Bride ends friendship over ‘ugly’ wedding invitations

A bride is no longer speaking to the graphic designer friend she tasked with designing her wedding invitations, claiming a “child” could have done better.

The venue, the dress, the catering, the entertainment – even if you’re not planning your own wedding, it’s easy to see how the expenses can quickly spiral out of control.

So when this bride-to-be recently got engaged, she thought she’d save a bit of cash by asking her graphic designer friend to create her invites, The Sun reports.

Makes sense, right?

Well, we can only imagine how awkward she must have felt when her bespoke stationery ended up looking nothing like she imagined.

Earlier this week, a friend of the bride’s posted photos of the very basic invites that their friend had designed on the Reddit forum, That’s It, I’m Wedding Shaming.

“Bride asked a friend of hers who was studying graphic design to design her invites,” they explained.

People said a child could have designed these invites. Picture: Reddit

Although the anonymous poster didn’t reveal what the bride had asked for, they said she was upset that the invitations looked as if they’d been made on Microsoft Word.

“This looks like Times New Roman [font] on a snowflake background!” they continued.

Luckily for the bride, her mum stepped in and saved the day.

“Bride’s mum (who is not good with computers) ended up designing MUCH BETTER invites on some wedding website herself,” they added.

Needless to say, it caused some awkwardness between the bride and her mate – and after a social media outburst, the two are no longer friends.

“[The bride] was offering to pay [her friend],” the poster revealed in the comments.

“When my friend saw these ‘samples’ and decided to politely tell her she didn’t need her services anymore, the ‘friend’ wrote a b**chy Facebook status about ‘needing a beer because of certain people wasting her time’.”

Unsurprisingly, the invitations left members on the forum stunned, with many saying a child could have designed them.

“I made our wedding invitations in Microsoft Word and they looked better than that (no graphic design background),” one replied.

“That looks like a ‘I only have five minutes to finish this’ project.”

“As a fellow creative that has been asked to do ‘free favours’, this is something I would 100 per cent whip up so I would never again be asked to do ‘free favours’ in the future,” another added.

“This was not made with love,” a third replied.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission