Amount for wedding gift - Page 3

OKPrincess · ‎03-10-2013

For a relative we usually give once at the shower. Gift registry and/or cash about $100-150.

Recently i I got an announcement for our lawn guy’s daughter. She took care of our cats in our home for over a week. Anyway, we gave her a check for $50 and a Rustic Cuff bracelet in the colors of her new college.

Venezia · ‎03-09-2010

I must be in the minority here. $200 - $250, if you're not going to the wedding?

$400 - $500, if you don't even know them that well? I don't give that much to my own family. (I suppose it's okay, if you're made of money. I'm not.)

Sorry, unless it's a relative, I'd either send just a card or a card with $50. Certainly no more.

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lmt · ‎05-19-2010

You don't know the groom that well AND you're not going?

I would say maybe get a Visa gift card and they could use it on anything they like. How much? I would say $50 is enough.

shoekitty · ‎03-10-2010

I have spent 75-300. Depending who it was. I think 75-100 is the going rate. However, that is what I hear of in my area.

I have found if you go online and put their name in at bed bath beyond, target or crate and barrel or macys ,a gift registry will come up. Send a gift card or a gift off the list. You might et more bang for the buck if you are sending a smaller gift by getting a gift card, buying a wedding card and mailing it to bride.

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Shorty2U · ‎03-09-2010

My son just got married .. Most gave 100 to 150 or 200 (and some close as in immediate family members and the couples employers gave more as they are the ones that gave 200 and up). Id say the average was 100 though. (There were a few that gave less than 100 but only a few) I say give what you can afford if you are not that close. Close and immediate family usually give the most (is what I saw)

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panda1234 · ‎04-27-2015

@Shorty2U wrote:
My son just got married .. Most gave 100 to 150 or 200 (and some close as in immediate family members and the couples employers gave more as they are the ones that gave 200 and up). Id say the average was 100 though. (There were a few that gave less than 100 but only a few) I say give what you can afford if you are not that close. Close and immediate family usually give the most (is what I saw)

@Shorty2U This is off topic, but I wanted to ask you something. My son is getting married in the fall. I am going to be interested to know what our side gave as gifts $$. My question is, how were you able to find this out? I would never ask and he would never say unless I asked. I guess I am not going to find out.

ID2 · ‎06-25-2012

@blackhole99 wrote:
I was giving 100 dollars for a wedding gift 40 years ago. My niece just got married and we gave them 500 dollars. Thank goodness we only have 2 nephews who are not married yet.

I think you are being a bit dramatic! I got married 40 years ago, this month, and no one gave us $100 as a standard wedding gift. I remember receiving $10 in a card from my dh's side of the family widows.

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Goldengate8361 · ‎01-27-2014

Why not just give something from their registry? (Something that is much, much less than $100!) I’ve always personally strongly disliked giving cash as a gift. If you feel differently, that’s fine, of course. It’s a habit (particularly in some circles) that I’d love to see end. You could just send a nice card and no cash or gift...especially since you’re not going to the wedding. That would be my preference and recommendation to you. I think weddings and extravagant gift giving and feeling obligated to participate is such a racket!!! I’m convinced that some people give large gifts just to be showy to others.....like some kind of weird, perverted status symbol in their social circle of friends.

I am still oxox · ‎03-09-2010

@VanSleepy

The word Chai to life has a numberical symbol of 18, so 20 x 18 = 360

@VanSleepy wrote:
@I am still oxox wrote:
Last two weddings I have gone to I gave either 300 or 360 (20 times chai)

OK maybe I'm having a duh moment, but what's 20 times chai mean?

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haddon9 · ‎03-09-2010

@kittyloo wrote:
@Mz iMac wrote:
"I was invited to a wedding....."
"...son of a friend. I don't know the son well..."
Why the invite then? Prime example of "invite for gift." If I were in shoes, I would send them a nice wedding card & like you, not attend. Nothing more & nothing less.
great minds think alike.

I disagree. One of my closest friend's son got married last year. I really don't know him very well since I only became good friends with her over the last 10 years and he was already grown and I never socialized with him.

I think it was nice to have been invited because she is a very close friend. Unless they were having a small wedding with only intimate family I would have thought it strange to not have been invited.

As it turns out we couldn't go but I sent a gift of $200.00