Bad-mannered Bride… you have to read it to believe it! I’m still in shock over this one!! No, horrified and in utter disbelief of what I have just read. Is this is hoax?! Surely it must be. Did this really happen?! Or have I woken up in a planet populated by little green men?! Are people truly this ungrateful?
I’ve heard stories about cranky Brides, the Bridezillas of the wedding world but we’ve got to cut them some slack right? It is after all a huge, mega-huge day riddle with emotions so a tantrum here and there is to be expected. BUT!!! Not what I’m about to tell you. This goes beyond bad manners!
An ungrateful, nooooo that’s too polite, an unforgivably horrible Bride sent a message, via Facebook to a guest who attended her wedding in disgust with the gift she recieved. The really funny thing is, this guest wasn’t even a friend, she was the girlfriend of a friend and didn’t really know the Bride very well at all.
What did the Bride do? Well be warned, you will sit in disbelief for quite sometime after you read this and as Huffpost quite rightly put it – your blood will boil!
Picture this…?
You attend a not-so-close friends wedding and generously give $100 (roughly £65) as a wedding gift. A few weeks later you receive something like this…
Hi Tanya, how are you? I just want to know is there any reason or dissatisfaction of Mike’s and I wedding that both you and Phil gave 50$ each? In terms of the amount we got from you both was very unexpected as a result we were very much short on paying off the reception because just for the cocktail + reception alone the plate per person is 200$ (as per a normal wedding range with open bar is about) and Mike and I both have already paid for everything else including decor, photography, attire etc and didn’t expect we had to cover that huge amount for reception as well. As I know you both live together and work, so I did not see any reason for that amount, when it comes to your wedding hopefully you’ll know what I mean. I hope for the best as from what we receive is what we will give back. Anyways, good luck on everything (extract taken from HuffPost).
I’m surprised the Bride didn’t attach the invoice for the rest of the Reception Bill on Tanya’s message.
BAAAAAAAAAAAFOOOOOOSEEEEEE! That’s the only word for it really. It’s so unforgivable right? And athough the letter is written (for the most part) from the royal ‘we’ as in the Bride and Groom, I imagine the groom had no idea the message was posted and is now cringing now that he’s famousl on HuffPost too – Check out the note again – toward the end of the message it all changes from ‘we’ to ‘I’ this and ‘I’ that. I’ve bolded them just so you can see 🙂
Boy oh boy, if that was me that lovely Bride would have had a very honest, personally written note that had been crushed a few times in my angry fists, screwing it up into a tiny ball posted to her via snail mail. When you hit 40, your tolerance for people like that is very slim or maybe it’s my Mother-Bear instinct! I don’t know! I feel so sorry for Tanya, but also for the Bride. She clearly mustn’t have had the wedding of her dreams to have been moaning about presents. I personally couldn’t tell you what our gifts were on our wedding day and don’t even remember opening them because I was snuggly wrapped up in delerium on that day from becoming Mrs B and having the time of my life! (Isn’t that the point)!
Completely and utterly bamboozled by this story.
Have you ever experienced an ungrateful Bride? Maybe you’re a Bride who’s experienced an ungrateful guest? Let the stories begin…
Read the full story of this ungrateful Bride on the Huffpost website. Featured image photographer unknown – great shot though!!
At the end of the day people give what they can afford, to be honest we generally would put c£20/50 in a card for friends weddings regardless of how grand they are (after you have paid for clothes, travel, accommodation, hen/stag dos, drinks on the day, taken time off work (being self employed!) other peoples weddings can cost quite a lot of money!). When we had our very large wedding some people gave us £500 + and some people gave us £20 and the range in between. It was our decision to have a ‘big’ wedding and it was our decision who to invite. If you want people to pay a minimum to attend your wedding maybe that should go on the invite!!
Good grief, I somehow don’t think that they will be friends for very much longer…Astonishing….
OMG shocking! Can’t believe anyone would react like that!! Ah well, she has had her comeuppance (via huffpost etc!!) x
Gees.. if she was depending on people to give enough to cover her bills.. she should have charged a cover charge to get in. Otherwise.. she should have thrown a wedding more within her means. It’s not the guests problem to figure out how to pay for your wedding.. it’s there presence.. not the presents that count.. silly bridezilla..
I’m just… it’s just… there’s no… I can’t even… No.
What a horrible lady- even if the above one isn’t true i’m sure many similar things have happened.
I’d be happy to receive nothing from someone that attended my wedding as them being there is more than enough. Seems she only invited people for the gifts of money!
I think sometimes huffington post publish spoof stories Lets hope that this is one
Wow…what a crazy incident! Thankfully I’ve never had a run-in with ungrateful bride (at least to this degree).
So tacky! I’m speechless.
All I can say is wow. I’ve come across so many brides in my career, now I realise how luck I’ve been. Or have I? I guess that I’ve come across nice people because most people are nice, thankfully
I can’t believe it, I thought women were bad but this is just too far!
oh my goodness, is this for REAL, I have no words.
Very sad, but I think it may be a sign of the times. It reminds me of being asked to travel interstate to do a (distant) family member’s wedding. Yes, they kindly paid for the airfares (around $600). The rub was that as a pastry chef I was asked to make the cake (the one they wanted would have cost them around $1000 at commercial rates) plus 5 kinds of petit fours x 100 (ie total 500 tiny desserts). Out of a domestic kitchen. On my own. 24 hr turnaround. Certainly doable but MAJOR effort. By the time I paid for accommodation and ingredients I was out of pocket by close to $2000, and that doesn’t count my work. The groom has never bothered to say more than two words to me, let alone offer a word of thanks. No surprise I won’t be doing any more family weddings.