Family Feuds·
THE FINAL BILL
An upset parent reveals a nonrefundable wedding venue funded for an accessible ceremony, after discovering their daughter cheated and canceled the engagement, igniting a tense demand for repayment.
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The wedding was already off, the venue was already booked, and the money was already gone, and the daughter had not told her parent for a month.
The poster thought the wedding was still happening in about four months. Then, earlier that week, they found out the whole thing had been canceled. The reason, according to the poster, was that the daughter had cheated on her fiancé early in the relationship, and he ended the engagement once he found out.
What made the fallout sting even more was the money. The poster said they had helped pay for the wedding, but "it was not a gift." There was one main condition attached: the venue had to be accessible for people with disabilities. The poster paid for the venue, and that part was already locked in.
Then came the cancellation. The venue does not give refunds. The daughter had already told the venue she would not need the time slot, but the bill did not disappear with the wedding. The poster was still on the hook for the venue cost and said they were not getting any money back.
So the poster called the daughter and made the situation plain: "I need help pay for the venue." They told her that since the wedding was not happening, "that since the wedding don't happen I need her to pay me back some."
That set off an argument.
The daughter called the poster cruel.
But the poster did not back off from the point they were making. They said the wedding would have happened if the daughter had not cheated, and repeated that the money was never meant as a gift. It was funding for a wedding that now was not taking place.
By the end, the poster summed up the whole mess in one frustrated line: "She pissed and I am out like 10k..."