I have my 8th and final wedding of the season coming up tomorrow. Yes, I have been to 7 weddings so far since the season starting back in March of this year. Each wedding I have been to I have attended with my fiancee, so we always throw our cash together and give one combined cash gift to the bride and groom. We have kept it standard every time with each of us throwing in $50.
That has always been the standard that we have done with every wedding we have attended. However, after testing back and forth with a friend of mine regarding tomorrows wedding, he has made me think that maybe what I have been giving is not enough. I have heard before the idea that you should give how much you think it costs per person as your gift to the bride and groom. However, most of the time I have no clue as to how much it does cost per person. Now we have a discrepancy between my views and of the views of my friend.
Are my friends views the most commonly practiced methods for figuring out how much to give to the bride and groom?
This is the first American wedding I have been to this year. There could be a cultural difference in the thinking behind giving cash gifts to the bride and groom. All my life, giving $101 from a family as a wedding gift was ample, maybe it is just a principle from my family and culture?
How do you decide how much cash to give as a wedding gift? Hurry up with your responses, the wedding is tomorrow!!!
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5 comments:
I think anything $50+ is plenty.
I have always hear you give enough to cover you plate...so if it is you and a guest that is enough to cover you both....so might depend on how upscale it is...I say 60 per person roughly. Is the drinks? Open bar? maybe more. Love to hear what others think.
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give what you can afford. end of the day, if you're not being cheap, the groom and bride should understand. $100 would be fine. also depends on if you're both in school or if you both have a job or one is in school yada yada
A little update from the weekend itself. The wedding was a great time, my fiancee and I ended up giving $75 each, which we thought was totally fine. The evening was really really nice at a very antique banquet hall. It was a small, intimate evening and I drank very much! haha. Thanks for the comments everyone, I just did not want anyone to think they were getting shortchanged with their wedding gift. If I didn't bring this up with my friend, I never would have reconsidered the original amount!
oooooh i like that extra $1 on $101! i do the same - $50 when just me, and $100 for the wify + me. but now it'll be $101 ;)
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