Weddings are often a great time to get friends and family together but they are not known for being a budget friendly event.
Gifts are often an additional courtesy from wedding guests and the bride and groom can also request favours of choice.
However, one bride ruffled some feathers after she requested donations to go towards their wedding day. When a family member shared a post to an online forum, many took to the comments and sparked a debate.
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Taking to popular forum site Reddit to discuss the controversial decision, one person shared a screenshot of the PayPal request and a post showing how unimpressed the bride was.
In a post titled: "My cousin is butthurt that no one is donating to their wedding …" The PayPal read: "Hey guys as you all know I have a wedding coming up on September 15.
"I'm asking if anyone would like to donate whatever they can so we have a lovely wedding. Please and thank you."
As the Mirror writes, the bride then added: "What really bothers me is all these people want to come to my wedding and get all happy about it, but when I post for donations to help make this weekend happen everyone goes silent."
Someone responded to the bride's post, writing: "People can try to be happy for you - even though times are rough right now and they don't necessarily have the money to pay for someone else's wedding...
"I've never heard of anyone asking for donations to pay for their wedding. If you're not able to afford a wedding yet, why rush it?
"Weddings are EXPENSIVE. But if you get creative, you can do something really nice, for way less. This post sounds kinda crazy."
The post has raked in over 100 comments to date on Reddit- where people were torn over the bride's decision.
One person commented on the thread: "The bride will post on September 16 complaining about not receiving big gifts or any gift from every guest invited. Count on it."
Another simply wrote: "If you can't pay for a wedding, don't have one."
A third Reddit user said: "Guests are not supposed to pay for the wedding. Guests buy a gift and show up. If the cousin can't afford to get married without the guests paying, she should delay the wedding and she and her SO should save for it."
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