polite way to ask for money

All currency is accepted only? Why would u say that? That is rude like don't give us a present of ur choosing but we will only accept cash&checks? Everyone walking into our wedding

with a present will be asked to go put it back in their cars?

My brother got married in MAY and on a card that had the reception info on it they printed on the bottom. In Lieu of gifts the couple ask that a donation to their honeymoon fund be made. I didn't think it was distasteful at all. They got about $3500 and did use it for their honeymoon along with some other things they needed. They did not register and still received some gifts as well. HTH

The way we did it was i printed out on a small seperate sheet of paper that we were registered at Target but if they wanted to help with helping us have a memorable and enjoyable honeymoon we were accepting monetary gifts. anything would be appreciated.

There is no polite way to do this except word of mouth, which is marginally tacky as well.

LOL everyone can totally disagree with me or not but the fact is a LOT of if it's okay or not is about age. If your a young bride that doesn't have a house yet and all that then most will find you asking for money in lue of a gift as tacky. Now if you have a house and you've been with eachother for yrs, well what can they give you that you don't have? Much Much more acceptable. I suggest that you put up on your Wedding Website something to this extent.

Your presence at our wedding

Is present enough,

But if we're honored

with a gift from you,

May we respectfully request

a gift of money

To help the dream of

A honeymoon come true!

Then I would register at some place like Bed, Bath, and Beyond which will ship your gifts to your home and tell everyone on your website that if they perfer buy off the registry that it's greatly appreciated but would be even more appreciated if they would allow the store to ship to your home address as you have limited space on the plane.

We used this on our shower invite:

If you were thinking of giving a gift

to help them on their way,

a gift of cash towards the honeymoon,

would really make their day.

however, if you prefer to purchase a gift,

feel free to surprise them in your own way!

A very lovely expression.... I'm going to use it! Thanks for sharing!!