A COUPLE have been brutally slammed after a snap of their wedding invitation went viral online.
Rather than going all out and inviting everyone and their neighbour, the loved-up duo decided they would tie the knot in ”a private ceremony”.
However, the bride and groom still sent out invites months prior to the nuptials, asking their friends and family to ”join them in spirit”.
The bride, Daily Mail reported, assumed that the cream-coloured cards would lessen the shock and the blow for those who hadn’t made it onto the guest list.
However, it seems that it’s achieved the very opposite, as social media users dubbed the text as ”patronising and rude”, pointing out to a crucial detail.
What’s more, people also reckoned that the invitation and the wedding was ”nothing but a present grab”, as they flocked to comments to share their thoughts.
”Great way to let people know they aren’t invited but you’d still like a present,” one person said.
”Not even a virtual wedding, this is just tacky,” another chimed in – and it seemed that they weren’t the only two echoing the overall sentiment.
”We’re having a wedding, you’re not invited,” one social media user joked.
There were also a few more brutal responses, with someone saying they’d chuck the invitation in the bin.
”If I got this, it would go straight in the trash.”
”I’d use it as kindling for the fire pit,” another chuckled.
Meanwhile, other eagle-eyed internet fans pointed out to an unfortunate misspelling error – the couple had written ”spirt” instead of ”spirit”.
”I spirt my drink out,” one person was in hysterics.
”I am not sure how to be anywhere in spirt,” cried someone else.
By Josie Griffiths, Deputy Digital Fabulous Editor and bride-to-be
Josie Griffiths said: When was the last time you spotted something in a shop window or browsed past it online and thought “that would be the perfect gift for 120 of my closest friends, work colleagues, relatives and boyfriend’s mate’s partners I barely know”?
I’ll tell you when, never, because there is NO universal gift everyone is going to love – unless you want to bankrupt yourself buying Rolexes and Tiffany jewellery, and even then they wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste.
So why do brides still pile the stress (and expense) of wedding favours on top of everything else we have to organise?
I’ve been to dozens of weddings over the past five years so when I got engaged, I already had a mental list of dos and don’ts for my own big day, and ditching wedding favours was firmly on it.
The cost of buying an individual present for everyone coming is huge, meaning many couples try and keep it in the under-a-fiver category.
But the reality is no-one wants a cheap, ill-thought-out keepsake – they’d probably rather one more free drink from the bar.
It’s not only that, wedding handbags are notoriously small, with no room to stuff an unexpected gift in, and catering waiters have a bad habit of whisking away the wedding favours when they’re clearing the coffee mug off the tables.
I bet none of my guests will even notice the lack of random gift on their dining table.
If you really hate the idea of not buying something for your guests, charity donations are always a nice gesture.
But the last thing your friends and family need is more random tat cluttering up their homes – so it’s time to save them the guilt of binning your Etsy-bought keyring.
This isn’t the first time a couple have been criticised over their invitation – recently, a bride and a groom got utterly rinsed for the ”rudest” invite.
“We are requesting all guests wear as much white as possible, absolutely no purple or all black outfits,” the text read.
“Get a sitter because honestly, we won’t have anything for them to do,” the duo demanded.
Not only that, but the couple added that the wedding would be totally alcohol-free, with none being served or allowed on the premises.
The cherry on the top was the couple then telling the guests to RVSP – or else they’d have to “bring a chair and a sandwich” to the ceremony.
