MONEY MORAL DILEMMA. Should Serena pay twice for Blair?

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Here's this week's hypothetical situation for you to cogitate on:
Should Serena pay twice for Blair?
Serena's getting hitched, and asks her friend Blair to be a bridesmaid. The frocks are all picked out and paid for. Yet two weeks before the big day, Blair goes on holiday and eats so much, she puts on a stone. Blair can’t squeeze into her outfit anymore, and the dress’s structure means it can’t be taken out. They need to buy a new dress, but Serena thinks Blair should pay for it.
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If Serena wants her friend to dress a particular way then she foots the bill.
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It would be different if Serena had asked Blair to do the honours post-holiday, for example, to fill in if someone had dropped out or as a surprise. Or maybe if Blair had fallen unexpectedly pregnant, they could have split the cost of a suitable new gown. But none of these alternatives are the case here. Blair should have been more careful, knowing she had already committed her friend to the expense of a dress. (I'd have been careful anyway, bearing in mind all the lovely and fun young chaps that usually come to a wedding, hehehe...).
And, if Blair was a true friend, she would not expect her friend to shell out for a SECOND dress just because she couldn't resist saying "Yes actually I WILL have that 87th helping of paella, Miguel.".
I can see both sides of the argument here, and while it's Blairs fault I don't see why the bridesmaid should have to foot the bill for the dress in any wedding.
Total debt [STRIKE]£4578.27[/STRIKE] £0.00 :j
100% paid off :j
Either that or survive on nothing but soup and yogurt for two weeks then she'd lose the stone she put on LOL
Greedy piggy wig Blair should put her hand in her pocket and buy another dress.