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Money As A Wedding Gift?
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Next month, I am going to my nephew's wedding. He's a lovely bloke (as is all my sisters family), but I find it a bit much that he is asking for cash as a wedding day gift. His two brothers also wanted money. It seems kids today have everything they want before they walk down the aisle. My wife and I had a little notebook with ideas of things we needed for our new house, wouldn't dream of asking for money to blow on a holiday, the like of which we could never have afforded. So, is this now the norm?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.We gave my partner's niece a substantial gift of money a few years ago. We haven't had a thank you. I hate being invited to weddings. The last one I went to was that of a friend and she was embarrassed to give me the wedding list, as she knew I was skint at the time. She didn't expect anything from me, but I did get something, of course.
It would have felt strange giving her money as she was much better off than me.
It would have felt strange giving her money as she was much better off than me.
off the topic of weddings - what would you think of a box that was laid out at a funeral I was at about 3 years ago and a box was placed beside the corpse with Action Cancer on it - one of the daughters had suggested this suggesting visitors place something in it - I thought this was awful - I had a cringe feeling about it. Would it have been ok to you.
I am not having a funeral. I detest going to them and do not wish to inflict that on others.
Cash as a wedding present is a good idea apart from the face that the people know how much you have spent. But if the happy couple are not bothered about that why should we, the present giver, be. The actual amount is irrelevant - its the love that you give to them that matters.
Cash as a wedding present is a good idea apart from the face that the people know how much you have spent. But if the happy couple are not bothered about that why should we, the present giver, be. The actual amount is irrelevant - its the love that you give to them that matters.
yes Gness - the plate in the church I think would be ok - but not in the home of the deceased - on the fireplace. And I also agree with you very much with flowers - a couple - that's it - an old granny of my friend used to say
never buy me flowers - cos you can't eat them nor drink them - so true - and they die just like the corpse.
never buy me flowers - cos you can't eat them nor drink them - so true - and they die just like the corpse.
I lived with my now wife for two years before we wed, this surely is very common these days.
We had everything we needed for our home.
We had the dilemma of "what to ask for". We didn't want peoples charity, and yet, the wedding ceremony cost us approx. £5k.
My wife wrote a lovely poem in the invites which very tactfully mentioned that if people wanted to give us a gift, money was great, however their attendance was all we really needed. (It was put a hell of a lot better than that).
We invited 160 to the evening reception and received £700 cash and £450 worth of gift vouchers.
We had everything we needed for our home.
We had the dilemma of "what to ask for". We didn't want peoples charity, and yet, the wedding ceremony cost us approx. £5k.
My wife wrote a lovely poem in the invites which very tactfully mentioned that if people wanted to give us a gift, money was great, however their attendance was all we really needed. (It was put a hell of a lot better than that).
We invited 160 to the evening reception and received £700 cash and £450 worth of gift vouchers.