A bride has been slammed after revealing her plans to charge guests $99 to eat at her wedding reception.
Taking to the Wedding Shaming subreddit, a friend of the bride said that she read on the wedding invite that the husband-and-wife-to-be "are unable to afford the food, so it will be $99 per head banquet style".
The Reddit user explained: "Oh it’s also a 4 hour drive away from us and kid free so we need to pay for petrol, accommodation, outfits, baby sitter and our food to eat at the wedding lol.
"They’re still having a wishing well, no open bar. A wishing well is a box or literal mini well that guests can put a 'money gift' in to go towards their 'future, honeymoon or new house'. They have 3 kids and a house already and not planning on a honeymoon so."
Needless to say, plenty of the commenters agreed that the Redditor's friend was taking liberties by asking her guests to shell out $99 - despite it being her wedding.
One person wrote: "I wouldn’t even let the ink dry on the 'unfortunately we are unable to attend' reply before I mailed that off."
Another added: "Would love to know your reply. Mine would be a kind but hard, not going to be there. Why do people always think that a wedding is a valid reason to go over budget? There is no way any food is good enough to justify $99 a person at a wedding (assuming it's no open bar - but who knows).
"If someone asked me to pay for my own wedding meal, I would deduct that from their wedding gift. It's just tacky. People need to start getting real and only planing for what they can afford. It's one day. Why start off your marriage in debt?"
A third speculated: "It likely is to pay for the venue as well. You can get decent food for $20 a plate so they're trying to get people to pay for the entire wedding."
What do you think? Was it unreasonable of the bride and groom to charge such a hefty amount for food and drink at their own wedding? Let us know in the comments!
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