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 go to a post office? It's easy.

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Just give them sterling then they can faff about at an exchange instead.

Champagne is my default gift for situations like that. And if they don't like it - well they can serve it to guests in their home.

Asking for currency would annoy me as it is a faff. Cash/john lewis gifts fine but not foreign currency. That is my line

What you going to wear Brenda as I know how much you love an evening do.

Come on, Brenda, this just isn't like you. I love your posts because you don't take any shit but here you are wibbling and procrastinating over someone you barely know. What's going on?

Only if they get you something ELSE, giving nothing is entirely appropriate if they do not want to give you what you asked for.

What? Are you just making this up, seriously?

It's not rude to give someone a gift besides 'the exact thing they asked for' or 'nothing'. Unless it's s turd in a bag, or something.

I hate champagne. It is a perfectly acceptable wedding present.

Obscure currency would probably require 2 trips to the PO. You can't order less than £400 online. So order one day, and collect next day (if you get there early enough)

Chocolate coins hillarious

Give them a card for now & then send on a bottle of champagne when they get back.

Write a cheque

Yes give them what you like.

Oh this thread has made me laugh so much, you are very funny and I agree I don't know why am differing so much especially as I have no time to get anything really.

What utter rubbish to suggest that buying champagne, wrapping it, transporting it and giving it to the bill and g is somehow easier than slipping them an envelope.

By all means, give whatever you choose. But don't pretend you're doing it for expediency when in fact you're doing it as a punishment for perceived rudeness.

Buying someone champagne is a punishment??

Now I've heard it all.

I'd go to the post office if I were you - perfectly straightforward .

Ooh. Morris is angry.

Surely this was your H's responsibility given he knows the groom... LTB!

Don't get them champagne, that's dickish when they've asked for cash. I'd give either sterling or do a bank transfer, since foreign currency seems impossible to sort out now. Then have the sternest of words with your DH for lumbering you with it at such short notice.

Actually, give them DHs head on a platter, as penalty for him pissing you about. They should be able to fit it into their hand luggage for the honeymoon.

There's a post office in Waitrose. You could pop in there.

I wouldn't say I was angry as such. Mildly irritated?

They want cash, but you think this is rude. So to piss them off, you want to give them champagne instead, which they may or may not like or want?

I'd call that a punishment gift :)

Or nothing? A wedding gift is traditionally to help people set up home and they, from what you say, are set up. If you give anything, in this scenario, it is just as though you are paying for your night out, and not a night out you would choose at that!

However, that is a not really the done thing is it? I hate giving cash it feels too much like a transaction so think I would compromise and go to my nearest supermarket and get them something like a nice bottle of wine and some cash. That way they don't know what you have spent and you have given them a gift you think is appropriate and something of what they wanted.

Good luck, hope you at least have a good evening!

How long have you known about their wish for currency? Has this wedding been known about for a while? if it has I can't understand why you've left it until the last minute to buy/give a gift?

Just give sterling, they can exchange it at the airport if they wish!

Threads like this are so weird. To me, champagne is a perfectly lovely gift. I know some people don't like champagne but that's true of almost anything, isn't it? Most people do like it. It's something you only drink on special occasions. I'd be delighted with it.

Also, there's that saying: "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." If someone is kind enough to buy you a bottle of champagne, then just be grateful. We've had threads on here about dreadful presents people have been given, and they've included things like men's socks and packs of Kleenex. At least champagne requires you to spend money on it.

i left it as I am deficient as a human being.

and forgot

ok - if sterling, then how much?

Yes to champers or whatever you want. People should never ask for a gift. How rude!