Asking for wedding cash gifts
August 27, 2007 by Christine Gooding
Filed under Wedding Etiquette, Wedding Gifts: Tips and Ideas
If there’s anything that you should not do, it is putting a disclaimer or a note at the bottom of your wedding invitation like this:
“The favor of your gift is declined, only monetary gifts accepted.”
Etiquette Hell reacted this way:
Those words are like waving a red flag in front of a bull. We are compelled to act upon those words in ways the bride and groom never envisioned or intended. You want money as a gift? We’ll give you money…our way. Yes, we might give money….in a foreign denomination forcing the recipient to expend time and energy …read more
