Two weeks before my cousin’s wedding, I received a mass text along with 30 other people. It was blunt and humiliating: “You’re uninvited due to cost increases.” This was after many of us had already bought gifts and booked non-refundable hotels. My family even offered to pay the $3,000 “gap” to keep us on the guest list, but she flat-out refused without giving a real reason.
I was fuming, but what pushed me over the edge was her Instagram post. She shared a pre-wedding photo with the caption: “So excited for our intimate wedding! Quality over quantity.” It was a slap in the face—she wasn’t curating an “intimate” experience; she was just cutting people to save a few grand while calling us “low quality.” To make it worse, her gift registry was still active, and all our names were still on it. She expected us to pay for her wedding gifts after she kicked us out.
That’s when rage took over. I screenshotted her “Quality over Quantity” post and sent it to every single person who had been uninvited, adding: “She called cutting us ‘quality over quantity.’ Her registry is still open. Cancel everything.”
The fallout was massive. Within 48 hours, 47 people had canceled their gifts. Her €8,500 registry plummeted to just €900. She ended up deleting the post, but the damage was done. Her “intimate” wedding had rows of empty seats and a nearly empty gift table. It was petty, and I felt a tiny bit of guilt, but honestly? It was worth it.
