A woman decided to expose her friend's scamming actions, after discovering she conned wedding guests out of money to pay for her honeymoon.
The woman was left absolutely livid after making the discovery, as she was in awe initially at how her friend had been able to throw her "dream wedding" on a budget, reports the Mirror.
There was a cash bar at reception, and other parts of the wedding had been covered through favours from family and friends.
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The bride and groom aren't big drinkers, so the bridesmaid and friend understood why they had organised a cash bar in order to not pay for booze.
And when the newly-wed couple jetted off to Italy for a month-long honeymoon, the friend put it down to a savvy saving plan, and didn't suspect a thing.
However, she soon found the truth out when she met up with her friend around two months after the wedding, as the shameless bride admitted she had deliberately scammed wedding guests through the cash bar.
Taking to Reddit, the seething bridesmaid recalled: "She showed me pictures from her honeymoon, and they were gorgeous! I told her again how happy I was for her, and we ordered.
"About halfway through dinner, she dropped a bomb on me, and I was absolutely stunned. Actually, I was p*****.
"She told me that a family member of hers owns a liquor store and gifted all the alcohol for her wedding to them, all she had to do was find someone to be the bartender.
"She asked one of the event bartenders at her uncle's venue if they wanted to make some extra cash.
"She offered them 20 an hour plus tips and then told all of her guests that the bar was cash, and they used that money towards their honeymoon fund. Her reception lasted roughly four hours."
After doing the maths in her head, the horrified friend realised that she'd probably spent around £80 on four or five drinks including tips.
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There were 200 guests in total at the wedding, so the friend estimated that the couple had made roughly £16,000 through their cash bar scam.
She continued: "I was seeing red. I got up from the table and told her that since she made so much money off of me, she could cover my dinner.
"Then I texted the bridal party group chat and told them what she told me. The chat blew up. I wasn't the only one that was p*****.
"[...] I know that I probably can't look past this and will not continue this friendship, but I also don't know if I should try to mitigate the fallout with the rest of the friend group because it wasn't my information to share."
One fellow Reddit user advised: "She lied to, manipulated, and cheated the people she was supposedly closest to in her life. Who wouldn't be p*****?
"The very fact that she kept it secret means she knows she did wrong. If telling the truth makes a person look bad, then the truth is that they are/did bad."
Another commented: "I'm of the opinion that if you didn’t want me to tell people about your actions you probably shouldn't have done it in the first place. Her embarrassment is her own fault, not yours."
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