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According to Daily Mail, this bride was so unhappy with the value of her gift, she went as far as to ask the guest, who is also a friend of hers, to give her $300 (around R3 500) to make up for the cost of her attendance, which according to the bride was worth $500 (around R7 500).
But what exactly did the guest gift the bride and was it really not "expensive enough?".
According to the post that the guest made in an online wedding shaming group, she received a cash gift of $200 (less than R3 000) as well as a small designer candle worth $75 (around R1 000). Read the post below.
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"I've just hung up the phone from a friend (ex-friend now!) whose wedding was a few weekends ago" the woman started in her post.
"She had a beautiful wedding, lots of guests, lots of wine and food. There were even fireworks when she and her new hubby left (via yacht) to go on their honeymoon.
She was ringing people thanking them for coming to her wedding. Sweet right? Wrong. She told me the cost of having my husband and I at her wedding was far more than the miserly gift we gave her".
Read the rest of her post in the screenshots below.
The ungrateful bride then went on to complain that the candle wasn't the bigger one that she actually wanted. She also told her guest and now ex friend that she was from Australia and that it was common to give gifts that relate to the cost of the wedding.
Members of the wedding shaming group were having none of the bride's nonsense and advised the anonymous poster to let go of the friendship and move on.
One commented, "'Throw the whole friend away, that's trashy to have done that," while another reiterated that she didn't owe the bride anything. "'You can't charge admissions for your wedding. You don't owe the bride anything" they wrote.
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We all know that the value of a gift shouldn't matter.
Personally, I think that if someone decides to celebrate anything, be it a wedding, birthday, baby shower or bachelorette, then it's unfair to expect to be reimbursed for having people there.
I mean, it's your celebration isn't it? Also, gifts shouldn't be the be all and end all of any situation. What do you think?
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