She’s Going With Her Boyfriend As A Plus-One To A Wedding, But She Doesn’t Want To Split An Airbnb Equally With His Friends
This 24-year-old woman has been dating her boyfriend, who is 29, for about five months. Recently, she was also invited to join her boyfriend as a plus-one at one of his friends’ weddings.
However, she has only met the bride and groom once or twice before. She also revealed how, when they did meet, they never actually had any “real” conversations.
“They have never shown interest in getting to know me, although I have tried. So, they are practically strangers to me,” she said.
The wedding also happens to be a few states away, which is why a group of her boyfriend’s friends reserved an Airbnb to split for lodging. The reservation was made prior to her being invited as a plus-one, though, so she was not involved in any of the planning in regard to the location or cost of the Airbnb.
Instead, everything was paid for by the time her boyfriend asked her to go to the wedding. And with the expenses split up, every person was already expected to pay $475 each for the Airbnb– not including her.
So, once she was asked to go to the wedding, that theoretically knocked everyone’s bill down to $400. Still, she thought that was a pretty steep price to pay.
“I was not part of any decision-making. I would have gotten a much cheaper hotel room with just my boyfriend,” she clarified.
This meant that if she agreed to be her boyfriend’s, she wouldn’t just have to take two days off of work, but she would also have to pay $400 to join the Airbnb with her boyfriend’s friend group.
However, she honestly didn’t really agree with the division of the bill. Even though her boyfriend’s friends decided to split everything evenly, that didn’t make sense to her.
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In her mind, she and her boyfriend were sharing the same piece of the metaphorical pie– or bedroom; meanwhile, everyone else was getting a single piece of the pie.
Anyway, that’s why she ultimately decided that the Airbnb fee was simply too high. Then, she told her boyfriend that she didn’t think she should have to pay a whopping $400 just to watch two people, who are virtually strangers to her, get married.
“Especially when every moment is going to be taken up by wedding weekend activities, so this was no vacation,” she added.
Afterward, she asked her boyfriend to have a discussion about the cost with his friends to gauge their thoughts on the situation.
Well, rather than understanding her perspective, her boyfriend and his friends actually just wound up berating her!
They claimed that she needed to pay her fair share and even called her stupid for suggesting otherwise.
But she is five years younger than everyone else in that friend group, and she simply cannot afford to throw around money like that.
So, she pointed out to her boyfriend how, if she didn’t attend the wedding, no one would even notice, and the rest of the group would just have to split the additional cost amongst themselves anyway.
“Not to mention, I wouldn’t be taking up additional space because I was going to be sharing a room with my boyfriend,” she vented.
“If it was paid by the bed, then it would be a conversation with just my boyfriend. But when it’s paid equally when I was never even involved in the decision, that’s where I was asking for adjustments.”
Anyway, that’s why she really wanted her boyfriend to just talk to his friends about maintaining the original expense split; meanwhile, she would work out any other additional costs between herself and her boyfriend.
Yet, since everyone made her feel bad for asking, she’s been left wondering whether not wanting to pay full price to be a plus-one at a wedding really makes her a jerk or not.
Since she isn’t close to the bride or groom, can you understand why she doesn’t want to pay so much to go to their wedding? Even so, would it be fair for her to pay a lower price for Airbnb than the rest of her boyfriend’s friends? Should she just not go if she can’t afford the lodging?
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