A Disney couple told a story about how they replaced catering with Mickey and Minnie and the internet is showing them no love.

A Disney couple recently had a wedding in which they replaced the entirety of catering for Mickey and Minnie mouse to show up for 30 minutes. The stint cost $2,750 for the 30-minute session and many of the guests weren’t happy about it. After a few disgruntled posts on Facebook, one of the newlyweds decided to take to Reddit to share their situation.

“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…).

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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.”

After the Reddit post from the newlyweds began facing backlash, a religions studies professor made a Twitter thread on the situation which almost immediately began receiving criticism from Twitter users. Check below for both the full thread and the QRT reactions:

“I’m a religion studies professor researching Disney and I’m here to tell you why to stop pathologizing Disney adults, trending again because of this post. A thread:”

“wait, is this like your entire schtick? you just glom random religious stuff to excuse the mouse?”

““Dont make fun of Disney adults because they’ve allowed it to replace religion in their lives” is a WILD take”

“I’m bullying Disney adults even harder solely because of your decision to make this thread”

“My takeaway from this is that Disney Adults worship Capitalism for the overwhelming sociopolitical force it exerts on their everyday lives, and, absent any spiritual or redemptive signifiers have used Disney / Mickey Mouse as a proxy for the holy land / godhead. Extremely bleak.”

“Can’t believe that today’s discourse is arguing we need to leave Disney Adults alone because Disney is a religion and Disney World is a church”

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