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"?

How rude are they? I hate this thing of asking for what you want, it's so crass. You get what you're given. END.

they arent at all rude

Is it normal to put gifty things in evening do invitations?

i think you'll find the correct etiquette is to wait until a guest asks if you have a wedding list before issuing one. It's become common place now to put the list in with the invitation. But, that doesn't male it right. It gets my back up every time.

Don't get them champagne, that's dickish when they've asked for cash
I must live in a parallel universe because I don't understand that mentality at all! Just because they have asked for cash, you're not obliged to give them cash. It's a GIFT!!!

i love this

HOW MUCH would you give then everyone

wafts hand over the internet

One of my favourite wedding gifts was a glass dish that wasn't on my wedding list but chosen by the guest. I would have been equally happy with a bottle of champagne or indeed nothing because I invited guests to celebrate our wedding, not to see how many gifts I could get.

and lo presents you didnt ask for and love

Hmm as evening guests I'd give £20 and feel pissed off at that much,but I am a bit tight

Honestly brenda, you can't go wrong with a 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar note.

it's my go-to last minute wedding gift

vind I love the sound of that! What's it worth in sterling?

For an evening do for two I'd give £100.

For a sit down do and free bar £150.

For beige buffet and cash bar £60-75 depending how much I like them.

Except you don't know what you're getting until you get there unless there's a meal because you get asked to choose so £100 and mild resentment at the £60 you'll spend on gin and £100 on cabs/hotels. That's what I do.

A hundred. Wow. I think my top dollar would be 59

Flippin eck! £25 max for tight wad me!

I'd give £50 for an evening for two of us, £100 for two for the whole day. But that's affordable for us, clearly it isn't going to be the same for everyone. TBH I'm more likely to decline an evening only than accept, so it is a little theoretical.

I think it was only worth about £50 when first printed, but the inflation is not so hyper now, so prob worth a lot more if you can find one thebest

Wow a hundred for a few hours and no meal?! I am tighter than I thought.

This is why gifts(of your choice) are better, hard to put a price on themmust check get to B&M tomorrow, got a wedding coming up

Yes. I'd give a gift for a day of aboitb 70.
Do people go to weddings alone often?

strikethrough fail lol

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I love this thread. So, to sum up:

• cash is crass and vulgar, especially if asked for
• cash is fine and totes appropriate
• champagne is horrific and no-one likes it
• champagne is the greatest gift ever
• every bugger else other than me appears to live within spitting distance of a selection of banks, post offices and middle-class supermarkets
• chin up Brenda

Id do £50 - £60 for two of us for an evening do unless it was close family. If there was a sit down meal and free bar etc then I'd give £100
I know MN hates the concept of paying for your place but there is a big difference between turning up to a pub and buying yourself your own drinks and turning up to a big fancy do.
I recently went to an evening birthday party with out DH and spent about £30 on a presents. It was a really fancy affair with a sit down meal and a free bar. I can't help,wiping I'd spent a little more on the gift even though I know the host won't have minded.

I love it too. I keep doing nose laughter. My menfolk are bemused

Yeah that's about it.

keep your wiping to yourself...nobody wants that! Tut!