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Sorry, I Am Not Spending $500 To Attend A Destination Bridal Shower

PomeroySays
5 min readJan 20, 2025

Last week, a thick creamy envelope showed up in my mailbox. I hardly get mail anymore, everything is online now, but I knew it was a wedding invite.

With a creeping sense of dread, I opened it. And it was who I thought it was going to be. It was my cousin’s ex-wife, announcing she was getting married again.

It was a very traditional wedding invite. As the new (old?) bride has money, she wants to go big.

Then a day later, a fancy invite arrived to her bridal shower. I had opened it outside, and made a kind of screaming, annoyed sound, scaring the neighbor walking their dog past me.

This is a mockup of the original invite.

This is a multi-day event, taking place two hours from my home. In the winter. In the snowbelt.

This is from the bride who previously declared she was having a “low-key wedding.” This does not appear to be a low-key event.

So we are already at having to spend $40 to make candles, gas money, food and $200 boarding for my dog. We are already at $400.

Another $130? WTF? And I have to share a house with 10 other girls? Most of whom I don’t…

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PomeroySays
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