Cheek of some people...

rgmmg · 30-04-2012 01:57PM

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

Going rate ??? It's not petrol we're talking about here.
I think that is a shocking amount to expect off someone.

At the end of the day, it should be the taught the counts not the amount of money that is spent.

I think you mean "the taut".

beeroclock · 30-04-2012 01:58PM

Personally I think the OP is being very mean, in all fairness €2.50 is hardly going to break the bank, you wouldn't even get a pint for that!

Min · 30-04-2012 02:00PM

€250 minimum in cash

Sounds like they are getting married for the love of money rather than anything else.

Be good enough if no one turned up bar the parents, siblings and the immediate wedding entourage.

token101 · 30-04-2012 02:02PM

Turn up dressed as a horse and ask if they'd like to put a saddle on your back and f***ing ride you as they're at it.

Rochester · 30-04-2012 02:04PM

Make a donation (the amount of your choosing) to a charity on their behalf.

frag420 · 30-04-2012 02:05PM

I would give them €2.50.........................Say there was a typo on the invite. Would love to their faces when every envelope has that familiar jingle of coins!!

Failing that take a dump on the brides dress!

davet82 · 30-04-2012 02:06PM

got an invite from a distant relative for her wedding, it stated cash only gifts on the invite but stating the amount is a first i've heard, i wouldnt go anyways

in this day and age 50 euro per person imo

danslevent · 30-04-2012 02:12PM

Weddings just seem like ridiculous costly things. I think I will just elope and then come back and throw a massive party for friends/family. Weddings seem kind of tacky nowadays.

cock robin · 30-04-2012 02:18PM

OldGoat wrote: »

I'd expect to mount the bride at that price.
Or at least a bridesmaid.
Or the brides ma.
€250 doesn't go as far as it used too.

I would want a jant with all three of em, with the priest making a video for that kinda dosh. Bolloxs to them and their sponsored wedding.

missyb · 30-04-2012 02:22PM

Is this for real?! ugh, seriously dont go.I cant believe the neck of some people, Im engaged and wont be expecting people to pay for the wedding with gifts, I am ,shock horror, saving to have the wedding I want. I am not planning to have favours and some of the so called extras that are apparantly essential to a wedding (ie a candy buffet? chocolate fountain?this was news to me but Im out of touch).I wont be expecting big presents either or even any in some cases, weddings cost money to attend, but if people turn up and have some fun that will make my day, genuninely, and if they want to throw in a toaster or 47 so be it!!

leggit · 30-04-2012 02:24PM

To be honest, what a fantastic way of getting rid of people you didn't want to come but had to invite anyway.....

That's what it sounds like to me OP!

meoklmrk91 · 30-04-2012 02:25PM

iguana wrote: »

Buy a wedding card, write the usual guff in it and add a sentence about how you hope your gift gets them started well on their marriage. Put the card in the envelope, seal the envelope, let it dry, then open the envelope ensuring it looks carefully pried open. Go to the wedding have a great time, if it's an open bar drink your fill. When they are opening the cards after the wedding they will find your empty card and wonder which of their guests stole the money you gifted them. Whenever you see them after the wedding you can ask them if they bought something nice with your money and imply that you were especially generous just to see their upset faces.

That plan is just.... Ingenius, I want to see their faces!

Jem123 · 30-04-2012 02:32PM

God people have a hard neck. I hope no one turns up.

old_aussie · 30-04-2012 02:37PM

Pay with monopoly money.

WoollyRedHat · 30-04-2012 02:39PM

That's not a wedding gift, that's an out and out extortion.

Littlehorny · 30-04-2012 02:44PM

Be just as smart back send them your RSVP saying you'll be there and not turn up, that will cost the miserable f***ers a few quid of their extortion money. If asked just say ya woke up dying the day of the wedding.

Degag · 30-04-2012 02:52PM

I would genuinely love to find out what possessed those people to ask people for €250 on the invitation - Just to see how they defend it.

IvySlayer · 30-04-2012 02:55PM

Hate wedding invitations asking for monetary gifts.

WoollyRedHat · 30-04-2012 02:56PM

It's possible they have the Scabby **** gene, an awful disorder.

Dyr · 30-04-2012 02:57PM

I'd hand the dosh over so long as the couple wear your logo on the day as part of the sponsorship deal

OldNotWIse · 30-04-2012 02:58PM

@rti-shm@rti wrote: »

One of my friends got an invite to a wedding recently and on the wedding invite it stated that the gifts jad to be €250 minimum in cash. Anyone else think this is absolutely RIDICULOUS. I don't know where the wedding is but I don't think it's relevant, if a couple want to have a mad, lavish wedding they should surely make sure they can afford it first no?

Who said romance is dead. Can't believe the cheek of that!

OldNotWIse · 30-04-2012 03:00PM

kfallon wrote: »

Simple solution, don't go to the wedding, I wouldn't anyway!

Exactly, they'll get their answer when it's just them and the mammies and daddies on the big day, sitting around looking at each other.

summerskin · 30-04-2012 03:01PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

@rti-shm@rti wrote: »

One of my friends got an invite to a wedding recently and on the wedding invite it stated that the gifts jad to be €250 minimum in cash. Anyone else think this is absolutely RIDICULOUS. I don't know where the wedding is but I don't think it's relevant, if a couple want to have a mad, lavish wedding they should surely make sure they can afford it first no?

Who said romance is dead. Can't believe the cheek of that!

€50 per family is more than acceptable in the UK, thank fook most of my friends are over there when they marry!

It's a joke over here €50 for this, that and everything, even communions and Shiite. Don't get it myself.

krudler · 30-04-2012 03:01PM

Degag wrote: »

I would genuinely love to find out what possessed those people to ask people for €250 on the invitation - Just to see how they defend it.

take out loan for lavish wedding, expect guests to pick up the tab to pay it back, simples

tfitzgerald · 30-04-2012 03:02PM

iguana wrote: »

Buy a wedding card, write the usual guff in it and add a sentence about how you hope your gift gets them started well on their marriage. Put the card in the envelope, seal the envelope, let it dry, then open the envelope ensuring it looks carefully pried open. Go to the wedding have a great time, if it's an open bar drink your fill. When they are opening the cards after the wedding they will find your empty card and wonder which of their guests stole the money you gifted them. Whenever you see them after the wedding you can ask them if they bought something nice with your money and imply that you were especially generous just to see their upset faces.

I love this .

DERPY HOOFS · 30-04-2012 03:03PM

I hope no 1 shows up lol

RachaelVO · 30-04-2012 03:08PM

Dear lord, some of the figures floating around here are astranomical!

When we got married we didn't expect anything from anyone, we got asked a few times and we said that it didnt matter, that we were having a party and looked forward to the craic. That said, it wasn't a mad formal wedding, and nor did I invite cousins I wouldn't recognise in the street!

My uncle gave us 250e and I nearly choked. I have to be honest, I thought it was WAY too much!

On another side, my Aunt, who never has much money gave us 40e and I was equally touched cos I knew it probably cost her more!

A present by it's very definition is a gift, something that is NOT obligatory!

OldNotWIse · 30-04-2012 03:12PM

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

That plan is just.... Ingenius, I want to see their faces!

That got me thinking, what would happen if people rsvp'd and just showed up with whatever gift/donation they could afford? Would be interesting to put the onus on them to say, "er...actually would you mind leaving as you haven't donated the correct amount".

Abi · 30-04-2012 03:19PM

In the height of the boom I would have given 100 in a card. These pair are greedy cnuts.

DERPY HOOFS wrote: »

I hope no 1 shows up lol

This is likely to happen, or at least very few.

If the OP's foolishly remains friends with these money grabbers I suggest a small gift (not money), and only show up for the church.

Disgusting.

Mr Benevolent · 30-04-2012 03:22PM

No no no. No.

To do it properly, go to the wedding, drinks as much free booze as possible and give them €10 in an unmarked envelope. They'll never know who it came from. Better still mark it with the name of some family member you really don't like.

Simple.

Cheek of some people...

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