Bride and groom charge guests £2k to attend wedding - and drinks aren't included

A mates person been taken to task aft they charged guests astir £2,000 to be their wedding. As good arsenic this, radical had to wage for nutrient and portion arsenic good arsenic a £200 tip

A bride and groom person been blasted online aft charging guests astir £2,000 to be their wedding. And no, food and portion weren't included. Taking spot successful the UK, successful the lead-up to the wedding guests received an email thanking them for their RSVP. Then, astatine the bottommost of the correspondence, determination was a nexus that asked radical to "Click present for payment".

One of the guests, Jack*, assumed this was a nexus to the honeymoon money and went astir his day. A fewer days aboriginal helium thought helium would click the nexus and helium was taken done to a outgo leafage that requested conscionable shy of £2k for his attendance astatine the wedding. He assumed this indispensable beryllium a scam truthful called the wedding venue to fto them know. Staff past told him "Sophie* and Jeff* convey you for your publication to enabling them to person their imagination wedding."

He had lone been informed of this aft helium had already confirmed helium would beryllium there. While Jack was astounded by the cost, helium decided to bare his full savings to be the wedding. Once the large time arrived, Jack thought he'd instrumentality vantage of the escaped barroom to marque up for the hefty attendance fee. His program was foiled, however, erstwhile it turned retired nutrient and portion weren't included. This meant helium ended up paying different £30 arsenic good arsenic an other £200 that the bride and groom made each guests wage arsenic a "tip to the venue".

"He was past informed by the venue that the bride and groom had requested each impermanent beryllium charged this magnitude arsenic a extremity for the venue. Note this is successful the UK wherever tipping the venue is not a happening that happens (nor does charging guests for attendance for that substance - but does that hap anywhere?). Jack had nary wealth near from rinsing his savings for the wedding that helium had to negociate a little extremity magnitude with the venue," Jack's person detailed connected Reddit.

"After the wedding, Jack checked the outgo of the venue and calculated that the outgo had been dispersed amongst the guests but NOT the bride and groom, truthful they had fundamentally got a escaped wedding retired of it. Not lone did the bride and groom walk connected the costs of a ridiculously priced venue to the guests, aft radical had RSVP'd, fundamentally putting the venue supra impermanent attendance, but past they passed connected the outgo of a extremity to the guests WITHOUT TELLING THEM, arsenic a required complaint connected cheque out. I've ne'er heard of thing truthful entitled successful my life."

People were shocked successful the comments, with galore saying they couldn't judge the audacity of the couple. Others adjacent went connected to accidental that the wedding guests had been scammed. "Uh...Yeah, no. Once I saw the outgo screen, I would person called and cancelled my RSVP. I don't attraction who the bride and groom are to me. You privation a circumstantial benignant of wedding, wage for it yourself. What they did was downright tacky," 1 idiosyncratic wrote. "These are not friends, conscionable users and that's truthful gross. I anticipation idiosyncratic confronted them and called them out. If you're that inexpensive oregon broke, elope and prevention everyone the headache," said another. A 3rd added: "Your person Jack and each different impermanent were implicit idiots for conscionable meekly going on with this scam."

After radical started sharing their thoughts connected the situation, the archetypal poster went backmost to the station to adhd immoderate other information. They wrote: "Confirmation from Americans successful the comments that this is not a US thing, it's besides not a UK thing, it's a confirmed entitled radical thing." *Names changed for anonymity.

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