Decoding Wedding Gift Spending: How Much is Appropriate?
You’ve been invited to a wedding – and amid the excitement and happiness of celebrating with your friends, there’s one awkward question to navigate. How much should you spend on a wedding gift? Everything about weddings can be expensive, even for guests. There is usually some expenditure on outfits, especially if formal wedding attire isn’t […]
Asking for Money Instead of Gifts: Tactful Tips for Your Wedding
Have you heard stories about weddings where a couple received three toasters or a ‘unique and unusual’ ornament that must forever be displayed in your home? Would you prefer cash as a wedding gift, so that you can buy exactly what you need? In the days when couples were moving from the parental home to […]
Wedding Gift Etiquette: What to do if ‘No Gifts’ are requested.
You’ve received an invitation to the wedding – but there’s a sticky point causing you some concern. The invitation says ‘no gifts’, but we all know that etiquette dictates you send a toaster or a set of silver cake forks. So, what do you do? Gift etiquette for wedding guests The tradition of gifting takes […]
