Perfect Wedding Present?

ManAtHome

Pick a few people out of the list and ask yourself how much you'd chip in if was their wedding then pick out a few things in appropriate price ranges. As Shelly suggests, the cash option is good (or even charity donations) if you already have plenty of stuff.

sarahlouise210

I cant see donating to charity as a wedding present option catching on !!!:rolleyes:

Murtle

with the wedding lists from department stores, people don't have to pay the full amount. So you could put x number of really expensive items and if people want to pay £10 each then the store just remove that amount from what's left....

Hope that makes some sense....it does to me....

...and it meant I could contribute to the nice knives, rather then buying a pillow!!!!

Lillibet_2

Convention says you should have 25% more gifts on your list than guests invited so that there is a reasonable choice for everyone. Prices should be a very mixed range from a selection of very cheap indvidual items (like indvidual kitchen utensils for example) which can be grouped together by the buyer or if they want to give you something form their child for expamle, through to more expensive items inculding furniture & appliances for the generous or those who want to club together. It is very common & accetable to inculde non-houshold items or to ask for gift vouchers as an alternative.

HTH

johannamse

I put a wide range of prices on from £2 to £80. All the gifts divided by the number of guests comes to £30 each. I have no idea whather this is reasonable but I figured that I spend more than this on wedding presents. Thanks for all the replies. What do you think?Ohhh and whatever you put on your list people still get you vouchers.

VickyA_2

My average for paying for a wedding present is about £30. Depends on the person that is getting married - best mate would get £100 spent on her, other friends £20 - £30. Don't want to be too tight, but sometimes going to weddings has cost us a small fortune. It's lovely to be part of someone's big day, and a gift is given to show appreciation and wish the couple best wishes for their future together. Also depends on how far people are travelling to be at your wedding and where their accommodation will be etc etc.

sophiedb

hello there!

A guy at my work is getting married next month, and since they don't have a wedding list I'm hoping to organise a collection to get them a present. Between the staff and a possible company donation, we could get anything from £150-250 altogether. Trouble is, what should we get them?

The happy couple have been together for 10 years so they have all the furniture, toasters and other assorted appliances they could possibly want, as well as 3 kids (9,7 and 1 if I remember correctly). They also have a tendency to *cough* splurge in the short-term and stress in the long-term when it comes to purchases..

We'd like to get something that the whole family can enjoy or use rather than a specific item for Mum & Dad, so current suggestions are along the lines of shopping vouchers (useful but boring) or possibly a Tussauds annual family pass (covers Thorpe Park and Chessington, amongst others), but if anyone here has a whizzy idea I'd love to hear it!

cheers for any help!

Soph

Jess_B

Hi

I would ask him what he would like, that way you don't get it wrong! We have had a couple of people leave from work over the last few months and instead of going out and getting something we think they would like we have been buying them a token present ie a rose bush and then giving them the money to get something they want and that will remind them of us!

Hope that helps.

Becles

We're getting married next year. He's moving into my house, so we've got all the usual dinner service, toaster etc.

We're going to ask for DIY shop vouchers or gardening gift vouchers. The front garden could do with tidying up and we need some decorating doing, so are hoping for some money towards that.

Ask if he's got any similar planned projects that you could contribute to.

sophiedb

Becles wrote:

We're going to ask for DIY shop vouchers or gardening gift vouchers.

We got married last year and asked for the same thing - it's annoying how many people don't see B&Q or Focus vouchers as 'proper' wedding gifts, but enough took our advice and made us happy :beer:

Unfortunately in this case the family live in rented accommodation, so DIY and decent gardening is not on the agenda..

Jess_B wrote:

I would ask him what he would like, that way you don't get it wrong!

Wise words, but the response there was (and I quote) "don't worry sweetcakes, we don't need anything!" We would like to give something though, cos his missus deserves a prize for putting up with him this long already :rolleyes: