after her guests refused to pay for it [Photo: Getty]
She went on to explain that her maid of honour had offered $5000 and her ex’s family also contributed $3000.

“We made it CLEAR, if you couldn’t contribute, you weren’t invited to our exclusive wedding. It’s a once in a lifetime party.”

So they sent out RSVPs and only eight people replied. Unsurprisingly Susan was not happy.

“How was this supposed to happen for a little help from our friends. To make matters worse my ex’s family took back their offer.”

And other people started backing out too including her maid of honour.

To try to salvage the wedding, the couple set up a go fund me page but only managed to raise another $250.

With her dream wedding slipping out of site, the final nail in the coffin came when Susan’s ex suggested having a “cheap, raggedy, filthy whore” ceremony in Vegas instead of the dream day she’s hoped for.

“I just wanted to be a Kardashian for a day and then live my life like normal,” she explained.

To top things off, Susan suspected her husband-to-be had been cheating on her. So there was only one thing for it, call it off and head off travelling, leaving it all behind.

So instead of jetting off on her honeymoon, she decided to go backpacking across South America for the next two months to rid herself of the “toxic energy”.

“I need to get away from this awful society. How hard would it have been to f***ing donate friends? Do I matter to you?

“Friendly reminder, don’t think you own me. I am cutting all of you snakes off. I am living my life alone now.”

Unsurprisingly people on social media were pretty shocked by the whole elaborate tale.

“OMG thats some bridezilla!!” one Mumsnet user wrote.

“Can’t be true. Surely. But if it is, all those other Bridezillas out there should bow out in shame,” another added.

The now-deleted Facebook post as said to have been only up for 15 minutes before Susan took it down, and someone claiming to be a relative of the bride has since had their say.

Susan’s apparent ‘second cousin’ confirmed that she was definitely “a living breathing human being,” and that they, “sadly shares a small percentage of DNA”.

They went on to say: “Clearly she has entitlement issues, but I have never known her to be this obnoxious. Honestly, over the years she’s been nice and overall sweet. No red flags come to mind.

“She has humble beginnings and has been working on her parents farm since she was young. You really wouldn’t expect someone from an agricultural background to value Kardashian style materialism, but hey? I guess she’s an outlier! [sic]“"

[WhitelabelIT]

she wanted to be a kardashian for a day... I wouldnt marry that women if I got paid for it, this is too funny

[cimage]

Just elope problem solved

[DeSexGuide]

This is funny and sad all in one , what were they thinking.They would make big bucks out of their wedding?

[Kev]

The groom is the lucky one here,if ya ask me.

[bestfreeporn]

Crazy bich

[jag]

Just thinking to myself and may be totally wrong in how I perceive this story, but this was not a match made in heaven for love.

[vblogger]

Weddings can get expensive and some think they have to keep up with their friends and have a mega event to be cool.

[ispdn]

Is she good looking?

[HeidiHoe]

Is she good looking?

Judging by this, not on the inside she isn't. That's where it counts when it comes to choosing a partner.

[XpressPete]

Was it love or a business transaction?

[TheButcher]

Was it love or a business transaction?

Marriage ends up making the economy money so ...

[alori]

What if she had done a sale, reduce the donation fee to say $600 when she realized there was not going to be a wedding.Some people might have been able to afford that price, who knows.

[WhitelabelIT]

What if she had done a sale, reduce the donation fee to say $600 when she realized there was not going to be a wedding.Some people might have been able to afford that price, who knows.

or she could have waited until she could afford the wedding she wanted so bad, I think many people do, I had friends that where engaged 3 years because for 1 reason or another they couldn't manage to pull off what they wanted to do for their wedding. they love each other though, that might be the difference.

[TheButcher]

What if she had done a sale, reduce the donation fee to say $600 when she realized there was not going to be a wedding.Some people might have been able to afford that price, who knows.

First of all in my day no one would ask for money instead of a gift. Secondly me and the dragon ended up with a bunch of pots and pans that was not the point, we invited family and friends we wanted to share the day with not expect gifts. Third if you are going to put in the invitation some words to the effect of give money instead of a gift, do not then qualify the shit with the amount you expect from the guests, that is a little too much in my opnion.

My 3 cents.