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No presents please wedding present?
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Many thanks in advance!
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What they asked for nothingEx forum ambassador
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Voucher for posh food and drink in a nice card with a note to "Have a posh champagne breakfast on me" ?"This site is addictive!"
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A friend of mine asked guests to contribute to lifetime membership of the National Trust. It was only about £500 at the time though. I think it might have gone up substantially.still raining0
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If someone has asked for no presents, I would honour that..how very MSE
With love, POSR
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Give whatever you would like to give, or just a nice card. Its up to you, not them!0
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We asked for no presents, if people insisted we asked them to donate to rnli. People still gave us presents though, some photoframes but we haven't used as they don't go in our rooms. We got a lot of bottles of wine... All drunk Forty and fabulous, well that's what my cards say....0
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so does the invitation just say "no presents please" or does it say "no presents please, but if you'd like to donate to ....." ??0
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Don't do photo frame, my sister was no presents and got 10 picture frames!
I would suggest something enjoyable, but not a keepsake. A chat with their photographer to do a "one year on" photo, a florist to send them flowers on return from their honeymoon, some spending money for their honeymoon. Even just an M&S voucher to get something they can both enjoy (food, drink, homeware, sexy lingerie?!!?). I tend to spend about £30 on a wedding gift, but very personal.
HTH
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Definitely think an experience present is the way to go unless you know them really well and are confident you know their tastes.
Some ideas;
- Cinema voucher
- Restaurant voucher
- Experience voucher (if you know there's something they'd really like to do)
- Honeymoon currency with a little note saying to enjoy an evening out on you ect
You sound like a lovely thoughtful friend 0 -
I specified no presents - because I meant no presents! We were older, didn't live together and both had our own houses so we had too much to start with.
I will always treasure the cards I got. If the couple say no presents, I really think there is no need to give something.
(2 quite distant cousins did give us some cash with the cards and one close friend got us a really thoughtful present. Everybody else stuck to the rules!)0
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