Bride charges wedding guest £250 to get her makeup done

Weddings do funny things to people.

Seemingly chill, fun couples turn into raging dictators on everything from outfit colours to plus ones… simply so that they can get the perfect pics.

Take the bride who recently demanded one of her guests fork out £250 to have her hair and makeup done, despite not being a bridesmaid.

Yesterday, the guest, known as sweets2017, took to forum WeddingBee to ask if she should ‘suck it up’ or go head-to-head with bridezilla.

She said that the bride had asked if she wanted to get her hair and makeup done with her and that despite agreeing, it wasn’t completely clear if they were just getting ready in the same room or if stylists were being brought in to work their magic.

‘Either way, I figured she would provide more info later,’ sweets2017 explained.

‘I just got an email from her addressed to all the ladies getting ready with her. She is expecting $300 (£246) from each of us to pay for hair and makeup. I think this is a lot of money, and frankly, I’m very happy to do my own hair and makeup.’

So, sweets sent her bride a message saying that she didn’t want to have her makeup done by professionals but that she was still cool to get her hair styled. But the bride replied that it was ‘too late’.

‘I feel like she should have disclosed the cost prior to signing me up, especially since it’s on the higher end, and not just tell me a day before her wedding,’ sweets continued.

‘I’m already annoyed that she made me book a much more expensive hotel room than I normally would have chosen for myself, but I sucked it up since I thought I could better afford it than her other guests and space is limited.’

Other site users seemed to think that it was a pretty low move to rope her into such an expensive set up without being upfront about the cost.

In fact, every comment in the thread advises that sweets simply does her makeup at home and refuses to pay.

‘It is extremely rude of a person to sign someone up to spend xx amount of their own money without having checked with that person if it is OK,’ writes one person.

‘If you only want your hair done, then stick with that and she can figure out the rest. You also were not even made a bridesmaid (not to rub salt if there is a wound there) so the fact she had you pay for some hotel room you wouldn’t normally is also pretty crap. You need to draw the line.’

Other users have blasted the bride for making the big day stressful for her guests.

But sweets2017 actually seemed to calm down about the situation a little later.

She said that it hadn’t occurred to her that the beauty therapist may have put a numbers clause in her contract, meaning that bride would have to find a certain number of people to have their makeup done – and that sweets may have been needed to make up the numbers.

‘I don’t want to be the source of stress right before a wedding,’ she write. ‘I will let her know that I think the price is high and I wish I had known about it beforehand. This will hopefully help her realise for future endeavors that I’m not made of money.

‘Then, I will give her a much smaller wedding gift than I had originally planned for.

‘Hey, I had a budget for her wedding.’

Seems like a reasonable compromise. Don’t agree? Let us know in the comments below.

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