A woman says she was left positively livid after learning her recently married friend had conned guests in order to cover the costs of her honeymoon, and decided to let the rest of the bridal party know exactly what she'd been up to.
According to this furious bridesmaid, her pal had managed to throw her "dream wedding" on a budget, all thanks to favours from well-connected family and friends.
There was a cash bar at the reception, which at the time she had been completely fine with. The bride and groom aren't really big drinkers, and so she understood why they wouldn't want to pay for everyone else's booze.
When the happy couple jetted off on their incredible month-long honeymoon in Italy, she naturally assumed this was down to their savvy saving, and didn't suspect a thing.
She soon learned the shocking truth however when she met up with her pal around two months after the wedding, with the shameless bride admitting she'd deliberately scammed wedding guests through the cash bar.
Taking to Reddit, the seething bridesmaid recalled: "She showed me pictures from her honeymoon, and they were gorgeous! I told her again how happy I was for her, and we ordered. About halfway through dinner, she dropped a bomb on me, and I was absolutely stunned. Actually, I was p*****.
"She told me that a family member of hers owns a liquor store and gifted all the alcohol for her wedding to them, all she had to do was find someone to be the bartender.
"She asked one of the event bartenders at her uncle's venue if they wanted to make some extra cash. She offered them 20 an hour plus tips and then told all of her guests that the bar was cash, and they used that money towards their honeymoon fund. Her reception lasted roughly four hours."
After doing the maths in her head, the horrified friend realised that she'd probably spent around (£80) $100 on four or five drinks including tips.
There were 200 guests altogether at the wedding, and she estimates the newlyweds made roughly (£16,000) $20,000 through their cash bar scam.
She continued: "I was seeing red. I got up from the table and told her that since she made so much money off of me, she could cover my dinner. Then I texted the bridal party group chat and told them what she told me. The chat blew up. I wasn't the only one that was p*****.
"[...] I know that I probably can't look past this and will not continue this friendship, but I also don't know if I should try to mitigate the fallout with the rest of the friend group because it wasn't my information to share."
One fellow Reddit user advised: "She lied to, manipulated, and cheated the people she was supposedly closest to in her life. Who wouldn't be p*****?
"The very fact that she kept it secret means she knows she did wrong. If telling the truth makes a person look bad, then the truth is that they are/did bad."
Another commented: "I'm of the opinion that if you didn’t want me to tell people about your actions you probably shouldn't have done it in the first place. Her embarrassment is her own fault, not yours."
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