I got invited to a wedding!

Admission!? lordy no. i know thats your friend, but seriously.. why do people not understand how to properly host. i would never be okay with asking my guest to pay $50 admission. i'd have a potluck first!

go to the wedding though. thats your friend. just skip the gift lol tell her your gift was paying the admission cost.

Huh? That is just.... wow.....

If you do go, please post a review for us!

Good thing she's not on WW. If she is she is tucking her tail between her legs right about now.

When we looked into having our wedding at the Zoo they were going to charge our guests admission. All we could do about it was to pre-pay for x amount of tickets and include them in the wedding invites and tell guests they needed to bring those to cover their costs at the gate, or send them back if they rsvp'd no. The zoo was going to reimburse us the amount of any tickets that didn't get redeemed but it was still going to be ridiculously expensive for us up front. Luckily FH decided he didn't want to get married in the aquarium after all.

What the everliving fuck? She's going to have a lot of RSVP's that are NO!

$100 per person is NOT the "minimum" to give as a wedding gift. You give what you can afford and what you feel comfortable giving. It is a GIFT not an admission price.

As for this wedding, no wedding should have an admission price attached to it. It should be a hosted event and the couple should be doing what they can afford. If they couldn't afford the $50 fee for all of their guests, they should have booked a more affordable venue.

I am assuming all of the pictures I take will look like this:

Haha so did you decide to go? What's the plan?

Yea I'm going to go with the best card I can find, sans cash. I will keep y'all updated!!

17.00 per person for movie tickets????? Wow.. $50 for.admission... Wow. I would go... But.like others said, that.card would have.nothing but.ink in it

I would go too but like others have said, I probably couldn't afford a gift.

It's official... I've seen it all now!!

These people need to get real!

If it's on a boat that is understandable. I've had friends rent a boat for a party (mind you not a wedding) and had to charge admission because that was the policy of the boat.

It's possibly something that was out of her control.

Um.....oh goodness...

Where I'm from in Texas, $200 is a pretty standard gift IF you can afford it. If not, anything is fine. It's a gift. Also, movie tickets cost $8.50 per person and for 2 popcorns and drinks, it's about $20. If you want to see it in 3D, its $15 per person. I don't think I'd go to the movies if it were $80 for two people lol!

I'd do what you're doing or what someone else suggested if you could easily afford it. I'd either go with a card and no gift, or go with a card with $100 (<- this is the one I personally would do), and only because where I'm from, you bring a gift to only one event unless you are feeling generous.

It was not out of her control - she could have chosen a different venue. You do not charge guests admission to your wedding, period!

... wow I was really hoping this wasn't real, but apparently it is.

It's not out of her control....she could have/should have paid for her guests' admission. If this was my best friend I would tell her no, you can't charge your guests admission, asshole.

Good luck with the wedding gifts, bride.

The movies here cost $12.50 per person (matinees are $10). Plus the convenience fee if you buy your tickets through Fandango. For 2 drinks and one medium popcorn, we spend another $20 or so. You can easily spend $50 on two people to go to the movies here. When we went to see The Fault in Our Stars, I think we spent $60.