20 Comments on Should you be charged for not showing up at a wedding?
If you RSVP’d that you would and you have no good excuse, then yes, you should be charged. Would I send the no-show a bill? Probably not, lesson learned.
If vendor turned away other customers who would have shown up and paid, then this couple does not show, vendor is entitled to recover his losses. This is the reason so many businesses have NON refundable deposits.
I’d pay the $75.90 if there was a written promise of a refund should the couple eventually divorce.
While anyone who RSVPs in the affirmative and then blows the wedding off should be spanked and sent to bed without his $75.90 dinner, billing him only compounds the unforgivable gaucheness of the situation. I would simply move him to the top of my shit list and behave accordingly towards him, i.e., no further invitations to anything.
24-48 hour cancellation waiver, perhaps, out of courtesy.
If you RSVP that you will attend, the brides parents have to pay for your dinner. If you don’t show, and don’t notify the parents in an appropriate time frame, the bill should be on you.
That could be 30 years from now heheheh!
venues usually have a two week deadline. if you RSVP but don’t show, shame on you. I still stand by charging the no-show unless there’s a major life event that interfered with attendance.
If you invite friends and family, no.
If you invite people not friends and family, doubly no.
One purpose of this kind of thing is to sort out who is friend or family.
$80 to not be screwed for a lot more later is a deal.
Honestly, I don’t get it. I have never attended a wedding reception where I as a guest had to pay for the meal or refreshments. I guess I’m not friends with the upper crust of society. (Certainly my extended family is not upper crust.) If the upper crust charge people to eat at their wedding receptions, then I’m just as glad that I’ve never been invited.
The story never answers the question: who sent the bill? The restaurant owner/caterer, or the families of the bride & groom? If the former (i.e. effectively a cancelled reservation), then it’s understandable. If the latter, then it’s TACKY and unforgivable.
Very true. Hopefully longer than that. My cavalier attitude comes from a wedding I attended years ago:
1) $200 for a gift
2) My girlfriend whined she didn’t have a proper dress and couldn’t afford a new one. $200 more. Girlfriend insisted I squire her around dress shopping. 9 hrs. and 2 meals, $75.
3) Wedding was dreadful. Corny vows written by the couple with the sounds of “We’ve only just begun” by the Carpenters.
4) Menu at the reception featured rubber chicken. The groom’s brother spilled wine on the dress that cost me $200.
5) The happy couple were divorced in less than a year.
Wish I had the $475 and 20 hours of my life back. Now I only go to weddings of immediate family, grudgingly.
Fcuk, I’d be broke.
Tacky to send it, regardless of being paid for by the bride’s parents. It’s a wedding for their daughter – a day they should cherish, not treat like a freakin’ financial contract. Tacky.
But just to be “respectful”, if they sent a $75 bill, I’d send them $35 and move on.
They should have disclosed it on the RSVP and asked for a deposit if choosing to come. That $75 should have been collected beforehand if it’s the minimum entry fee.
I never heard of getting a bill not being able to attend a wedding (even if you were expected). Must not be people I would want to hang around with.
I think it’s tacky to no-show…but just as tacky to send a bill to the no-shows. And around these parts, if you get invited to a wedding – even if you cannot make it, you send a gift. Hopefully, the no-shows at least did that.
Should you be charged for not showing up at a wedding?
Yes… if yer the Groom.
I think people should pay me to go to any wedding, funeral, circus, or expecially the white mosque.
Fuck you. Send me a bill every week – the reply is still: FUCK YOU – come and get it.
The money was spent, regardless of whether ANYONE showed up, or not.
Looks like some here didn’t watch the video….the billee (billee?) explained that her babysitter bailed at the last minute & the invitation said ‘no children’……what was she supposed to do?….bring her kids?…..then she’d probably be charged for 2 extra meals & given a surcharge for the kids!!!!………….arrogant righteous pricks of a ‘lovely wedding couple’……..jeez…..
If you RSVP’d that you would and you have no good excuse, then yes, you should be charged. Would I send the no-show a bill? Probably not, lesson learned.
If vendor turned away other customers who would have shown up and paid, then this couple does not show, vendor is entitled to recover his losses. This is the reason so many businesses have NON refundable deposits.
I’d pay the $75.90 if there was a written promise of a refund should the couple eventually divorce.
While anyone who RSVPs in the affirmative and then blows the wedding off should be spanked and sent to bed without his $75.90 dinner, billing him only compounds the unforgivable gaucheness of the situation. I would simply move him to the top of my shit list and behave accordingly towards him, i.e., no further invitations to anything.
24-48 hour cancellation waiver, perhaps, out of courtesy.
If you RSVP that you will attend, the brides parents have to pay for your dinner. If you don’t show, and don’t notify the parents in an appropriate time frame, the bill should be on you.
That could be 30 years from now heheheh!
venues usually have a two week deadline. if you RSVP but don’t show, shame on you. I still stand by charging the no-show unless there’s a major life event that interfered with attendance.
If you invite friends and family, no.
If you invite people not friends and family, doubly no.
One purpose of this kind of thing is to sort out who is friend or family.
$80 to not be screwed for a lot more later is a deal.
Honestly, I don’t get it. I have never attended a wedding reception where I as a guest had to pay for the meal or refreshments. I guess I’m not friends with the upper crust of society. (Certainly my extended family is not upper crust.) If the upper crust charge people to eat at their wedding receptions, then I’m just as glad that I’ve never been invited.
The story never answers the question: who sent the bill? The restaurant owner/caterer, or the families of the bride & groom? If the former (i.e. effectively a cancelled reservation), then it’s understandable. If the latter, then it’s TACKY and unforgivable.
Very true. Hopefully longer than that. My cavalier attitude comes from a wedding I attended years ago:
1) $200 for a gift
2) My girlfriend whined she didn’t have a proper dress and couldn’t afford a new one. $200 more. Girlfriend insisted I squire her around dress shopping. 9 hrs. and 2 meals, $75.
3) Wedding was dreadful. Corny vows written by the couple with the sounds of “We’ve only just begun” by the Carpenters.
4) Menu at the reception featured rubber chicken. The groom’s brother spilled wine on the dress that cost me $200.
5) The happy couple were divorced in less than a year.
Wish I had the $475 and 20 hours of my life back. Now I only go to weddings of immediate family, grudgingly.
Fcuk, I’d be broke.
Tacky to send it, regardless of being paid for by the bride’s parents. It’s a wedding for their daughter – a day they should cherish, not treat like a freakin’ financial contract. Tacky.
But just to be “respectful”, if they sent a $75 bill, I’d send them $35 and move on.
They should have disclosed it on the RSVP and asked for a deposit if choosing to come. That $75 should have been collected beforehand if it’s the minimum entry fee.
I never heard of getting a bill not being able to attend a wedding (even if you were expected). Must not be people I would want to hang around with.
I think it’s tacky to no-show…but just as tacky to send a bill to the no-shows. And around these parts, if you get invited to a wedding – even if you cannot make it, you send a gift. Hopefully, the no-shows at least did that.
Should you be charged for not showing up at a wedding?
Yes… if yer the Groom.
I think people should pay me to go to any wedding, funeral, circus, or expecially the white mosque.
Fuck you. Send me a bill every week – the reply is still: FUCK YOU – come and get it.
The money was spent, regardless of whether ANYONE showed up, or not.
Looks like some here didn’t watch the video….the billee (billee?) explained that her babysitter bailed at the last minute & the invitation said ‘no children’……what was she supposed to do?….bring her kids?…..then she’d probably be charged for 2 extra meals & given a surcharge for the kids!!!!………….arrogant righteous pricks of a ‘lovely wedding couple’……..jeez…..