A couple I'm friendly with got married in a massive and expensive ceremony last year - think exclusive country house hired out, rolls royces for the five bridesmaids, horse and carriage for the groom, sit down meal for 100 people then 200 guests for the evening do. It was absolutely lovely, and we and they had a wonderful time. Because they already own a house and had lived together for a while, they asked for money for their honeymoon - a 'trip of a lifetime' - in lieu of gifts. All well and good, and we were happy to contribute.
What seemed a tiny bit off to me was that the honeymoon they wanted wouldn't fit with the time of year they married (think monsoon season) so they postponed it... Again, fine, but in the meantime, they used some of the money for a 'mini-moon', basically a week in Italy. Something about it doesn't sit quite right with me... On one hand, I suppose when you give money, you don't get to say what it is spent on, but on the other, it seemed tacky to have guests pay for two honeymoons. So, WTBU? AIBU?
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Were they being unreasonable? Wedding/honeymoon question
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StarlingMurmuration · 25/10/2014 08:49
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