Bride gives guests goldfish wedding favours, but nearly 100 of them die within hours of reception

Every bride wants their wedding to be unique and memorable—sometimes at the expense of common sense, it seems.

A maid of honour has ousted her "ex-friend" for wanting to use goldfish as her table centrepieces before giving them away to guests as favours.

The unnamed woman shared her story via Reddit, including the bride's plan for dealing with "floaters".

She described how the bride wanted to include two goldfish swimming inside a glass globe on each of the 40 tables.

The maid of honour said she raised "multiple objections", including the fact not everyone would be happy to adopt a goldfish as a pet.

"Well not everyone has to take one," the bride allegedly replied. "There's only a pair for every table, not everyone could take one anyway."

The maid of honour continued to recount their conversation:

"M [maid of honour]: 'Wouldn't the fish be pretty stressed out being in the middle of all the wedding chaos with no where to hide?'

"B [bride]: 'But they have, like, 3 second memories, it wouldn't even matter. The ones in the tank at Wal-Mart don't seem to mind people walking by them all the time.'

"M: 'Yeah, speaking of the ones in the tank at Wal-Mart... there's always a fair few of them floating at the top. What if you get floaters during the reception? I mean, it's not an appetizing sight for the people eating their dinners. Besides, it wouldn't make for the best representation of your relationship. There's a lot of... not good... symbolism there.

"B: Well, that can be your job during the reception: just keep an eye out for dead ones and replace them before anyone notices."

The maid of honour recalled that during the reception some of the fish did die, but the bride had backup fish in a bag, having bought 100 in total.

But when it came to the guests taking home the fish favours, it didn’t quite work out the way the bride had planned.

"Isn't it strange how not a single guest was willing to take home some goldfish?" the maid of honour wrote.

"It couldn't have helped that the bride didn't think to provide containers for them."

She ended up taking the goldfish home, but sadly most of the fish didn't survive – except for one.

"And that last one? Five years. I named it Sun. It lingered far longer than my friendship with the bride, and far far longer than her marriage," she wrote.