Angry Wedding Guest Sparks Debate in the Comments, Ending Friendships With People Who Throw Expensive Destination Weddings

Weddings are an amazing celebration of a couple and their love for one another. The point of a wedding is to show your friend's and family that you are taking a vow of union with another person. Simple right? People frequently forget about the point of that and like to go overboard with extravagance, expense, and lavishness so that they can have their own wedding look like all the Pinterest weddings they've obsessed over since they were old enough to get on the Internet. 

Recently, destination weddings have become increasingly popular, which for many people, means that they won't be able to afford to take part in celebrating their friend's, cousins, or family member's union. Yikes. We really have strayed far from the sun. 

One Redditor, u/boopies_university came to the r/TrueOffMyChest subreddit to vent about his recent interaction with a childhood friend of his who had the audacity to invite him to their destination wedding, which was going to cost each guest $8000 to attend. 

u/boopies_university

Not everybody has that kind of money. Boopies is fired up because he claims that the bride and groom were genuinely upset at his negative RSVP. As if it is fully acceptable for a person to drain their entire savings account to eat overcooked chicken, listen to bad 90's crooner music, and watch your grandparents get drunk. No thank you.

Boopies continues…

He's certainly got a point. In the comments, people seem to get equally fired up, backing him up and claiming that this was an exorbitant expectation from his “friend”. 

For normal people who don't have the money to throw an extravagant wedding, $8k is a lot of money. Regardless of your financial status, it should be pretty obvious that most people don't just have thousands of dollars to throw away for a crappy shrimp cocktail and to wave at their wedded friends from afar as they run off into the sunset with their photographer. 

Weddings are meant to be a celebration of love, not a celebration of affluence.

Besides, some of the commenters made the best point that, not only would a wedding like this cut into your PTO and other vacation opportunities for the year, but wouldn't you want to spend $8000 on a vacation you actually want? 

Imagine how far 8k would go if you got to choose what it went to? No need to stay in the blocked out rooms of a 5 star resort and no need to buy 25hour flights to the middle of nowhere. You could probably go anywhere in the world for $8k. Where would you go? To a high school friend's wedding? Probably not.