Wedding Guest 'Gobsmacked' With Newlywed Complaining £100 Gift Check Not Enough
Being invited to a wedding is an honor and bringing a gift for them is optional. But one wedding guest had a surprise of her life after the couple emailed her to add more to her gift.
As detailed in Daily Mail, the guest posted her story in U.K. parenting website Mumsnet. Keeping her identity anonymous, the sender wrote about asking advice on what to do after getting an email of complaint from newlyweds who thought that her gift check of £100 was not enough.
She said that the email she got contained a remark about how the couple were "surprised" about her "contribution" not matching the warmth of her good wishes on their big day. The email then went on to say, "In view of your own position, if you wanted to send any adjustment it would be thankfully received."
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As for the wedding guest, she admits that she was stunned upon reading the couple's letter. She said in the thread, "For someone who's not easily shocked I confess I'm utterly gobsmacked by this."
She then shared that although she is not certain, the "your own position" remark in the email probably refers to the recent inheritance that the guest received. The couple may have expected something from it. But since it was just an ex-colleagues' wedding, and not a close friend or relative, the anonymous poster believed that £100 "was a pretty decent" check.
She concluded her post by asking help on what she should do, whether to reply, call them or just ignore it. Yahoo! Style detailed that since its posting, the thread has already garnered over thousand of replies in three days. The comments and advises varied. Some answered to cancel the check while others advised to just ignore it. There were some who also commented that the couple acted "grabby."
The wedding guest was not able to answer all of the comments but she revealed that she did reply to the email with one sentence, "I assume this was some sort of mistake?"
