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Couple Sends Bills To Invitees For Not Attending Wedding Reception

The bride made a special invoice and sent it to the “no show” guests and asked them to pay $240 (Rs. 17, 700 in Indian money) for not showing up at the event

Sentinel Digital Desk

CHICAGO: Wedding is a very special event in a person's life for which people does not hesitate spending lavishly on various arrangements related to the occasion. However, it gets very upsetting when guests do not turn up when you have splurged a big portion of your savings to rejoice the day and make it memorable.

In one such marriage ceremony, a newly married couple in order to cover up the cost for their wedding dinner came up with the decision to send bills (of what the couple had spent) to the guests who did not attend the wedding dinner. The bride made a special invoice and sent it to the "no show" guests and asked them for a payment of $240 (Rs. 17, 700 in Indian money) for their "mistake" of not showing up at the event.

A person Phillip Lewis, who works as a senior front page editor with The Huffington Post, shared the invoice on Twitter recently. As per the invoice, the marriage reception took place at a reort in Negril, Jamaica – Royalton Negril and that the cost of one dinner was $120. Altogether, two guests did not turn up and as such as the bill was $240. The bride has given a deadline of one month to the guests to pay the money, the invoice said.

The receipt also stated that the reason of sending the invoice to the guests that they had confirmed that they would be present at the wedding reception, but they neither showed up nor phoned the couple to inform that they would not be able to make it to the event.

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