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To expect a thank you for wedding gift?

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TheMauveBeaker · 30/04/2025 06:28

Younger family member got married in January this year, couple already lived together in their own house so ‘traditional’ wedding gifts weren’t required. If anyone wanted to give a gift, they requested cash towards a honeymoon to be taken later, All of my family members gave cash, in cards, which were collected at the reception. Nobody has received a thank you, written, verbal or digital.
Is it no longer a thing to send a thank you, whether it’s a text, a printed card or (highly unlikely) a handwritten note? I genuinely wondered whether it’s a generational thing?

YABU - nobody does that anymore
YANBU - the newly-weds should have sent/made some kind acknowledgment

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GRex · 30/04/2025 06:34

We said strictly no gifts for our wedding, but a few people gave a gift card or something small anyway. Despite them going explicitly against our wishes, we thanked them anyway. Just a text though, one of the reasons we didn't want anything was to avoid the effort of thank you cards when we really didn't have time. Just prompt whichever one is your relative that people want a text thank you?

ellesbellesxxx · 30/04/2025 06:29

I always do thank yous, like you say even just a text message! So yanbu

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