Here’s a variation on the wedding gift game: A guest who is known for politely declining weddings but still sending gifts discovers that he was only invited to receive a gift.
She decides to put an end to this pattern and refrains from sending a gift at a wedding.
Read on to find out the story and what happens next!
I don’t do weddings.
I answer “no” and generally send a gift anyway – because I like the people, I just don’t like going to weddings.
Recently, however, I realized that I was being invited to weddings that I otherwise would not have been invited to (e.g. my cousin’s child’s wedding) because the reputation there was, “Invite her, she won’t come, so you don’t have to entertain her and you’ll get a gift.”
Oh, hell no.
This came to my attention because I heard one of my cousins say exactly that.
I’m not particularly close to my family, so I didn’t know this was happening, so I didn’t know I was the only second cousin invited.
I was invited to my cousin’s wedding (sibling of the cousin I overheard, if that’s relevant).
As usual, I declined but decided not to send a gift because I don’t like being taken advantage of.
My cousin keeps bombarding me with warnings that he is the only one I haven’t sent a gift to.
I won’t fall for that anymore!
I’ve tried to explain to him that he’s probably the first person I haven’t sent a gift to because I’m stopping that now, but he still thinks I personally singled him out as not worthy.
Is this possible?
Well, isn’t this a drama straight out of a textbook?
Let’s see what Reddit users had to say about both sides.
This person says OP is not even close to the AH here.
This person says it is just a gift attack and I shouldn’t feel guilty.
And that person has a pretty good idea what to do next.
It looks like the rejection of a gift has turned into a full-blown family fiasco.
These people really have nerve!
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