My perception of INVITATION, is that you're asked to attend a party...wedding..a function, that is being laid on by someone else.
Weddings on average cost £12,000, I think it's a totally ridiculous amount. When young newly weds say they can't afford to get on the property ladder, then why do they have these huge lavish weddings? Ok it's the brides day, but it is ONLY one day. Not being wealthy I don't understand the reasoning behind it. we didn't have a huge wedding, but all our CLOSE friends, and our relations were there, so that's all that mattered to us.
I would never have the audacity to ask someone else to pay for anything for me, if I couldn't afford it, I'd go without xx JMO