Wedding gift - they ask for currency, can i jsut give then a huge champage bottle?

[BrendaandEddie]

No time to dick about with foreign exchange and they are too old to be given cash IMO
I have met bride once, H knows groom. WEedding ( evening do only ) an hours drive away etc

will huge champers thing do"?

Why don't you just pop into town?
Sorry, not sorry.

For an evening do id been invited to (old uni friend i see 1x every 2 years) £30 but FB a lot.

Another evening do of a girl id worked with a year, £15. didnt know her DH.

A girl who open invited us in one branch but worked at another bit who i saw socially once a month for about a year, £0. Didnt know her very well and didnt know DH.

GBP or fizz is fine.

If you're thinking about a gift voucher then give cash. It's like a universal gift voucher that is accepted in all shops and restaurants in the country.

I love champagne.

I found some old Dutch currency in the toy till the other day. Will pop it in the post to you. You can send me the champagne, in case they don't like it.

Done. And you don't have to go into town

What is the obsession with champagne? If you like it then fine, but lots of people don't. I remember tasting it for the first time, what a letdown.
I'd give them what they asked for, personally, or else nothing at all. I don't see the point in spending money on something that may well be unwanted.

Where would you get the champagne from? I only ask cos our Sainsburys has a bureau de change (prob not called that anymore, but you get my drift...). Just wondering out loud if you have a store like that near you.

Get the currency delivered on Saturday morning or look up somewhere to pick it up on your way to the wedding.

If not then give money.

Do you have time to buy a card

Give us the poem then

card bought.
it was then i realised

oh in binned the poem

Giving them a book called '1000 places to see before you die' might create an interesting frisson at the reception as both bride and groom ponder what it is you know that they don't...

Lol. I know. Is unsuitable.

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I'm getting married soon, I've said cash to anyone who's asked (didn't request it- people's prescience is enough), and I'd be happy with a bottle of champagne from an evening guest

John Lewis vouchers. Think you can get them delivered next day or Saturday if you fork out for it.

Or get them in Waitrose in fact.

No popping into town required.

I love the idea of people's prescience being enough. They should have all known to turn up with cash!

I would be happy with champagne.

I don't like giving cash - so vulgar.

Seriously, I'd be totally miffed if I had to pay for a babysitter, for an evening only do, potentially with a cash bar, and have to pay hard cash for the privilege! At that point, yes I will decide what I give you, if anything. And yes, a bottle would be fine. If they don't drink champagne, that's £40 of gift for someone else they've just saved so same difference. An evening-only do is basically an invitation to a party that's already in full flow. The wedding bit just ends up being totally by the by. It's just so utterly rude.

You can pop into town to pick up a bottle on the way

But cash is the same as a present, for god's sake! Either way you're giving them £X, it's just that one way of doing it they will like, one they won't. Why give them the one they won't?

Totally off topic brendaandeddie but every time I see your username I want to sing the song!

oh well at least I didn't say that "their presents Would be enough

Lol at you all teasing me. Very fun

Lovely thread. Made me smile

Give them nothing, just because they used one of those hideous -we want money but are hiding it in a poem- poems.

If you've only met the bride once and your DH knows the groom, why has the gift buying fallen to you?

What does your DH suggest?