Wedding cash gift...but how much?

[Frodo-anni]

I think asking for cash is cheeky.... if you cant afford a honeymoon then you cant afford one tough sh*t!!

We got married back in october and have yet to go on a honeymoon for one reason or another.... one being busy and the other not been able to afford one. So we will go on honeymoon when we can afford it.

I would never give cash at a wedding... I would always get a gift.

Thats fair enough, do see your point. Weddings i went to 8-10 years ago, there was a wedding list, but now a days seem different. Friends of ours recently just bought a house same year as wedding, so paid for a new bathroom with the gifts from the wedding. They gave a list of different bath parts for people to contribute towards.  They didnt like my loo roll that i wrapped up for them 

[Bazgti]

Most of the weddings we have been to have requested cash gifts - its pretty much the norm. Me and the GF usually throw in £100.

Our wedding is in August and we have also asked guests for cash gifts. We have around 450 guests for the main banquet (Its a Chinese wedding) and thats at £70 (ish) per head. We need as much as possible to put toward the banquet! In November, we have another banquet in Hong Kong for our extended family. There's about 320 going to this one and its the same price per head.

We are pretty screw if we end up with 20 odd toasters / blenders / bedsheets etc!! 

Rich

What happens in Beijing, stays in Beijing.... Hangover 4 maybe? Haha