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Weddings are expensive and honeymoons are even more so. <\/p>\n
This is why many wiser couples opt for either a big wedding and a more affordable honeymoon or vice versa. <\/p>\n
Regardless, it\u2019s always great when you have someone, and this is usually the parents of the bridal couple, to assist with the financial costs. <\/p>\n
This generous dad made an agreement with his three children, two daughters and a son, that he would help pay up to $10k (around R170k) towards either their wedding or a deposit on the first house.<\/p>\n
Now how lucky are those kids, right? <\/p>\n
While his older children opted to use the money when buying their first homes, his youngest decided that she wants to use her $10k on her wedding. <\/p>\n
After he put deposits down for a venue, caterer, photographer and a DJ \u2013 which totalled more than $5K and were non-refundable \u2013 his daughter informed him that she and her fianc\u00e9 had decided to cancel the wedding and instead get married in court.<\/p>\n
And that she would rather spend the money on their honeymoon instead of the wedding.<\/p>\n
The couple were planning to take a two- to three-month honeymoon to travel to multiple destinations.<\/p>\n
This is where this generous dad put his foot down. <\/p>\n
He took to Reddit\u2019s AITA forum to find out if he\u2019s in the wrong for telling her to contribute money to that. <\/p>\n
\u201cI explained that by cancelling their wedding, we have lost out on thousands of dollars and gotten nothing out of it due to non-refundable deposits. Mind you, we never questioned any of their choices regarding wedding planning and were not involved in any of the decision-making. I literally just wrote cheques to vendors,\u201d says the dad.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy daughter is upset and accusing me of playing favourites with her older siblings and for punishing her because she wants something different for herself. I told her that the situations are not the same and that giving her thousands of dollars for her to bum around Europe and Asia for a few months was never something I agreed to.\u201d<\/p>\n
His wife, however, wants to give their daughter a few thousand to try to even things out, but he\u2019s firmly against this. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe way I look at it, we already gave her thousands of dollars and she decided to literally throw all of that money away.\u201d<\/p>\n
His daughter thinks he\u2019s being an a**hole. What do you think?<\/p>\n