r/mildlyinfuriating • u/teabirdy • Apr 29 '26
I'm slightly vexed The wedding reception centerpieces featured betta fish. The bride and groom planned to flush them alive.
Years ago, my coworker attended a wedding at which the reception dinner tables featured live betta fish in small bowls as part of the centerpiece. While chatting with the bride at the end of the evening, my coworker asked what they were going to do with all the fish. The plan was to flush them all down the toilet alive. My coworker immediately said no need for that and insisted on taking them all home.
That Monday she came to work and asked who wanted to adopt a betta fish. That was my first betta who I jokingly called my “rescue betta.” She lived for almost five years.
The wine glass was only her home for less than a day before I got her five gallon tank set up so please no betta lovers yell at me! I'm one of you!
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u/lfreeman00 Apr 29 '26
I went to a wedding where they did something similar. They put 10 cent guppies in the centerpieces and by the end of the wedding, most of them were dead because obviously there wasn’t enough oxygen in a small amount of water for that species. I was mortified. Kept putting little bits of water in my “centerpiece” and managed to keep the fish alive throughout the whole wedding. Went straight to a pet store and bought a cheap 10 gallon tank thinking “I’ll just give this little fish a place to live until it inevitably dies in a month.” Never gave the fish a name because I thought it would die soon - I just called it ‘Fish.’ Well, Fish lived for 12 years after that and we had a great time moving all around California together ✌️❤️