Wedding cash gift - help how much please

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Attending whole thing. Myself, DH, 10yr old and baby.

The bride and I know eachother basically as school mums. This summer is the first time we've seen eachother outside of school and it was only to take the kids to a park - twice.

So how much would you give? £50 £75 £100?

Shamelessly posting for traffic as it's very soon.
Tried a Google and search on here but loads of answers and circumstances not really covered so trying my own.
Google brought up a page with an online calculator that said £50 - £75 when I put our relationship as friends, but £100 as acquaintances. Which seems backwards to me.
Thanks.

£75

£50 at the absolute most. But you'll get as many views here as you've found online. Someone will tell you £150 minimum, someone will say no cash at all and everything in-between.

I remain convinced £50 is plenty and more would be overkill.

I would personally give £100 if you (or I at the time) could afford

But if you can't afford then give what you can comfortably

For a whole family I’d say £75-£100, unless that would be a financial squeeze for you.

If you went out for a meal at a chain restaurant you wouldn’t get much change out of that these days, it’s not the enormous sounding sum it may once have been.

£50 at the most.

Give what you can afford, but £100 is a nice round number that lots of other people will choose.

£50 is plenty

£100 but depends on your financial circumstances

Inviting your whole family to her wedding even though you've only met twice and because of a couple of park visits is so weird!

£100.

I would probably give around £100 or a bit more if the venue is fancy.

That wouldn't come into my decision. I'd give £50 if it was chicken nuggets in the local Wetherspoons or if it was full silver service in a 5 star hotel.

I'm giving a gift, not paying for my dinner.

For attending the whole wedding, I would give £100 if you can afford it, as its likely that they're spending that, if not more, on your meals. If you can't afford that, then just gift what you can afford. Weddings are expensive to attend by the time you get kitted out and arrange accommodation, etc, so they will probably be grateful for anything that you can afford to give.

When we got married, we received anywhere from £25-£200 as gifts and was appreciative of them all.

How much would you spend at a nice meal out for 3 of you with 1 drinking (assume you bring food for baby) - £75? Covers food & drink and not more as you're not closer/family.

Not sure I’ve ever given less than £100 (haven’t actually been to that many weddings) but you don’t even really sound as though you’re actually friends?

Taking that into account, I’d probably say £50 would be fine.

So true 😅
I was surprised too.
The park visits happened after the invite too!

It's not to cover the food and drink. It's a gift for the couple.
They host as part of the celebration.

I’ve had similar invitations from women I considered acquaintances and was quite surprised about; both times I got to know them better between the invitation and the wedding and learned they didn’t have a lot of friends or family for various reasons, didn’t want to be reminded of that by just being two people in the tiny room at the register office, and had invited some people in their lives who they thought were nice and would like to get to know better. We’re good friends now! I’d wonder if your acquaintance is much the same.

All day? £100 should be the minimum. Unless you can’t afford it.

£50

£50 is fine for a non-best friend

Minimum £100.

ive been told it’s the gift of covering the meal costs

Agreed. I’m giving £100 to my god daughter. There’s no way I’d give that much to a school
mum friend!!

It’s a gift, not a restaurant bill!!

Oh my god, that sounds so mercenary!
It's a gift for the couple. The cost of the meal is immaterial!