What is the ballpark for a cash wedding gift for a couple these days?

[Allshallbewell2021]

Just wondering the range of what people give these days.

Thanks, it's for a relative.

What country?

All day guests?

1 or 2?

Last wedding we went to we gave £75 but we’d had to spend a lot of money on travel and accommodation to get there. It was six hours from home and the hotel wasn’t cheap either. Had the wedding been a bit closer to home (i.e. cheaper!) then we would have probably gone for £100-£150. Most couples gave us £50 between them when we got married ten years ago (very generously!) so with inflation I felt we definitely had to give more than that.

First or second wedding?

All depends how close tyou are

Ours vary from 1k to 700 for family

100-150 close friends

50 for others

On top of the gift, we can give another 20 to 40 quid jointly to the couple when blessing them best wishes, again depends on how close they are to us

For immediate family we have recently given £200, for extended family it has ranged from £50-£100 depending on how close we are.

It's close family, 2pm to midnight, we've got accomodation booked as well.

let us know how much you will be ing gifting.

I’ve got a wedding coming up of my first cousin. They’ve asked for vouchers so we’ll give £100, I think.

UK not less than £100

Ireland (ROI) €200

I tend to give £40-£50, we must be tight fisted 😅

I usually give £100 if invited to full wedding for friends. £200 for family.
If it's an evening reception invite I always give £50

If me and do are going I usually put in £100. Way I see it is the wedding is providing food some drink and entertainment for half a day. Sometimes also give a small good quality gift.

It does depend a bit on who it is too

Same here.

I'm thinking around £200 as we have got a accomodation for two nights

I'd say £100 per person attending.

I think your financial position is important. Someone who's close to you wouldn't want you to overstretch yourself. I had a very extravagant wedding. One relative gave me £2k. Others gave a card with well wishes. We cared about their presence not their presents.

We give £100

I didn't want to look mean (!) but it will be an expensive weekend. The cost of everything feels as if it's trebled so it's hard to tell what the bar is anymore.

Gave £50 to my niece and her DH.

£200 is incredibly generous and anyone who thinks otherwise is being ridiculous.

Even £50 to £100 would be plenty, imagine how much that would add up to if all guests gave the same?

200 for a couple

That's plenty.

Oh god this has got me worried now!

We are invited to a friend's wedding soon (staying over) and we were thinking £50 as already paid £200 for the room (in the venue) plus we both need new shoes I'll get a dress off vinted, dh already has a suit so that's around £100. So that's already £300 so we were thinking of just giving £50 and even that will be a stretch but it sounds really low now 😕

I remember explaining to a future sDiL the concept of 'covering your plate'! She was amazed people might be so generous, but it seems sensible to me assuming the marrying couple don't start getting delusions of grandeur and expecting their guests to pay for it.

Not really, not if you have been put in a position where you have to stump up for expensive accommodation to subsidise the marrying couple's chosen wedding package.

It unbalances the traditional 'social contract' of gift giving, in many people's eyes.

Recently gave niece £400. But only because we are very close, they are just starting out with their first home, and we could afford it (50s, mortgage paid off, own dc grown)

In different circumstances probably £100 for family, £50 for friends.