Wedding Drama·
THE AIRBNB WEDDING
A prospective maid of honor chronicles a Monday wedding that doubles as an Airbnb venue, with a per-person fee, a gift-free request, and a cramped, shifting guest list.
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The wedding had a price tag before it had a date anyone could say yes to: $250 per person, cash to attend a Monday ceremony with strangers sleeping under the same roof.
"$250 per person. with people i don't know. in this economy," the poster wrote.
According to the post, guests were being told the wedding would be "a monday," with instructions to "come in on sunday & leave wednesday." The flat fee, the poster said, "covers the air bnb, food, and drink for the entire stay," and "you pay the $250 regardless of when you come or leave." The Airbnb wasn't just where people would sleep. It was "also the venue and reception."
There was another request attached: no gifts. Instead, the couple wanted "a contribution to their honey moon."
The poster said they knew "the bride, the groom and the bride's parents," but not much else about the guest list. Their own arrangement sounded less than ideal. They and their partner would have to stay "on an air mattress in a room with other guests occupying the bunk beds."
Then came the role the poster had been handed. "Did i mention i'm suppose to be the 'maid of honor?'" they wrote, adding, "i use the term loosely."
The invitation, they said, had changed shape several times before landing there. First, they were told the couple "could only afford a small wedding and would only be inviting immediate family." Then the story shifted: "they could afford to invite a few friends, but only his friends." Only after one couple friend was uninvited did the poster and their partner get asked in. "that's when i got the 'will you be my bridesmaid' gift," the poster wrote.
The post also listed a dress code with unusually specific exclusions: "semi-casual but no burgundy, no white, no light or dark blue jeans."
And just when the sleeping setup sounded tight enough, the poster added an edit with more detail: there were "about 5 others bedrooms with single queen beds," and "none of which are reserved for me."
So the whole thing, as laid out in the post, came down to this: a Monday wedding, a Sunday-to-Wednesday stay, a mandatory $250 per person, a shared Airbnb that doubled as both venue and reception, no gifts, a honeymoon fund, a shifting guest list, and a maid of honor sleeping on an air mattress while other bedrooms sat spoken for.