She Baked A Ton Of Food For Her Friend’s Wedding And Now She’s Sending The Bride A $900 Bill
One of the biggest misconceptions about stay-at-home moms is that they have a whole bunch of time each day to sit around and do whatever they want when their kids aren’t home or when their kids are preoccupied with something else.
One mom recently did a tremendous amount of cooking and baking for her friend’s wedding as a favor with very little notice. Then, when she didn’t receive a proper thank you, she was appalled to learn that the bride assumed her efforts were no big deal because she doesn’t have an “actual job.”
She’s a 32-year-old stay-at-home mom of five kids, ages 13 to 18 months. Any mom out there can imagine just how difficult taking care of multiple kids in that age range is. She has a 30-year-old friend named Stacey, who just got married.
Six months before Stacey’s wedding, the bride-to-be called her and asked if she could make 75 cupcakes for her wedding reception since she knows that baking and cooking are her hobbies.
Under the impression that this would be a small, laid-back wedding, she said yes. To her knowledge, five other people were helping Stacey prepare food for the big day, so she figured 75 cupcakes wouldn’t be too big of a deal.
Then, Stacey called her three weeks before the wedding and asked her to prepare a large tray of baked beans for her wedding guests. While she thought the request was odd, she still complied and agreed to make the beans in addition to the cupcakes. But then, things got worse.
“One week before the wedding, she calls me and tells me the guest list has [grown] slightly,” she recalled.
“She then tells me she needs three huge pans of baked beans and wants me to use a specific recipe instead of my own. [She also] now needed 300 cupcakes instead of 75.”
Stacey also told her she wanted homemade cupcakes instead of ones made from a boxed mix, and they needed to be topped with homemade frosting.
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Before she could process the huge request and say yes, Stacey told her she was a “lifesaver” and hung up the phone, assuming she’d immediately comply. For two days, she was in her kitchen cooking and baking all of that food for Stacey’s wedding on top of taking care of her five kids. She also brought all of it to the venue and helped set it up.
A week after the wedding, a mutual friend of hers and Stacey’s called to ask if she had gotten one of Stacey’s thank you baskets. Sure enough, she hadn’t. She then learned that Stacey had sent thank you baskets to everyone who helped set up the wedding, including the other people who brought food, except for her.
She decided to give Stacey a call and let her know that she never got a basket. Stacey’s response was not what she was hoping to hear.
“She told me that she never sent me one ’cause I’m a stay-at-home mom, so it was no big deal for me to help with stuff for the wedding,” she said.
“But everyone else had ‘actual jobs,’ so it was an inconvenience for them to help, but not me. I told her that it was hard for me to help and to expect a bill in the mail from me.”
She gathered up all the receipts she had from the ingredients and supplies she purchased to make the food for Stacey’s wedding and wrote her a bill.
“I charged her for everything I had bought to make the food [and] I included copies of the receipts, a delivery fee, a setup fee, and charged her for my time to making everything,” she added.
“It totaled to right [around] $900.”
Now, several of her and Stacey’s mutual friends are telling her she was wrong to charge her for the food she made. However, she thinks she’s justified in charging Stacey, considering all the hard work she put into everything.
Was she right to charge Stacey?
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