Friendship ruined by cheap wedding gift: ‘No class’

There’s many a friendship that is ended by a wedding, with tensions at an all time high and quite often, unspoken bridal rules are broken.

But usually one of the biggest issues when it comes to weddings is money and turns out that was the reason for one big falling out.

A man revealed his friendship ended with his former best friend, all over a ”cheap wedding gift“.

“This happened a few years back,” he shared on Reddit’s ‘Wedding Shaming’ thread.

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“My best friend at the time (25f) was getting married. It was sort of a destination wedding, as it was two states over and about a seven-hour drive there,” he explained.

The wedding guest said they were “excited to attend, but had to purchase a new suit, transportation, and pay for a hotel (three nights)”.

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“This was also the same exact month I had to pay $1,900 out of pocket for dental work. As you can tell, money was tight for me during this time period,” he explained.

Things started to go awry when the bride sent “a rude text about not staying at the right hotel”.

“I had no idea, but on her wedding site she had a recommended hotel for everyone (except her and her groom) to stay at,” he said.

The poster explained he didn’t see it, so booked a cheaper hotel five minutes away.

“She was not happy about this, but I didn’t understand why I had to be at this specific one,” he said.

“Because money was tight, and having already spent hundreds of dollars to attend this wedding, I only gave $80 to their honeymoon fund as a gift.

“Looking back, I admit I could have splurged for more, but I don’t drink, was without a date, and figured that everything I did to attend this wedding would all be enough for her.”

A year after the wedding he mentioned in conversation with the bride that they’d been “invited to another person’s wedding”.

“Her first response was ‘well, don’t be cheap and give them only $80’. This message made my heart drop. Not only did it make me feel like a horrible person, I was also angry that she remembered my exact donation amount over a YEAR later,” he said.

“From that point on, I lost a ton of respect for her, and our relationship was never the same.”

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The man was stunned by her comment. 

“I just can’t believe that her entire memory of me at her wedding was being ‘cheap’ instead of traveling 2 states over for multiple days to be there for her biggest day of her life. How could someone focus on THAT?” they said at the end of their post.

A lot of people on Reddit sided with the poster. 

“Honestly, if you’d done all that for my wedding, I wouldn’t expect a penny for a gift,” one Redditer said.

“It’s beyond tacky to shame someone for the size of their gift, no matter what they did to get to your wedding,” another commented.

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“She’s got no class. 80 bucks is fine actually. Wedding folks have become crazy entitled lately,” one said.

One Redditer explained: “Hotels frequently give kickbacks to the couple. So they are upset because they did not get the money from the hotel for that as well.”

“It’s generally acceptable for weddings that you have to travel for to not give a gift, a nice card suffices so you went above and beyond,” another replied.

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