AIBU to ask for your CF wedding stories?

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Inspired by the other thread.

I'll go first.

1. A friend got married, a very low-key affair with only two witnesses. She then sent a wedding registry list around to all her friends none of whom had been invited. All of the presents started at 100, many cost more.

2. One of the women in a friendship group of six got engaged. It's been a good few years since the previous wedding in that group. We set up a private WhatsApp group to make plans for the wedding, hen etc. Conversation turned to a wedding gift; should we give cash or all of us pitch in for something like a voucher and if so, how much? I suggested 200 per couple (there were no singles in this group) which would give us 1000 for the voucher. One of the women chimed in - "I don't think 100 per guest is enough, 100 was the absolute smallest gift we received for our wedding and that's a long time ago now, most people gave more".

I always contributed 100 to wedding envelopes (unless once or twice when there was a particular reason to deviate from the standard) it felt like a giant slap in the face. To add salt to the wound, this woman married a very wealthy man, they found one of the cheapest venues in the country (I realised this when planning my wedding) with no trimmings, had an enormous guest list 300+ and subsequently turned her wedding into a profit generator.

2 people brought plus 1's to our wedding when they hadn't been given one. A third person asked for a plus one and we gave them one.

I am a more the merrier person though so didn't really mind, but thought it was cheeky because I wouldn't have done it.

This’ll be in the DM by the weekend, accompanied by that stock photo that they always use of a bride screaming at her phone.

Pretty much everything my mother and MIL did between the time we got engaged and married. Most ridiculous request came from MIL who lost all contact with her siblings bar one sister over the years. I always found it strange that DH never knew cousins but in fairness she had a rotten childhood and I understand how it all came about. Until our wedding when she found out i was inviting all my aunts, uncles and cousins on 1 side. I was raised like a clan with my mums parents and siblings all living close by a walk in policy in houses. My cousins were my childhood friends. I saw members of my extended family every single day and there wasn't a birthday or school play that they didn't show up to. MIL literally counted the numbers I had on my list and insisted she invited the same number. She didn't even have phone numbers for some of them but she thought it would be a nice family reunion. After WWIII we compromised by inviting her siblings, no cousins. Dh couldn't even introduce me as he didn't know them.

My mum kept trying to change things and I had to keep her at arms length, wouldn't disclose name of florist, band etc. She phoned the suit hire place behind my back trying to change something only they called my DH and she got found out. She also pulled a brush through my sisters hair about 5 mins before we left the house cos she didn't like the style. I spent those last few mins frantically fixing my sis with a GHD hardly got to look in the mirror myself.
God I'm raging now thinking about them