My partner and I are getting married in the summer. A dear friend of ours who lives abroad cannot attend the wedding. We plan to spend a few weeks visiting a number of cities across Europe and one of those cities has been visited before by our friend. They have sent us details of a hotel there that they have stayed in before and offered to pay for a few nights there for us saying it is something they would love to get us.
It's a 5 star hotel and not cheap, and looks lovely and we could only ever dream of staying in a place like it, as could not afford to pay the price ourselves.
It's a kind and generous offer but something so unlike any other gift either of us have ever had before we don't know what the right thing to do is?!
AiBU to decline? Would that offend the friend? Or AIBU not to accept? We only asked for vouchers for a department store on the invite and even then, phrased it something like if people wished to get us gifts they could do so but the only thing we were asking for was for their company, so this is above and beyond anything we could ever have expected.