Wedding presents

[KMaid]

My partner and I have decided to tie the knot after many, many years together- much more about practical matters than romance-but still want it to be a happy day where we can celebrate with friends and family. We really don't want/need anything in the way of presents, and I've always thought if people want to give to a charity that's fine...but no-one should feel obliged to give, ever. But would it be Ok to ask IF people wanted to give small (and I mean small, nothing expensive at all...) jokey presents, that would be acceptable? AIBU?

I'm getting married next year. We don't really need anything either. We're not mentioning gifts at all, people can either buy us something they think that we'll like, ask us for ideas or give us money, which we can then save/donate/whatever.

But I've never found a way of specifying gifts/money/whatever that didn't seem to risk offending half the population, it's so fraught.

We said gifts weren't necessary, but if people really wanted to get us something, cash or vouchers would be gratefully received. No one has ever died from being asked for cash, I don't get why people feel so butt hurt about it.

We didn’t mention gifts at all, as we really didn’t care about them, plus we’d lived together for five years by the time we were married.

We got quite a variety in the end! Family mostly gave cash, and a bunch of our friends got nice/funny gifts (from beautiful art pieces to a pair of water guns!). Some others brought nothing, but, like I said, we really didn’t care, we just wanted to party, drink and eat pizza with everybody!

I don't easily know how you can phrase "small jokey presents only please" without sounding really odd.
Why not just say no gifts. If someone wants to get you a small jokey present they probably would anyway.