“She called and asked when I would transfer the remaining balance, and when I said that ($3,000) was the amount, she got angry at me,” explained one woman on Reddit
A woman donated $3,000 to finance her sister’s wedding, but then her sister complained it wasn’t enough.
In a post on Reddit’s popular AITA forum, one user explained that she and her sister grew up in a “humble” home and that their parents had “only a very small amount” for their college education but had “no money saved” for their weddings.
She went on to say that she studied on a scholarship and now has a “good job.” When she and her husband got married, they had an intimate celebration that they paid for themselves.
After her sister got engaged, she said she wanted “a beautiful wedding like mine,” the Reddit user said.
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She further explained that her sister had asked her parents for financial help, but they had refused because they were “still trying to pay off the mortgage on their house.” So she gave her sister $3,000 as a wedding gift to “use for the wedding.” Then her sister asked her for more.
“She called and asked when I was going to send the remaining balance, and when I said it was, she got mad at me and said it wasn’t even enough for her dream dress… That she needed a lot more to have a beautiful wedding like mine,” the Reddit user recalled.
“I told her that was the gift I wanted to give her. She said that wasn’t fair because I have money. I do, but everything I have is for my needs,” she continued. “I told her that. She called me a stingy bitch and hung up.”
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The woman said she eventually got a call from her parents, who were “disappointed” that she couldn’t help her sister “more” because it was “all she had in her life.” However, she told them that the wedding was not a “necessity” and that her sister should not “depend” on her to pay for her wedding expenses.
“Now they are mad at me too and are apparently thinking about taking out another loan on the house to finance their wedding,” she wrote, before asking others whether she was in the wrong or not.
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The post received nearly 4,000 upvotes and over 1,000 comments from people who said they disagreed with her being wrong.
One person commented, “Honestly, it’s financially irresponsible to spend a lot of money on a wedding when you don’t have the means to do so. You aren’t obligated to help your sister, but even if you wanted to, it would make more sense to contribute to a down payment on a house or something useful in the long run.”
Another wrote: “It is not your responsibility to pay for her wedding. $3,000 is a very nice and generous gift. Your sister has every right to think that you should just pay for her wedding.”
Others criticized her parents for asking them to help her sister when they didn’t help her pay for her own wedding. One person said, “Don’t let these people make you feel guilty and think you’re somehow a bad or disappointing person just because you don’t want to subsidize your spoiled sister’s dream wedding. Your sister and your parents have the wrong priorities if they can’t be happy with a wedding your sister and her fiancé can afford.”
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