Wedding present- how much?

stormbreaker

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I have not had any weddings in years, until last year, we had two evening receptions of work colleagues.

This year we have had, one all day invite and gave the couple £200 and a small gift to open.(we were a couple!).

In August my niece gets married. We are all invited (me,oh and two sons) all day.

We are not rich but not hard up either. I am not so sure the £200 was enough for the first wedding and in a quandrie as to what to give my niece. I might add, I only have one niece and one nephew!

Can any recent brides/grooms give me a wee idea of what they received as presents from Aunts and Uncles?

Bluejeanbaby

£200?!?! Blumming heck, you're VERY generous! When we got married my aunts & uncles gave us nice cards & one donated to charity in our name & OH's aunt & uncle clubbed together & gave us £100 to spend on our honeymoon. We didn't expect or ask for money & were totally overwhelmed that they gave us anything!

If you really want to give your niece money for her wedding day, I'd say £50 is perfectly adequate & very generous. IMHO nobody should expect or ask for money on their wedding day & there is no amount you are 'supposed' to give.

onlyroz

For me it's £30 for friends and £50 for close relatives (e.g. my brother). £200 sounds extraordinarily generous.

CH27

£200! That's bonkers.

£50 is quite enough.

Georgiegirl256

£200 is more than enough! :eek:

I'd say most people would spend £50 or less, maybe more for a relative.

We got £20-£30 off most people (including Aunts & Uncles), £50 vouchers off one of DH brothers and £100 cash off the other one.

heartbreak_star

Another vote for £200 being far too generous!

£20ish is my norm, £50 for close relatives.

HBS x

Gigervamp

For work colleagues, I'd say £20-£30, for family, £50.

£200 is LOADS! Why do you feel it wasn't enough last time?

victory

£200 wow..... £20 for friends, work colleagues, something off the wedding list for family, best friends, that's plenty

lazer

stormbreaker wrote: »

****posted already in weddings but thought I might get a bigger audience here...just to confuse me more! ***

I have not had any weddings in years, until last year, we had two evening receptions of work colleagues.

This year we have had, one all day invite and gave the couple £200 and a small gift to open.(we were a couple!).

In August my niece gets married. We are all invited (me,oh and two sons) all day.

We are not rich but not hard up either. I am not so sure the £200 was enough for the first wedding and in a quandrie as to what to give my niece. I might add, I only have one niece and one nephew!

Can any recent brides/grooms give me a wee idea of what they received as presents from Aunts and Uncles?

Are you Irish by any chance as larger wedding presents are move common over here.

I would go for £100 plus a gift worth about £30 to open (This would be from 2 people)

When we got married gifts ranged from about £80 to £500 (per couple attending) - but we never cared about the presents - just happy people could attend.

What age are your son's? If they are adults - I would give a minimum of £50 per person.

pinkteapot

lazer wrote: »

Are you Irish by any chance as larger wedding presents are move common over here.

Or Greek? Large sums are gifted at Greek weddings.

We normally do £50.

Peter333

MAXIMUM £50. Even £30 would be enough IMO. I hate all this wedding etiquette garbage, wedding lists, 10s of 1000s being spent and so on.

All rubbish IMO. I don't think anyone should even expect wedding gifts in this day and age, especially when it's expected (of some) that you should spend a couple of hundred!