What is going rate for wedding gift?

[Michelangelo]

wow, great thread, thanks fellas. It is a "low budget" wedding so to speak, but I do not care, I love this niece and her soon to be husband is a tremendous guy. I'll hook them up,, thanks for the answers.

You love your niece and her new hubby. Take care of them. $500.00 up would be appropriate if you can afford it. I've exceeded that significantly for certain nieces and nephews.

 

[PoundFoolish]

ya'll screaming divorce are funny.
I'm thinking $300 range plus a small gift which is going to run $50-$75

 

[powerz]

Yeah I would say for me it is $100 to $300 ...My niece recently got married and they wanted cash for the Honeymoon and Condo renovations I think we gave her $250, maybe that was bit light for family. But the weekend cost us a dime between travel, accommodation, meals .

Its funny I have always used the meal/place as guideline too as many other have mentioned here

 

[Hamilbet]

100-300

any less is too light and any more is too much imo. But depends. If you’re tony soprano. Probably 5 racks is appropriate

This

 

[Kev]

It's all relevant to your relationship. Distant and they don't make any effort to stay in touch? $50.

Close, enjoy their company, see them regularly? $200.

 

[CaptainLee]

The old school way is to leave the gift AFTER the wedding. If they throw a nice party give them $100 per adult from your party and 25-50 per child. If it's at some bingo hall or VFW post, put $50 total in the box.

 

[Betallsports]

Whatever you decide is fine,just put a note in the envelope that when they get a divorce,you want your money back!! Every wedding i have ever went to in my 58 years ended in divorce,i have a perfect record

This could be a Business. lol

 

[HamGlaze]

Thought for sure someone posted the scene from the movie Bull Durham by now. Oh well, getting old I guess.

 

[cgarn]

I gave $500 and I can't stand my sister. Actually my niece is just like her. Damn should have not gone to the wedding.

 

[Knightrofins]

The downside is that whatever you give them, they will probably think that you should have given more.

Sucks, i know

 

[busterhyman]

2 wedding in next 2 weeks...nephew(getting 400)...2nd cousin(getting 200)

 

[FairWarning]

Big City or in BFE ? Someone in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, may expect more than someone in a very small town.

I bartend weddings at venues in BFE. The going rate for wedding barns, wineries, etc here is $6-8K, and that is just to rent the venue. Of course these are destination weddings, and the final tabs are easily $30-100K.

 

[unusualsusp11]

weddings and college are two things one should not waste their time or money on. people groan when they receive wedding invitations in the mail. they're usually held on a nice spring, summer or fall weekend and it is a big deal to have to sacrifice one of those days and fork out your hard earned cash to some ungrateful couple who you will probably never see again. going to college for a liberal arts degree in gender studies is even worse. you incur student debt that you can never repay. total scam along with the wedding business which was obsolete 50 years ago.

 

[halekulani]

200 minimum imo
it's a fuckin wedding
don't go if you're only gonna drop 50-100 then justify it by saying you don't know them well.

 

[unusualsusp11]

200 minimum imo
it's a fuckin wedding
don't go if you're only gonna drop 50-100 then justify it by saying you don't know them well.

well, if they sent out 200 invitations one would think they want you to come even if you only give 50-100. it's not like they can recycle the invitation to get a more prosperous guest. even they would say well i know they don't know us very well and we know we will never see them again more than likely so a quick c-note in the gift basket will suffice.