Disney is becoming more and more infamous for their increasing prices and cash grabs and their wedding packages are pretty much unattainable for most people. Now a Disney bride has put herself in the crosshairs after she posted an AITA (Am I The A**hole) on Reddit asking if it was wrong of her to use the money budgeted to feed guests to book two 30-minuite sessions with Mickey and Minnie (for her and her fiancé/husband.)

Here’s what she said in the original post that has been taken down:

“AITA for not having catering at my wedding?

My (F28) and my fiancée (M30) just got married two months ago and we had our dream wedding. Everything was perfect, and I mean everything. My parents and his parents helped us pay for a great chunk of the wedding so we would be debt free and we are so eternally grateful for that.

The issue arose about a month and a half ago when my aunt started posting on facebook about how disappointed she was with the whole ordeal and a few guests sided with her.

Background-my fiancée and I are huge Disney fans, and we travel to Disney World as much as we can throughout the year. Disney is such an important part not only to us, but also our marriage.

The issue was with our decision to not offer catering services/bar services at our wedding due to routing the money towards having a Wedding Minnie and Mickey make appearances at our special day. The cost to have both Minnie and Mickey for a good chunk of time (30 minutes) was almost exactly what our parents allotted for our catering budget, so we scheduled an appearance during our first dance and our wedding photos, forgoing served food (though there were PLENTY of facilities at the venue where people could eat…).

My parents were still very supportive of us, but everyone is else is being passive aggressive about it on Facebook. AITA?

EDIT (Info): To those asking if the guests were “warned”, we CLEARLY outlined in the invitations that there was food available at the venue. We didn’t exactly spell out every restaurant’s MENU, but it was certainly mentioned. There were also vending machines available throughout.

EDIT 2 (Info): for everyone saying that’s it’s too much for 30 minutes, I want to clarify that it was two(2) 30 minute sessions on different days. $2750 was the cost for one session.”

I mean it is their wedding so they can spend the money how they would like to spend it, but after people traveled all that way it’s understandable why they were upset. Also instead of feeding guests they used the over $5,000 budget for two 30 minute photo sessions with Mickey and Minnie for just them. It costs how much to have characters stand there for pictures?

Twitter has thoughts (since Reddit took it down):

My mother would have paid the caterer directly and bypassed me completely if she thought for a minute we are having mice in lieu of food for our guests.

— DeeNadj (@DeeNadjkovic) June 6, 2022

They fed the photographer but not grandma.

— TreeBranch 👖🆓️ Genealogy (@TreeBra44061473) June 7, 2022

And the parents specifically gave the money to be used for catering. If they were my kids I’d be pissed because I’m the one who’d have to hear about it for the next 40 yrs from Aunt Mary.

— Aprile😼Guarino🎢 (@Aprile529) June 6, 2022

for anyone wondering why there were two different sessions on two different days, one was at the wedding and one was at a separate, private lunch. so somebody ate, just not the wedding guests 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/uDt62feuNu

— Dr. Nneka D. Dennie 💁🏾‍♀️🇻🇨✊🏾 (@BlkGrlBrilliant) June 6, 2022

“At this time, we invite the guests to wait outside as the bride and groom eat dinner with their immediate families”

— The Fake Clem Fandango (@MKMApparel) June 6, 2022

Go home and celebrate my wedding with your own damn families. It’s 5pm for godsakes!

— Monices Pieces (@Monices_Pieces) June 7, 2022

They knew not to be specific about having to buy your own meal cause if people knew they probably wouldn’t have attended!

— Gal Uninterrupted (@MiszSuz) June 5, 2022

If you have guests you’re supposed to treat them hospitably that includes food & usually a keepsake. If you aren’t willing to do that ELOPE! Don’t invite people to BE RUDE to them especially after they have likely spent $ on your gifts, clothes for the event, travel. No just NO!

— Michelle_BYoung (@michelle_byoung) June 6, 2022

They hired the wrong mice. pic.twitter.com/bz5QeUtn9F

— RG (@SundialCult) June 7, 2022

I feel like the worldbuilding here doesn’t make sense. Are they implying that they are having a double wedding with Mickey and Minnie?? Or that Mickey and Minnie are rude guests that showed up wearing white?

— 👽 Langdon Alger 💛🤍💜🖤🦕🦖 (@Absorbaloff) June 8, 2022

My mother would have paid the caterer directly and bypassed me completely if she thought for a minute we are having mice in lieu of food for our guests.

— DeeNadj (@DeeNadjkovic) June 6, 2022

It goes on and one. The Reddit post was the same, until they removed it.

I think it is ultimately up to the bride and groom how the wedding goes. However, if you are expecting people to pay Disney prices for their stay and flights, you could at least have given them food. Or cut it to one character session and pay the difference for food.

I hope they didn’t ask for gifts too

What do you think? Comment and let us know!