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Furious bride tells guest £150 gift 'isn't expensive enough' and demands more

An angry bride called up a wedding guest to demand more money - as her $275 gift wasn't expensive enough.

The guest was left 'speechless' and posted about the row in an online wedding shaming group, attended her friend's wedding with $200 in cash and a designer candle worth $75.

But this was not enough for the bride who is reported to have said that her and her husband's attendance cost the newlyweds $500, so she should give them another $300 to make it "fair".

The stunned anonymous guest wrote: "I've just hung up the phone from a friend (ex-friend now!) whose wedding was a few weekends ago.

The bride was not impressed with the gift (stock photo) (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

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"She had a beautiful wedding, lots of guests, lots of wine and food. There were even fireworks when she and her new hubby left (via yacht) to go on their honeymoon.

"She was ringing people thanking them for coming to her wedding. Sweet right? Wrong."

The woman attended the nuptials with $200 cash and a $75 candle as a gift (Facebook)

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The phone call saw the bride suggest "the cost of having my husband and I was far more than the miserly gift we gave".

The guest initially thought that perhaps the card with the cash she took to the wedding had been stolen - but it had not.

The bride said the guest's attendance alongside her husband cost them more than their gift (Facebook)

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She wrote: "At first I thought she was being sarcastic and joking, but she was serious. She didn't consider the candle a real gift because she "can't do anything with it" and "it wasn't the big one that she wanted"."

The larger designer candle was $150.

"I'm from Australia and it's not common to give gifts that relate to the cost of you attending the wedding," she said.

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"Though it's normal in some cultures, it's not a thing I've encountered. The $200 cash is a lot of money for the average person to give here."

The comments underneath the thread were dismissive of the bride's request.

'Throw the whole friend away, that's trashy to have done that,' one person said.

The bride was not impressed with the guest's gift (Getty)

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'You can't charge admissions for your wedding. You don't owe the bride anything,' another said.

A third added: 'Why would people expect you to pay a huge amount just to cover the costs of their extravagant party?'

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