Her Friend Won Over $6,000 Off A Lotto Ticket At A Wedding, But She Quickly Soured The Mood After Making Her Friend Feel Bad For Not Sharing Any Of The Winnings With The Bride And Groom
Just last week, this woman was a bridesmaid at her best friend’s destination wedding in Cyprus. She thought the wedding was lovely, too, and all of the guests had a great time.
She traveled there with her close friend group of 10 people, and they all decided to rent a villa for 10 days in order to make a big vacation out of the trip. Then, the wedding occurred on the fifth day.
Anyway, for one of the wedding favors, the bride and groom decided to give each guest a lottery scratch-off in a little pouch.
And later, while they were all sitting down and eating, one girl in her friend group– Sarah– scratched off the card before jumping up and down and yelling. Apparently, Sarah and her partner, Paul, had won over $6,000!
“The whole room erupted in applause, and the bride and groom ran over to congratulate them,” she recalled.
“It was already a very happy occasion, but this just made it even better.”
Then, the following morning after the wedding, she and her friend group sat down to have breakfast at the villa and began discussing both the big day and Sarah’s lotto win.
Sarah and Paul also began talking about what they were going to do with the money, and the rest of the group started asking the couple tons of questions.
It was at that point that she “casually” asked Sarah and Paul how much money they planned to gift to the bride and groom.
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“There was no agenda behind my question,” she claimed.
“I didn’t ask because I was trying to hint that they should do this. It just never occurred to me as a possibility that they wouldn’t give at least a small amount as a belated wedding gift to the bride and groom, given they wouldn’t have had the ticket without them.”
This clearly didn’t occur to the couple, though, because Sarah and Paul immediately went super quiet right after she asked that question.
Then, Paul eventually spoke up and claimed that they did not plan to give the newlyweds anything.
Afterward, the whole group sat in awkward silence for a little while before Sarah ultimately stood up and walked out.
Later on, by the pool, it was obvious that Sarah had been crying. Paul also accused her of being a total jerk for making the situation awkward and “implying that they were cheap.”
She did try to apologize and clarify that that wasn’t what she meant to happen at all.
“I just said it because that’s what I would do in their situation, but it is their money and their decision, so they should do what they want with the money,” she reasoned.
Regardless, Paul wound up walking away, and neither he nor Sarah spoke to her for the rest of the trip. She also hasn’t heard from them since.
So, she spoke to her own partner and the rest of her friend group about what happened, and they all agreed that Sarah and Paul should’ve at least given some money to the bride and groom as a thank you.
“But they also said that while it wasn’t my intention, my question did make the situation awkward,” she vented.
That’s why she’s now wondering whether making Sarah and Paul feel bad about not sharing their lottery winnings was really a jerky thing to do.
Do you agree that giving some of the winnings to the bride and groom is reasonable? At the same time, do you think she should’ve put Sarah and Paul on the spot like that? Was it any of her business or not?
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