Comments on: How much for a wedding gift?

By: Grace

Grace — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:54:11 +0000

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By: Deb

Deb — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:32:41 +0000

I understand your motivation and a wedding gift is the perfect vehilcle. The coin is a nice idea, but it will be so sentimental coming from you that even if they hit hard times they would never use is. May I suggest handing a card with the check in to the lovely bride at the reception?

By: Deb

Deb — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:32:36 +0000

By: Deb

Deb — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:32:28 +0000

By: glhastings

glhastings — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:05:34 +0000

If it is indeed your best friend, you should by all means find a way to attend the wedding. Money is no substitute.

By: glhastings

glhastings — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:05:26 +0000

If it is indeed your best friend, you should by all means find a way to attend the wedding. Money is no substitute.

By: Canadian Real Estate

Canadian Real Estate — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:59:37 +0000

I would go with the gold coin. A real keepsake, but also has real value. I don’t think $600 is to much. I gave my best friend $1000 cash for his wedding, now divorced.

By: Frugal

Frugal — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:17:47 +0000

Thanks for all of your feedbacks.

I cannot attend the wedding, and have no plan to “recover” my cost. But I will most likely try to “solicit” his help for my website, so that the chance of acceptance would be the greatest. He works in IT, so there should not be any problems for him to perform some work for me.

Charitable donation is a very nice idea. YES! I think I will split this $600 into two parts, and he can receive both tax benefit and some cash, and somebody else can benefit too.

Thanks.

By: thomas

thomas — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:39:48 +0000

$600 would be a lot in my book, but I think we are on different monetary levels

If he wouldn’t accept a gift from you, you could always make a donation in his name to his/her favorite charities. That way he doesn’t feel guilty taking a gift from you and you don’t have to worry about getting a check later in retaliation.

of course, you could stiff him and send me the money. I’m always open to charitable donations.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:29:19 +0000

I think it depends on how close you are. If it’s your kid for example you would probably spend a little mor than if it’s your friend’s brother’s boyfriend’s cousin from south Africa. I like the idea of gold or other investments really, something the new couple couldn’t waist on junk rite away.

By: Dong

Dong — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:16:49 +0000

$600 is alot, but I think it’s all situational. I mean it sounds like frugal can’t attend the wedding, so in that case I would probably be more generous to make up for not being able to attend given this is his best friend….

By: MillionDollarJourney.com

MillionDollarJourney.com — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:33:11 +0000

$600 for a wedding gift sounds like a lot! Is that the standard gift amount around there?

By: moom

moom — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:45:29 +0000

It sounds like a lot to me. My concept is that a gift covers your share of the cost of the wedding.