Let's face it, weddings are a JOYOUS sometimes prohibitively expensive experience.
On the Reddit page /r/ChoosingBeggars, user so_long_and_thanks shared a status from a bride-to-be's Facebook where she laments the lack of real friends in her life who would spend $3,000 (not including the cost of a gift) to travel to her wedding in Thailand.
The post quickly went viral, with many users making fun of the bride's attitude and lack of self-awareness.
Here's the post as it appeared on Reddit:
It seems the anonymous bride was having an issue getting people to come to her $3k destination wedding:
When we invited our friends and family to our destination wedding in Thailand, only 9 people RSVPs. Out of 150!!! Ok, I get it, paying $3k to share my special day is too much for some of you, I'd pay for yours, but whatever.
So she changed the location to Hawaii...to no avail!
BUT then, when we changed the wedding to be in Hawaii, so it's within everyone's reach, only 7 of you RSVPd??? It costs less but less of you wanna come?! Is that what you think of ____ and me? You can't spare $2k to come share our happiness?
Then the bride issued a VERY scary threat...
I'm tempted to just elope and not let any of you be a part of our happiest day. This is it guys you have 3 days to respond to our evites or were deleting you off FB and good luck keeping up with our lives then.
Fortunately, she ends things on a more heartwarming note.
And don't get me started on the registry... Only the cheap stuff is gone, I swear I thought I had better friends.
______ and I are asking you to reconsider.
How touching! This will truly be a wedding for the ages!
Unfortunately, it seemed most Reddit users weren't as pumped for the occasion as the bride would have liked them to be.
SlonkGangweed commented:
"we will be deleting you off facebook and good luck keeping up with our lives then!" Oh geez, all I will have left to console me is my $3,000.
Dis_Miss took issue with the e-vite situation:
If you "don't respond to out evites". She can't even be bothered to send a proper wedding invitation and is complaining about others being cheap?
Delbuns knows how Facebook code works:
"At the risk of sounding entitled..." Incoming most entitled rant you've ever heard.
The bride's math simply didn't add up, according to thescrounger.
"I'd pay for yours, but whatever." She invited 150 people. At $3,000 a wedding, that means to honor that claim she's agreeing to spend $450,000 to go to all of their destination weddings.
Helena911 wasn't super excited by the prospect...
But you get to spend the happiest day of MY life with ME. You can't spare 3k to come share MY happiness?!
daetara knows what's really going on.
At the risk or sounding entitled, your friendship is only worth the amount of money you will spend on me.
PhilipLiptonSchrute's revenge plan sounds pretty sweet, honestly.
Just to spite her, I'd go to Hawaii for a vacation at the exact same time and not attend the wedding
FartingBob made his point with an all-caps flourish!
BECAUSE EVERYONE NEEDS TO FOCUS ON HER AND HER SPECIAL DAY, IF YOU DONT SHOWER HER WITH COMPLIMENTS YOU WILL BE DELETED.
Jrscout put things in perspective for the bride-to-be:
I wouldn't have paid $2k to attend my own wedding.
It's pretty clear, when it comes to destination weddings, people have strong feelings:
There's one point everyone agreed on, however:
As JK_Abrams said, this Facebook post was not a good look.
It's beyond me why people think posting something like this will improve the situation. If I was on the fence, I would no longer be going. And no longer be "friends". And be returning whatever gift I got off your registry.
And if you wonder how a person could be so self-unaware, you may take some solace in the face that so_long_and_thanks_ later returned to post the bride-to-be's fiance's reaction to her shenanigans. At least one member of the relationship has a good head on their social-media shoulders.
See you all in Hawaii for the big day!
I'm on the fence about high school. I want to hate it, but nostalgia haunts me. I saw a lot of violence, there is that.
We were on CNN.
don lemon nodding GIF by Red Table TalkGiphy"They started charging us for ketchup in the cafeteria. Most of the school boycotted cafeteria lunch and brought all manner of condiments from home. We were on CNN. They eventually caved." ~ Ash3Monti
No one liked him.
"I was big into drama club and musical theatre when I was in high school. There was a girl in the drama club in her freshmen or sophomore year who was super nice and everyone loved her. Her older brother on the the other hand, was a complete and total douchebag. No one liked him."
"He always made inappropriate comments or jokes and no one liked to be around him. One night, he was driving him and his sister back from school when he took a steep curve going around 100 mph. He lost control and hit a telephone pole. His sister died instantly and he was in a coma for a few weeks but ultimately survived."
"Myself and my friends in the drama club were devastated. She was one of the sweetest girls you'll ever met and we all loved her. A year or two later, the brother messages my sister and tries to use his sister's death as leverage to get laid. F**k you, you piece of crap." ~ FearTheKeflex
Bribes
"Guidance counselor was taking bribes to change grades (Both money and sexual favors). Invited one male student over to his house. Had the student tie him up and hang him by chains in his basement "dungeon." Student was homophobic and while the counselor was tied up, bludgeoned him to death." ~ monthos
H2O Issues...
"This is not that extreme, but it's still disgusting. We have drinking water taps instead of fountains. One parent was suspicious of whether they were cleaning the tanks or not. So they made an announcement that the tank was being cleaned every single day."
"A lot of us didn't believe it, so a group of boys decided to see for themselves if it was true or not. So they put a dead frog in the tank when there was no one around. I don't even know where they found the frog but they swear they didn't kill it. Anyway the frog was there for a few weeks. And obviously the water started tasting weird."
"After the teachers got multiple complaints, they opened the tank and found the frog. The boys were punished, but they fired back with the fact that they lied about cleaning the tanks. They were still punished, because they proved it in a disgusting way. They could've put literally anything in the tank, but they chose a dead frog." ~ R00mTemperature
The Quad
Acds2 Look Away GIF by Anime Crimes DivisionGiphy"A worker doing stuff on the roof. He fell off. Landed in the 'quad' at lunch. A large piece of machinery fell and squished his head. Like a cartoon, only funny. Like 150 Kids saw this." ~ LordInventus
Threats
"The Latin kings gang threatened my cousin and his friends and they had 10 squad cars guarding the whole school and dismissed us the same day early." ~ Terrykrinkle
“it’s gonna blow”
"I had just moved in from Egypt to the states in my senior year of high school. A teacher thought it would be funny to fold a bunch of papers and wrap them in duck tape to make it look like a bomb and threw it my direction and went under his desk saying 'it’s gonna blow.' Everybody started laughing and I was so clueless then I just laughed along. It infuriates me to this day that I didn’t call him out on it or report him." ~ ezzabousaif
Go Fish
"Someone somehow made a bomb threat on a Swedish fish candy. Like one single piece. I don’t know how it happened but he got arrested." ~ ts_13_
Masternid
"A couple weeks before graduation, this kid hacked into the school system and put a Hitler quote and a Boston bomber reference in the senior quotes for the yearbook. One of the affected parties was a trans girl, and we're still not sure if it was a targeted act because of that."
"Administration didn't find out until the entire senior class had received their books. Some people turned theirs in to get their pages replaced, but some kept it because it was a 'limited edition item' or some stupid sh*t like that. Kid got arrested and charged with cybercrime, since he hacked everyone in our school system's school passwords."
"He was so close to graduating too, but got expelled like two weeks before he could. Looked like a rat too. It was all over the news, and everyone in the state of CT basically knows about this now. Got out on bail for $5000." ~ kocorpsie
Season 3 What GIF by On My Block"Apparently one student brought drugs to school and was selling it to her friends. A completely unrelated student caught on and stole the drugs while everyone else was in class. She was caught snorting the drugs in the bathroom by the group selling the drugs and got the crap beat out of her."
"We also had a recently graduated student murder his parents for insurance money . He hid the bodies in a chicken coop and told everybody they were on vacation. It wasn't until 7 months later the bodies were found by the landlord because the rent was late." ~ randomgenericcow
Enjoy high school, at least try too. Maybe if more kids do that, it wouldn't be so insane.
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