When you attend a wedding, it's not unusual to take a present with you to the ceremony, or even make a monetary donation to the newlyweds to help them kickstart their lives as a married couple.
However, you wouldn't usually expect to be asked to give a wedding gift to a couple who didn't invite you to their big day - but that's exactly what happened to one woman who received a rather odd message from an old school friend she hadn't seen in over a decade.
The woman said she last heard from the person in 2009, so was shocked when she received a message on Facebook telling her that they were getting married.
And she was even more baffled when it turned out that the message wasn't a wedding invite, but was instead simply asking for a "donation to their honeymoon fund" - with a "recommended" amount set at a staggering £250.
In a post on Reddit, the woman wrote: "Yesterday I got a message from someone I went to school with. It was a wedding announcement. They were getting married but they can't invite me because their venue couldn't accommodate me, but I was 'Welcome to help us celebrate this occasion of love by donating to our honeymoon fund. Recommended donation is £250 but larger donations will be welcomed'.
"I haven't seen or spoken to this person for at least a decade and I think that was only some random Facebook message. Even in school, we were at best friendly not friends. The last message I can see was a holiday photo from 2009.
"I've responded now congratulating them and saying I donated to charity on their behalf."
Commenters on the post were equally baffled by the bride and groom's monetary demands, with many of them branding the couple "greedy" for demanding a minimum of £250 from every acquaintance they hadn't invited to their wedding.
One person said: "Well that was greedy and bold of them."
While another added: "The f**k is wrong with people? I wouldn't give £250 to someone I knew well! The audacity!"
And a third posted: "I don't understand how people don't realise how tacky it is to NOT send someone an invitation, but still have the unmitigated gall to ask for money!! It's already tacky enough to ask for money on an invitation ANYWAY!!"
"How absolutely crass of them," another wrote, "I would love to see a study of marriage length of couples who don't give two cents about gifts so long as friends and family are there to help them celebrate as compared to couples who seem to see their wedding as little more than an excuse for a gift-and-cash grab."
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