Wedding gift (money) how much?

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Hi, so my sister is getting married this autumn and we asked what kind of wedding present they would like and they said money would be good. I understand that it depends on everyone's finances, but I wonder how much money is acceptable to give? 🤔

Most of our family gave us £100 when we got married.

(Should say that's a lot more than we expected)

Friends I give £50, close family £200, but it is really what you can afford

How much I give depends on how much the wedding costs to attend. When my sil got married the wedding and the stag/hen cost us between £800-£1000, so we gave them some token gifts and a bottle of fizz.

Before that we hadn't been to a wedding for years. We used to give £20/£30 back then. I would probably go £40/£50 now.

Very close friends we've done £200 (as a couple) usually. If my DB got married I'd pr9baby do similar if not a bit more.

We tend to do £50 for friends and then I think I would give £100 for my brother. I'd love to give more but in all honesty it adds up with hotels etc.

I would probably give £50. When I got married someone gave £100 and I thought it was too much.

I got anything from £20 to £80 from my Wedding guests this year

£50 for an evening, reception, £100 for a day wedding, unless it was expensive to attend (travel, hotels), in which case I'd give a token gift

We tend to give about £150 (either cash or purchase gift to that value from list).

£50 for an evening do or £100 for a full day invite, that’s from both of us not each.

I do think it’s a bit tight to give a gift according to how much it costs to attend (unless it’s abroad).

Family seemed to give us £100 and friends £50 (per a couple) but whatever someone could afford is fine

If you're giving as a couple then I would say £100+. I'm not a fan of cash as wedding presents generally but this is what I would aim for roughly.

As a guest we normally give £50-100 depending on if it's day/evening invitation, how close we are and how much we already spent on attending the wedding.

I think it's entirely reasonable to adjust your gift depending on the cost of attending. I have a budget for attending a wedding and that includes the gift. If the b&g insist on guests staying at the venue (understandable if that is how they secure the venue they want) then obviously that will impact on how much there is available for the gift. The size of the budget depends on how close I am to the b&g.

If the most important thing to the b&g is having friends and family with them to celebrate their wedding they will understand that an expensive event will mean that some people will not be able to afford an big gift as well as attending.

DP and I do £50 for friends, £200 for siblings from us and our DD.

We do £50 for friends £100 for family
at our wedding recently we said cash is very helpful towards our honeymoon spends but genuinely we don’t expect anything, just come, we know it can be expensive to attend so we appreciate you coming.
We received anything from token gifts to £1000. Typically it was reflective of the persons own income and how close they were to us, as in siblings gave more than cousins and less well off family members were more likely to give token gifts.
it all meant just as much to us and we really appreciated that anyone had made any effort or thought. We’d budgeted for things with the possibility that we would get nothing.
but I was a bit overwhelmed at the more expensive ones as we could never reciprocate that