A “hobby baker” on Reddit is dealing with an angry bride cousin after refusing to make her a free wedding cake.
“I’ve gifted cakes to family and friends before but I’m very firm about not taking orders. It is not enjoyable to me and would not be a profitable endeavor unless I was pursuing it as a career,” they said of their reasoning for refusing the request.
“These gifts are typically for birthday parties and the gift receiver gives me a size and a very general idea of what they would want it to look like and I honor that in my own style and ability,” they explained in their post.
However, their cousin asked them for a specific wedding cake as the person’s wedding gift.
“After a brief discussion I confirmed that it would not be a good fit. After she persisted in arguing the reasons I offered I switched tactics and offered to pay $250 towards her cake order placed with someone else,” the person wrote.
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However, the person’s gift offer greatly offended the bride.
“The amount came from it being the maximum I would’ve considered spending on her gift. She took a lot of offense at this, saying she can afford a cake and I was implying she approached me because she can’t,” they said.
“When I said I hadn’t meant anything by it but that was my budget for a gift she said it would barely cover a deposit for the kind of cake she would want,” they added.
Commenters agreed that the baker was not in the wrong in the situation.
“She basically wants you to bake a cake that is hundreds of dollars more than what you are willing to spend on a wedding gift,” one person pointed out.
“My, my how people become so unabashedly entitled when they’re getting married. I think 250 dollars towards the wedding cake is a generous offer,” someone else said.
“If $250 would barely cover the deposit, then this person is asking a LOT of you,” another commenter agreed.
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