Bride-To-Be Requests Guests To Pay For Meals Instead Of Bringing Wedding Gifts

We all want to celebrate our weddings with the people we care about the most. At the same time,  it's thrilling for the guests to attend the celebrations, with food being one of the main draws, even when families go all out and spend a lot of money to arrange high-octane wedding activities. Would it interfere with your plans if you were asked to a wedding where you had to pay for the meals? Well, a bride just asked her guests to shell out money for their own meals at her wedding.

The soon-to-be bride posted about her predicament on Facebook and in the Reddit group "r/weddingshaming," with the description, 'Bride fails to budget appropriately, wants her guests to pay for her reception.' The woman had noted in the post, "Did anyone ask their guests to pay for their meals? Everything is so expensive at the moment. We're either going to postpone our October wedding, cancel the guest part or ask our guests to pay for their meals in lieu of gifts. I've sent the invites out so not sure how we'd go about it. Please help. I'm stressed and sad."

Bride-To-Be Requests Guests To Pay For Meals

The Reddit post stirred up feelings in the readers, many of whom, surprisingly, supported the bride-to-be's choice. They posted remarks such as: "Personally if I was asked to pay for my food within reason instead of a gift I would be really happy with that. So long as that was the understanding from the start. Some people just want to spend the day with their family and friends I see no issue with that."

Another user said, "I'm going to a wedding in a few months, on the invitation it said we would have to pay around $450 for it because it was four days out in the mountains with lodging (in a beautiful resort, room to myself) and meals included. I had no problem signing up for it because when am I going to get that good of deal any other time? No gifts were asked for unless you wanted to (everything I got them was under $20)."

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However, it is clear that some people did not agree with these stipulations. They left remarks such as: "I mean you can have a small potluck backyard wedding. I don't think it's cool to ask people to essentially pay a fee to attend a wedding venue though," and, "They really should have the wedding they can afford. It's extremely tacky to ask guests to pay for their meals."