Wedding guest who skipped wedding charged for missed meal
If someone missed your wedding, would you bill them?
This price would make a normal person run a mile Photo: YouTube
By Helena Horton
9:22AM BST 01 Oct 2015
A Minnesota woman was getting ready for her friend's wedding when her mother called and said she was no longer able to look after the woman's children.
Julia Baker was then forced to miss the wedding since the wedding invitation stipulated 'no children' were allowed.
The following week, Mrs. Baker received a bill for the expensive meal she missed.
The bill Photo: Julia Baker
"You've got to be kidding me," she told USA Today. "We would have had two herb crusted walleye and then there was also a service and tax charge."
The total came to $75.90 (£49). "This cost reflects the amount paid by the bride and groom for meals that were RSVPed for, reimbursement and explanation for no show, card, call or text would be appreciated," the note read.
Mrs. Baker does not plan on paying the bill, but was shocked to receive it.
"I guess I don't know what the right answer would have been. What the right thing to do would have been," she said.
Billing people for not showing up to a wedding seems even more strange when you look at how much it costs to attend.
In August, it was revealed exactly how much it costs to attend the average wedding.
The total average cost associated with attending a wedding - including expenditure on a wedding gift, personal grooming, and even preparing the car - was calculated at just under £170.
According to the survey, the average male wedding guest shells out £166.36, while women pay six pounds more.
We'd probably pay that much, however, to attend Tom Daley's wedding.
