Weddings and everything that comes with the big day can be expensive. Costs just keep adding up and budgets can go right out the window.
But one Maid of Honour, Mumsnet user ComingUpTrumps, might just take the cake for being excessive when it comes to added wedding expenses, or perhaps her fellow bridesmaids are just being stingy.
She organised an all-expenses hens weekend which included two nights’ accommodation, the cost totalling about $500 per person. This price also covered the bride’s share, which was split equally between bridesmaids.
However the Maid of Honour was having trouble securing the funds from the other bridesmaids, and so took to the online forum Mumsnet to vent about the problem and get advice on how she could get the bridal party to cough up the cash.
“I sent them an initial email with a payment request on Friday afternoon. A few got back to me saying they’d pay me on the weekend, but I haven’t yet received payment from them,” she began. “I sent out another follow-up payment request email this morning [Monday]. In total, I’ve only been paid by one person.”
ComingUpTrumps noted that without payment the whole weekend was at risk of cancellation as some of the activities required deposits. She told fellow Mumsnet users that she is actually unemployed at the moment and unsure how she will cover her own costs for the weekend away, and that the bride wants a “cheap and cheerful hen do”, before asking the forum for their help by posing these three questions:
“a) Am I being unreasonable to ask people to pay this?
b) How do I get people to pay?
c) Can I pull off organising the hen do?”
The reactions were, as you can imagine, mixed.
“Blimey, rather you than me!,” wrote user SpikeGilesSandwich.
“That’s not cheap and cheerful at all. Scrap a $50 lunch. Scrap a dance lesson. Mooch around the shops, have a sandwich,” wrote PotteringAlong, while Moanyoldcow said: “I think they’re selfish and exhausting and there are always squabbles”.
