I’m off to a sorority sister’s wedding today! Congrats to Annie and Brian!
I posted last year about the various wedding gifts we received: money, gift cards, and gifts both on and not on our registries. Several of my sorority sisters have gotten married between last June and now, and I’ve purchased wedding gifts for them (from the registry, of course). I tend to stick to the registry because I would have no idea what to get them otherwise and try to spend the same amount of money on the items; a lot of times I buy a bunch of the smaller individual things. I remember talking to my big in college, who hailed from Long Island, and she mentioned that their normal wedding gift was to give cash in an amount hopefully close to the cost of each meal.
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If you buy gifts off the registry, do you have a set amount of money to spend?
If you give money, do you try to guess how much the meal cost or do you just write a check?
Usually I spend the same. Whether it be a check or something from the registry. It’s usually something like $75..
Getting weddings gifts can be so hard! You never know how much to spend!!
My fiancé and I always try to give really personal gifts to our couple friends who get married, so we normally don’t go with registry or money!
I stick with gift cards to the places they are registered. That way I know the couple can get something they want.
I have always just given money, I have a set amount I stick to for every wedding.
With being on a budget, we try to give all we can but it just depends on the when portion of the wedding. we generally do money since a lot of my friends and including ourselves when we got married preferred cash so we could use it on our honey moon. If not we do gift cards to where they are registered too.
It depends on how well I know the person on how much I spend. If its a work friend that I haven’t bonded with outside of work or a relative that has given me a “token invite” I spend less. If it’s a close friend or relative I don’t mind spending a little more.
~Ashley @ A Cute Angle
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Every since our wedding, I definitely go about buying wedding gifts differently. I always buy something from the registry, and while I don’t have a specific price try to find something reasonable expensive. I know those were the types of gifts I appreciated the most, and hope those I buy gifts for feel the same.