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SXC
VIP November 2013

So how much did you spend on their wedding gift?

SXC, on September 3, 2013 at 1:52 PM Posted in Etiquette and Advice 0 60

Just out of curiosity, when you attend a wedding, how much do you normally spend on their wedding gift? Does it matter if it's only you vs both you and your SO? Family vs friends? Backyard wedding vs black tie gala?

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Latest activity by Cheryl, on March 27, 2014 at 5:06 PM
  • OhHeyItsIna
    Master November 2014
    OhHeyItsIna ·
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    I give cash. 100-150 per person.

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  • AndreaLily
    Master October 2013
    AndreaLily ·
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    I usually buy 6-7 items from their registry that totals around $100. If I really like you then I'll up it to $150

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  • Liz
    Super May 2014
    Liz ·
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    I just went to my cousin's wedding this past weekend and FH and I gave her a check for $200.

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  • MrsO
    Master May 2012
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    For the shower I give a gift off the registry, usually costing in the range of around $50. At the wedding, I typically give a check for $200 ($100 per person attending).

    The only time I have strayed from that was for my brother's wedding because I wasn't going to give them cash. Instead, after they got their professional wedding photos, I designed and ordered them a professional wedding album because they couldn't afford to buy one from their photographers. I paid $300 towards it for them (and they paid any extra to have more pages etc).

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  • kysweetheart
    Super October 2013
    kysweetheart ·
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    Wow, i shouldve invited all of you! haha! i've never heard of such for weddings. usually i spend about $50 for family. $25 for everyone else. i would fall over if i ever recieved anything over $100.

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  • SXC
    VIP November 2013
    SXC ·
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    K, I wasn't sure if I was being cheap at around 100 for FI and I. While you usually don't see the gifts others give I went to a shower recently where it seemed like most of the girls family spent 15-30 which seemed low. I felt like I was showing up grandma..lol

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  • ... just add coffee
    VIP October 2013
    ... just add coffee ·
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    All of the weddings I've been to - most gifts were in the 25-50 dollar range. I think it definitely depends on what area of the country you're in!

    Until I joined WW, I had noooo idea that people spent hundreds of dollars on gifts for weddings.

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  • Jalissa
    Devoted October 2013
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    I always give 100

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  • Leblancly
    Expert June 2014
    Leblancly ·
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    I think it depends on your age group/social set. In the past couple of years FH & I have given about a $100 gift (especially since weddings we have been invited to have always meant traveling/hotel room costs already).

    My first friend to get married - we were all about 22 and broke interns/barely working - I got her some cosmo fixings plus a set of two nice cocktail glasses & a shaker. I think the whole thing booze and all wasn't more then $60.

    In the future I could see doing higher as we start hopefully making more money.

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  • P
    Super March 2014
    Poppet ·
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    £25 at most is what we're planning on for the two weddings we'll be attending in current years. We're expecting cards, without cash/cheque/gift, for ours - if anything.

    Fmil is getting a pamper bag for both of them of travel sized goodies. They own their house, are minted and travel a lot - but are always short of space when they do.

    My sis is getting one "monkey labour" voucher early. It entitles her and her lady to any help 24/7 for nine months before and three months after the wedding. Cleaning, cakes, errands ran, DIYs done - whatever time, I'll do it. They are both a bit time poor so it might help.

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  • May
    VIP October 2013
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    I usually spend around $100 per person. Last wedding we went to I think we (FH and I) gave 250 plus a small gift off the registry for the bridal shower. Wedding before that was my brother's and we gave 300.

    ETA: It doesn't matter for me where the wedding is-- my friend's got married in a rec room in a bar and I gave $90 of gifts (before FH and I were together, so it was just me).

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  • OMW
    Master August 2013
    OMW ·
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    I come from a family/group of present buyers, so we buy off the registry (usually $75-100). Until I joined WW I didn't know people also gave that much cash at the wedding. We're not cash givers.

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  • Michelle
    Master August 2013
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    I generally spend either in cash or gifts around $100-200

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  • mmw
    Savvy January 2015
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    I have only been to Korean weddings and I give cash. At the very minimum, we give $100.00 (even to people we barely know) and if they are a good friend, we give them $200-300. However, I went to my boyfriend's brother's wedding two years ago and all of his family only gave him gifts or cash up to $50. I thought it was pretty low.

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  • Private User
    Devoted September 2013
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    $150 per person so we usually put $300 in a card.

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  • Mrs Drakthal
    Master September 2013
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    Can I invite all of you to our wedding?

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  • Annie
    VIP March 2014
    Annie ·
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    I usually spend $30-$50 for the shower and $100 for the wedding. Honestly, that's all I can afford and even that gets tight. I have a large extended family and weddings, graduations, baptisms, funerals are all taking place and it gets to be way too expensive for me.

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  • cristina
    Devoted March 2014
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    The last two showers i spent around 50$. for weddings, i give around 100( maybe 150 if its a pay day week Smiley smile ) and that is for my fiance and i. i think that is a decent amount.

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  • Megan
    Expert July 2013
    Megan ·
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    Shower: 50

    Wedding: 100

    Majority of local people gave us 50 at ours, and actually a lot of people never gave us anything-- not even a card. It doesn't upset me, but did surprise me since I wouldn't dream of going to anyone's wedding without a card and cash. Like maybe 30 couples out of 230 people.

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  • P
    VIP July 2014
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    FIs family is gift givers and i am a cash person. We were recently invited to a wedding for one of his cousins and we had a fight over gift v cash.. I tried to explain that people usually prefer cash (he knows we do). So we are doing 50/50. A $75 gift and $75 in cash. (may bump it up to 100&dollarSmiley winking

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