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"?

During all the time you've spent on this thread, couldn't you have just nipped into town to the post office.

£59? Will you tape the coins to the card or ask for a pound back from B&G?

DON'T.....MENTION...THE...POST OFFICE!

For an evening do I'd probably recycle something from the present cupboard. At the moment it would be yardley cologne, a red nylon scarf and a purple brolly. All day jobbie and i go to €100 - €150

Lol. I meant 50. #myopic.

Brenda please tell me you're still giving the champers.

Just give them the bloody champagne!!!!!!!
If they don't like it they can pass it on!

If someone asks for money I'd usually say no!!!! It's bloody rude!!!

Given the mahoosive thread about house guests requesting a bank transfer of £1.68... I'd say to hand over the £60 and keep the hand held out for the change...

Tia the mumsnet way

I'm waiting for the Evening Only Invitation Is An Insult, Cut Them Out Of Your Life posts.

I quite fancy some champagne now. We don't have any cold. Poor me :(

I DARENT REVEAL THE GIFT

Mmmm looking at this thread unless it's an old £20 book token you found in the back of a drawer you are being vvvvu.

Why not give them something handmade?

Like the teacher Xmas gifts. Sigh.

These threads always remind me how out of touch I am with MN when I read the OP thinking "Ah a tenner would be fine" and people are suggesting upwards of fifty quid. Really? For an evening do? of a couple you barely know? Just whack them a tenner and a "Stop being grabby shitnuggets" poem and have done with it

Will there be children at the wedding?

I'm still waiting for the champagne

Loving grabby shitnuggets

I'd not put more cash in the envelope than I would have paid on the double champagne bottle. So what's that, £35-40?
More than generous for a do where you are also paying for a babysitter, bar drinks, taxis or petrol and not drinking etc. After all, they are giving you a few little triangular sandwiches and a dance floor most likely. Better entertainment to be had down your local most Saturday nights.
Bloody hate evening dos, I always feel like a gate crasher. It's all about the wedding breakfast for me.

Give me 100 trillion (Zimbabwean) dollars now

Loving the username Grabby

I hate wedding breakfasts all together.

We're have reg office ceremony and hiring s function room and a buffet. Can't be doing with all the three course meal crap.

Get them a gravy boat!

Or a cake slice!

Or a Becksondegaard scarf

The last evening do I was invited to (colleague's wedding), cash was requested and we gave them £25. Tbh I wish we hadn't. We arrived punctually at 7.30 having had to make hugely complicated babysitting arrangements, only to find that the speeches had 'overrun' and we were not allowed in the freezing cold marquee and had to buy our own drinks until they deigned to admit us to the inner sanctum at 9 (NINE!) O'clock. Rude.

Also complications with kidz here