Wedding gifts , what to spend

I did a last minute wedding. So no list. Chose a lovely Art Deco plate set at John Lewis if people did want to buy. Still use them and love them.

Still using Tupperware received as engagement present 54 years ago. IL gave us a dining room suite which was a sideboard a table and four chairs in teak. Got 13 sets of towels. Spend about £100 now if wedding guests and £25 if not invited to wedding.

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We still use fish knives and forks, and got two (they come in sets of four, never enough) lovely sets of Robert Welch fish eaters for our 30th Anniversary!
If we're going to just an evening 'do', I think £25-00 per guest is appropriate, for daytime invitations £50-00 per guest, and if we're there all daytime and evening £75 per guest.
When our DS and DDiL got married, we pushed the boat out present wise, as he's our only child and we hope he only has the one wedding!
It should never cost the bride and groom more to have guests there than they receive in gifts!

my auntie asked me what I wanted, so I told her 2 simple and basic bedside cupboards, she didn't have a lot of money and I had seen some cheap ones, which I actually liked as they were simple and just what i wanted - somewhere for a lamp to sit on and of course the morning cuppa! My mum fell out with her sister over them, and for years complained about the cheap present, but I always told her, I got exactly what I asked for!

a few years ago she remembered about them, so I again told her I got what I wanted and they had even lasted longer than my marriage LOL I was married for 24 years and 5 months and still had the bedside tables a few years later!

I got a fondue set - never used, 4 toasters, 2 kettles, oh and pyrex dishes, and i even have one of them, 37 years later and still used LOL

I still have the notebook from 1976 listing all our wedding gifts, who gave them, and a tick to indicate that a thank-you letter had been sent. Everything was appreciated, even if not used! (Like the boxed pair of pillowcases, which we still have!) Gifts ranged from a washing machine and Hoover, from our parents, to small gifts from my pupils (I was a teacher). Everyone was welcomed to the “show of presents” at my parents’ house, where I still lived before the wedding.

Friends' list included a loo brush so I put myself down for that. This was the '60s when wedding lists were fairly new.
Because I dislike lists and prefer choosing presents I also found two lovely cushion covers with orange hand painted poppies. Imagine my delight when I visited their new home and found not only that the cushions were on the sofa but that their carpet was also bright orange! Quite a coincidence since it was leftovers from the refurbishing of ship!

1963. No list. We received a stainless steel meat dish with fearsome spikes (got rid of that when children were small), a Russell Hobbs coffee perculater in primrose china - looked lovely but dead fiddly so soon reverted to instant coffee - a pair of kitchen scissors, six cut glass tumblers (still have three or four of them), heavy glass fruit bowl in dark green (still have it), wooden cheese board (still in regular use), several Pyrex dishes used most days (much better than that very heavy and expensive coloured stuff most brides want today (wossitcalled?). Usually spend around £50 for non-family and certainly not contributing to honeymoons.

I still have some of my parents' wedding present. Two out of three of a set of bright ornamental jugs made in Czechoslovakia and a large pottery vase (which she much preferred) are on my bookcase.

It depends who the invite is from. If from a dear neice or nephew then £100 from us and if our sons are invited they also add in £50 each. I just write a cheque as never sure what people would really like so let them choose. If invited to a wedding of colleague and go with other colleagues and spouse not invited then usually about £30-40 depending on what is suggested at work. If invited to evening do with spouse then cheque for £40.

There is also a 1930s Beswick celery dish which was rarely if ever used. Celery usually appeared on the table in a glass jug instead.

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