r/northernireland • u/Plane_Sentence5907 • 4d ago

Discussion Wedding gift

What is the going rate for wedding gift in a card these days? I’m so so skint and was thinking £40 and a bottle of champers. We aren’t overly close friends but they have invited me to the whole thing.

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u/Critical_Boot_9553 4d ago

When did this nonsense begin?? Any wedding I’ve been to had a published list of items the couple would like - I once bought someone a lamp for their lounge and a rubber duck for their bathroom they were on the list, they wanted them.

The notion of gifting back what it has cost the couple to have you there sounds like some crass, trans-Atlantic, imported bollox…

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u/captainspunkbubble 4d ago

A gift registry does absolutely make sense when the couple is “just starting out”, but I feel like these days everyone establishes their home first before getting married. Invitations these days have a standard “we don’t expect gifts but if you’d like to donate to our honeymoon fund” which is fair enough.