How much to give for a wedding present?

mypie

I would say in an around £50 if you aren't that close but then its all relative to the person/relationship etc. We were married recently and received all sorts of kind gifts (had a gift list but most gave money or didn't buy from list) and the most used item is chopping board bought by a cousin. One thing I will never buy anyone again is a photo frame tho lol I have millions of them since our wedding. I disagree with people saying you shoulc cover the cost of your meal as I really think if you invite someone to your wedding its to share your day with you not to share the cost with you.

If I was going to a wedding of someone I didn't really know I would prob give £50 in the value of honeymoon currency or vouchers along with a bottle of wine or bunch of flowers. If it was a close friend or relative ti would be £100+ of same with bottle of bubbly etc.

tara747

absoluteutopia wrote: »

For a couple i barely knew i wouldn't be going at all, but if forced to by the Mrs £50

Same here!! I only go to weddings of people who mean something to me i.e. close friends or family. Not work colleagues/acquaintances! I make my excuses and give a small gift as a 'thanks' for the invitation.

I also hate giving cash - with all the glitches on MSE one can find very good gifts for a fraction of RRP, so we can afford to be more generous! But if we are giving cash, then we usually give £100 between the two of us. It's sort of 'expected' iykwim. I know that family members often give more.

If we are invited to an evening do, I only go if it's VERY local and won't involve an overnight stay in a hotel (far too expensive for someone who only deems us worthy of an evening invitation). Our gift is usually something inexpensive, I keep a small stash of gifts from glitches for these kinds of things so it rarely costs more than £10! We have given quite a few photo frames as evening gifts (sorry mypie, but they are so handy and pretty lol).

flipperNI_2

£50 if we are invited to the whole day if we attend or not. £30 if its an evening invite if we attend. If there is a gift list, around the same.

CountryGirl7676

We would cover the cost of the meal and evening buffett - so usually £50 - £100

mcduff16

£20-£30 if i didn`t really know the couple

smokiewater

We had 120 guests at our wedding, so I have just asked my husband if we could get married again!!!

£100 is a lot more than I was expecting the answer to be, we have a couple of weddings next year, so will start saving now! I also read today about a couple who had set up a wedding 'list' with trailfinders, and the wedding guests paid for the couples £3.5k honeymoon, which they really wanted but could not afford themselves, sounded like a good idea to me.

getzls

Give as much as u think, weddings can be expensive though not as much as the divorce.

elsien

£100? Really? All I can say is you folks must mix in different circles to me.
TBH I don't care how much the reception has cost them, that's their decision, so putting in however much I think they might have paid for my meal etc doesn't enter my decision making processes.
For people I don't know well, (as I'm on my own, not part of a couple), I'd pay £20 give or take, but I'd probably buy a decent bottle of wine or something rather than give cash.

jen_br

The general ruleof thumb is to cover the cost of your dinner... It is a wedding.. i would base it on 20-25.00 a head.

shellsuit

jen_br wrote: »

The general ruleof thumb is to cover the cost of your dinner... It is a wedding.. i would base it on 20-25.00 a head.

Says who?

And why should people do that?

If that's the norm, why don't the happy couple just sell tickets?!

We just wanted people to come to our wedding ~ we didn't ask for anything and didn't expect anything either.