Wedding invite asks 'chicken or fish?' - but not for the reason you'd expect

"This is the tackiest thing I've ever heard of. What a sick joke."

In a recent wedding controversy that went viral online, a couple was criticised for serving instant ramen noodles at their wedding after initially asking guests to select 'chicken or fish' on their RSVPs.

A guest shared the bizarre story on the Wedding Shaming Reddit thread last week, saying she was looking forward to a main course meal but was left shocked when she was only offered the Japanese convenience food on the night. 

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The shocking wedding reception meal

"On the wedding invitation, we were asked whether we’d prefer chicken or fish—we both chose chicken," she recounted in her post. 

But come reception time, there was just a self-serve instant ramen noodle bar without any chicken or fish in sight. 

Guests were instead invited to top their ramen with some "cubed ham" and "some little vegetables." 

"There were also some kids-sized chip bags as sides," she added.

To top it all off, the newly married couple didn't even serve any alcohol and the wedding was BYO instead. 

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The OP admitted that she and her husband tried to reserve any judgment at first, as they recognised that feeding a huge group of people can add up quickly. 

However, it turns out that the bride and groom are actually in a really stable financial situation.

"They’re both well underway into their careers (the bride is a professional chef—isn’t that ironic), they own their home, and for their honeymoon, they’re jetting off to Cuba," she explained.

For the rest of the reception, the woman and her husband were "starving" and had to stop somewhere on the way home to get food. 

She concluded her post by saying that whilst she didn't consider herself a "wedding snob" - it was the "tackiest one" she'd ever been to. 

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"How rude"

"Yikes!!" one person wrote in the comments. "I’ve seen weddings where instant ramen was the late-night snack (which sounds so good to be honest) but serving that as the main meal while making your guests dress formal is such a bad look, how rude."

A second Redditor echoed this, saying that it was poor taste. "Sounds like the kind of wedding where you pick your gift up on the way out," they wrote.

Others took more light-hearted approaches, with one user admitting: "I would have chowed down on so much ramen," and someone else: "I also would have done my damnedest to make sure I was in every picture I could be. Slurping ramen. Tacky as hell. Good story though."

Others were left baffled as to why the invite asked 'chicken or fish?'

"I have to wonder if what the bride and groom did might have been a tacky joke: someone says chicken, gets ramen; fish, they get ramen," said one.

"Is there a chance something went wrong with their catering and they had to scramble to find something to feed their guests?" another asked.

"Probably more likely they didn't change the template after picking out invitations," a different person suggested. 

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