How much do you normally spend on a wedding gift?  How about a wedding shower gift?
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I am a part-time event and wedding coordinator.  This is the information I give to clients.\n\nFor close friends/family; it is expected that a wedding gift will be in the neighborgood of $75 to $100 (or more depending upon the relationship).\nFor a friend/work associate/lesser acquaintance; $40 to $60\n\nShower gifts are typically in the range of $25 to $35 dollars no matter what the relationship.  If you are hosting a shower, it is not necessary for you to give an additional gift because the shower is considered your gift.\n\nIt is customary for the shower gift to cost less than the wedding gift.  Remember that the bride and groom will be appreciative of whatever you give.\n\nGood luck!\n\nCheers,\nShauna
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According to Hallmark...Wedding Anniversary gifts are specified for each year up to the 15th.  After that, it basically gives something specific for every 5 years, 20th, 25th, etc. The 20th traditional gift is China and the Modern is Platinum.  The 25th traditional is Silver and the Modern is also silver.  I suggest a personalized engraved item or some type of jewelry (A new watch?). It really depends on the likes of the person. An engraved beer mug, a lighter, pen set or desk set.  Also, don't forget a great dinner somewhere. Maybe there's a show coming to town or concert and you could also get the tickets in advance  (Or give an IOU when they go on sale) and put them in a card. Whatever you do, enjoy yourselves.  It's not just about material things. Oh, and CONGRATULATIONS on keeping it together this long.
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Me and My huband will be married 1 year this sunday. I bought him what he wanted and that was a pair of boots. If i was you i would ask him what he really wanted that is not real expensive and dont let him know what you are getting him. Just something to tell him that you love him and that is all that matters. Good Luck!!!!!
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Hi!  Congrats on your engagement - I just got married in October.  The cost of invitations is unbelievable, isn't it??  What I did instead of going to a printer was create them myself.  Any good craft store (Michaels's, AC Moore) has pre-made wedding inviations kits that you print on the computer.  Everything is encluded (inviation, response card, and corresponding envelopes). Mine looked professional and for 225 guests I spent about $100 total. The directions are easy to follow and they turn out great.  Just a thought!  Good luck!!!!
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$25:  Bath & Body Works Kit\n\n$35:  CD/Burnable CD Stack/Cute cashmere winter set\n\n$50:  Claires jewlery, candles, cute socks, Cashmere winter set, gift certificate to their favorite stores, CD, cute new Mudd purse\n\n$75:  Concert tickets to an approved band by their parents, all of the above.\n\nWhen I was a teenager it wasn't about getting a BIG HUGE expensive gift.  It was cooler to get a wrapped box full of cool things.  If you buy 5 necklesses 30 dollars, socks and nail polish she would have a large selection.  And if they didn't like one thing you got it wouldnt matter....\n\nNow when it comes to guys:\n\n$25:  CD most definatley\n\n$35:  DVD set to their favorite TV show (ask parents what seasons they have)\n\n$50:  CD's, candy, gift certificates, DVD's for guys are a big one.  \n\n$75:  Still concert tickets\n\nGluck!
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1. For a unique party favor my groom and I are giving out lottery tickets. Only $1 each.. I will have a note in the program stating the tickets were chosen because we are so lucky to have our family and friends with us on our wedding day.\nI will also add a line that all winnings will need to be split with the bride and groom!\n\n 2. Instead of having an ordinary guestbook, that you hardly will look at again, I am going to create a photo guest book.  My guestbook attendants will take polaroids of each guest... either individually or in a group, however they come, and put it on the pages of the guestbook/scrapbook.  The guests will then sign on the bottom of their picture.  My fiance and I will then have a photo album of all the guests at our wedding! :) GST\n\n3. We are getting married next year and instead of the traditional wedding we have decided to go with a "rock-n-roll" theme. We are going to have records displayed around the hall with our names on them and a picture of the two of us. Our colors are navy blue, black and silver so there will be plenty of those colors…from the silver glitter on the black tables cloths to the silver spray painted roses.\n\n 4. Since this is a second marriage and there are children that will be blended into a new family, we are decorating the tables at the reception with photo trees holding photos of my future husband and I and our children doing things together. We feel it shows that this marriage is not the union of just two people, but the formation of a new family.\n\n5. We had a shortage of single men and women invited to our wedding, most of our friends and family were already married.  So we needed to come up with something different to replace the traditional bouquet and garter throwing.  We invited everyone to the dance floor and the dj played several lovely, slow songs.  First the dj told all couples married two hours or less to sit down (everyone got a kick out of that).  Then a few moments later, any married a year or less, than five years, ten years and so on, until there was only one couple left.  They were neighbors and friends of my family and had been married for fifty years.  We asked them to stay on the dance floor while I took a seat and my husband made a big show of removing my garter.  We then faced the winning couple, congratulated them on their fifty years and asked them for their best marriage advice as we presented them with the bouquet and garter.  They were very touched and it gave us a great feeling too.
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Ok Im the Boyfriend just to let everyone know and no Im not cheap and taste is the thing Im concerned about, see I really like yellow box cakes with choclate frosting so if we can have a wedding cake thats going to total about 85 dollars for a big as* box cake to be made at a bakery why not. Alot of people go pay 2 to 500 for a cake and then alot of people wont like the cake because its more cosmetics than anything else. Everyone likes yellow cake for the most part, kool aid also, what else are you going to get for everyone including little kids to drink besides a bunch of punch. I dont see why everyone gets caught up in this "I have to spend big bucks for the wedding or it wont be special" thing. I'm more of a "I have to spend big bucks on a house, ring or honeymoon or it wont be special" type of person. The wedding is only one day and sure its supposed to be memories but tell me this, will you really be able to tell its kool aid or a box cake (Cooked by bakery still looks like a regular wedding cake) in the pictures??? No, will you be able to tell that your honeymoon wasnt anywhere special in the pictures, YES and same goes for the house. Really in a couple of years are your kids really going to give a dam if Mommy and Daddy had a low budget wedding when your staying in a big as* house??? I think not, and in a few years is it still going to be that big a deal to you that your willing to take a couple of steps back on the size of the house or the neighborhood just for a glitzy wedding. If so you got your head in the wrong place. Personally I would rather just the wedding really low budget and put a extra 10 grand on a downpayment for a house that ups the price of your house $50 to 100,000 in most places. Thats all I had to say and hopefully you people will stop trying to live like movie stars for a wedding and try to live like them with the more important things (HOUSE!!!!!)\nAND WHO SAID THE WEDDING DAY WAS THE WOMANS DAY I DIDNT REALIZE SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE GETTING MARRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Just a card is fine. acknowledge all the work she put into the shower. Try and remember or even write down the gift that were given so that when you do the thank-you cards for the rest of the guest youc an thank them for thier specific gift....it's always nicer when you make it personal. If you have the money and you feel the need or want there is nothing wrong with something small to say thank-you to the hostess but it's not nessisary. A lot of people when expecting are on a tight budget and don't have the money to spend.
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If its a gift exchange where you only buy one present, then perhaps you should ask your group to establish a spending limit. I would say $20 and under would be fine!
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Nope, but when you love a person, you can't help but spend.  Like when it's his/her bday, somehow, you will be spending unless you decided to give him/her a homemade gift which still will cost you something.  Some people just shower their loved one with gifts, some show it via other ways.  Either way, what matters is the intention behind the act.
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I was in exactly the same position about a year and a half ago. I didnt know what his fiance was into but I knew my friend quite well. So I just went to the dept store and looked around for about 2 hrs, asked the assistants what people generally like to buy for wedding gifts, and finally i picked out a 4pc set of original design beer glasses and a 2 pc crystal ice cream bowls (dont know why but they were crystal and I wished someone gave me something like this). The set of glasses and the bowls cost me a total of about $150.
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It's not tacky at all.  Contrary to popular belief, people don't call your parents anymore to ask where you're registered.  They ask you or expect you to tell them.  That's why you're given registration cards, so you can give it to the people coming to the wedding.  And putting it in your wedding shower invitation makes no sense.  The wedding shower is primarily for the bride.  These presents normally pertain to the wedding night or the actual wedding day (a blue garter, for instance).  The gifts that are brought to the wedding are normally from the registration list which are things that the couple feel they need for their upcoming life together.  Don't let anyone tell you that anything is tacky for your wedding.  It's YOUR wedding.  I personally put the card in our wedding invitations and no one had a problem with it.
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To be perfectly honest, a wedding is a wedding, to me it doesn't matter how much you spend or wear you have it, all that matters is your marrying the man you love....mine was a redneck wedding and didn't cost much but I'd never change a thing...God bless
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THIS IS WHO SHOULD PAY FOR WHAT. CONGRATS! FUN A WONDERFUL WEDDING DAY!\n\nWedding Gown, Headpiece & Accessories - The Bride's Family\nWedding Ring for Bride - The Groom\nWedding Ring for Groom - The Bride\nWedding Gift for Groom - The Bride\nWedding Gift for Bride - The Groom\nBridesmaid Gifts - The Bride\nGroomsmen/Usher Gifts - The Groom\nBride's Bouquet - The Groom\nBridesmaid Bouquets - The Bride's Family\nMother's Corsages - The Groom\nGrandmother Corsages - The Bride's Family\nGroom's Boutonniere - The Groom\nGroomsmen Boutonnieres - The Groom\nUsher's Boutonnieres - The Groom\nCeremony/Reception Flowers - The Bride's Family\nAltar Baskets/Arches - The Bride's Family\nCanopy/Carpet - The Bride's Family\nKneeling Bench/Candleabrahs - The Bride's Family\nRented Items for Wedding - The Bride's Family\nRented Items for Reception - The Bride's Family\nInvitations/Announcements - The Bride's Family\nWedding Programs - The Bride's Family\nNapkins/Matches/Printed Items - The Bride's Family\nMarriage License - The Groom\nMedical Visit for Bride - The Bride\nMedical Visit for Groom - The Groom\nChurch Fee - The Bride's Family\nClergyman/Officiant Fee - The Groom\nMusician/Soloist - The Bride's Family\nChurch Janitor - The Bride's Family\nReception Hall Fee - The Bride's Family\nCatered Reception/Professional Services - The Bride's Family\nWedding Photography - The Bride's Family\nVideo Photography - The Bride's Family\nOrchestra/Band/DJ - The Bride's Family\nWedding Cake - The Bride's Family\nWedding Favors - The Bride's Family\nGroom's Cake - The Groom's Family\nRice Bags - The Bride's Family\nRehearsal Dinner - The Grooms Family\nBridesmaid Luncheon - The Bride\nBachelor Party - Best Man/Groom's Attendants\nWedding Breakfast - The Bride's Family\nBridal Brunch - The Bride's Family\nBridesmaid's Gowns - Bridesmaid's\nMaid of Honor Gown - Maid of Honor\nMatron of Honor Gown - Matron of Honor\nBest Man Formal Wear - Best Man\nUsher's Formal Wear - Ushers\nGroomsmen's Formal Wear - Groomsmen\nGloves/Ties/Ascots for Attendants - The Groom\nFather of Bride Formal Wear - Bride's Family\nFather of Groom Formal Wear - Groom's Family\nChildren's Formal Wear - The Children's Parents\nLimousine Service - The Groom\nHoneymoon Arrangements - The Groom\nTravel Expenses to the Wedding - The Out-of-town Attendant\nAccommodations for out-of town Guests - The Bride\nGifts for the Couple - Guest, Attendants and Family :)
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This is by no means a rule...but something to think about. It's probably going to cost the newlyweds at least $35 per guest to entertain you at the reception. You wouldn't want to be an expense to them right?\nSo I'd say at least $70\n(My estimates are USD but you can make the correlation)
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That will largely depend on the child, and of course, your financial situation.\nMy parents used to spend about $300 a piece on us when we were in high school.\n\nAlthough, I have to tell you that the most meaningful gift I ever got only cost $12. It was the missing book from a collection I had.... If you're thoughtful and can find something that they really want and will cherish, there isn't any need to go that high.
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I'D SAY MOST PEOPLE GIVE $50.00-$100.00 ON AVERAGE..BUT MOSTLY IT'S WHATEVER YOU CAN AFFORD TO GIVE...I THINK THE BRIDE AND GROOM ARE PROBABLY JUST HAPPY YOU SHOWED UP AT THE WEDDING SO ANY GIFT WILL MAKE THEM FEEL BLESSED I'M SURE...IT'S ALWAYS THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS ANYWAYS...