'You're out of your mind, Susan': Bride demands $1,500 from each guest to pay for her $60,000 wedding, ends up getting denied and dumped before burning bridges with everyone

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jan 7, 2025 6:00 PM EST

Weddings can make everyone's sanity fray at the edges a little bit, but when this woman found herself floundering beneath the pressure of her materialistic alter-ego, everyone involved with the wedding got crushed–including guests, friends, family, and everyone she ever knew on Facebook. 

It's understandable to feel like you're going a little cuckoo during the wedding planning process. With a million decisions to make, a strict budget to follow, and your 10-year-old Pinterest board judging your every move, it always feels like you're making the wrong call. However, the delicate line between a stressed-out bride and a bridezilla gets crossed when a prospective bride starts lashing out with entitled demands. The woman in this next tale takes the cake on insane requests, insisting that each guest attending her wedding contribute $1500 to fund an exorbitant, out-of-budget, Kardashian-style wedding.

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  • Even for my closest friends, a $1500 entry-fee for their wedding reception would be looking a little steep. But once the lady in our next story was convinced to ‘go big’ on her wedding's budget by a local psychic, she was convicted of her lavish tastes on a pauper's budget. I certainly wouldn't be RSVPing ‘Yes’ to a wedding that required a cash-only gift that cost me more than a one-week vacation to Bermuda. Keep scrolling to read the insane details and ridiculous fallout to a fairytale love story that fell apart before it ever began, just because a woman was too obsessed with ‘being a Kardashian’ for a day to realize how out-of-touch she'd become with reality.

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    Classic Oh No, Consequences: Bride Demands $1500 from Each Guest to pay for her Wedding & Ends Up Dumped Oldie but Goodie This was originally from a bridezilla's Facebook account
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    Dear friends, It comes with great sadness that I am announcing the cancellation of the Wedding. I apologize for cancelling only 4 days beforehand. Unfortunately, and I have broken up due to some recent and irreparable
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    problems. We have decided to end our relationship and not go forth with any future proceedings. However, we are remaining civil and are still a teal for our son. After hours of tears, mental exhaustion, and even disassociation, I have
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    come to this decision. In one hour after posting this status, I am going to delete my Facebook. Social media has caused me only paranoia and toxicity. I will be spending these next two months backpacking in South America,
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    exploring my soul and ridding myself of toxic energy brought on by my friends and family-- the ones who I thought I could trust the most. Hence, I will be out of the country for all of October and November.
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    Please don't contact me. When I'm ready, I may make a new Facebook and add friends/family that haven't stabbed me in the back. How did this all come crashing down? Well I invite you all on
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    Facebook-- players, bystanders, and side characters of the people in my life-- to take a seat and listen. You're all involved somehow, somehow everyone is wrapped into this mess. Even if you weren't invited to my wedding, I don't care. You might
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    hear of the drama and I'd rather you hear it from me. I not asking for sympathy. I just want to tell my story. Before I begin this mini novel,
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    I invite all of you (including the X&%$# who have ruined my marriage and life) to put yourselves in my shoes. For once, let me take the stage and let me voice the most painful few months of my life.
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    First, things were a fairy tale. I met the love of my life at 14. We were both young but somehow we just knew we were meant to be. We worked on my family's farm together and with each warm summer spent in the fields our love
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    grew deeper and deeper. Fast forward to high school. We went strong all 4 years. He put a ring on my finger when I was 18, worth nearly $5k. We'd put everything on the life for each other-- everything. We both chose to
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    attend the same community college and work full time in order to build our dream. We spent most o our days by each other's sides. I will always be thankful for that. Fast forward a few years, I was 20. I realized I was pregnant with my first. We
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    were elated, tearful and thankful for this gift. After giving birth to Declyn, I knew the next step would be to focus on my career and become financially stable. My ex did the same. We save and saved. I was in love I was
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    happy and I was looking forward to life. We continued to working and even got our degree. It was hard, yes, but so blissfully worth it. We managed to save up nearly $15k for a wedding. Since our love was like a fairy tale, we wanted an extravagant blow out wedding, one where our son
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    could be included. We started touring venues and were torn between two. A local psychic told us to go with the more expensive option, and we thought why the h I not? We just needed a little push. Our dream wedding amounted to $60k-- all included with flights to Aruba. All we asked
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    was for a little help from our friends and family to make it happen. I SPECIFICALLY, I mean SPECIFICALLY asked for cash gifts. How could we have OUR wedding that WE dreamed of without proper funding? We
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    sacrificed so much and only asked each guest for around $1,500. We talked to a few people who even promised us more to make our dream come true. My maid of honor (who shall not be named) pledged $5000 along with her planning services.
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    We tearfully thanked and accepted. My ex's family offered to contribute $3000. So our request for $1500 for all other guests was not our of the ordinary. Like, we made it CLEAR. If you couldn't contribute, you weren't invited to our exclusive wedding. It's a once in a lifetime party.
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    So, we sent our RSVP's and only 8 people replied and sent us the check. We were livid. How was this supposed to happen without a little help from our friends. To make matters worse, my ex's family took back their offer. Suddenly, more people backed out, INCLUDING THE
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    &%$# MAID OF HONOR. MY BEST FRIEND SINCE CHILDHOOD. MY SECOND FAMILY. I was so shocked and tearful. To make matters worse, it was only a month before the wedding. To cancel everything would have been more than $5k. Desperately, we resent our invites and asked
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    people to donate what they could. I mean seriously people, what is $1000? What is $1500? Clearly, not a lot. It would be quite manageable and within budget. I've heard of people asking for worse.
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    We also set up a go fund me. That only got us $250. At this point, we were exhausted, tired. I yelled at my ex; I became unraveled. I realized my dream wedding was becoming a nightmare. Then it got worse.
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    My ex came into the room and offered to get a vegas wedding done. I laughed in his face, but he was de d serious. He wanted those cheap, raggedy, filthy, &$%* like vegas weddings. I mean WHAT the f ?? Was he out of his mind? Am I some $%&#@
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    piece of trash, a %$@*&? Am I supposed to like the idea of getting married in the heart of shady gamblers, alcoholics, and the get rich fast fallacy? Suddenly, my body began to shake as I entered a panic attack.
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    My ex left the room and didn't apologize for his horrid suggestion. I then called my maid of honor and cried my eyes out. Instead of sympathy, I was told that I was asking for way too much and I should stick to my budget. I mean..no words
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    can describe. How could someone who offered me THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS then deny me MY promised money and then tell me to shift down my budget???? She DREAM was a KNOWS my blowout wedding. I just wanted to be a kardashian for a day and then live
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    my life like normal. I called her a filthy poor excuse of a friend, and hung up. Then she blocked me off all social media. Rumors swirled. I received anonymous threats. My ex stayed out later and later and I have a feeling he even cheated. My
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    bridesmaids climbed on the boat with my maid of honor and dissed me. They essentially told me I was crazy. They asked for their deposit back...so I said f IYOU. I refuse to give it back until they can pay me back for their emotional distress.
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    My ex started to talk to my maid of honor and gossip about me behind my back. I overheard him talking in the basement when he called me a stuck up b .I verified that he was talking to HER. Anyway. I am exhausted. I am bone tired. My heart is not the same. Its stone cold.
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    Fragmented. Empty. I need to get away from this awful society. How hard would it to have been to donate friends? Do I matter to you? Just ☐ give me money for my wedding. I won't even sugarcoat. I won't even pretend that's not what I
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    wanted. It was for a dream. I was stabbed, cheated on, and Wrk'd. Goodbye. See you in two months. Friendly reminder to you . Don't think you own me. I am cutting all of you snakes off. I am living my life alone now. I only let in those I believe have good intentions. Xoxo
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    E I have no words. You're out of your mind, Susan. WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?? Who the h l EXPECTS that amount of money?
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    evilbrent People who call them "once and a lifetime" parties shouldn't be allowed to throw once in a lifetime parties.
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    GamerGirlLex77 She's also assuming that her wedding day is going to have equal or more importance to everyone else's life.
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    LadyBug 0570 Even if it was, people aren't paying $1500 to attend. People got bills to pay.
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