Guest Shocked To Receive Charge For Additional Slice Of Wedding Cake The Newlyweds Saw Them Take Via CCTV
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We are seeing some couples forgo the traditional wedding cake in favor of modern alternatives, like towers of cheese and pie stations, but most weddings in the U.S. still include a wedding cake. After all, it’s one of those long-standing traditions that doesn’t just end that easily.
But it turns out that some newlyweds may turn a little overcontrolling when it comes to who eats their cake and how many slices, exactly, they have. This is what happened to one wedding-goer who recently shared a screenshot of a message they received. The text said “Hey, so we were just looking at the CCTV and saw that you had two pieces of wedding cake.”
The couple announced that each guest had to contribute towards the cake and pay £3.66 per slice! As you can imagine, this unusual approach didn’t go unnoticed and people on the r/weddingshaming subreddit where the story was posted just couldn’t miss a chance to comment on the absurdity of this situation.
The couple charged their guests £3.66 for each slice of the wedding cake they ate, and they even checked the CCTV footage to see how many they had
Image credits: pshkva (not the actual photo)
One guest at the wedding shared this screenshot on r/weddingshaming showing how they only paid for one slice and forgot to count the second
People were left seriously confused by this whole situation and this is how they reacted
I'm guessing they work security in a bakery: "The bride and groom caught me on camera, shoplifting a slice of cake at their wedding."
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What the actual. That's absolutely ridiculous. What were the bride and groom thinking when they came up with this idiotic idea (greed of course). Wonder if I can charge people for birthday cake slices, what would be a reasonable price?..... NOTHING, there is no reasonable price. It's just plain rude.
Oooh!! This is brilliant.. going to tell the missus we need to get married again. Hmmm let me see, Cake:$4, Food:$10, Table: $10/per hour (chairs extra).. that new ain't gonna buy itself, need to make things move..
I make jokes with my husband because we have been married once for 28 years and counting. My siblings have been married 3 or 4 times each, which translated into multiple gifts... I think you are onto something here. Time to get married again!!
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I like the idea of footing the bride and groom the bill for my gift, gas, clothing, and time I could have spent doing something else 🤔
Seriously? Leave the cake untouched, so the bride and groom end paying for it themself as it cannot be sold to the guests as planned. Bill them for their gifts, as that is apearently how they like to party. I can understand if you are on a budget that you have people pay for their own drinks late in the evening, as paying for everybody to get slam dunk drunk in aged wiskey can be a too costly luxery, but charging for cake? It is supposed to be a party and not a business, and if you do not love/like your guests enough to grant them a peice of cake, you should consider if they are worth having there in the first place.
If you can't afford a cake that accommodates the number of guests there to each have a piece of cake, or (oh the horror😱) two, then don't have that big a wedding. To be told this during the reception dinner? What really should have happened is for not one guest to take a piece of cake. That way the greedy and rude bride and groom would have been stuck with the complete cost of an uneaten cake.
Now the OP didn’t mention this, but suppose they were taking that extra piece of cake to a mutual friend who wanted to be there but was unable to attend? It’s a piece of cake that person would’ve eaten if they were there, so it would be like six of one, half a dozen of the other.
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If you can't afford to host the guests at your wedding, then don't have such a fricking expensive wedding. It is not up to your guests to finance your wedding (not in the West anyway). You take money from customers, not guests. If you think your wedding is that special, why don't you just sell the tickets and see how it feels when absolutely nobody but your parents shows up.
Unless it’s a small, intimate affair, my policy has always been to not attend. This goes for close friends and family, which admittedly, has been few. I’ve not attended every invite to tertiary friends, distant relatives & co-workers. Personally, I find wedding ceremonies that are all-out events that attempt to be opulent as shallow, narcissistic ego gratifiers that really don’t suit me. I know people really get into the idea of that special day and celebrating with their loved ones, but to me it seems the attendees are usually just extras or props. With that said, I’ve been to a few far-away destination weddings and a few intimate ceremonies where I truly felt like a participant and found them to be deep and meaningful celebrations of love and unity.
What is this trend lately of people making guests pay for s**t at their weddings while also expecting gifts and s**t. If you can't afford a wedding. Don't have one. My husband and I couldn't afford a big wedding. Nor did we want one actually. So we got married at a graveyard on Halloween in New Orleans. Had a 20 min. Ceremony and invited strangers who wanted to wear costumes and come he witnesses since our family couldn't be there. We then took everyone who showed up to the quarter for coffee and beignets and paid for it as a thank you. Obviously. Lol. We wanted the most New Orleans wedding ever which it turned out to be and I was so happy that so many people showed up in costume. It was amazing. But I didn't expect anything from anyone and ppl were grateful to be included. It was just a bunch of ppl grateful to be apart of something fun and I couldn't ask for a better wedding. But we couldn't afford anything bigger and ppl didn't care. N it was the most memorable wedding ever! Lol.
This happened so much in the past no one put it on the internet or in a video to laugh at! So tacky and married for the wrong reasons. Just leave
I'm not sure if I'm more shocked that they laid this on the guests at the reception, that it was even included in the groomsmen speech, or that they watched video and calculated missing pieces of cake. I would not have to worry about them calling or texting again because I would block their number after that.
People just have no concept of what a wedding should be here in the UK. Paying for drinks it's the norm, almost. Paying for the cake must be a new trend.
When my friend had her wedding, during the process of picking the venue one the churches she looked at wanted to stop in the middle of the ceremony and send the collection plate around, that's after charging her $1200 for one hour use.
That would prompt an immediate change of venue for me.
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Oh i so wish that NO ONE had bought a single piece! That would have been great
Go to the gift table, take my gift back and toss them a $20 for the dinner and say my goodbyes.
The cringe level of this story is so high, I find it hard to believe it is real. I mean, who would DO such a thing??? Honestly, jsut have a fun barbeque in a garden, if you don't want or cannot spend tons of moeny on a wedding.
“Just put a Stop Payment on the £100 cheque I placed on your gifts table. Your 4 quid will come out of that. Thanks for saving me the other 96.”
these stories get more and more absurd. If you are paying thousands for a wedding dont you feel a bit ashamed to ask for a 3.66 from your guest? like it even mattered in comparison to the other costs.btw. dont know about the culture, but in my country the newly weds (or their parents) pay for everything. every drink, every food, decorations. it would be absurd to charge your guests you invited. you are their host. you are paying. they bring you gifts in exchange (an unwritten rule to try at least match the cost of your invite, but not mandatory)
What kind of assh*le views the CCTV from their wedding in order to ask their "guests" for additional money? If I RSVP'd, dressed up, bought a gift and attended - THAT's more than enough expenditure to deserve as much cake as I f*cking want. Bye, Felicia!
Send the payment along with a bill for the cost of the present, wrapping, and delivery/convenience fee.
Plot twist: what if it is the effect of teachings of one mother who described here how she teaches her son finances :D
Wouldn’t it even out with the folks who didn’t have any cake? If I had known, I would have rallied everyone to turn down the cake and left them with the entirety of that expensive mess,
Thank you for saving me 96 quid! I placed a Stop Payment on the £100 cheque I’d left on the gifts table for you. Took the cake money out of that. Enclosed is £4. Feel free to spend the overage as my wedding gift to you. Mazel tov!
I can't even with some people. I just had a lunch date with my friend who has a cake business on the side. I am paying 400 for a two tier cake and 50 cup cakes. two different flavors. (75 people to include me and groom) I also paid for our lunch date. like WTF? I don't expect my guests to pay for this. THEY ARE OUR GUESTS. lol
Hahaha next level of cheap and tacky. Look you can have a modest wedding and it would've been fine. It's a celebration nonetheless and don't have to be grand and posh. But no, they splashed and then charged their guests. Really tacky and cheap lmao.
If you have to charge people for eating wedding cake then you can't afford a wedding cake.
Who is willing to lose a friend over £4? What kind of mobster would do this?
Fake. Either that, or they have the story wrong. One minute everyone has to pay for the cake as they get it, but the next they have cake without paying.
Putting in different perspective if you go to a restaurant and get told you pay for desert and you have 2, how many do you pay for? Look yes b&g are d&@ks for charging but so is guest for not paying. If they had an issues don't have the cake, don't stoop to their level by being petty.
Apples and oranges. Apples: You don’t expect your friends to charge you for an extra piece of their wedding cake, after you arrived with a gift or envelope of cash for them. Oranges: But you do expect a business, such as a restaurant, to charge you for that second helping of dessert.
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To be fair, if it says $4/slice I'd pay for the number of slices that I'd take --- no shaming in that. However, I'd expect every single person (except diabetic aunt at the border of a hypoglycemic coma) to buy 0 slices.
While the whole idea of having guests pay for cake is ridiculous, those were the rules. If I pay for 1 loaf of bread in the supermarket I don't get to take another because I "already paid", or because the 1 payment counts for both. The newlyweds are not people I would want in my social circle, but hey, if they said you have to pay for the cake you have to pay for the cake. Yes, both sleces, not just the 1
Apples and oranges. See my reply to Miss Frankfurter above.
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I'm guessing they work security in a bakery: "The bride and groom caught me on camera, shoplifting a slice of cake at their wedding."
Load More Replies... What the actual. That's absolutely ridiculous. What were the bride and groom thinking when they came up with this idiotic idea (greed of course). Wonder if I can charge people for birthday cake slices, what would be a reasonable price?..... NOTHING, there is no reasonable price. It's just plain rude.
Oooh!! This is brilliant.. going to tell the missus we need to get married again. Hmmm let me see, Cake:$4, Food:$10, Table: $10/per hour (chairs extra).. that new ain't gonna buy itself, need to make things move..
I make jokes with my husband because we have been married once for 28 years and counting. My siblings have been married 3 or 4 times each, which translated into multiple gifts... I think you are onto something here. Time to get married again!!
Load More Replies... I like the idea of footing the bride and groom the bill for my gift, gas, clothing, and time I could have spent doing something else 🤔
Seriously? Leave the cake untouched, so the bride and groom end paying for it themself as it cannot be sold to the guests as planned. Bill them for their gifts, as that is apearently how they like to party. I can understand if you are on a budget that you have people pay for their own drinks late in the evening, as paying for everybody to get slam dunk drunk in aged wiskey can be a too costly luxery, but charging for cake? It is supposed to be a party and not a business, and if you do not love/like your guests enough to grant them a peice of cake, you should consider if they are worth having there in the first place.
If you can't afford a cake that accommodates the number of guests there to each have a piece of cake, or (oh the horror😱) two, then don't have that big a wedding. To be told this during the reception dinner? What really should have happened is for not one guest to take a piece of cake. That way the greedy and rude bride and groom would have been stuck with the complete cost of an uneaten cake.
Now the OP didn’t mention this, but suppose they were taking that extra piece of cake to a mutual friend who wanted to be there but was unable to attend? It’s a piece of cake that person would’ve eaten if they were there, so it would be like six of one, half a dozen of the other.
Load More Replies... If you can't afford to host the guests at your wedding, then don't have such a fricking expensive wedding. It is not up to your guests to finance your wedding (not in the West anyway). You take money from customers, not guests. If you think your wedding is that special, why don't you just sell the tickets and see how it feels when absolutely nobody but your parents shows up.
Unless it’s a small, intimate affair, my policy has always been to not attend. This goes for close friends and family, which admittedly, has been few. I’ve not attended every invite to tertiary friends, distant relatives & co-workers. Personally, I find wedding ceremonies that are all-out events that attempt to be opulent as shallow, narcissistic ego gratifiers that really don’t suit me. I know people really get into the idea of that special day and celebrating with their loved ones, but to me it seems the attendees are usually just extras or props. With that said, I’ve been to a few far-away destination weddings and a few intimate ceremonies where I truly felt like a participant and found them to be deep and meaningful celebrations of love and unity.
What is this trend lately of people making guests pay for s**t at their weddings while also expecting gifts and s**t. If you can't afford a wedding. Don't have one. My husband and I couldn't afford a big wedding. Nor did we want one actually. So we got married at a graveyard on Halloween in New Orleans. Had a 20 min. Ceremony and invited strangers who wanted to wear costumes and come he witnesses since our family couldn't be there. We then took everyone who showed up to the quarter for coffee and beignets and paid for it as a thank you. Obviously. Lol. We wanted the most New Orleans wedding ever which it turned out to be and I was so happy that so many people showed up in costume. It was amazing. But I didn't expect anything from anyone and ppl were grateful to be included. It was just a bunch of ppl grateful to be apart of something fun and I couldn't ask for a better wedding. But we couldn't afford anything bigger and ppl didn't care. N it was the most memorable wedding ever! Lol.
This happened so much in the past no one put it on the internet or in a video to laugh at! So tacky and married for the wrong reasons. Just leave
I'm not sure if I'm more shocked that they laid this on the guests at the reception, that it was even included in the groomsmen speech, or that they watched video and calculated missing pieces of cake. I would not have to worry about them calling or texting again because I would block their number after that.
People just have no concept of what a wedding should be here in the UK. Paying for drinks it's the norm, almost. Paying for the cake must be a new trend.
When my friend had her wedding, during the process of picking the venue one the churches she looked at wanted to stop in the middle of the ceremony and send the collection plate around, that's after charging her $1200 for one hour use.
That would prompt an immediate change of venue for me.
Load More Replies... Oh i so wish that NO ONE had bought a single piece! That would have been great
Go to the gift table, take my gift back and toss them a $20 for the dinner and say my goodbyes.
The cringe level of this story is so high, I find it hard to believe it is real. I mean, who would DO such a thing??? Honestly, jsut have a fun barbeque in a garden, if you don't want or cannot spend tons of moeny on a wedding.
“Just put a Stop Payment on the £100 cheque I placed on your gifts table. Your 4 quid will come out of that. Thanks for saving me the other 96.”
these stories get more and more absurd. If you are paying thousands for a wedding dont you feel a bit ashamed to ask for a 3.66 from your guest? like it even mattered in comparison to the other costs.btw. dont know about the culture, but in my country the newly weds (or their parents) pay for everything. every drink, every food, decorations. it would be absurd to charge your guests you invited. you are their host. you are paying. they bring you gifts in exchange (an unwritten rule to try at least match the cost of your invite, but not mandatory)
What kind of assh*le views the CCTV from their wedding in order to ask their "guests" for additional money? If I RSVP'd, dressed up, bought a gift and attended - THAT's more than enough expenditure to deserve as much cake as I f*cking want. Bye, Felicia!
Send the payment along with a bill for the cost of the present, wrapping, and delivery/convenience fee.
Plot twist: what if it is the effect of teachings of one mother who described here how she teaches her son finances :D
Wouldn’t it even out with the folks who didn’t have any cake? If I had known, I would have rallied everyone to turn down the cake and left them with the entirety of that expensive mess,
Thank you for saving me 96 quid! I placed a Stop Payment on the £100 cheque I’d left on the gifts table for you. Took the cake money out of that. Enclosed is £4. Feel free to spend the overage as my wedding gift to you. Mazel tov!
I can't even with some people. I just had a lunch date with my friend who has a cake business on the side. I am paying 400 for a two tier cake and 50 cup cakes. two different flavors. (75 people to include me and groom) I also paid for our lunch date. like WTF? I don't expect my guests to pay for this. THEY ARE OUR GUESTS. lol
Hahaha next level of cheap and tacky. Look you can have a modest wedding and it would've been fine. It's a celebration nonetheless and don't have to be grand and posh. But no, they splashed and then charged their guests. Really tacky and cheap lmao.
If you have to charge people for eating wedding cake then you can't afford a wedding cake.
Who is willing to lose a friend over £4? What kind of mobster would do this?
Fake. Either that, or they have the story wrong. One minute everyone has to pay for the cake as they get it, but the next they have cake without paying.
Putting in different perspective if you go to a restaurant and get told you pay for desert and you have 2, how many do you pay for? Look yes b&g are d&@ks for charging but so is guest for not paying. If they had an issues don't have the cake, don't stoop to their level by being petty.
Apples and oranges. Apples: You don’t expect your friends to charge you for an extra piece of their wedding cake, after you arrived with a gift or envelope of cash for them. Oranges: But you do expect a business, such as a restaurant, to charge you for that second helping of dessert.
Load More Replies... To be fair, if it says $4/slice I'd pay for the number of slices that I'd take --- no shaming in that. However, I'd expect every single person (except diabetic aunt at the border of a hypoglycemic coma) to buy 0 slices.
While the whole idea of having guests pay for cake is ridiculous, those were the rules. If I pay for 1 loaf of bread in the supermarket I don't get to take another because I "already paid", or because the 1 payment counts for both. The newlyweds are not people I would want in my social circle, but hey, if they said you have to pay for the cake you have to pay for the cake. Yes, both sleces, not just the 1
Apples and oranges. See my reply to Miss Frankfurter above.
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