‘Tacky’ Couple Offers Better Wedding Meals To Guests Who Give Expensive Gifts
Planning a wedding is an exciting time, but it's also a stressful time. You're navigating two sets of in-laws, trying to make sure you have a venue big enough to entertain everyone you want to include on your special day, and you have to figure out how to pay for it all.
One of the great parts of a wedding for many couples is the gifts they get to go home with at the end of the night. Most couples are pretty happy with their guests giving as much as they're able to, but one couple decided that anyone who was stingy on the gifts would be treated accordingly.
Choosing The Right Wedding Gift Is Tough
Nowadays, most engaged couples do their guests a solid by registering at certain stores or creating an Amazon wish list to give ideas about potential wedding gifts.
Registries make things a lot easier when you're attending the wedding of someone you maybe don't know that well. You want to get them something that they'll actually enjoy or use.
Deciding How Much To Spend
Making the decision for how much to spend on the happy couple is an aspect of gift-giving too.
How much are you supposed to spend on a coworker's wedding versus your childhood best friend or your cousin?
Spelling It Out For Their Guests
One couple took some of the guesswork out of the gift-giving experience for their wedding by writing their expectations directly on the RSVP card.
Not only are they talking about money on a wedding invite (how tacky), but your gift is also tied to your meal.
Open Your Wallet If You Want A Good Meal
In a photo shared to Reddit's "Wedding Shaming" thread, an RSVP laid out all the potential options a guest could choose for dinner—but only if they made a certain level of monetary commitment.
The expectation, according to this couple, is that if you want a great meal, they want a great gift.
How Much Are You Willing To Pay?
For example, a "loving gift" of $250 or less will earn you either roast chicken or the swordfish.
I don't know about you, but it seems a little ridiculous that these people are expecting the majority of their guests to be spending more than $250 on a gift...
Step It Up A Few Levels
If roast chicken or swordfish doesn't tickle your fancy, consider upping the value of your gift to get something a little better.
Is a $500 gift in your budget? If so, you could get sliced steak or poached salmon! Willing to go a little higher? For the price of just $501 to $1000, you could feast on filet mignon or lobster tails.
If You're Vegetarian, You Better Pay Up
According to the invitation, kosher and vegetarian meals will also be offered.
The catch is they're only offered at the "platinum gift" level, meaning you're making a commitment of at least $1001 to get that veggie burger.
A Little Incentive For The Highest-Paying Guests
For anyone willing to commit to the platinum gift of $1001 to $2500 or more, you get the joy of giving a great gift as well as receiving a little gift of your own.
According to the RSVP card, those gifts will get an incredibly generous gift of their own: a super useful souvenir Champagne goblet that I'm sure everyone will use over and over again...
They Should Donate The Proceeds To Charity If They Want To Charge That Much
As one commenter on the Reddit post pointed out, this seems a lot more like something you'd see at a charity dinner, not a wedding.
Imagine being the friend or family member of a couple who had the audacity to send out an invitation like this.
Hack The System
Another commenter, user everythingiswrong_, brought up a great point when they commented that "everyone should just say their gift was over $1K, eat the 2lb of lobster, and laugh thinking about the couple opening their $40 toaster later."
How is the couple going to track who spent what, when you don't open gifts until after the wedding festivities are over?
