WHEN you consider a wedding reception, you most likely consider dancing, drinks and common merriment.
So it is comprehensible that one particular person was left greater than a bit of upset after they attended a reception after their buddies’ nuptials – solely to discover that nothing had been supplied for the friends.
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“I am nonetheless making an attempt to get my head spherical this one,” they wrote on Mumsnet’s Am I Being Unreasonable? forum.
“It was a good friend’s wedding final week and the comfortable couple invited twelve individuals to their reception.
“After the ceremony (which was beautiful) we went again to the couple’s home.
“There was no wedding cake. No drinks. We made ourselves cups of tea and espresso.”
When it got here to dinner time, the groom handed out menus for the native curry home.
“As soon as we’d all picked what we needed, he requested us to switch the price of our orders to his checking account, earlier than he phoned up and positioned the order,” the particular person continued.
And as soon as they had completed their meals and tidied up, the newlyweds requested their friends to depart “as a result of they have been drained”.
“No speeches, no enjoyable, no dancing, no music and NO FOOD supplied,” they wrote.
“Am I being unreasonable to assume this was the worst wedding reception ever?”
In an addition to the submit, they added: “Significantly, I had no drawback with the takeaway curry however I thought it was past tight to ask the friends to pay for it.
“It is not as if the couple are wanting a bob or two, both.”
And it was the truth the friends have been made to pay for their very own dinner that induced the most controversy amongst individuals commenting.
“I’m not even certain that even counts as a wedding reception,” one wrote.
“Sounds totally terrible.”
“It does not sound something like a wedding reception,” one other added.
“It appears like having some mates spherical for a takeaway. If that is what they needed superb however do not costume it up as a reception.
“And sure it is tight to anticipate you to pay and not to provide any refreshments.”
“Tight AF. We laid on a free bar for many of the night,” another person commented.
